mad4corsa
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Im in mid Wales wheres the closest rolling road place to me better if its in Wales, and what exactly will they do?, and Cost please?
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Bonzai
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Registered: 25th Mar 03
Location: Cardiff, Wales Drives: 205 GTi 1.9
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assuming your not doing 4wd, go to willfield motors in abercynon just off the a470, really easy to find. not sure how much he will charge you for it.
basically you drive your car onto teh rollers and get out. tommi warms the car up to operating temperature then sets up the pc to record the run. will go through the gears into 5th keeping revs as low as possible, then in 5th slowly accelerating whilst watching the computer. the computer shows horspower in realtime and once the car has peaked he dips the clutch and the car does what it likes then. on the wind down the computer calculates a torque figure for you. give it 5 mins and you get a print out too
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Bonzai
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Welsh-Cruiser
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Don't Go There Mate
They Don't Strap The Cars Down 
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mentalasanything
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Registered: 27th Jan 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonzai
assuming your not doing 4wd, go to willfield motors in abercynon just off the a470, really easy to find. not sure how much he will charge you for it.
I wud agree with Bonzai! And they charge £50 odd for a run
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Welsh-Cruiser
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Registered: 6th Mar 05
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I Went There With SW-CC An They Were Skiddin Off The Rollers Cause They Weren't Strapped Down
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Bonzai
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 ok mate.
unless its running serious power its not gonna go anywhere
and if youre not happy you can always ask 
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Welsh-Cruiser
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonzai
ok mate.
unless its running serious power its not gonna go anywhere
and if youre not happy you can always ask
I Don't Mean My Car
Ye Sum Pretty Powerfull Car's There 200SX.... Corrado etc
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Bonzai
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thing with the rolling road day is it would take twice as long if he straps every car down. in 99% of runs will be fine and tommi is experienced enoughj to know when to abort power runs. hes not as stupid as he looks.
and as far as i know tommi's is the closest to mid wales, and for the extra cost of travelling to somewhere really good like interpro (never mind the higher charge for a session) id say its his best option
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philwarren11
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They do strap the cars down if needed mate. On the warn up its checked to see if its needed.
My mate took his golf up there the other day, the strapped the fron down across the engine, the front tow hitch, rear tow hitch and the rear wheels.
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