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[LeonOfTheDead]

Originally Posted by pimento

I guess it depends on how bad the original is.

I was considering an OEM layout.
After market stuff can't be as good as they don't have the same data the automaker had.

And of course there is something you just can't fix. Like a pink LFA.

[Matra et Alpine]

Yeah the originals has to be pretty awful for an exhaust to make that much difference.
10% is top you'd get on any modern car.

[pimento]

Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead

I was considering an OEM layout.
After market stuff can't be as good as they don't have the same data the automaker had.

And of course there is something you just can't fix. Like a pink LFA.

I can fix a pink LFA.. there's a few trees around here.

[clutch-monkey]

shocks, oil cooler lines, heavy duty tie rods, mini (cooper S?) rear sway bar, and radiator for $200 bucks.
also convinced the parents to go pick up a spitfire shell from melbourne.

[LeonOfTheDead]

Goodyear Duragrip, 175/65 R14, 60 € each installed, balanced etc etc



Seems silent, and grippy enough for my little Puggy 206.
Given the car and the resources, I'm more interested in fuel economy to be honest.

Each tire is covered by a 1 year insurance. No matter what happened, should I need to change a tire I will pay only the installation. Road assistance also included, but I already had that with the car's insurance.

[Matra et Alpine]

new shell ftw !!!!!

[ruim20]

Originally Posted by LeonOfTheDead

Goodyear Duragrip, 175/65 R14, 60 € each installed, balanced etc etc



Seems silent, and grippy enough for my little Puggy 206.
Given the car and the resources, I'm more interested in fuel economy to be honest.

Each tire is covered by a 1 year insurance. No matter what happened, should I need to change a tire I will pay only the installation. Road assistance also included, but I already had that with the car's insurance.

Why not Michelins Energy Savers? more expensive?

[LeonOfTheDead]

Not sure on the price, but the (old) guy at the shop said the Goodyear were better working on my car.

Another shop asked me 80 € for the Michelin, and 70 € for Kleber's tires.

I checked a few reviews, mainly from entities like ADAC, and the Michelin weren't rated as good as the Goodyear or the Pirelli P4 (not available, and couldn't wait).

[LeonOfTheDead]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Yeah the originals has to be pretty awful for an exhaust to make that much difference.
10% is top you'd get on any modern car.

Of course you need to redesign also the intake, and to have a decent engine and timing to start with. Decent as in worth bothering with it or capable of using the pulses for something useful.

The exhaust alone could even be counterproductive, hypothetically.

[clutch-monkey]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

new shell ftw !!!!!

not new.. but straight!

[zuzulo56]

A BICYCLE...WHICH ARRIVED WITH NO CHAIN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhAz0OhQWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhAz0OhQWo

zuzulo56
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[Matra et Alpine]

Nice, only 120 years behind the French
WOnder how well it copes, previous attempts in modern times it wears badly and/or shears as the long levers of wheel and pedal can impart large shear loads.

PS: WHat's with that dodgy youtube in your sig ?
If anyone decides it's spam then it'll incur a ban on you

[henk4]

Originally Posted by zuzulo56

A BICYCLE...WHICH ARRIVED WITH NO CHAIN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhAz0OhQWo

so let's install a 27 or 30 gear transmission here......

[thebrochureman]

Just brough my Goodwood tickets, going on sataday. Now i'm happy.

[clutch-monkey]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

Yeah the originals has to be pretty awful for an exhaust to make that much difference.
10% is top you'd get on any modern car.

speaking of exhaust efficiency..poking around under the triumph


mandrel bends.. what mandrel bends?