New wheels.... VTEC content inside and praying for sunshine!

[FunkyMunky]

Have wanted one of these for a while, but there has always been reasons stopping me getting one... until now! with the prices of used cars fallen so much of late, I found this one at too good a deal to miss... so it's goodbye to the Golf and hello to my mid-life crisis car

 

[Johnny415]

Very nice, i've always fancied one of these, I hate to ask but what did you end up paying?

 

[Rudi]

hello to my mid-life crisis car :lol:

Looks immaculate gareth, did this replace the R27?

 

[Cue]

i nearly bought one a few years back - my only issue with it was at 6'3'' i kept banging my temple against the metal bit at the top of the windshield.. Fantastic engines in them, just need a bit more torque lower down the rev range imo.

 

[trophy176]

Cool car mate I ve just been considering one of these next year. A few of my pals have them and love them.

 

[George K]

Apparently very sensitive to geometry set up - check the forums. To get more mid range torque you should go the Hondata route, which will move the v Tec point down the range. About 1.5 secs quicker than the Trophy at my local hill climb!.

 

[power ranger]

Love the V-tec scream on these!

 

[FunkyMunky]

Rudi - the R27 went and I got a MK4 Golf Anniversary TDi which made way for this

George - spent a good few weeks trawling the S2k forum and read up all about the geometry - mine has been checked prior to purchase, but going to keep an eye on it, thanks for heads up though

As for the VTEC - hell yeah it does scream!

 

[trophy176]

V-tec wow!

 

[FunkyMunky]

With the sun shining this morning and forecast to shine all weekend, it was enough of an incentive to clean the car and get the hardtop off (even if it is going back on after the weekend).

Awesome afternoon of getting to know the car better around a few of my favourite roads followed by a handful of pictures :













I also had the geometry checked / reset back to factory settings the other day which has made a huge difference to the handling... whilst there i got this picture - quite like it for the unusual high positioning i could get :

 

[marrow]

where did you get the geometry done?

 

[FunkyMunky]

where did you get the geometry done?

Wheels in Motion - they're in Chesham. very impressed with their service - http://www.wheels-inmotion.co.uk/

on a par with the guy who setup both my Trophy's and much closer to home too!

he was doing an R27 after mine too

 

[duffer987]

Way back in the day...well late 90s ;-) I always thought I'd pick one of these up someday... nice car
Thanks for that link too! I might check them out for getting the Trophy looked at, not too far away either.

 

[Cue]

they do still look the business.