Aquasurf,
Thanks for the kind offer. I’d take you up on it but it’s a long way to come from the Mid North Coast, and at the moment I have no other excuse to visit the Sydney rat race...

I’m fully in your camp re the horror of rev hanging, it really spoils the gear shifting experience. My old CB7 became a much nicer car after it had been eliminated (and the light flywheel, and my modified short throw shifter, and the Konis, and the stiffer springs, and the stiffer rear ARB, and deleting the front ARB, stiffer bushes, braces etc etc).

The VSA mod sounds interesting, but is it this that has addressed the rev hang issue? If so how? If not, then what did you do??

When I bite the bullet on a new car, it will be a much older ‘new’ car than yours. Older higher K Euros are only now starting to drift into the reach of my bank balance (besides, spend too much $ on a car and there’s less left over to feed the racing kart...). I’m starting to see what at least appear to be reasonable early MY Euros on the market for sub $6000, which would be around where I’ll be looking (when the time comes).

Experience with Hondas suggests higher ks aren’t necessarily a problem if the car has been looked after. I’d be happy with a mechanically sound car that might be a bit ratty on the outside (I live on a dirt road, and with a dirt road you shouldn’t get too worried about your cars being cosmetically pristine, that way lies madness...). At any rate, the CB7 is getting just a bit too tatty even for me, time to think about retiring her. Our other car is a Saab 9-5, which is nice but nowhere near as reliable as a Honda and too thirsty (head said Honda, heart said something less rational...). So, it will either be a Euro, or an Integra vti-r, or a late model Prelude (though these seem a bit thirsty?). The Euro does seem a more ‘grown up’ car, and less likely to have been thrashed (though Hondas do seem almost immune to ‘thrashing’, so long as they’re otherwise looked after...).

Regards,
John.