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| Jamie live experience | |
I ordered the car from Ralliart UK September 1999, and finally collected it at the end of February 2000. The usual long delay waiting for the car to be built, shipped from Japan, to clear SVTA in Germany, shipped to UK, and a couple of weeks at Ralliart being turned from a RS into a RS Sprint. Phew! >From day one the car has been known as Wendy. All of our cars have names (Moppet, Rex, Shagged, the Lemon, Daffy, etc.) and being white with large heels (rather than wheels :-) the name Wendy was decided upon! There was the usual story of not "thrashing" the car until the engine had been run-in a bit. Also Ralliart did not tweak the boost up to its 1.3bar setting until the 1st service. At the same time as the first service I had the track-day cage fitted, along with 4-point harnesses. The car was delivered with decent Recaro seats... so that wasn't a problem. The car is a sensible four door family saloon, and I use it as such. It is my daily runaround... going to the supermarket, dentist, shopping, whatever. I work from home, so it doesn't get as many miles as a daily commuter - but there is no special treatment shown to Wendy; muddy boots, rally tyres, sweet-wrappers, etc. are all flung in and out of her regularly. The longest single journey I have done in the car was a non-stop (apart from re-fuelling) trip from Calais to Nice on a VERY hot day in July 2000. The lack of air-con, and sweaty competition seats took their toll. It was knackering. However we managed the journey in about 8 hours - with care not to get knicked by the Police on route. The house we stayed in on that holiday was owned by an ex-rally driver, who wanted to see what the car could do; so we set off up'n'down some of the famous rally stages in the hills north of Nice - and proceeded to cook the brake fluid something terrible (a big moment attacking some bends after a very twisty climb). As soon as I was back in the UK I upgrade the brake fluid to something more suitable to HARD driving. The only time I have really taken the car to its limit was on a Ralliart organised track day at Bruntingthorpe some Saturday during September 2000. There were about 40 GSR VI's, along with a couple of Extreme's. My car was the only RS Sprint... and according to the people watching it was the nicest sounding, and also the quickest. Basically I was willing to thrash the nuts off it, whereas others were being a bit circumspect. A short "handling" rally stage had been set up using cones, and it got to the point the instructors on hand were coming with me, not to try and teach me anything... but just for the fun of being flung about :-) In fact I didn't get to spend the whole day there. Shortly after lunch I had completely knackered the Bridgestone's that were on the car, and they were starting to chunk (with cord showing through in a couple of places). I drove home slowly and ended up buying four new tyres as soon as my local tyre place opened on Monday morning. The car has only had a couple of very minor hiccups, and the only flaw seems to be that the brake discs warp quite easily; I am just about to purchase my 3rd set of front discs after only 23,000 miles! It is a BRILLIANT point-to-point car, and is at home on twisty UK B-roads. It slides well, and is a great car to practice left-foot-braking in (roundabouts a speciality :-) Definately the best handling and driving car I have had the pleasure to thrash! -- Jamie |
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EVO VI RS Sprint Based on the RS model, with the Brembo brake kit and 17" OZ wheels. No ABS, AYC or other gizmo's. Standard RS Sprint specification: PIAA front fog lamps RalliArt mud flaps Super Dragger exhaust Super Flow filter & induction kit RalliArt Sprint engine upgrade (to 1.3 bar boost) RalliArt fast road (lowered) spring kit (28mm lower front, 14mm lower rear) RalliArt brake upgrade (320mm 4pot front, 305mm 2pot rear) Lowered rear under spoiler Titanium turbo internals competition rear LSD My RS Sprint (#6) Recaro rally seats 4-point OMP harnesses 6-point bolt-in (track day) roll cage front 3-point steel strut brace rear 2-point strut brace competition brake fluid front spots (instead of fog) Information: 0-60mph 4.2secs 0-100mph 10.4secs 60-0mph 2.5secs weight 1260kg gear ratios 1 2.785 2 1.950 3 1.444 4 1.096 5 0.825 reverse 3.416 final 4.529 |
