Recent content by Steve24

Anyone who buys titanium bolts would (should) be well aware that the weight saving is minimal. They just buy them anyway because they want them and they like the idea of a little less weight. I’m going to buy them when I buy the lighter wheels because, well, why not? It’s a bit like the CF...

Sounds like typical social media BS to me.

Haha! Fair enough. I’m just interested in what would be relevant to the greatest number of people. And from VF’s point of view, I would have thought a standard car (or close to it) would provide the highest number of potential customers. Don’t blame me when people say the dyno results are...

That’s great. The only slightly disappointing thing (and I’m not trying to be a downer or unnecessarily critical) is that this is being tested on an already highly modified car. To be honest I’d rather see the results on an otherwise bog standard (or at least only very lightly modified) car...

I hope they’re paying for a new clutch and whatever else they trashed.

What it really shows is that the gearbox makes all the difference in a drag race. There is no way any manual car can compete with a car with launch control and all you have to do is plant your foot and the job is done. Have a look at the face of the guy driving the auto. He looks bored as...

So the torque figure is correct, then?

Yes definitely Nm. Their results seem to be well within expected for a stock car. This was my totally stock car the only time I’ve put it on a dyno. 380rwhp and 442 Nm. Never quite understood why the rpm seems so far out, though.

I get what you’re saying, but couldn’t you say that about any car? There’s nothing special about Emira depreciation. You should buy a new car with your eyes open, and enjoy speccing it exactly as you want, and that feeling of picking it up and no one else has driven it. Or you let someone...

These look great. However, I am pretty clueless when it comes to the various suspension components and what their individual roles are, so I'll put myself forward to ask the stupid questions that maybe one or two others are wondering as well... What do these actually do? What are the benefits...

I can’t comment on the nav / volume side of things, but I am still driven slightly mad by the fact that the car doesn’t seem to remember volume settings. It doesn’t matter what I do, every time I get in the car the radio comes on and I have to turn it down to zero (I rarely listen to anything...

Not sure. A friend sent it to me when I mentioned the battery change and the tiny discharge at idle (which unless people are monitoring the battery via Bluetooth in real time they’d never know about). For all I know it could be an AI response, and therefore worthless (I’m no fan of AI)...

So does this information only relate to the i4?

Mine is a V6 and it works just fine. If it wasn’t for the Bluetooth monitoring I would never know about the tiny discharge at low idle, so I suspect most people just don’t notice.