Monkfish
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I've been saying for a long ass time now that big power in a FWD Starlet was a pointless venture. Don't get me wrong, they're fantastic little cars and box way above their weight, but there is a limit to driveability and power deliver. The EP chassis is too light and too wobbly to shove big power through the front wheels. Keep the power sensible, keep the responsiveness high and spend the money making it turn and stop faster. That's where it's at. You hear that? That's the sound of lots of pennies dropping to the floor.I broke mine because I realised big bhp starlet tuning was a big anticlimax, that in the quest for pub figures the car had become undriveable to the point that I prefered taking my folks car out instead of the GT - It took me a year or so to realise that this was probably my main reason, but having driven some of the well setup GTs that Trevor imported, I realised that response tuning was the future.
But yeh, I've always wondered why people spend an absolute fucking fortune modding a car to a given spec, then selling it. There was a Mk4 Supra posted some time ago (may have been on a different forum) and the guy had apparently spent what I earn in 3 odd years making this Supra run massive power. The engine had done about 100 road miles and he was selling up. What's the point?