I'm half interested, on the grounds that it effects F1 and I know quite a lot about carbon fibre - but not that much - well sort of... My brother is a carbon fibre guru having worked on a lot of the plush carbon fibre super cars and race cars - so I get to hear about all this boring staff at BBQ's. The problem here is I hear it all drunk, and with the enthusiasm one has when listening to their family talk about work.
Dude, I was with you right until you posted a link to a, errr, a, errrr, a... You aren't serious are you? Surely you made a typo, I think you meant to say: "I dont think that piece of crap you posted is any better than this".
'though I get the impression you are some kind of Merc dealer so maybe you don't see the sheer hideousness of the monstrosity you have confronted my eyes with.
Dont tell me you dont like the 190 Evo?!? :OOOOOOOOO
I personally think it looks fantastic.
As for me, im not a merc dealer but my dad is. Well, more specifcally he sell's brabuses mainly but also sell's mercs. I just work in the garage round the back fixing all kinds of mercs and brabuses.
They work amazingy well..Plug it into the headphone jack on your Zen or if your phone has one and put the tape into the tape deck and it works good. I'v been using them for 2-3 years.
If that's what it is, personally I thought it was something Volvo made in the 70's that had been handed to Sam93's uncle and had the wrong badge put on it.
Road cars are very rarely tested and when they are it isn't at 3/4 max. A lot of standard sportscars fail noise tests at track days and I remember Autocar couldn't take a Zonda onto a track because it failed the standard race noise limit (106db @ 3/4).
The software people have had to go away and rethink their security after it was foiled by a PC World Technician to award licences to ricers who try to make their mum's car look cool to pull girls
Harsh, but fair. Don't throw your money at some el cheapo car - it won't do anything for you. Concentrate on learning to drive and learning how easy it is to fail your driving test. Pass your test and then continue to concentrate on learning to drive for a year or so. Then maybe think about what kind of car you'd like.
All a new driver needs is good brakes and tyres, a small turning circle and a car small enough to park easily. Putting fancy wheels on your mum's old car is like putting a sticker that says "Bell End" on your forehead.
The arches, rear bumper, side skirts are from an original Evo, I think the spoiler was aswell it's just the front bumper what isnt original.
It isn't suppose to be a copy, it was just done like that because he liked the kit, not in any way to be a copy.
He hasn't had any problems with his engine just the LSD keeps on breaking on it, wouldn't like to have the engine rebuilt though, he has it priced up and would cost around £5k, the manifold alone costs £2,000
He has been told that the 2.3 is suppose to be better in terms of performance, I know the 2.5 I think only have an extra 20 or 30bhp more.
He wouldn't mind an Evo but when the real car costs about £30k it's a bit pricey, there is one on Pistonheads, don't know if it is still on there.
I will post pictures of when the paint job has done, take them off street stylers as there will be a show soon so there will be some on there, it's getting sprayed black. Has to wait for the bumpers to be replaced aswell as his mate whilst driving it pulled out to the other lane to overtake a lorry and didnt see the dead dear in the road what a ford galaxy hit 10mins before and he phoned my Unlces saying I just went over a dear but what he didn't realise is that it snapped the rear and front bumper, so that is also being repaired.
From what i can see, the sideskirts are not like the evo. They are too deep and follow the curvature of the wheel, when the originals dont. As for the arches, they are not genuine ones. The genuine ones flush into the rear, and the ones on that yellow minger dont. As for the front arches, they may be similiar, but the ones on the yellow car are flushed in and wrap round to the front headlights, when the ones on the genuine car dont, they are seperate pieces. But i do think that the owner of the puss coloured merc has probably got them done.
I dont personally believe that the kit on that car is a genuine evo kit, i reckon its just some aftermarket tat...at least that's what it looks like.
p.s, the 2.3 is seriously not a better engine. The 2.5 is a cleaner, more powerful engine. It has better pistons, cams and piston rings. Some 2.3's were known to shred the rings to piece's after just 40k miles, and some were also known to throw rod's through the block.
Well he told me that it is an original Evo 2 kit, the front arch has just been modified to curve like that, I just found this pic of the car on side view, it no longer has those blue headlights as he didn't like them, I believe when you compare this to an original kit it looks the same, the front arch has just been modified to bend around the head light. Also the side skirts have just been a little smoothed where it meets the arch, original kit just been changed slightly.
Nope, the skirts are definetely not like the evo and neither are the arches, especially the front! The front ones rise up more and have less depth. I've had to do mechanical and bodywork on 1 evo in the past, i can assure you that kit is not a genuine one.
Alot of people like that like to B.S others, saying things like there car's generate 50hp more than they really do, or that the bodykit cost them £1000 more than it really did...i've heard it all before.
Its not going to look similiar with the wrong wheels, wrong kit, and wrong colour...
Well he only knows what he was told, and I haven't yet said that he done the car did I, his Dad bought the car who had all the work done, he said it was an original kit to his Dad, his Dad had it for a while never used it and then gave it to his son (My step uncle) as a B Day present, so he only knows what the person who had the car done said. He has reciepts for the work done on the car and it has had a few grand spent on it.
Also he doesn't want it to be an exact replica of the Evo 2.
But maybe next time, instead of saying "its a genuine kit!!", you should do some research and then maybe, just maybe, you wont look like such an idiot next time.
I done some picture comparing and it looks similar to me, the angle and darkness of the picture, I will get a decent one when its finished to see what is different etc... Might help a little.