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[Kevin Wood]

Or there's always the Quaife QBE69G heavy duty 6 speed sequential for an eye watering £7k+VAT 

Oops! I think I've had an accident. 

[aaronjb]

Or there's always the Quaife QBE69G heavy duty 6 speed sequential for an eye watering £7k+VAT 

Oops! I think I've had an accident. 

I was looking at the Geartronics paddle shift actuator to go with it, but I'm honestly not sure I could stand the extra on the build budget..

..almost worth breaking the budget just to see the reaction of the Cobra lot to a sequentially shifting Cobra with bucket seats though

[TheBoy]

The brakes would need looking at with the 2.8, Vectras were 280bhp out of the box, Insignia version is well over 300.

Brakes are for wimps. 

I like brakes. JUst as well, as I buy lots of them

[Kevin Wood]

..almost worth breaking the budget just to see the reaction of the Cobra lot to a sequentially shifting Cobra with bucket seats though

It'll be about the same as when a mate of mine emigrated to Aus., taking his mental Caterham with 240 BHP, 9k RPM, all-steel-internals K series, shod with Avon CR500s with him. Turned up (sideways, knowing him) at the local kit car meet only to find they were all "wicker basket on the back" Morgan types.

[aaronjb]

It'll be about the same as when a mate of mine emigrated to Aus., taking his mental Caterham with 240 BHP, 9k RPM, all-steel-internals K series, shod with Avon CR500s with him. Turned up (sideways, knowing him) at the local kit car meet only to find they were all "wicker basket on the back" Morgan types.

  I'd love to have seen their faces!

And true enough, I'm already known as "That bloke with the hideous yellow seats" (which I will get retrimmed in something a little more understated!) or "That bloke who wants a digital dash"..