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All of this conjecture is meaningless. You can work out top speed mathematically from rpm, gear ratios and tyre diameter. For a stock normally aspirated car that means a mechanical limit of 138mph - assuming a long enough straight to wind it up that high - and 158mph for a turbocharged car. Thats w...

Mike wrote:If his car is a Jap import then it would at some point in its life have been restricted to 115mph IIRC

I was thinking maybe he ment limited but didnt know the actually figure.

cantfindausername wrote:He's probaly still got the KMH clocks on there

Thats what i said!


I didnt think there was anyway to do it, just good to check first. Let the torturing begin!

Oh yeah, and when idling the volt meter on the dash bounces ever so slightly. Never noticed it before but tbh i doubt i would have. Is this normal?

Mates just said to me; "Yeah my mr2 goes 150mph in 4th gear" To which i replyed "what is it? A tubby?" End up no its a "deristricted" rev 1 NA. WFT is a deristricted NA, what could he mean by this? Obviously hes either making it up or has been told a pack of lies when h...

Just tested the voltages and they check out - 12.odd & 14.4ish with car on, so close enough. It came on again on the way home from work, same speed again 65ish 4k revs, with medium acceleration. So does this mean the alt is fine? Or could it be on its way out? Can alts be intermitant? Next thing...

Cheers, just reading through the forum and yeah that looks to be the case. Just been out to check the alternator belt and it seems tight enough. Engine was abit hot so couldnt mess about too much.

Will check teh voltage accross the battery later.

Happened the other day too but went straight off so didnt think about it too much. Was going about 65 in 4th gear, so about 3.5-4k revs. when what looked like all the ignition lights plus the low oil level lights all came on. Slowed down abit and they all went off, so tried speeding back up again to...

By my reckoning i owe you all a beer. Have 4 on me.

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Well not real beer, but you can always give it to the wife.

Just print off the voucher and hand it in at Threshers, The Local, Wine Rack and a few more.

oh one more thing which i havnt checked which maybe i should have.

Should the topmount-strut nuts be correctly torqued from factory? And whats the correct torque setting?

Cheers chaps. Just got in from work so gunna have a cuppa then get on with "playing" some more. So (leeroy) how much did you pay for having the things mentioned done? Its just so i can get an idea of what to expect. Theres a place just over the road from me actually that does proper track ...

Yeah being abit of a pain. When i first put them on it was boucing like crazy, and quite abit of understeer lol, cheers again btw.

Ive got all the dampers set to 2 clicks (1/4 turns iirc) from hard. Still feels abit bouncy mind.

Gunna have a proper play tomorrow.

Well ive got them fitted and setup to some extent - thanks greedy-matt :beer: But theres a few things im confused on; When the car is off the ground with wheel off, where should the spring collers be in relation to the spring? Should they be tight against the spring, or does the spring want to have ...

Spot on mate. I was starting to get worried as it just didnt look right to me compaed to the rear. That pic looks pretty much how mine looks, thank god! Really appreciate the quick responce, i wouldnt have thought to look at generic lowered suspension rather than searching for "k-sport" :b...

Does anyone have the measurements of how these coilovers should be set? Distance between hub housing to droplink tab, collers etc. Or even photos would be great! The story Finally got round to fitting my coilovers today. The rears went on fine (i hope), but im a little confused on the fronts. With t...

KrisB wrote:i just ordered a set of drop links from sbits for my k sports is it the rear ones?

Yeah mate. Someone told me they are the turbo and NA are the same so went ahead and bought some from camskills. Fingers crossed eh?

Got some k-sport coilovers and am wanting to get some replacement rear drop links before i go to fit them. The k-sport kit says to reuse the old ones but ive ended up damaging the allen centre of the bolt so need new ones. Spotted these on camskills http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?plid=m5b0s6...

I was about to post up exactly what monkeymax did. & Im also unsure about the restocking fee. Companies seem to try things on so just push them and they generally back down as they know they are in the wrong (legally!) End of is you have "7 days cooling off" so they should never have r...

Ive waited ages to find another window switch, arrived and tryed it this weekend and nope, not that. So what is it? Symtoms The drivers side window is all fine The passenger window goes down by the passengers side switch but not the drivers. The passenger window will not go up by either switch. Driv...

Ive just gone for the standard. Kev was helpful and polite, really nice doing business with someone who knows and cares about what they are selling. Thumbs up for customer service so far (please dont let me have jinxed myself lol), really wish all companies i deal with were like this!