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Can you let me know who did this and how much? Seems like an awesome saving on an OEM flywheel

I have one on mine and it gives a ridiculous drop in manifold temps but aide does have an extremely good point, at 6000rpm a 2.9 is sucking in a frankly insane amount of air so the gains have to be marginal. Newsouth do have a 1.8t dyno readout on their website which shows a gain but you never know how much truth is in it, I read an independent dyno test on some Japanese tuning website which showed that although it didn't give any more power it preserved it a lot better.

Was a good one, that model was stunning and I literally burst out loud laughing when Clarkson went on about an average Majorcan day, throwing Donkey's off tower blocks :D

I used to have a pipercross cage job on my old valver, I was a fan of it. Takes literally 5 minutes to fit so you might as well put it on and take the C for a spin. You'll never feel the difference but it should add a bit, anytime I fancy checking if I've fitted anything of any use I pop out and time a handful of 30-70 runs in third gear, good range across the revs and no parameters to really factor in like traction and speed of gear changes etc ...Sad I know :cuckoo:

Ebay job, about £45 from memory It's not so much the cat that's the problem for the mot but your emissions, as we all know though it depends if the tester will take a drink to turn a blind eye. Sports cats are silly money, if you want to go that route I'd be more inclined to get a QTP exhaust cut out and weld it before the cat, not everyone's cup of tea but they float my boat 8)

I have a raceland straight through pipe on mine and it sounds absolutely spot on, no rasp or resonance of any kind just amplifies the engine note by about 10%, good result on the rollers too. Only reason Cats are on this planet are for environmental reasons not performance...I am not a tree and if I cared about carbon emissions I wouldn't drive a 16 year old V6, get rid!

Yeah it's the second wednesday of the month, turn out is normally pretty massive so it's well worth a look. Tends to be a few of us that go down so you'r welcome to join

I was getting into Fifth Gear over the past few weeks until they recommended a Calibra today as a good second hand buy... A calibra!!!! :brickwall: :epicfail: :help: :pukeright:

Yep good old Staines, only been here for a few months as I'm from Hammersmith originally but it's definitely got it's own charm, Nightlife is alright and the girls don't leave much to the imagination, both are a touch rough around the edges but that's the way I like it :) Fair few Dubs about too, No Rice meet is just down the road in Guildford which is a cool way to spend a Wednesday night, have you been? When you get yours sorted feel free to pop over, always interesting to have a little look. Some pretty good roads about for a quick spin as I'm sure you well know. Traffic cops can be a bit over excitable though Drop me a PM or something when you're in this neck of the woods if you want

I like it, very OEM, goes to show that it doesn't have to be all chrome and shiny bits to look nice

I can't comment on your cams as I have absolutely no experience on 264's, 263's are obviously very good and can make around 5-10bhp more then you'd really expect them to but that's all I know. As I've said in previous posts I've read a magazine review that SRR produce low figures, not to say they are inaccurate as I'm not getting into that debate again, just that out of the 7 that were tested by with the same car SRR read the lowest. Food for thought. Stuff I used to heatproof the underside of my manifold was called cool tape, made by dei, I got it off ebay but I think it's the same stuff that demon tweeks sell. It is absolutely ridiculous how cold my manifold stays now with all the little bit's I've done, literally cold to touch after the engine has got up to full operating temperature. Not expecting a great deal from the flywheel but it's just one less thing to try, in all honesty it's traction that is massively letting me down now. Not to say mine is a complete animal but I'm wasting a fair few ponies with wheel spin, don't understand why the pod has such crap surface for launching, worse then any normal road I've been on. Decat didn't make enough difference to physically feel but it all adds up, buy a decat instead of a sports cat and with the vast money you save buy a second lambda, makes fitting a breeze not having to worry about seized lambda's anymore. Might be a a bit of a waste of money but I'm one for an easy life :) Know what you mean about the Rotrex though, got to be done really hasn't it

Before everyone logs on to webuyanycar.com to flog the C's for 300zx's I'd hold on a sec A friend of mine has an absolutely awesome no cost spared example and it's as reliable as a dead cat, he get's through more turbo's then I do pants! 450bhp though, makes my feel all excited when I know I'm going out for a drive in it :dance:

Thanks :) I'm under no illusion that it's probably verging on the generous side but they did 3 runs so there's got to be some truth in the figures. I think I'm very lucky in that what I've done all seems to compliment each other well. The 14.7 I ran at the pod was with a load more weight and zero traction in 1st and 2nd gear so I can get that down a bit with better tyres, especially with an LSD thrown in. I have 2 friends with VR's, one's even an OBD2 and I know mines got a fair bit more grunt then those, more then happy with it at the moment.

