Don't know what went wrong but I wasn't notified that this thread had been replied to so my apologies. I came up here to post an update. So before that, again thanks for all your kind thoughts and ideas.
In answer to your question crash7, the mirrors are a set of genuine Ruf mirrors that were then moulded to make from Carbon Fibre. Still even retain electric functionality
Update: I drove the car for the first time in what must be getting on for 6 months today. It is always scary when I first get behind the wheel as it is such a different animal to anything else. So I treat it with a great deal of respect especially more so when it is early March, very cold and I'm running Cup 2's. Reason for the update is I've been asked many times now for some performance data to back up the philosophy. So I took the car to my private test track
for a little test run. Knowing the conditions were not perfect and I hadn't even checked the tyre pressures, I just gave it a fairly gentle start to get a rough idea of how the CLR pulls from rolling to 130mph. I've not reviewed the times in any meaningful way as I'm not overly fussed but to be honest I was quite impressed with how it felt. Really does pull quite hard and the drive there and back reminded why I went down this path in the first place. I am truly over the moon with the car with just how mental it is. I also have a private hill-climb venue :cough: and the drive up and down that just now was breath-taking.
I was prompted to take the car out today having read a few post by some prolific posters here who are considering selling. Don't do it guys, just pick a dry day and go for a blast. I'm still shaking now :thumb:
So even with a whole list of excuses :grin: it looks like the car still achieved the following from my crappy iPhone video:
0-60mph in 4sec
0-100mph in 8sec
0-124mph (0-200km/h) in 14sec
All times rough based on the video below
In order to make the video I also spent an hour this afternoon making this little holder which did just the job:
Besides this I also recently bought one of my all time favourite cars with the aim of adding a little CLRness into it, so far already dropped 18.85kg :thumb:
Already knee deep into it:
Good to be back where I belong :mechanic: