Prawny Baby

No. it's a sausage powered kettle..... Did the words 'honda Vtec' on the engine, and the Mini bodyshell give it away?

I'd imagine if you drive properly it'll last a few weeks at Most Alex

Prada spec 2 are an utterly wank tyre. Wanlii ling long 2 dollar specials are a wank copy of a wank tyre, making them double wank. That said, cheaper rubber gives less grip, which in a great handling car can lead to MORE fun. they always said the mX5 was ruined by fitting sticky tyres to it....

S'all good the B32 in a lightened stiffened car will make for an epic driving experience! With that Diff it'll be absolutely nuts What's the weight target? sub 1200?

Interesting, I thought you had a B30 in the estate? is this a whole new lump? B32 on a 5 speed tranny should be great fun with that diff. You staying on stock management and twin vanos?

Are you actually boasting about driving the faster of my two A3's in a race against the slower of my two A3's? And being surprised that the faster one was faster? You realise that in that situation, I win either way right, as I own both cars?

That's quite a jump Rainbird!!! must be fun Alex: that rear quarter shot with the Evo / facelift rear lights is just beautiful. Going to be SUCH a nice car when it's complete. Has it got an S50 going in? or something different?

^^^ Agreed 100%. As much as I would never publically condone street racing, if one WERE to partake in a 'who's car is fastest' type race, I don't think you'd ever do it from a standard start. Side by side at 30/50/60 is much more common, and generally the race continues until one or other participant bottles it, or the outcome is so clear that the point has been proven and does not need proving further.

Nice tripod Jardo Sorry to arrived late to this topic: Whilst I don't directly disagree with these two statements, they are based on a typical generalisation and common misconception. The 'typical' turbo power delivery is crap from a driving point of view, lag - lag - lag - Spool - BANG - Wheelspin - turbo out of puff - change gear - repeat. I agree with that, and it makes for a rapid, yet lazy and unrewarding drive. But, it doesn't have to be like that. You drive any factory mapped petrol turbo car and it'll be as smooth as anything, no big surge of torque, no loss of steam at the top end, it's just like having a bigger n/a engine. This is because the manufacturers spend millions on R&D and getting the engines just right for what they want to achieve. It's only when people try to tune, and push hardware beyond it's limits that you get that horrible delivery that high powered turbo cars are so famous for. If you spec a turbo car properly, and map it accordingly, it can feel like like a factory OEM map. My 20vt for example, when running on actuator pressure, produces an almost identical dyno graph to an average 3.0 M3, 275-280bhp, 230ish lbft, and smooth flat curves with no spikes at all. The torque line is near flat, with peak torque at 5900rpm, and the bhp keeps on rising to the limiter at 7100rpm. it even drives very similar to a 3.0 m3. Turn on the boost, and again it's mapped accordingly so that it comes in progressively, peak torque is really high up again at 5800rpm, with peak power around 6800rpm and anything up to 340bhp depending on what I wish for. Power is then similar to a highly tuned M3, although the torque figure is considerably higher at 300lbft, still maintaining a nice flat curve for most of the rev range. Still, in your position jardo, you're far better off in the clio. and it probably is something you can enjoy far more on the road than the A3 was. in the turbo'd car with lots of power, you end up going. SO fast SO quickly, that things get very dangerous, very soon. In the clio you can hoon around thinking you're the stig all day long, and you're not likley to break into tripple figures

For the small and close community that we are, I cannot help but note that this sort of tragedy happens all too often. Such a terrible shame. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. RIP.

I finally got to modify the Polo a bit It needed 4 new tyres, and Tori said that if I could find some nice alloys with decent tyres on for less than the price of 4 good tyres on the standard wheels, we could go for it. Polo before, looking a bit sad: A quick quote from Pro-Tyre set my budget, and I got hunting on ebay. After about 20 minutes searching for everything VW / polo / golf related, I wasn't having much luck, and thought I'd change a search for '14'' alloy wheels' and sort by distance. As luck would have it, these beauties popped up, just 15 miles from home at a reasonable price, shod with goodyear Eagle NCT's 14'' Genuine BBS from a mk1 MX5, 4x100, and the same offset as the polo near enough Annoyingly, google failled me, and a quick check on centre bore turned out to be wrong, so when I got them home, the centres were too small. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! I decided to try something I wouldn't recommend to anyone else, and re-bore the centres myself. Much time and care, a carbide tipped burr, and constant checking with calipers, and one dead drill, and the job was done, time for a test fit: Tori didn't like the BBS centre caps, as they're a bit too obvious being big nut style caps, so I managed to get the standard VW centre caps to fit, which makes it look much more OEM+. She loves it, and so do I!

thread is booming again, how bizzare! All it takes is one angry post from some crazy guy in poland, and suddenly we all went to tell everyone about our crap again Happys days. Long life the TF car thread!

