Bye bye ATR

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:33 am

LudeIOW wrote:...contemplating selling one of the kids to buy one

Aha! I knew there was a way around it! I would love to own an S2K (even if they are homicidal maniacs in the wet) but I need more than 2 seats.

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:31 am

bb1boy wrote:
LudeIOW wrote:(even if they are homicidal maniacs in the wet)

It was pissing down yesterday and TBH it was pretty well behaved, only had to catch it a couple of times and there were no surprises

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:37 am

seriously??

you gotta ask if thats right havn't you?

the only way i can get wayward in the bim is the MAKE it. Even in the wet it is very well behaved and sure unless you are having a laugh, which I have yet to honestly do as it will drive faster in the wet than i like to for safety.

if its stepping out that easy there has to be some issue there doesnt there? bad tires, geo out or something? or did you put you 'tool' hat on and go for a drive?

Post by **Donald** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:59 am

Don't forget this is the AP1 which is notoriously tail happy compared to the AP2.

bb1boy · Post by **bb1boy** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:12 am

When the S2K was new Palmersport in Bedford swapped their ITR's for AP1's for their track days but they had to get rid of them because they were too dangerous in the wet, as soon as it started to rain everyone would fly off the track backwards.. so they got rid of the S2K's and bought a bunch of bloody Renault Clio's instead!!

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:25 am

lewd lude lover wrote:seriously?? you gotta ask if thats right havn't you?

the only way i can get wayward in the bim is the MAKE it. Even in the wet it is very well behaved and sure unless you are having a laugh, which I have yet to honestly do as it will drive faster in the wet than i like to for safety.

if its stepping out that easy there has to be some issue there doesnt there? bad tires, geo out or something? or did you put you 'tool' hat on and go for a drive?

They were new tyres from the garage but an unknown brand, swapped them out for my contis yesterday and it's much more stable. Driving normally it's fine, when I say stepped out I was basically seeing when I could get the throttle on coming off round abouts from all this talk of it being tail happy in the wet. It's no where near as bad as I thought it would be.

Mine is an AP1, but if you read up on the history 02 onwards AP1's had the revised suspension to reduce the snap.

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:35 am

right

having a jolly then

good skills. brand new tires will be awful generally as they need to seep out the preservative slosh they use on them. Lucky I should say

are you going to japshow finale? rwd shoot out in the offing?

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:36 am

When is it?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:52 am

That spoon hardtop really isn't to my taste, but more to the point it just looks like they're trying to make it look like a 911 to me, so...

A1ex · Post by **A1ex** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:56 am

Looks like a z4 coupe to me