george_seamons

I'm at Ten of The Best at an airfield in York. Just did 2 laps in a 640bhp/ton Ariel Atom (the supercharged vtec one). What an incredible machine! Seriously raw power. Ended up a bit backwards at one point haha. Reeeeeeaaaaally not helping my desire for a kit car...better get saving!

I don't really know what it was. Once I'd spewed, I was fine! Must have been food related or something. I can certainly see the appeal in those older Porsches; the interior might be quite dated, but you still get a nice driving position, and decent feel. With a 1.8t, I bet it would be an awesome machine!

Looking good dude! Glad it went ok. Sorry again I bailed so quickly. I covered the drivers door with sick on the way home. I'd only cleaned it the evening before...which was a touch annoying! Must have looked quite a sight for the driver behind...bleurgh. I love how all the little, seemingly insignificant, bits all add up to the bigger picture of awesomeness.

Well if you want a hand/fancy a chilling sesh, then let me know...I'm more than happy to help. Although like you say, it doesn't sound like you actually need any assistance! To keep this relevant...I should be ordering a water/meth injection kit over the next few days. This recent hot weather has absolutely destroyed my car's performance. Intake temperatures are sky high (talking 50+ degrees at least!).

Sounds pretty perfect to do then! If you want a hand or anything, feel free to pop over; I'm about tomorrow morning after a quick private job in the morning...should be home by 11. I'm free Sunday too (apart from fitting under car neons to one of our apprentice's 1.0 Corsa...hahahaha). I'm doing it first thing Sunday morning at mine, so will be about. I was only going to go the track afterwards if I had nothing else to do. They are pretty easy to fit though, so you may not even need help! Pretty sure I have a couple of spare solenoids somewhere if you need them. I really enjoyed fitting my Right-Click kit...there's something really satisying about doing it! I'd love to help, although I appreciate its a fair way for you to come...and if you're anything like me, you'll want to be fitting it right now!

I had it on my Audi. Its a cool showing off feature...but I didn't really use it that often other than that! Although its good in the winter, because it means the car has already warmed up. I expect it will be a damn sight easier on yours than it was on mine. Took some real head-scratching because of the alarm and the immobiliser! I should think you don't have either on yours?! Is the alarm kit you have one of the Right-Click jobbies? You can wire it so it won't remote start unless the handbrake is on (easy with standard electrics), and its in neutral (not so easy with standard electrics...need some kind of switch to show its in neutral). Mine didn't use either, although I always put the handbrake on. I remote-started it a couple of times with it still in gear, but it just stalls itself. You soon learn not to do it once you've watched helplessly as your pride and joy bucks forward, haha!

Aaah...bad times

Did my version not work Luke?

Yup, sounds good. Back box will prob be £50ish, so a good deal by the sounds of it.

If you plan on sticking with a ko3s, no, you probably won't gain anything. The more free flowing, the better, but there comes a point where the extra cost for the bigger tubing isn't worth the fractional gain in flow (at <300bhp, say). I think even 3" is fine up to something like 600bhp. That said, Nick has a 3" system that he got from ebay that was silly cheap, might be worth asking him where he got it from. IIRC it is a turbo-back system, and was only like £2-300. Only thing is, the tailpipe choice was pretty non-existant...it was literally just a straight pipe out of the backbox...but at that price if you wanted a fancy tip welded on, it wouldn't exactly be the end of the world!

A 3" downpipe opens the engine up no end. When you compare a 3" downpipe to the stock one, you'll be gobsmacked at how restrictive it is! 2.5" cat-back will also open it up a little bit, but the main restriction is the downpipe. Get it done!

Pics?

Cant teach an old dog new tricks

Tried that Jason, can't seem to work it out, lol! This is the link though, hopefully it works! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/48ekey4e3as2d94/HoDFlRHWvf

Anybody who was interested in the VAG-COM cracked program, I have just uploaded it to my Dropbox. I must be honest, I have no idea how to use Dropbox, so I may well have done it wrong. It seems I need to add people to be able to share the files, so hit me up with email addresses or Facebook profiles if you want it. To anybody that uses it, PLEASE follow the instructions carefully, or it won't work! I've already added Rainbird and Paul...anybody else who wants the link, get in touch!

Leon looks awesome Luke, wiper arms really modernise it. Its crying out for an FMIC though I really like the way Cupras sit with an FMIC behind the grill, they seem to pop out more than they do on the R's: I fitted a water/meth injection kit to that over the weekend. To be honing around on full boost, in the weather we've been having recently; and for the inlet manifold to be fridge-cold to the touch, is pretty bloody impressive in my eyes! I will 100% be fitting a kit In the very near future.

