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Goes to blokes house to TB his motor
Here what he said when i asked where all the power came from:
The first item put onto the car was a Pipercross Viper Cold air feed induction kit, which I was told gives an extra 12BHP. With just the induction kit alone you could tell the major difference. That put me up to 184 BHP. That was shortly followed by a Magnex exhaust system, which only added an extra 3 BHP, but sounds great. Early this year the car was Superchipped at Demon Tweeks. The apparent performance improvement I was given was 15%, of the current power, which resulted in a total of 211.6BHP. Although I think that total could be a little high. I personally estimate the total power to be somewhere between 208 to 210 BHP. The difference the superchip made was impressive. To account for the extra power I changed to Yokohama tyres, as the standard continental tyres on the car where poor.
The car has not officially been tested for BHP on a rolling road as there are not to many of them in the North West.
I now also believe that K-tech racing have developed a turbo for the 172, which could result in these cars having as much power as the V6.
The car itself has not been lowered, as I did not want to tamper with the way it handled. The only two things I will say though is that with weight in the back the exhaust box touches on the rear axle and gives a slight rattle at very high revs when pushing the car hard. I think that hopefully this has now been cured, with high temp rubber/sound insulation used inside engine hatches on boats, and will not melt at extremely high temperatures. I have tried to place a strip of this on the rear axle and I think it has cured the problem.
Hope this information has been helpful to you.
OMG - He added together the promises from a Chip, Filter and Exhaust and came up with 210bhp - poor lad.
Worst thing is someone will believe it too and buy it.
When I was looking for my last car I checked out a few RS2000s that had been modded before going for the Williams - they all has similar thoughts on the power they had from the Filter/Exhaust/chip combo - I tried explaning it to one lad that was advertising 190bhp from his 150bhp car with these and he wouldnt beleive me as his mates RS Turbo could get the power from them...ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
I gave up on the modded RS2000s and none had the power quoted that I looked at.
why doesnt someone email him this thread?
because he probably knows its a """SLIGHT"""
exageration, in order to sell the car. he obviously wants rid but for what reason ?? damage, broken, cant drive very well....if i had a genuine 210Bhp 172 i wouldnt be selling it.. becuase it would be VERY quick, much quicker than that bloke could hope to buy for that price after he sold. thats another 40bhp so that exquates to around nearly 1sec or more off the 0-60 so on a 172 that would be around 6.1 !! and the midrange would be very tidy in terms of lbft
IMO.. as long as knowone buys it and hten comes on here claiming a 210bhp car.
I am aiming for that sort of power but would go for the K-tec exhaust and the sports Cat which they said would combine to give about 14bhp... then the Induction at about 10bhp, Kent Cam for 10bhp, and Chip on top - 10bhp.
All in all i reckon about 30-35bhp on top of the 172 - ~210bhp. + quick shift and without a spare wheel and lighter alloys should give me the 5.9 i was looking for.... perhaps I should get this red 172 and i would be at about 230
Oh I forgot - I will get 220bhp - mine is red too
