Grande Punto DlightSwitch's Blue T-Jet.

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Nice videos, yeah you can definally see the boost kicking in & holding for longer in the second video

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Really nice car, I own a 1.4 petrol sporting in the same colour, is your car lowered 35mm????

Also what is the difference in ride quality since fitting the springs......

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Strip time is alright Your being a bit optimistic on your 0-60 time though with that 1/4 mile time.

http://www.torquestats.com/modified...rive=FWD&bhp=173&weight=1120&submit=Calculate

If you use this to match your 1/4 time its accurate on 0-60. If that works properly then it should show the figures ive used. I believe that you would sneak into high 6's but 6.2 is wayyyyy too quick for the power you are running.

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grantourismonut said:

Really nice car, I own a 1.4 petrol sporting in the same colour, is your car lowered 35mm????

Also what is the difference in ride quality since fitting the springs......

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According to the site that sell the Eibach Sportlines, it's a 40-45mm drop on the front and a 30mm drop on the rear.

The ride comfort is worse of course, as you'd expect from lowering springs, hit a pothole and it'll definitely shake your bones, but the handling more than makes up for it. The first roundabout I took with the springs on reassured me of that.

punto_matt said:

Strip time is alright Your being a bit optimistic on your 0-60 time though with that 1/4 mile time.

http://www.torquestats.com/modified...rive=FWD&bhp=173&weight=1120&submit=Calculate

If you use this to match your 1/4 time its accurate on 0-60. If that works properly then it should show the figures ive used. I believe that you would sneak into high 6's but 6.2 is wayyyyy too quick for the power you are running.

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Yeah I'll give you that one, Dynolicious isn't the most accurate way to measure the 0-60 time and I definitely had my suspicions about it being that low. That site does seem to be fairly accurate though. I might get a mate with a stopwatch and finally settle it one day

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Your better off doing a proper 0-60 run at a car show as even with a stopwatch they arent too accurate. I reckon it would do low 7's all day long.

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Yeah if I get a chance I will, not really going to go out of my way for it though, I'm happy enough with a power graph and my 1/4 mile timeslips to tell me what my car can do

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I agree, 0-60 isnt really that important anyway, its all about in gear acceleration.

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There's not that many traffic lights near me anyway

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Deeecent, wish I had gone. Just shows how much difference the bigger turbine makes

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i remember when you raced me on that weekend, i was hoping your car was like a 1.4 active or something, but being a sleeper and not seeing your FMIC before the race, you proper thrashed me. as soon as you got in to 2nd that was race over, haha!

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Bravo16VSpoonz said:

i remember when you raced me on that weekend, i was hoping your car was like a 1.4 active or something, but being a sleeper and not seeing your FMIC before the race, you proper thrashed me. as soon as you got in to 2nd that was race over, haha!

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Oh that was you I wondered if you were on the forum but you had your window up so I couldn't ask haha. Yeah that was the last race I got in before the strip closed

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might take my dads m5 down to one of these strips 1 day

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Butcher said:

might take my dads m5 down to one of these strips 1 day

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Good for you

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DlightSwitch said:

Oh that was you I wondered if you were on the forum but you had your window up so I couldn't ask haha. Yeah that was the last race I got in before the strip closed

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i were on the stand the next day too, it was funny cause i saw your 1/4 time come up on the board even before i finished.

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Bravo16VSpoonz said:

i were on the stand the next day too, it was funny cause i saw your 1/4 time come up on the board even before i finished.

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Oops didn't see you then, I didn't actually spend much time with my car when it was on the stand because I went to pack away the tent and then watched the Miss Fast Show contest and then before I knew it, it was time to leave

Haha that's a shame, what was your best time of the day then?
I remember that last run well, I thought I'd done well and beaten my time but unfortunately I hadn't

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DlightSwitch said:

Oops didn't see you then, I didn't actually spend much time with my car when it was on the stand because I went to pack away the tent and then watched the Miss Fast Show contest and then before I knew it, it was time to leave

Haha that's a shame, what was your best time of the day then?
I remember that last run well, I thought I'd done well and beaten my time but unfortunately I hadn't

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my car was shoved at the back, werent much going on tbh..so instead we had bbq behind my car
well i totally forgot to get my timeslips, so the only time i knew was 17.4 @79mph, that was thanks to one of the fiat forum lot.

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Bravo16VSpoonz said:

my car was shoved at the back, werent much going on tbh..so instead we had bbq behind my car
well i totally forgot to get my timeslips, so the only time i knew was 17.4 @79mph, that was thanks to one of the fiat forum lot.

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Oh yeah I walked up to you lot whilst you were BBQing and asked for chris because I needed my stand pass off him.
I made sure I got my timeslips every 2 runs

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punto_matt said:

Good for you

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Hahaha

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Sooo.. update time!

Car is still going well, still loving it! Gave it a bit of a service the other day just for peace of mind, changed the filter on the GSR and the spark plugs.


Fitted the forge breather hose as well, so I'm getting there, one hose at a time..


Last saturday I went down to Manchester to buy some nice wheels off a bloke you all know as Dom130



You can see in the pictures how much lower his car sits than mine! And that's with the coilovers wound down nowhere near as far as they can go!

And here's some pictures of how the car looks now with the Rotas on, can't believe how light they are compared to the standard T-Jet wheels!

The eagle eyed among you will notice that the pictures were taken in the same spot as the pictures I took when I first got the car on the first page of the thread, because I thought it would be fun to compare









Oh and here's a nice picture of my car and a rainbow, because I thought it looked awesome :slayer:

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i love them wheels they have a good contrast with the colour of your car haha but i also like doms porsche wheels, your car is coming along very nicely just need the interior sorted now haha