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Inner city story of Police and residents of Baltimore,Maryland in the usa. Torrents are all over the web. Give it a butchers when you get a chance. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/

The office, Little Britain, Top Gear, > most American shows. Heroes is great, BSG has it's moments. Prison Break is horrible, but entertaining. I see Dexter got a 2nd season. I want to see where they take it. The best American tv show is actually "The Wire". Riveting writing, story lines and character development.

The stock fibre ones arent as well made. The metal ones are tougher and not much more expensive. The slight bump in power is worth it too.

The "e" means they are metric, which means theoretically they should drop right in. In practise, the magnets are usually too large and you may have to do some trimming. I run the dash speakers and rear's as highs, the doors as mids.

I have CAT 268°'s and the idle is spot on. Maybe a little rougher when warm.

The Schrick 268's are designed to minimise the torque loss of the manifold. The dougherty copies are much cheaper. Although he swears they arent copies, :oops:

or if you're crazy, you can just use pieces of aluminium or steel.. http://forums.dubr.com/albums/riceaters ... headon.jpg :shock: :D

I was correct, read the car description " 13. Strictly foreign aftermarket duel round lights"

Nothelle never made more than a prototype from what I understand. Those lights are from Strictly Foreign. Perhaps 7 or 8 years ago.

most people here think those TB lines are there to heat the TB to prevent icing over in cold temps. Disconecting them should'nt have any positive effects because the engne/head and manifolds are going to put heat into it anyway. Also, the air isnt lingering in the TB long enough to be cooled by any coolant that is going through those lines.

unlike others, incluidng the one I have on my C, it has an harmonic balancer. I say go for it. It's not much of a power adder, but every kilo counts.

The Schrick adds torque for about 400 rpms, starting at or around 4000 rpms's. On it's own, it's ok, but it's designed to work better with high lift cams, such as the Schrick 268°'s. It doesnt change h/p that much. I would suggest you buy a set of Camshafts 1st. Cat 263°'s are cheap and very good. Autotech 262°'s are also cheap and good. To maximize the effect of the VGI, you can have it sent out to have a flow enhancing treatment done on the inside, and thermal barrier layer on the bottom, and a thermal emissive treatment on the top. Together, this yielded about a 30lb/ft increase. http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=853207&page=1

Well, you can extropolate from the times and weight, just how much power the car is making. He rolling roaded the car at various stages. Like I said, it was making 225whp at the end of it's career. That's unheard for a stock 2.8 with a tired bottom end. Fastest time ever was an 11.7, and no other N/A trim vr6 has ever matched that. Trap speed was around 114mph I think.

Crapola Do you carry out this work then mate? Cos I spoke to th main man for doing this work in the uk, and he told me that 5 to 10 bhp is the most you will get. I'm sure he's wrong though eh? I'm sure he would lie about the gains and then not take my money!! Its a complete waste of time and money unless you are in a competitive environment (motor racing) where every last bhp counts imo. Got a dyno plot for the 20 bhp gain? There are quite a few vr6's that have run 12 second 1/4 miles with stock sized valves, Schrick 268°'s. These were all heads ported by one person in the States. He's the only person that has built cars that have run those times in N/A tune. You may not be familiar with a guy named Anthony Dowd, but in the states, his car and it's times are fairly legendary. I'll try to find some rolling road results, but these posts are from a few years ago. Noone is drag racing the vr6 in all motor trim because the class is too competitive under current rules. At the end of it's race career, it put down 225whp, using ITB's and a dodgey tune on standalone. Mind you, 2.8's dyno at ~145-155whp stock.

decent port and polish will yield up to 20hp in n/a trim.

Jim Chu formed Turn2. I own his air intake and a lightened crank pulley. They work well. It's a bloody shame he went out of business.

Exhaust porting refers to the stock manifolds. You installed a header, which honestly, most people havent been able to get any measurable gains from.

If you can do it yourself, porting the manifolds is cheap. They yield measurable increases. Porting the exhaust manifolds is actually more effective than putting on a header.

Gasflowed head, bigger intake valves, port matched intake and exhaust manifolds, thermal manage the schrick. Light weight crank pulley.

Set of Cat 263° camshafts.

I recently swapped to a 2.9abv TB and indeed the torque rush is gone. I did a rolling road recently and lost 10lb/ft after cams/Big valve head and the 2.9 tb. I am maing ~30 more hp though.

Not a huge deal. So long as they get oil, they will be fine.

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ha ha, and if god forbid your battery dies?