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Old 23-04-2018, 07:13 PM
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It will cope fine...... until it breaks!

No seriously if mapped with a gentle spool and driven like Miss Daisy then it’ll be fine! It’s the torque that kills them rather than BHP, I’d say if you plan to push the car at all then you need to uprated or switch to a 6 speed.
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