I've 'been riding' now for 10 years in theory, but it's pretty meaningless. From 15-18 I rode LOADS, then cars took over for a few years, went off to uni and spent 4 years riding loads again, then graduated 3 years ago and have hardly ridden since, probably 7-8 times a year on average. I do still consider myself a trials rider, I rode Hayling Island just last week with Mowgli and others, but it's hardly regular, and I'm nowhere near as good as I once was, which just annoys me and kills motivation stone dead.

I'm looking at Building my own exhaust for the A3, has anyone else ever done anything similar and can share advice? I want a 3'' cat back system, and sadly none of the custom exhaust places can do over 2.5'', which I already have. The plan is to fab up a twin box system using a fairly long (18-24'') 5'' round silencer in the centre section, and then a largeish back box, (something like 5x7x24). Joints will all be on V-bands. I'm perfectly happy fabricating the system, and tacking it together to get the shape, but I'm unsure about welding it up properly, could something like that be migged with stainless wire? or should it go somewhere proper to be tig'd? Does anyone have ANY idea on how you would go about designing a system to come in under a certain noise level? I need it to come in under 95dBa to make sure it's compliant at all trackdays Current system is 2.5'' from the cat back, with a large single rear silencer and twin 2.5'' tail pipes, and records 86dBa on most trackdays

f**k it, I'll copy over a totally seperate build thread into chit chat later on as per Toms suggestion, and never fill this thread with audi or mini pictures ever again Simples.

The only reason my current post count is so high is because I feel the need to correct Jardo every time he is wrong. Based on current stats he's wrong roughly 47% of the time!

Oi! Don't bring me into this please! I think you post in this thread just as much as I do! The thread is near on dead, because everyone who used to post has grown up, moved away from bikes, and are now more interested in cars and the other finer things in life. Nobody bothers coming back onto TF really, until I started on this shift pattern and needed to kill time I was hardly ever on here any more, and even when I do post an update, it's only a Crtl+C Ctrl+V from my build thread on one of the car forums. Sad but true, a car thread was great when we were all young and learning together at the same time, but many of us have been at it a fair while now, so don't need to ask all the questions and discuss ideas, we just kinda get on with it! When we do need advice, we're not going to come to a bike forum full of youngsters, you'll look to the more experienced audience, so any updates on here really, are just for showing off purposes, much like your post above showing an awesome E36 with a lovely weld in cage Good colour too! See, you've posted more in the car thread than I have!

7800rpm on stock valve gear wtf are you on about? what do rod bolts have to do with valve gear? and since when did the globally accepted rev limit of 7800 on stock valve gear rise to a staggering 8.5k?

hahahahahahahahaha. if you google your name it still comes up with a BNP membership list on page 1 too!

As j-rod says really. These don't make 270 just with cams in, cams. exhaust, induction setup, map, and you will usually see 260-265ish, 270 maybe on a good one. So 290 on a bullshit dyno like AMD. One thing J-rod: your miles off on the whp estimate. 270bhp at the crank will typically get you just 200 atw, so even a worked 3.2 will be sub 200 atw

That looked amazing Ads! So much fun! Have you had a go at Drifting before or was that your first day? Doesn't look too shabby to me! Never going to get a mikalor clamp on the turbo inlet on one of these, simply not enough room. Kierz: I assume it's a 225 quattro TT? or is it just a 180? very different turbo inlet setups. 310bhp from the R32 engine with just a map? not bloody likley! You'll struggle to gain more than 5-10bhp with a map, full exhaust and cams and you might see 260-270 from one, but it's not going to get much above that, and even that would cost a fortune!

I know George was selling it for £200, so seeing as it's now had ANOTHER owner, I'll offer you £100 and come collect next Sunday

I'm actually quite proud to know nothing about deisels, i have less interest in them than you could possibly imagine! Paul, did you end up buying Georges old AGU lump? When you decide you have no use for it, let me know and I'll buy it! I wanted it when george sold it!

is your focus direct cylinder injection then? I won't even attempt to claim ANY knowledge of soot chuckers, as they have no place in my world. On a typical petrol engine, running a cleaner through the fuel will clean the valves and inlet ports, as the injectors are up stream in the inlet manifold. Only modern TFSI type petrol engines with injectors directly in the cylinder differ to this. So if the focus tdi has injectors in the inlet manifold then a fuel cleaner will come into contact with the valves and inlet ports. If it's direct combustion chamber injection then it won't.

I think the rule was 2am I'd often make it to 1am but never much later, so never really posted in here. Yet now I sit here at work wishing more people were online. haha