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The sensible money always buys the converted car - it's fun doing your own but as Jay has stated many times, it is better to buy something that someone has already spent a load on - leaves you with half the work and more money to spend.
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Prooper PMSL at that hat!
Id honestly like to say im suprised with Fred's work, but im not - It's quite simple, the blokes not bloody human lol
BTM > everyone else
the 130 (ASZ) engine is the better one IMO - 150's eat camshefts - still doing 2-3 a month even now - when they were new 1 a day at least.
Also the 130 (after a map) feels better than the 150 IMO
Its Mark Higgins and he was doing a demo run of the Isle of Mann TT course, which he broke the record for a production car.
I think from memory it was around the 150mph mark, bloke has proper skills.
All depends on how far you want to go mate, if you want it to go better than first off, junk that open filter - get an enclosed filter - a Ph1 172 airbox is very good and well priced, I think a good start spec is:
Ph1 172 airbox (standard filter - flows well enough)
Matched inlets (if you don't...
2 options - remove them and take/post them to a company to have done (Try the traders section on here, plenty of companies do it) OR you send yours off, and get some already matched sent back to you - this is better if you can't have the car off the road for very long.
Bear in mind there is...
Being a cup you might already have 'RS' inlets - a batch (with RS printed on the lower inlet section) were made which were much better matched than the rest - if you have RS inlets you will still gain from getting them matched - but maybe a few bhp at best - i personally wouldn't bother if you...
Depends who carries out the map, iv known gineric remaps still have a flat spot, a custom map will always be best. Also a flat spot can be caused by a number of things, wrong map reading, wrong inlet temp reading, wrong lambda reading - it is not always as simple as a map will sort it
The standard ECU copes pretty well with breathing mods, it should be able to adjust to compensate.
When I built my itb's, I ran that on the standard map for 200 miles - was down on power obviously, but it never ran too lean to be dangerous - big thumbs up for the standard ECU there.
Though I...
From how yours felt, un-pinning them when refurbing would be a good move - Still felt great mind :)
No problem with the few bits dude, that new CV boot clip should hold much better than the Renault one, and although that breather isn't kicking out loads of oil, that should hopefully stop the...
To be fair mate, after driving yours (thank you again for that) I can safely say if we had gone side by side on the way to my work you would have ripped me a new arsehole - yours pulls fantastic - a bit too well for that M3 driver ;)
Yeah I really need to sort out the rear ride height - it was...
Word of advise - get your own insurance. You wont gain any no claims bonus on your Dads and if you use the car more than he does it is technically fraud.
Welcome to the club btw :)