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Jul 15th, 2019, 16:56 | #11 |
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Oh and for the record, there is nothing in it at all between the 2.7 245bhp Boxster and my car, they're almost perfectly matched. The roof was down in the Boxster so added some drag, but I had a passenger and double the luggage so I kind of figured they balanced each other out. These are all rolling starts by the way.
With the 355, it just can't compete with the turbo for a couple of seconds so the C30 pulls away and it takes probably 3 seconds until the 355 goes past and keeps extending as you'd expect, but very funny leaving it behind at the start of every 'comparison'! No competition with the XKR, that just spanked me in every way!
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I'm still enjoying the car and all the options Now has 53k miles and I just replaced the original plugs with new Volvo ones (£46 delivered with FRF discount), even though the plugs that came out looked perfect, I honestly couldn't believe how much positive difference this made and wouldn't want to hang onto the 75k service interval.
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I should add, the trip computer doesn't do a bad job at economy calculations, but I've found with brim to brim fills and calculation, mine actually gets 1-2mpg better than the computer states, not sure how your difference is?
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Mine is now approaching 56k after the road trip. My plugs were changed back in January when it was serviced by Tim Williams, IIRC he suggested the same plugs that the Focus RS uses (of the same vintage) so he put those in. Can't say I noticed much difference but a service without plugs never seems right!
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I'll double check. I haven't reset the car one for ages, I think it's reading around 31.6mpg... oh this just surprised me: my 'Road Trip' app has the overall mpg for the car at 31.79!
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Time to drop in a K16 turbo!!!!
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You, or hybrid your k04 turbo
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Aww, then the two of you can get together and double the efforts to find someone who will map these bloody things Dom, enquired at REGAL motorsports who have some lambos and very high power VAG cars asking if they could map your setup. They got back to me this morning saying they couldn't talk to our ECU
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