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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:21 pm

Wasn't the Ka(k) test condicted on a go-kart circuit
and you have the cheek to correct me? winkeye
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:31 pm

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Wasn't the Ka(k) test condicted on a go-kart circuit
and you have the cheek to correct me? winkeye
Textbook winkeye


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Starting sentences with 'and' is a minor error. Failing to furnish aforementioned word with a capital letter is heinous crime.

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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:36 pm

First rule of grammar club: Make sure your Grammar Gestapo corrections are without flaw.

Starting sentences with 'and' is a minor error. Failing to furnish aforementioned word with a capital letter is heinous crime.

You have much to learn, Apprentice...

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Bollox! Caught out AGAIN :D
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:46 pm

Nathan - You pedantic c*nt :)
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Isn't he just :D
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:52 pm

maxfield wrote:Nathan - You pedantic c*nt :)
Now,now Max. Nathan - you pedantic c*nt and a fullstop, if you don,t mind. :wink:
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:55 pm

There should be a space after the comma.

And it's 'don't' not don,t'.

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Will this ever end? :D
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:03 pm

maxfield wrote:Nathan, you pedantic c*nt" :)
Fixed it for you! :wink:
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:( :(

OK, I was more interested in the fanny in my English class, you win.
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suchy wrote:Will this ever end? :D
No.
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Card wrote:I have to agree on the track they are fantastic i race an M3 E30 in the Kumho and had the chance to buy a sorted E36 this year but stuck with the E30 as i just love the car.

With the right power it keeps up with most thing on a track unfortunaly to get the right power it is not cheap.

I just don't agree with the fifth gear film as before we went into Kumho we ran it as a trck day car with just the interior stripped and a cage in it and not a lot of cars except for the supercars or car costing 4-5 times as much could get away from us unless they had been modified themselfs.

Get one on a track for a day and you would agree i have driven moden cars on a track Lotus excige, Audis, Renualt and none of they are anywhere near the feel and experiance.

Just my opinion.
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I want to see multiple pics and specs for your rce car NOW. :wink: Especially just how you got it donw to 995KG! :cool:
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none of this pampering in heated garages to be taken on a gentle sunday drive once a month for fear of damaging it
mine did around 17k miles last year, in all weathers, loaded up with the family, or just me on my own down a twisty road.
we're not all flat cap wearing polishing bufties :wink:
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Ive heard rumours about your 100+ flat cap collection. :wink: Oh and that is a Baby seat isnt it. :cool:
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Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:26 pm

Oh and that is a Baby seat isnt it. :cool:
yep, a recaro one :D
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:47 am

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maxfield wrote:fuzzy - have you ever driven an M3?
only been a passenger max in an e30 m3 but dont give me the bollocks that i know your about to. when its being driven to its limits on road and track by the owner to try to impress me and its failing then i have enough experience to judge. its just not the be all and end all that lots on here will try to convince you its merely a better than average car. its more style and story than actual substance imo.
ive been more impressed in a 3 door cosworth and an audi quattro with the former being so much easier to tune up.the only time ive ever been really impressed was in a 550bhp cosworth.
dont take it as a personal insult though its just my opinion as i dont wear bmw blinkers. id buy one maybe if good ones could be had for the £5000ish mark but not £10000 winkeye
yawn :roll:

Show me the engineering involved in turning up the boost? Its like taking steroids, you're only cheating yourself! At the end of the day Turbo cars are rubbish, the way they deliver the power is rubbish, then the lag, i dont need to talk about the reliability issues, and then theres the problem of too much torque etc etc etc............................need i go on?

Cossies are crap, and dont give the, M3's are too expensive, the amount that the ford crowd spends on their boxes almost compares to what M3s are going to be worth in a few years.

I sitll want someone to show me a hot hatch that can beat a 215bhp M3 on any road. :roll:
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Im with Fuzzy to a certain extent. Given 10 to 15 grand I think that, rather than spend it on an M3, I would spend it on my car. A 318i with 4 doors by the way, and turn it into something really interesting. I wouldnt change its looks at all, but underneath it all I would love to have it tricked out, just to make M3 owners cry when I scoot past :D
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:09 am

Demlotcrew wrote:
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maxfield wrote:fuzzy - have you ever driven an M3?
only been a passenger max in an e30 m3 but dont give me the bollocks that i know your about to. when its being driven to its limits on road and track by the owner to try to impress me and its failing then i have enough experience to judge. its just not the be all and end all that lots on here will try to convince you its merely a better than average car. its more style and story than actual substance imo.
ive been more impressed in a 3 door cosworth and an audi quattro with the former being so much easier to tune up.the only time ive ever been really impressed was in a 550bhp cosworth.
dont take it as a personal insult though its just my opinion as i dont wear bmw blinkers. id buy one maybe if good ones could be had for the £5000ish mark but not £10000 winkeye
yawn :roll:

Show me the engineering involved in turning up the boost? Its like taking steroids, you're only cheating yourself! At the end of the day Turbo cars are rubbish, the way they deliver the power is rubbish, then the lag, i dont need to talk about the reliability issues, and then theres the problem of too much torque etc etc etc............................need i go on?

