Superformance question

[moretti308]

Hi guys,

Just a quick line to find out what the guys at Superformance are like to deal with ?

I intend doing a lot of upgrades to the GT4 I currently thrash on and off the track and would like to know I'm dealing with a reputable firm.

Also has anyone done the suspension upgrade they offer and found it OK for normal road use ?

I find that I have terminal understeer unless I really give her heaps mid corner to try and balance her round the curves on the throttle.

I've done several things to the camber, castor, toe-in to improve the handling (slightly successful) but think it is time to bite the bullet and shell some readies for wider wheels (still got the original Cromodoras 6.5"), springs, anti-roll bars, shocks.

The brakes are also useless (this may explain my high entry speed into corners ) and am looking for a rotor that is slotted as I reckon cross-drilling weakens the rotor structure.

BTW Kevin (456M) steered me this way so you can blame him for getting Aussies mixed up with you nutters

John

[456mgt]

Hi John!
Good to see you here Are Superperformance based in Aus? Not come across them before. As I mentioned to you offline, there are quite a few people tracking these, and GT4s are popular hillclimbers. I'll ask around the FOC guys to see if there are some hot mods.

Cheers

Kevin

[moretti308]

thanks for the welcome Kevin,

The Superformance people I'm talking about are in your neck of the woods:

www.superformance.co.uk/

they specialise in Dinos and 308s and often have 16" wheels on special plus lots of other improvement packages. I've spoken to Mike Elliot and he seems a nice dude and I would dearly love to buy many things but wife is complaining the house isn't finished and reckons all I want to do is spend money on Ferrari stuff all the time....

hey, by my reckoning, with my family record I've only got 12 years left and I ain't gunna waste them on the blOOdy hoose

Grateful for any info re mods

John

read the tunnel episode you guys did I wanna be there!!!

[nevpugh308]

Superformance are good to deal with, and reasonably quick to send stuff (bit slow on the email, but they will reply). No complaints with them.

The only negative thing I would say is that some of the "remanufactured" non original parts they sell aren't really fantastic quality. For example I bought a set of spark plug leads for about 40 quid (genuine ones are >100 GBP). Bit cheap and naff, and one lead fell apart out of the bag. Also I bought a heat shield from them .... adequate for the job, but that's all. Very rough and ready. Just bought another (different) heat shield, and I went original Ferrari this time ... double the price, but treble the quality.

But for "named" stuff (e.g. service items) they're fine, from my experience.

All IMO of course .....