Mugga_tea
Member
Morning and happy Christmas.
I thought I should join now I've been reading the forums for a while and took the plunge buying an sbody.
It's my first sbody, first rwd car and the first car I've had with an lsd. Some of you may have seen in on FB marketplace for a while and may think I paid too much ect, I dunno, I was happy with the price.
But of a saga with the bank getting payment cleared due to added security checks and that I was 300 miles from home made it look suspicious, but finally, at 5.30pm on Saturday it was mine and I could go home!
I hadn't really got much rwd experience before so jumping in this was a bit tense and seeing as it has a kaaz lsd set to aggressive and a 4.3:1 ratio it was a bit keen to lock up, no worries though with a sensible head, don't mash the throttle and it won't go wrong (it does lock up in tight slow turns) so a bit of a prowl round to find the shell station I saw earlier in the day and I started to feel a bit more at home and started to realise that it's not just going to kill me for fun.
Fast forward a bit as I left Exeter and his the motorway it started raining, then pouring and then it was just a lake with slits in it and visibility was awful. Thank the gods for that aggressive diff that's just behind me...... Numerous small aquaplane moments that aren't a worry, I wasn't going fast and there was no traffic about so not too much of a worry, just slow down a bit more until a motorway flyover to merge onto another (I forgot which one as my bum did a tight nip up) the flyover was waterlogged, running like a river and one wheel slipped as I was going round the bend to join the main carriageway. Remember that diff? CLUNK! Diff wants it and locks hard. First drift! Albeit only a little one and no drama, just turned into it and carried on but my backside got scared so I stopped at the next services and reconvened with a mate who was driving my current car back up with me.
Anyway, almost 300 miles passed and I got home and only used 3/4 of a tank of vpower, I didn't think that was bad going. So now it's washed, polished and tucked away in bed until spring.
I thought I should join now I've been reading the forums for a while and took the plunge buying an sbody.
It's my first sbody, first rwd car and the first car I've had with an lsd. Some of you may have seen in on FB marketplace for a while and may think I paid too much ect, I dunno, I was happy with the price.
But of a saga with the bank getting payment cleared due to added security checks and that I was 300 miles from home made it look suspicious, but finally, at 5.30pm on Saturday it was mine and I could go home!
I hadn't really got much rwd experience before so jumping in this was a bit tense and seeing as it has a kaaz lsd set to aggressive and a 4.3:1 ratio it was a bit keen to lock up, no worries though with a sensible head, don't mash the throttle and it won't go wrong (it does lock up in tight slow turns) so a bit of a prowl round to find the shell station I saw earlier in the day and I started to feel a bit more at home and started to realise that it's not just going to kill me for fun.
Fast forward a bit as I left Exeter and his the motorway it started raining, then pouring and then it was just a lake with slits in it and visibility was awful. Thank the gods for that aggressive diff that's just behind me...... Numerous small aquaplane moments that aren't a worry, I wasn't going fast and there was no traffic about so not too much of a worry, just slow down a bit more until a motorway flyover to merge onto another (I forgot which one as my bum did a tight nip up) the flyover was waterlogged, running like a river and one wheel slipped as I was going round the bend to join the main carriageway. Remember that diff? CLUNK! Diff wants it and locks hard. First drift! Albeit only a little one and no drama, just turned into it and carried on but my backside got scared so I stopped at the next services and reconvened with a mate who was driving my current car back up with me.
Anyway, almost 300 miles passed and I got home and only used 3/4 of a tank of vpower, I didn't think that was bad going. So now it's washed, polished and tucked away in bed until spring.
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