Cossies are crap, and dont give the, M3's are too expensive, the amount that the ford crowd spends on their boxes almost compares to what M3s are going to be worth in a few years.

I sitll want someone to show me a hot hatch that can beat a 215bhp M3 on any road. :roll:

Oops ! :eek: when the cossie posse come back from community service this evening it's all going to go off ! :)
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:49 pm

^^^^^Lol!!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^

What's with all this if you've got an M3 you keep it in a garage and never drive it??

Mine's been driven every day since I bought it, not just up the road and back but everywhere.
It live outside my front door. My 3yr old cries if we go out in the missus car! :)
I've owned an e36 m3 previously to the e30 and it's nowhere as fast, but that doesn't come into the enjoyment of driving the e30! I'd love to get another e36 dont get me wrong but would I change my e30 for one.....NO!

There's an interesting article in this months EVO mag.

Pitting an immaculate Lancia evo2 against a clio192, corsa vxr888 and fiesta st185.
On the rollers, on bedford autodrome and on cadwell. Guess what?
The lancia comes last around both tracks and put's down 190odd bhp (instead of 215), beaten hands down by the vxr which puts down 224.8bhp.
But at the end of it, it say's if you've got £15k to spend on a hot hatch and you've got a set of balls get a lancia because it cant be beaten in the way it makes you feel driving it. last place or not.

So this debate can go on and on and on........and probably always will!

But unless you've owned one and driven it for what it's worth. all the above comments dont mean 5hit :twisted:
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:13 pm

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Demlotcrew wrote: yawn :roll:

Show me the engineering involved in turning up the boost? Its like taking steroids, you're only cheating yourself! At the end of the day Turbo cars are rubbish, the way they deliver the power is rubbish, then the lag, i dont need to talk about the reliability issues, and then theres the problem of too much torque etc etc etc............................need i go on?

Cossies are crap, and dont give the, M3's are too expensive, the amount that the ford crowd spends on their boxes almost compares to what M3s are going to be worth in a few years.

I sitll want someone to show me a hot hatch that can beat a 215bhp M3 on any road. :roll:

Oops ! :eek: when the cossie posse come back from community service this evening it's all going to go off ! :)
im just back from my community service and im outraged by the above b0ll0cks and will demonstrate this by chibbing ye ya coont then ill set my pitbull aboot ye 8O
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:17 pm

Yoo fackin' dissin' me Cozzy are ya? Eh? EH? Ya fackin' want some doo ya?

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Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:24 pm

fuzzy wrote:
pacerpete wrote:
Demlotcrew wrote: yawn :roll:

Show me the engineering involved in turning up the boost? Its like taking steroids, you're only cheating yourself! At the end of the day Turbo cars are rubbish, the way they deliver the power is rubbish, then the lag, i dont need to talk about the reliability issues, and then theres the problem of too much torque etc etc etc............................need i go on?

Cossies are crap, and dont give the, M3's are too expensive, the amount that the ford crowd spends on their boxes almost compares to what M3s are going to be worth in a few years.

I sitll want someone to show me a hot hatch that can beat a 215bhp M3 on any road. :roll:

Oops ! :eek: when the cossie posse come back from community service this evening it's all going to go off ! :)
im just back from my community service and im outraged by the above b0ll0cks and will demonstrate this by chibbing ye ya coont then ill set my pitbull aboot ye 8O

Careful Fuzzy, underneath Demlots thin veneer of southern sophistication he is actually a hard sweaty from glasgow who when he ain't fighting his shadow and anyone that looks at him sideways or 'disses' his S14'd chariot he is in the garage polishing his 'weapon' ! :)
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Hard sweaty? And still wears a stab vest :o
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a weegie? :pff: im from the eastside bro.
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Demlotcrew wrote:I still want someone to show me a hot hatch that can beat a 215bhp M3 on any road. :roll:
My car vs Focus ST. Focus had me in the midrange. At top end its marginal, but the ST is not that laggy. I reckon a DSG GTI5 would probably do me as well. Standardish Scoobies are the same issue btw. Pull distance in the 2,5-5K range. But once both are wound up not so much in it.

I daresay those cars are easier to drive though.

