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I've just bought Uniroyal Rainsport 3's for the front and there amazing. Got Toyo T1r's (look brand new) on the back. So much grip from uniroyals that the back end stepped out as they can't keep up with the fronts on a heavy roundabout cornering test. Defo uniroyals from now on...and they're cheaper than Toyos

Gr8 stuff sir this is defo one pampered mb6

Still no Recaros ... none on sale here. But i've done some small upgrades: Re-painted the calipers all round and added 5mm spacers. Also replaced the headlight washer covers with new ones painted with the same code as the car. Don't have a photo of those but they look nice and very subtle. ET is now 32, the 8.5" rears looks nice but the 7.5" fronts are still a bit too much tucked in to my taste. But don't fancy fitting any wider spacers, don't want to risk losing a wheel! But so far they've stayed on perfect even at relatively high speeds. I was chasing a GT86, on a closed circuit ofcourse , and he didn't disappear into the horizon until i was close to hitting the revlimiter on 5th . Here's some more shots from the past weeks. The deck is lower than ever, i wrenched a few mm down from last time. Still could go more i reckon!

Ooya bean pole. Yellow gonna be tight! Will keep you busy mate!

UPS Man just dropped off these little beauties!

Had some yellow film lying around so decided to try out the euro thing... don't know if it's any better than before, but hey, it's a mod nevertheless! I was heading off to Ahvenisto to start my track season so bought some shiny new wheel nuts and showed the R888's some tire marker... Surprisingly i didn't manage to improve my track times from 2 years back, even though since i've upgraded the exhaust, brakes and suspension and definitely got the driving lines nailed better than before. My guess is old tires and bad alignment... the Toyo's are down to 1mm and 3mm of tread per pair so they probably have one track day left in them. But gotta tell you, the brake setup is pretty awesome at the moment! I was doing 5-7 hard laps in a row and got practically zero brake fade... i'm running grooved discs, Ferodo DS2500 pads, Hel hoses and Motul RBF600 fluid. While i raised the car to track height, i played a bit with the pre-loads for the first time. Set it at 10mm at each corner (was at about 4mm before) and lowered the damping to 5 clicks from hardest for street and i couldn't believe how much better it was! At track i gradually turned it to max but just for normal cruising 5 is perfect. For the next track day am tempted to add even more pre-load. But unfortunately i've started to lose some oil. It's always been seeping a tiny bit from the gearbox side, but this summer it's increased to the point where i've already added 0,5 liters twice, within 2 months. That's a bit too much so the plan is to do a proper engine wash, check the torque of the valve cover bolts and start following carefully where the oil is coming out. I already replaced the vtec solenoid gasket and torqued it down. For those of you who's participated in the 5 dream car garage thread, well i got a step closer to mine by going to see and test drive this gorgeous '82 TE71 Corolla coupe for sale fitted with a 4-AGE. LUCKILY it was not perfect enough, otherwise i would've ended up with a 5000 euro loan! Yeah, pretty steep for a car like that. Taking into consideration seeing it live i noticed it had some flaws that made me lost interest before even seriously thinking about buying it. But definitely worth the time, still one of my favourite models of all time... That's pretty much it so far. I had a battery issue which got sorted out, more of that in detail here if someone's interesed. My 3 year old Optima failed, for no apparent reason... so now i'm just running a el cheapo brandless battery. Fortunately it comes with a 3 year warranty so in the end 65€ well spent me thinks. Thanks for all the comments. And like i always say, more stuff is on the way! I haven't done any bigger mods in a while and the Honda jar is getting faaaaat so i better start looking for them Recaros again.