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Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:36 pm
by KarlM
depends what else you do, wind the boost up, get a filter and exhaust you wont be far off 250hp (300 may be possible - but i wouldnt like to say how long the turbo would last running at that boost

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Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:49 am
by dxg
Aren't 2hundies supposed to have - and I quote - "chocolate big ends"?
Was thinking of one a while back...
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:33 pm
by SpikeyG40
hopefully by the end of the year, i'll be getting a G40

my heart it set on one, but for now, the current car isn't going to be left out!
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:53 pm
by david burton
sorry got my facts wrong there
mate's got a 200sx that he's got for track days - running about 230bhp with 15-16psi, air filter and exhaust done. He reckons his HKS intercooler (going on when he gets a bumper which can take it!) will give at least another 30bhp. The car doesn't really get going until about 100mph...! It's an awesome machine.
he from north yorkshire and does the autotest stuff as a hobby. mad as a hatter.
anyhow, with all the bits and car he's spent 3k. And his insurance isn't so bad either... will find out who does it for him if you like.
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 11:56 am
by PoloGTi
I wouldn't mind a mk3 Golf Convertible with an nice VR6 engine in it.
But if I had a bit of money coming my way soon I'd buy a Lexus Altezza RS200 (Jap Spec IS200 with extra 60bhp)
Lovely cars, both of them!
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:46 am
by jakethesnake
I want a 9N TDI Sport next. One of those 130PD 9N GT's when they come out would be nice.
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:39 am
by Speedlaw
Something old. The older I get, the older I like my cars.
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:52 am
by chubbster
was lookin at the old aston vantage the other day in a local garage, wot a car! i normally like newish cars but id sell my sister for that
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 1:19 pm
by Speedlaw
chubbster wrote:was lookin at the old aston vantage the other day in a local garage, wot a car! i normally like newish cars but id sell my sister for that
/Offtopic: Did you try to reach me on MSN? It signed itself in *again* in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. Nice, that.
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:11 pm
by chubbster
no, not that i can remember at least. ive slept since then!
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:41 am
by Tahrey1043
Considering the way it took off in front of me today it may be an Audi S4 1.9TDi (yeah... like I could afford one in less than another 10 years... not). Zipping down a dual carriageway at a touch over 60, dude in one of them pulls out from a side-road standstill with barely 200m clearance, and is pulling away *from* me before I think of hitting the brakes. 0-60 in decidedly less than 8 seconds there I'm thinking. Not a supercar screamer, but for something that looked fairly low key, it would be cool.
(still, thanks to the traffic, he didn't manage to get more than another 30m ahead for the next few miles).
Either that or the G60 Polo MkII Breadvan once Phoenix gets bored of it. Full stealth conversion I'm trusting? Fox trim, faded pinkey red or navy, beige colour with no attempt made to hide any creeping (tiny) rust patches, the most subtle of alloys and lowering (but thiiiick tyres up front), bonkers massive brakes, all of it near impossible to tell apart from at the side?? Stick some NOS in it as well
(or a 2.0 Ford TDCDXPGLi RSOL motor with the highest level of tweak.... um ok background on this one, went on a looooooong x-country trek with my dad and all of his possessions in a big b*stard transit this weekend, it had the same one but in the weak-as-a-crippled-kitten (but sniffs derv, rather than drinks) tune state... Made about as good time as I'd expect my Polo to make if loaded down heavy, difference being this thing was hauling about 3x the weight as a conservative estimate. Ran out of reading material and hit the ford manual. Turns out there's about 5 different tune states, and the top one is a monster in comparison to the loaner-block (130 vs 70bhp, and an incredible improvement to the torque curve), though uses about 20% more derv. Now imagine that in a stripped down Polo... only 130 horse, true, but grunt to die for, pretty much from idle on upwards, and will still rev happily past 5000)
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:38 pm
by chubbster
i didnt think u could get s4's in diesel. i thought they only had the 2.7 v6 bi-turbo and the new big 4.2 thumpin v8

Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:24 pm
by 16v_po-low
i want either a porsche 944 2.5 turbo, or a 1987 bmw m3, money permitting a skyline R34 (the only real jap car)
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:12 am
by Tahrey1043
Pretty sure thats what it was... and have seen ads for them?
Then again could be far wrong. Everything was such a blur - all I could make out was it was an Audi, not a TT, not a *big* saloon or any estate, and went like manure off a polished branch.
Whatever it was... want

Plus it's a middle-distance Polo relation to boot.
Or a jet black Dodge Charger/Challenger, standard except for a straight-thru exhaust (better torque curve and few other effects) with a custom 5-speed box in place of the standard 45-65-125 3-speed. Or... a Chevy Z28, 1969, totally stock all over, deep blue with white stripes. Oh baby.
(Charger = current GT2 car, totally against the game's apparent philosophy. A big, distinctive, beautiful hunking piece of metal that accelerates very hard then peters out around 130mph, and requires you to get the back out to corner, as opposed to all the small samey K-class cube cars that will go as fast in top gear but take all day getting there and understeer if you so much as whisper "steering wheel" in the next room. Apparently you can get hold of a MkIII G40 using a Gameshark - still hunting the code for that one... hell, still hunting a greybox Playstation game shark..)
(ok, i'll shut up about that f***ing game for the evening. big mistake getting a 2nd hand PSX

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Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:15 pm
by Scorpio1
Josh I just saw you're selling your GTI..!
What ARE you getting next?!