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Well I am now a CTR owner again! I went a whole 3 months before I gave in and bought another one! :lol:
I thought that I would post my journey through some sports cars that I have owned recently [not including the boring day to day cars I have got].
2005 - I had a brand spanking new Satin Silver EP3 CTR arrive on my drive early one sunny morning which replaced a Golf GTI Turbo that I had from new. It had 6 miles on the clock, within an hour it had a Spoon N1 installed! lol
1 month later and I bought a S1 Lotus Elise for weekend action. I installed a few bits and bobs including a straight through Exige Exhaust. It was great but I did not get on with the K Series lump, all the other guys I knew wanted a K20a lump in theirs [so did I] but Blink MS wanted £10k.
I sold the Elise and then bought a VX220, which I modified big time [chassis wise mostly]. I had laods of different suspension setups, one of which was an S2 Exige set with adjustable dampers. I always run a Horizon Motorpsort geo though, they are awesome! Unfortunately I killed her. I was visiting the Ultima Factory, it was a nice day so I had the top off, I got sideways [which is normal for me!] however there was a dip in the road which the tyres dug into - pivoting the car into a roll. It rolled numerous times and flew mid air into a sign post which went through the windscreen and missed my head narrowly. I survived though! :thumbup:
Next was a Clio.... I befriended Yozza from Yozzasport who went to work on it big time. This little thing was AMAZING on track. At Barkston Heath Sprint Day it put to shame a few track prepped EVO's and even came close to a Caterham [granted it is a tight course with only 2nd and 3rd needed mostly]. It was loud though at 105dbs with the Ragnotti straight through pipe. It was completely stripped with some nice Cobra Imola S carbon kevlar seats.
I got a new job so the CTR had to go. It was 4 years old now and had done 75,000 fault free miles. The only thing that it had to go in for was a rattly window. What a total gem! I thought I could live without it, and make do with an Oil burner to trundle around the country in. How wrong I was!
Next is a 2006 Premier Edition EP3 CTR that I picked up tonight! I must say the extra seats and finishes make this feel so much nicer than my 2005 CTR. It is going to be my weekend jaunt, which I will use also for track days. However, it will not be made up like my Clio. I am just changing the usual [1] Brakes, [2] suspension + tyres, [3] breathing. That is all that is needed. I already have most parts waiting to be installed.
Here are some pics. [I'll get some proper ones of the NHB]
I thought that I would post my journey through some sports cars that I have owned recently [not including the boring day to day cars I have got].
2005 - I had a brand spanking new Satin Silver EP3 CTR arrive on my drive early one sunny morning which replaced a Golf GTI Turbo that I had from new. It had 6 miles on the clock, within an hour it had a Spoon N1 installed! lol
1 month later and I bought a S1 Lotus Elise for weekend action. I installed a few bits and bobs including a straight through Exige Exhaust. It was great but I did not get on with the K Series lump, all the other guys I knew wanted a K20a lump in theirs [so did I] but Blink MS wanted £10k.
I sold the Elise and then bought a VX220, which I modified big time [chassis wise mostly]. I had laods of different suspension setups, one of which was an S2 Exige set with adjustable dampers. I always run a Horizon Motorpsort geo though, they are awesome! Unfortunately I killed her. I was visiting the Ultima Factory, it was a nice day so I had the top off, I got sideways [which is normal for me!] however there was a dip in the road which the tyres dug into - pivoting the car into a roll. It rolled numerous times and flew mid air into a sign post which went through the windscreen and missed my head narrowly. I survived though! :thumbup:
Next was a Clio.... I befriended Yozza from Yozzasport who went to work on it big time. This little thing was AMAZING on track. At Barkston Heath Sprint Day it put to shame a few track prepped EVO's and even came close to a Caterham [granted it is a tight course with only 2nd and 3rd needed mostly]. It was loud though at 105dbs with the Ragnotti straight through pipe. It was completely stripped with some nice Cobra Imola S carbon kevlar seats.
I got a new job so the CTR had to go. It was 4 years old now and had done 75,000 fault free miles. The only thing that it had to go in for was a rattly window. What a total gem! I thought I could live without it, and make do with an Oil burner to trundle around the country in. How wrong I was!
Next is a 2006 Premier Edition EP3 CTR that I picked up tonight! I must say the extra seats and finishes make this feel so much nicer than my 2005 CTR. It is going to be my weekend jaunt, which I will use also for track days. However, it will not be made up like my Clio. I am just changing the usual [1] Brakes, [2] suspension + tyres, [3] breathing. That is all that is needed. I already have most parts waiting to be installed.
Here are some pics. [I'll get some proper ones of the NHB]
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