Trying to convince myself that I don’t need sequential
In my life first .
If your car is used on the road do NOT fit a sequential
Great on track when pushing on
Terrible for steady road driving
Speaking from real experience, on a car with proper ECU controlled gear changes!
Hmph. That isnt what I wanted to read.
What made it so bad?
Transmission shunt when at very very low loads. OK when pushing but as soon as you drive at a legal pace they are sh*te
Also the service intervals are pretty low
Its your money and your car but for the road it would be a mistake IMHO
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Ill take on board the advice - thanks.
My Caterham has a Sadev sequential which is absolutely amazing,…on circuit, which is fine because it’s a track-only car. Pulling gears and hard on the brakes smashing down through the box on a sequential never gets boring on circuit.
But,… I echo all the things Dave said, they only do flat-out and I have no desire whatsoever to use it on the road it would be horrible. They can also go wrong and it is VERY expensive (I have experience of this).
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Just sadly not affordable, the Elise is a great Sunday car, and the Clio is the most I’m currently prepared to spend on a track car, my track time is currently too limited to make it worth investing any more, oh and the dash won’t work in the Clio 
Things are going well on the exige. It must be about time for my luck to change. Taking the youngest to school tomorrow so it could be then.
Loving life with the loltus ( as its now nicknamed ) driving it loads …
first year I had mine I tried to drive it in the snow, that was entertaining on cut slicks and a snow plough, I mean splitter LOL, then I decided to buy a 2nd car!
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I am in the fortunate place that I have a second car. And a chauffeur in said second car. She is called Wife.
Best clean the car …
Still looks good!
Bit cleaner now…
Fitted said vessel tonight. Not 100% happy with one of the clips, so I’ll get a jubilee clip for it as well.
Few pics
Hole where plastic one was
New one in and not leaking
Old one kicked to the kerb
Just been out in the lotus to return a non fitting windscreen wiper and all appears to be fine. Got stuck in some stop/start traffic for around 15 minutes and temps went upto 96deg C. Literally after getting into some clear, moving air they dropped down to 92 and then 88degC.
I did a short ( 4mi ) blast on the motorway and they went further down to 87degC which was sustained until the end of the run.
No leaks, so all appear to be good.
Milestone!
I cleaned the dash on the loltus on Sunday.
It now whooshes when I am gaining speed like a turbo when you lift. Its 100% at the front of the car, not the back.
Wonder what I have disturbed?
I have looked at the schematics of the s2 and I think one of the plastic pipes that is on the “heater box” has shifted a bit. I am going to remove the dash top and take a look*
In other news I have on yoko v105 which I have learnt are now OE tyres for the s3 exige base model.
I am curious how much extra grip I might get with a set of AD08R , or I have noticed that yoko now have the AD052 out which is their top of the line tyre…
Next day…
ooks like I am going to be getting some AD08R faster than planned.
The arse end drivers side has a flatty. Bugger.
Got a company to call tomorrow and Ill get them fitted ASAP.
Service on 22 MAR so a reassuringly expensive month
I am going to paint these two bits I think. Just undone the mounts. Car isn’t going anywhere for a few days…
k, had a spare 30 minutes at lunch so sanded them ( both plastic ) and panel wiped. Waited for the panel wipe to evaporate.
Heated the can gently with a lamp I have and repeat for the plastics.
Painted 3 coats to just before the point of runs and left the lamp near the paint in between every coat.
Left it 5 minutes between each coat.
Brought it inside to dry faster and it stinks. I am so dead when wife Bond comes home.
I’ll let it cure / dry for 3H and then stick in over at 100 deg C For 10 minutes.
Apparently wrinkle paint is a bit of a black art for if it wrinkles or not.
Still wet but looks like it’s forming
100% not in the oven baking while the wife is out …
Nice, looking smart, had my Exige 10 years and only managed 32000 miles, had the elise nearly 2 years and only done 2000 miles!
quite happy with that
Puncture on right rear from what can only be described as a javelin like head claimed another tyre at the weekend.
Put a new set of AD08R on…
Its tight in here!
Thats the reference part number - as found on a 2001-2004 Diesel (!) d4d Corolla.
Do you think something might have gone wrong here? This might have been my slight issue
Car now has a years MOT.
AD08R fitted ( great tyres! )
My cheeky ginger fleabag cat sat on the car.
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