Best, or just sweetest 4 cylinder engines?

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Gary C said:

TameRacingDriver said:

I don't think smoothness was ever it's problem Lee, it just couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding, even when you revved it hard. The car was alright but you're not missing much, quite overrated I thought. The suspension was much too hard as well. Great on a billiard smooth road but on a typical British B road it was hopeless (though in fairness I don't know if mine was standard in that department).

A friend of mine was working for TWR at the time and worked on the suspension for the GT (I think it would have been the P11). He is a fan of RWD and oversteer so wanted the car not to just have terminal understeer and also to have good compliance. I think the major problem was CVH with the size of the rims they wanted fitting just for visuals (he would have preferred smaller diameter wheels)

The one I had as a hire car with work was an excellent A road thrash car and the suspension didn't feel too hard to me (but then again, I though my EVO V suspension was comfortable too).

Have just lost my GT to a rear end shunt that wrote it off by bending the boot floor, was perhaps one of the best there was left.
Its strength was its chassis. The most unFWD-like FWD car I`ve ever had. You could chuck it hard into corners and it would hang on tight with little or no understeer.

The SR20 engine did, however, require you to rev the tits off it.

I`ll miss the old bus.