Minor upgrade at this point included polyflex bushes.
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Now it might have been because the standard ones were
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~15yrs old but without a doubt these were a
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improvement to the handling of the car.
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It felt crisper, lighter, more responsive, improved in every way.
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So much so I boiled my brake fluid on the 5 mile drive home.
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I also
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(with a friend) dismantled the brakes, flushed with 5.1 fluid and tried to wind in the rear caliper pistsons only to find they wouldn't go all the way in.
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(no we didn't have an SST, we used pliars!).
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One set of re-con rear calipers later
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(painted yellow along with the fronts) with trick Chris Wilson pads.
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Found already fitted stainless hoses so that was cool.
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Annoyingly we knackered the master cylinder doing it
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(yes it travelled too far in bleeding)
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- tip here is not to do that!
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So after all that brakes were worse than when we started.
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.and for about 3 years after until I realised there was a problem with the rear spring mechanism in the re-con calipers my brakes were terrible.
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Symptoms were no real
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'bite', pumped up OK so not a servo fault, on replacement it was much better.
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APs came later.
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Next I went a bit wheels and bodykit mad.
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Won't mention it much
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Bought a bodykit from a dealer in Ireland for roughly
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£1K who then promptly went broke.
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.luckily I still got my stuff.
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Took two months to arrive from the USA, originally supplied by Erebuni.
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Bought 15" Superleggera wheels on A539s
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- lighter than I had before
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(the Diablos) in fact lighter than stock.
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Also improved handling IMHO.
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Car now looked like this.
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Before anyone asks, no, the rear spoiler didn't do anything.
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People often ask where I got the graphics
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'idea' from.
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The answer is Pheonix Power and their Hyper 7 car
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I just liked it OK!
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