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 Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:50 pm |
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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Looks awesome 
Are you listening to Slam by Pendulum in the video?
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 4:30 pm |
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| Iain wrote: |
Are you listening to Slam by Pendulum in the video? |
Slam - Pendulum
Ghosts 'n Stuff - Deadmau5 (With Rob Swire)
Breathe - Prodigy
In that order
| Dillon wrote: |
OMG it lives been waiting to see what it looked like going (the video basically  ) sounds fantastic! looks like it has the punch now to take on some heavy weight cars in the world of performance. 3/4 throttle and unmapped it hardly looked challenged out on the road, it will be immense once finished.
It's certainly an incredibly entertaining car to drive, and that's my main passion! So I'm pleased
I'm confident that in the right hands, ie. not mine just yet, it would easily outperform most standard road cars. It's not just the acceleration, equally so the lotus chassis coupled with the right wheel sizes, geometry setup and brakes suited for vehicles twice its size and weight. Makes for an awesome track car (which is partly the reason it was built!).
i can totally understand your reasons for easing the suspension back those spring rates in a car that light! I am surprised you didn't need dental work  keep the updates coming!
Imagine dropping a leaf in front of the car, that wold have felt like I just drove over a gravestone. It really was just insanely harsh.
The 0-60 time your hoping for should be achievable as long as you can keep traction, has it shown what it is like accelerating in higher gears at what point is it possible to lean fully on the loud pedal with out fear of wasting it due to the traction giving up? (obviously you can't actually try that out in practice yet but a best guess would shut me up )
Because of the size of the rear wheels (225/45/17) on such a light car (860kg) it generally has no problem with accelerating and slipping at all. It just kind of goes... The biggest surge comes when changing gear, that's when you feel it the most, and when it's most likely to skip a tiny bit. Other than that it's amazing. At 70 down motorways it's no louder than before because I opted for a slightly quieter exhaust, being my daily drive. However on overtaking on dual carriageways and motorways I can see it being very very easy to misinterpret the speed you're going and hit over 100 with ease. (Not that I have of course, it just pulls very quickly).
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:01 pm |
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Joined: Jan 25, 2010
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Location: VVT Land, Fife
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| Seb wrote: |
| Fiddley is definately the right word! Will show you it at fcs if you're going? |
Yeah I'm going, you'll find me on the PSOOC stand, with a big smile and a very very shiny looking 309 Goodwood
It just all looks very tight, especially in these small roadsters that were already designed to be small, compact, light etc etc!
Cool stuff! 
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:25 am |
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Rolling roaded on 04/05/10 at 256bhp and 223 lb/ft of torque at 6580 rpm.
Will be hitting near on 265 if I raise the rev limit to 7100 which it should now be able to take!
Also just sat on my laptop in town waiting for my windscreen to be replaced because of the dents, managed to blag the black surrounded one as well, so it will go more with my theme and not get all disgustingly mucky like the silver one does.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:31 am |
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So the new power puts it at 290bhp/ton.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:37 am |
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Sorry I didn't mean the peak torque was at that RPM... what I meant to say was peak POWER of 256 at 6580 rpm, and peak torque of 223 at about 4800 rpm.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:45 am |
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| Seb wrote: |
| Sorry I didn't mean the peak torque was at that RPM... what I meant to say was peak POWER of 256 at 6580 rpm, and peak torque of 223 at about 4800 rpm. |
wow what's the 0-60 on that bad boy now?
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:48 am |
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Not properly timed but will be around 4 on warm tyres.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:29 am |
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I buggered up again and read the wrong figures. It's actually 226 lbft of torque at 3700RPM
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:38 am |
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Joined: Jan 26, 2010
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Location: Kent
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| Seb wrote: |
| I buggered up again and read the wrong figures. It's actually 226 lbft of torque at 3700RPM |
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Are you sure this time, all those conversations on msn explaining to me how to read a RR graph [ j/k  ]
All in though considerable gains there it looked good in the videos before mapping. You really need to get this on a drag strip get it timed properly! have you had a stab at full throttle yet?
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:40 am |
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Yeah, I've been playing around, seen some other cars who have tried to 'have a go' at me. The only one I struggled with was a GT3RS which I kept even with up to about 70ish then he started to get away, and evidently I was slowing down as it was only a dual carriageway...
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 10:52 am |
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| Seb wrote: |
| Yeah, I've been playing around, seen some other cars who have tried to 'have a go' at me. The only one I struggled with was a GT3RS which I kept even with up to about 70ish then he started to get away, and evidently I was slowing down as it was only a dual carriageway... |
only a gt3rs... My 206 lost against my nans mobility scooter.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:01 am |
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Don't worry mate mine wasn't too different.... lol.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:09 am |
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Location: West mids
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glad to see its putting out some nice power seb i bet thats a nice punch in power when that comes in.
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 11:15 am |
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Seb may I ask how much was your car and with how many miles? If you don't wanna post it then that's cool
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