I put aero arms on mine, brilliant mod. Very subtle, but great improvement! Get Bosch blades if you can, I've had cheaper ones before, and they last nowhere near as long.

I agree with the others; get an R if you're serious about it. That cupra sounds too good to molester into a track car! £2k of mods on a Cupra won't get you very far for a track car. Out of the box, they are pretty crap on track really. Ideally you'd want ~£500 on Brembo brakes, ~£700 on decent coilovers (not the crap ebay generic shit), ~£200 on a rear anti roll bar, ~£3-400 on a set of decent track tyres...and that's most of your budget gone without changing the power at all. I've probably spent £10k on mine, and would say there's still a great deal of things I could do to make it a "good" track car. Just ask Prawn how much he's spent to get to where he is now...just be prepared to wince! You'd be better of with something like an mx5 or a saxo or something along those lines for a track car, would be FAR better for the money, and would be a lot more fun.

Haha, yeah. I sprayed the rear parcel shelf in the Toledo with black rattle cans. From grandad-beige to black in less than a can. Did make the fabric a bit stiff though!

Does that air freshener actually smell of drumsticks?! I want one if so! What you up to Friday night?

As I've said on here before; sign up to www.pepipoo.com. It is full of solicitors, lawyers, traffic cops, legal beagles etc etc, and they will give far better advice than a load of boys who ride bikes with no seats Scottish law is different to English law, so most of what you hear from your average Joe will be wrong, because most people "quote" (very loosely most of the time!) English law. As for "exceptional hardship" (what you say to try to avoid being banned), it needs to demonstrate the affect on others, not the person facing the ban. Punishment is the whole point of it all! If it affects your employer, get them to write a letter to the court, if you give your gran a lift to the shops every week because she can't drive...tell then that. "I need it for work" won't cut it with all but the most lenient judges. If you needed it for work so badly, you wouldn't be being charged with dangerous driving... Having said that, dangerous driving is a very serious charge (often comes with a 12 month minimum ban), of which the driver has to fall well below the standards expected of a "normal" driver, so the chances of actually getting done for dangerous driving in your circumstances seem pretty slim. Careless driving, perhaps, but that carries a lot less heavy punishment (although being in your first 2 years may be an issue still). Like I say though, sign up to that site, and you will get some fantastic advice. Just make sure you tell them EVERYTHING, then there is no confusion, and you get exactly the answer you need not just the answer you want to hear.

Haha, I need as much money as I can get to pay for it all. Stands at £1500 so far (although I got £500 back for the old engine). I quite often get wotk through friends of friends. Me and my friend who lives nearby are making a stainless steel exhaust for a Ferrari 348 in the near future, so that will be a nice thing to have on axle stands in my drive! I also meant to say about my new clutch; I was concerned because it was only a 4 paddle disc, thought it would be a nightmare to use. However, I can honestly say that it is a joy to use. Its grabbyish, but easy to modulate, and the pedal is sooooo light, its like pressing the accelerator! Very good buy indeed. Good job I got a new DMF too, because the old one was shagged! You're right about the feeling of satisfaction though. I shit my pants when I turned the key for the first time; I knew it was timed up correctly, but there is always that tiny bit of doubt! It was rattley for a few seconds, but that was just the VVT tensioner pressurising with oil. Theres a bit of a tick with the injectors, but that has always been there (and it was confirmed to be the injectors with the old metal screwdriver/scethoscope trick!). Feeling a big amount of pride right now; I knew I could do it, its just nice to have turned the (huge!) pile of parts on my garage floor into something that works. It will also be nice when the old engine is out, and I can actually fit my car in there again!

Whoop whoop! Bring it over when you're home! I finally finished my car last night. Done 10 miles so far (didn't finish until 10pm, so couldn't go too far!). All seems well, even on actuator pressure it feels a lot stronger than the old engine, seems to flow a lot better. I haven't driven it for two weeks though, so iy might just be I've forgotten how quick it is! Got another 90 miles to go, then I'll drop the mineral oil thats currently in it, and go another couple of hundred, then put "real" oil in. Happy days! Also got a friend dropping a water/meth injection kit tonight to fit to his Leon, so it will be a good practice for mine! Then I've got a cat-back exhaust to fit to a Mitsibushi Legnum VR4 at the weekend...not bad for an electrician, lol!

Drive it?!

I don't know him, and I managed to get one for that price Haz, RARB looks good. I remember it making a HUGE difference on mine, albeit not a Clio.