Kev took me out in the Esprit on Saturday to demonstrate her new found pace - bloody heck - she definitely goes some now.
BOV constantly on chatter and sounds amazing - engine note has a real edge and serious overrun off throttle. Car just pulls and pulls from 3000 revs until the redline. Seriously pushes your head into the back of the seat, not much tail-off at the top-end which is born out by the graphs.
Still not in the same league as the big power Jap stuff but given it's light weight the car does go very well with 309bhp ~ 397NM.. imagine adding another 100 to those figures - barmy. Every bhp or lbft added converts straight to power per ton.
One things for sure - given the number of times Kev had to give the ol' gal some opposite lock - she's going to take time to master and will be tricky in the wet. Def want some more downforce.
She also now starts and gearchange is night and day compared to before. Also managed to trailer the car and unload by myself no problems and halved the time since last outing.
Progress..
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