Goodbye 335d; Hello CSL

[rstoughy]

Welcome onboard mate

Wicklow hills you say....(off topic but bought our dog from Wicklow)

[DazBlackCSL]

Welcome Leins and well done

[AlexGTT]

Welcome mate. Good first drive then.

[LeinsCSL]

Thanks for all the welcomes folks

Originally Posted by sailorbaz

Welcome onboard Leins, hope to see you at Mondello sometime. Look out for Mark, (whopwop) he's around the Dublin area too and frequents Mondello quite regularly aswell as the Ring of course, which you have to get to sometime.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen or heard of Whopwop for a while.

I grew up in Naas, and used to cycle out there on my BMX as a kid to watch the mighty Ritmos and Fiestas battle it out

However, I'm a complete track day novice, but will defo come along and give it a go.

I'm also thinking of a little trip to the Isle of Man sometime (only to get a cliched pic of my car sitting on the dock of course ) And I suppose it would be sacrilege not to pay a visit to the 'Ring

BTW, did anyone see that Evo Mag finally track tested a CSL this month? They ran it against an Evo X RS in a £27k shootout. The Evo was over a second quicker (around Bedford I think?), and the CSL was a good bit down on an E92 M3 too. No mention on whether the CSL was still on Cups though

[AlexGTT]

Wasn't on Cups so not really a good comparison. Probably worth 2 seconds round there, at least.

[niall1]

Originally Posted by LeinsCSL

Hiya all, picked up a CSL yesterday morning and would have shared my thoughts with you earlier but was too busy driving the thing.

It's a SG Nov 2003 48k mile example, with aircon, Business CD and xenons,

Welcome. Was that the one for sale in Kellys, Wicklow?

Enjoy. I've a set of Conti's on order as cups have been 'fun' in the cold & crap weather we've had lately!

[LeinsCSL]

Originally Posted by niall1

Welcome. Was that the one for sale in Kellys, Wicklow?

Enjoy. I've a set of Conti's on order as cups have been 'fun' in the cold & crap weather we've had lately!

Thanks Niall! Yep, that's the one. I take it you know it as it's on an LK reg?

It's actually got 255 Contis on the back now, which suit me just fine until I get to know the car a bit better. They've got WAY more wet weather grip than the Potenza run-flats I had on the 335.

[niall1]

Yip, although I temporarily relocated from Limerick to Leitrim before i registered mine!

Cups have crap all grip in the cold and wet..

Does your new car still have KW's on it? If so how do you find them on Irish roads?

[LeinsCSL]

Nope, Jason Kelly switched it back onto normal suspension before I got it. Just as well mind given the speed ramps round here

In fact the whole car is running pretty much to standard spec. I've heard that the vast majority of CSLs are now running APs or some sort of brake upgrade, but shall hang fire for a while and see how I get on.

You done much to yours?

[s.mac]

nice one welcome