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Appreciate the Turdy concerns, in all honesty it's not costing me that much. I'll spill the beans, Chris will hate this but there you go!
We have an existing loan from LloydsTSB which we got on a spur of the moment because it was quick when I bought the FN2. It was a shockingly bad APR, something along the lines of 13% and I intended at the time to get another loan from somewhere like Sainsburys at decent rate.
18 months on and I've realised that we haven't done anything about it, so I've been on to LloydsTSB again and they will refinance the loan at 7.8%, which isn't the cheapest, but it's is guaranteed and got me thinking. So we looked into it, and going from 18 months left on the original loan back up to 36 months, and adding £100 a month onto the repayment gives us £6,000 in our hand. We can easily afford the extra £100 a month, and the loan is still less than the value of the car and split mods, so we're not in deep in terms of finance.
This was what I was going to spend on the FD2. I realised that I know my car, I wasn't selling it because I'd fallen out with it or I thought it was going to break, or that I didn't think it was capable, I was just hitting a bit of a funk with it, getting bored if you will, and only seeing bigger and bigger bills for mods. It was Jayne's suggestion to spend the £6k on the car, I hadn't suggested it because I hadn't thought she'd go for it.
Charger will be the last power mod I do, so doing it properly. I have been having a huge debate with myself about the power of the thing. I've been in a couple of charged FN2s, but they are the CompTech chargers, and just the ease that they breeze down the road past other cars is an awesome experience.
The Rotrex with intercooler being a centrifugal charger will give me more drive-ability at town speeds and be mental at high revs. It's a charger that is perfectly matched to a high revving engine, well that's the spiel says. TTS do a lot of Rotrex chargers for motorbikes.
Nick is right, I am planning to track the car, it should handle and stop now with the LSD, springs, FRSU and pads, lines and fluid upgrades. I don't think I need any more power on track, after being flung round the Ring by Dotty in his DC5 to the point of having the shakes when I got back and chasing and passing Renault Sport Clio race cars at Spa in Harv's DC5 by Hasnic, I know the power I have now will be enough to have fun. That being said, seeing Brencivic's EP3 at Castle Combe, it looked like he was having a lot of fun! :lol:
Charger is for sh*ts and giggles. I'm keeping the car now, and the charger is for me. Do it while I'm young enough not to look like I'm having a mid life crisis sort of thing.
