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Old 09-14-2004, 12:43 AM
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Re: Garage queen??

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Not as laid back as you used to be, eh Andy??
Costing £1200, it stays inside in bad weather. That means the Lee Cougan has had plenty of use this summer.

I am booked in to do a 60 mile charity ride next month, so it will have to get wet a few times in training. I have just fitted clipless pedals so I will need to be happy with them before riding with about 1000 others.
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Old 09-14-2004, 01:58 AM
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OK I understand.

Is the Lee Coogan mid engined and rear wheel drive?

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Old 09-14-2004, 03:15 AM
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OK I understand.

Is the Lee Coogan mid engined and rear wheel drive?

Joe
That's the one Joe. Unfortunately the engine is in rather poor condition, with worn pistons, a leaking head gasket and a limp big end.
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That's the one Joe. Unfortunately the engine is in rather poor condition, with worn pistons, a leaking head gasket and a limp big end.
Sounds like it needs a service badly.

Try a few pints of antifreeze or equivalent down the throttle body, and regular application of friction modifiers on the con rod. That'll help the big end.



How's the XT going? What's a typical mpg for it? My brother is awaiting a Forester Turbo from Japan, 98 or 99 model I think.
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Old 09-16-2004, 02:32 PM
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How's the XT going? What's a typical mpg for it? My brother is awaiting a Forester Turbo from Japan, 98 or 99 model I think.
Realy nice, very few bad points. Much better average economy than the SVX, I recon that 'Er Indoors' gets about 35mpg and I get about 10.

Sounds like your brother is getting an S-Turbo. A more primative beast but probably well tuned if it is a Jap import.

The only disappointment is that Prodrive are not doing an upgrade for my '04 yet. I could do with a little more power.
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Old 09-16-2004, 02:42 PM
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Why does everyone want to race an SVX? It's a GT. Tell roto-loser to go find a rustang to pick on; until his gaskets blow. The rotory is far more unreliable then any other motor I know of. I have seen some nice tricked out RX-7's in SCC magazine, but they dance a fine line with fuel/air mix and resulting detonation.
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Or stage two.
Hell with an abusive enough launch, I can spin 4 tires.
I didn't want to mention this earlier, but now seems like a good time.
I can easily squeal my front tires, and roast them for a good 30ft, and one day, I decided to see what I could really do.
I chirped that sucker on a slight incline, but instead of holding it or letting off, I opened up the throttle and just tore up road until I hit second gear (or the awd kicked in, I don't really know) and got launched like a rocket.

Never did the rear tires squeal.
You have to consider if your torque distribution is working properly, and considering the whp of these things, a slightly modded X will only put 45h per wheel to the ground in low traction conditions.
If you are spinning all four, you have to be pushing a lot of power, or heck, abusing the hell out of a 5-speed.
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abusing the hell out of a 5-speed.




^ That one
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