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Strut Your Stuff
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Strut Your Stuff
I've just ordered a front and rear Aluminium Prodrive strutbrace. Should be good fun to try out when they are fitted on Friday! Any thoughts on these?
I saw the Pro Drive one on Mike Woods WR1 at the Rolling road event, and must say looks
 Glad you went for both mate - job done properly 
they do look cool.....but gotta say I haven't managed to 'flex' the chassis on normal roads......not been on any tracks yet
you gotta be giving it some to feel the need for the struts I think !!
Turkey ... may I ask how much you paid for the package? And where from?
I flexed my chassis a bit - perhaps it's time to fit struts!
I haven't got struts fitted yet if thats what you mean!
Probably will do at the 5k service but haven't felt the need for them yet - I've taken some fairly fast corners but not felt it leaning or getting out of shape on me. having said that I haven't taken her on any tracks / pavements Saw a few with them fitted on the WR1 rolling road day.....including Mike Woods !
I was wondering what he meant as well. Are there any other packages you've bought recently CT?
  I've not had the braces fitted to mine. I doubt i'll bother to be honest as i've never felt i've needed them. Chris
As my username suggests I stopped buying 'packages' a while ago now
I may be wrong but there have been a few times that I have thought they would be good. I'm hoping when you are going round a road island and then turn off left that they will help in that situation because the car feels a little weird at that point. I don't even try and suggest I am a quality driver so it may just be me doing something wrong.
Remind me on Monday and I will let you know the deal. As it stands it sounds too good to be true. If it is true (I hope and think it is) I will fill you all in.
Cheers WR1 bro ... dithered over the front STi strut but that was something like
[quote="Gangsta Smurf"]Cheers WR1 bro ... dithered over the front STi strut but that was something like
Yeh it was for the Carbon Fibre one. My dealer knows me to well!!! He told me about the stainless one then showed me a pic of the Carbon Fibre bling bling top of the range one. He knows my weakness for a bit of the old Bling Bling fibre!!
If there is a better deal on Stainless ones though I will go and do that! Far to many mods I want to do and not enough cash!!
Think yourself lucky with what you have got at such a tender age Gangsta!! I know what you are saying though. I don't intend messing with WR1 too much. I think it does more than enough to make me pray for forgivness occasionally!! Like SORRY SORRY SORRY, I was going too fast!! I'm tempted with the front splitter and a blackjax. Other than that my money will be spent elsewhere. Like.... Any advice on playing with a RS Focus and not voiding the warranty would be good?
Lol RS Focus is a toothpick for a WR1 - even in standard form!! I was in the process of showing a RS focus chav (complete with burberry baseball cap) who the daddy was when a Noble M12 came flying past us both on the hard shoulder. I then stopped playing with the RS and left it for dead with a 6th to 4th drop and went after the Noble - which very annoyingly slowed down to allow me to catch him, then proceeded to tear me a new a$$
.... hence me now looking to buy one!!! Serious motor to be able to destroy a WR1 in the fashion that he did!
As an everyday drive then the RS Focus is a good little car. I certainly don't drool over it like I do my WR1. Having said that, the Focus is still worth throwing a few quid at it to free up a little bhp. Anyone know anything about the Bluefin? I have been told Ford can check for the use of such a device? Not really WR1 conversation but the poor link is - Focus allows me to keep the WR1 in the garage and only bring it out for weekends.
Sell the focus, put a little cash towards it and get an STI, a simple mod that gets you an extra 65 bhp AND AWD!!
 STI during the week-WR1 at the weekend!Jason
I'd sell the focus and buy a caterham to keep in the garage. The WR1 is my everyday car....far too good to be stuck in a garage for 71.4% of its life
LOL id love a small HOT HATCH - for everyday use as local miles is very low.
If i go to look at a job it will be within 10 miles May i should trade teh racing caddy in for a HOT HATCH     
IT has DVD player , TOM TOm sat nav, Pioneer mp3 head unit through 1KW of amps and 8 speakers, PDAm nokia car kit, radar jammers
etc etc... engine is a 1.9 TDI with new engine mangiment to bring to 130 BHP with Eduction kit, Torque hits 220 LBS at 2000 RPM !!! the front tyres really get a hammering !!! the rears are leaf and cant sort any thing FRont Shocks have been upgraded as well as the rears. But theres only so much that can be done before a specialist can sort it out...
My other half, who works in a VW commercial vehicle dealers has just told me your Caddy is the best one that she has seen!
Out of interest what's the big red button for?
mm i hope she can help me mod further ...... the red button is for DIXIE AIR HORNS !!!! i need to sort out the handling !! OOPS it also has TOROX front DISCS and pads !! i have the POWER but not hte handling ;(
Blimey ... that van is a beast Brian!!! Respect to you!!!!
WR1bro ... I'd love to have a focus rs as my day to day run around, I thought you were talking about a WR1 vrs a Focus!! I often think about getting a runner but the WR1 is like a drug for me, I just can't stop thinking about it all day every day - and I could never drive anything else knowing what I've got locked up in the garage!!
I bought a decant car so i could use it every day and enjoy it. I did think about a day to day runner and a decent car a couple of years ago but then realised the cheap one would end up being left behind whilst i drove the other one!
 Now my other half "borrows" the Scoob 2 or 3 days a week so i'm left driving her Polo anyway! 
Thankfully there isn't a Mrs Gangsta at this present moment so I get to enjoy the scooby all to myself ... although saying that the running and mod costs are like having to pay maintenance to 3 ex wives
Previous Mrs Gangsta ... "why are you wasting your money on a 30 grand mondeo with a spoiler?? You should buy a BMW instead so I can drive it too" ... 2months later Gangsta is single and driving his WR1
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