Gearboxes on Cossies? Well the RWD (T5 ?) boxes are pretty good. Main issue seems to be with the front diffs on the 4wd stuff. Granted the 80s and 90s cossies do suffer for their lag. But Im not sure Id call TurboCharger cheating? Exactly what rules are you governing production road cars too?
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depends on the turbo used as to whether its laggy. i wouldnt call mine boosting from 1400rpm on a .48 housing particularly laggy although my back up .63 turbo is admittedly slower in spinning up. theres no real issue with the gearboxes on the rwd t5 box as far as im aware itll handle upto 400bhp without much drama.
on a like for like sized car id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose. :wink:
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fuzzy wrote:on a like for like sized car id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose. :wink:
Thing is they're 4WD turbo cars.

M3 is RWD and N/A.

Not really a fair comparison IMO.

Although my Dad's never had troubles with either. Even when the M3 was standard.
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id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose.
big headed aragant cozzie council boys damm mother truckers

when will you learn bmw's were not meant to have wankey ford engines in keep them for the ford probes mmmmmm right down your street i bet

stick your cossie up your arse

:D hth winkeye
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fuzzy wrote:on a like for like sized car id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose. :wink:
Thing is they're 4WD turbo cars.

M3 is RWD and N/A.

Not really a fair comparison IMO.

Although my Dad's never had troubles with either. Even when the M3 was standard.
but its a like for like sized car with similar power levels 225 in the scooby, 260 in the basic evo.
so is the question really "show me another german left hand drive ,boxy arched n/a rwd type car that can beat an m3?"
the statement was that turbos were sh1te. similar power delivered in different ways and id still put my money on both scooby and evo
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Any N/A RWD car would be a fair comparison...

Turbo's have there advantages and disadvantages just like N/A and superchargers.

Pffft, bring the Scooby and Evo on :wink:
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agreen wrote:
id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose.
big headed aragant cozzie council boys damm mother truckers

when will you learn bmw's were not meant to have wankey ford engines in keep them for the ford probes mmmmmm right down your street i bet

stick your cossie up your arse

:D hth winkeye
im proud to have had a council up bringing and distance myself from the pseudo snobbery assosiated with bmw.
i like to think ive improved what bmw started and have given my e30 touring the power bmw could only have dreamed of winkeye
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fuzzy wrote:
agreen wrote:
id put my money on both a scooby wrx and an evo whipping the m3 on whatever surface you choose.
big headed aragant cozzie council boys damm mother truckers

when will you learn bmw's were not meant to have wankey ford engines in keep them for the ford probes mmmmmm right down your street i bet

stick your cossie up your arse

:D hth winkeye
im proud to have had a council up bringing and distance myself from the pseudo snobbery assosiated with bmw.
i like to think ive improved what bmw started and have given my e30 touring the power bmw could only have dreamed of winkeye
hmm if only it wasen't always getting "rebuilt" :roll: all the time hmm rebuilt = broken down because its a ford again

yeh im sure bmw are well pissed they did not built an unreliable pice of crap cossie engine to put in the touring :D
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maxfield wrote:Any N/A RWD car would be a fair comparison...

Turbo's have there advantages and disadvantages just like N/A and superchargers.
so what you are saying is that the m3 is the best car as long as you dont actually put it up against any similar performance level cars from other marques?
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agreen wrote:
fuzzy wrote:
agreen wrote: big headed aragant cozzie council boys damm mother truckers

when will you learn bmw's were not meant to have wankey ford engines in keep them for the ford probes mmmmmm right down your street i bet

stick your cossie up your arse

:D hth winkeye
im proud to have had a council up bringing and distance myself from the pseudo snobbery assosiated with bmw.
i like to think ive improved what bmw started and have given my e30 touring the power bmw could only have dreamed of winkeye
hmm if only it wasen't always getting "rebuilt" :roll: all the time hmm rebuilt = broken down because its a ford again

yeh im sure bmw are well pissed they did not built an unreliable pice of crap cossie engine to put in the touring :D
so ermm..... when is your car coming out then? all these parts and no car, yet fuzzys car even though it is powered by a pinto engine is still on the road,


plus your both 2 cylinders short of a real engine :D
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agreen wrote:
fuzzy wrote:
agreen wrote: big headed aragant cozzie council boys damm mother truckers

when will you learn bmw's were not meant to have wankey ford engines in keep them for the ford probes mmmmmm right down your street i bet

stick your cossie up your arse

:D hth winkeye
im proud to have had a council up bringing and distance myself from the pseudo snobbery assosiated with bmw.
i like to think ive improved what bmw started and have given my e30 touring the power bmw could only have dreamed of winkeye
hmm if only it wasen't always getting "rebuilt" :roll: all the time hmm rebuilt = broken down because its a ford again

yeh im sure bmw are well pissed they did not built an unreliable pice of crap cossie engine to put in the touring :D
Good job Mr Agreen knows about cars ! the Ford Probe was actually a Mazda !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With a ford body :D
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