I'm running Schimmel cams, Neuspeed pullies, BMC CDA, Decat, AMD chip, and a Newsouth Powergasket To keep things cool I've used DEI cool tape on the underside of my inlet manifold, fitted a plastic rocker cover, Mocal 16row cooler, open slat grill, Samco hoses, done the throttle body coolant bypass, and fitted a rocker cover breather filter, just recently fitted a CF bonnet too which should keep engine bay temps down a bit. A few other little bits are a Bonrath PR-17 inlet pipe and an ecotek valve, I use a lot of fuel and oil additive, decoke my engine every few thousand miles with Ecotek powerboost, and keep on top of cleaning and oiling my BMC so it's very well maintained, on the day I also had some fuel additive to raise the octane a few points. Very good numbers that I was chuffed with, on the print out you can see the moment the cams joined the party which was a healthy boost, 5 minutes before a friend of mine had his oettinger fettled 16v dyno'd at 143bhp so it seemed to be a fairly accurate RR. Next on the list is a LW flywheel :clap:

Got a full performance trim Carbon bonnet a couple of weeks ago and I absolutely love it!! Fitted it myself in about an hour with a hangover, fits perfectly other the having to relocate the washer jets, I put my existing ones just below my windscreen for now with a bit of sealent but I know people use MK4 items for best results. Had nothing but good comments on my Aqua VR but I'm sure it would look equally awesome on a Red C, might be all in my head but I swear the front end feels a touch more nimble too. I think that C's are such good looking cars that it's hard to do anything to the exterior without ruining it, CF bonnets being an exception

Rallye doesn't do it for me personally and although the R32 is awesome, it probably lacks a bit of soul and isn't light either so you may as well just tune the audi. Gotta be the charged VR :clap:

Good point, petrol, gloves, and an engine crane just to get me going..call it £400 for 10% of the company, you interested? :)

A dull sounding car is not unfortunately my cup of tea, that sort of tuning though is I suppose something to look forward to. I'm going to go on Dragons Den with a business plan...I'm going to steal anything R36, take the engine out, set fire to the car and any evidence, then sell the block for pittance to anyone with a car weighing less then 1400kg, won't have many business overheads and I'll be like Robin Hood :)

Point taken, they definitely have it good across the pond A good friend of mine is Californian and had his Buick Grand National shipped over a little while back (FI I know but that's not the point) He would work on his the same time I'd work on mine but the difference in parts and options would be vast! To the point he could quite easily build the car from the ground up again with new parts shipped over if he wanted and his was a 1987 limited production car. Just the magazines he had sent across made me genuinely embarrassed to be British and associated with the (majority) utterly crap tuning mags we have over here. I know small capacity FI is the way we're heading but if we so readily accept in the UK, it makes it even easier for VW to get away with giving us mundane cars like the R20 Scirocco when we all know it sould be a R36 :) Rant over

That S2 looks the business, or how about... Old shape Jag XKR BMW 540i Mitsubishi Galant VR4 V6 twin turbo (estate :) ) Lotus Elan Turbo (bit :camp: but quick and rare) Merc C43 AMG Merc E55 AMG Nissan Skyline R32 GTS-T or GTR (easily the best looking skyline) All just about within the price range if you look around, not all exactly rare or to everyone's taste and not cheap to run but food for thought

No disrespect and appreciate you put an IMO in your post but I'd say it's that kind of attitude that put's the UK so far behind the US in terms of tuning, stuff like picking up a spanner and fettling a 60's Chevy into a 1000bhp at the wheels all motor weapon. We seem transfixed on slapping FI on everything and paying through the nose for countless remaps. Although the yanks build crap from the factory they have an overwhelming understanding of aftermarket tuning with even the most novice grease monkey making big figures from NA. Don't get me wrong a supercharger is on my to-do list but I have the most respect for NA tuning as it's a fading art form. My Schimmels cost me £200 when the pound was strong, didn't bother with tappets as I have a very low milage block, fitted them myself over a few evenings and a crate of beer, absolutely transformed the car and I'd very much doubt they gave any less then 20bhp and that's without a map. Saying that IMO the first mod on every VR should be 288mm brakes before you start upping the power.

It's made by Bonrath and I had it shipped over from Belgium from a company called ARZ-tuning, they do a lot of cool bits and they're great to deal with

Mine also needs a good bit of cleaning but you get the idea... engine bay 002.JPG[/attachment:jfxzh7hw]

Thanks for looking, I couldn't find much either. Although it's not far those mountain like surroundings can really throw the weather off, and I'm not paying 109.9 a ltr for petrol to get there just to get rained on for 3 days :(

I'm all up for going but I don't fancy pranging the new carbon bonnet into the armco if the tracks going to have the grip of a spam fritter, you really don't want to see a grown man cry trust me :)