Was this with a 1.3, or with a 1.6?Jordi wrote:I found it awful. It was like pulling away in 3rd all the time, ragging the tits out of it in each gear to make it move and struggled with top end power. Everytime it looked at a bank you had to change down at least one gear. The standard samurai drive train on 31s was painful on the road.
Once the rock lobster was in it was a million times better, not to mention the massive improvement in fuel consumption.
My 1.3 is fun to drive on the road with standard sammy drive train and 1.3's, and I'm used to driving a very torquey diesel. I'm wondering if my carb is not just ruining my MOT with stupid high emissions, but also giving me the extra torque I need?
I know your driving style is probably very different to mine, but mine doesn't feel like pulling off in 3rd. It's not *quite* as good as it should be pulling off, but it's not that noticeable.
Having said that, I've never had to do a hill start in it, because I only drove it to the MOT centre, failed my MOT, then drove it back - a total of about 3 miles, and I only got to about 35mph in the thing!
