OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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Please take advice, i have a 60BHP 1.4. i have no intention of squeezing power out of my car, it runs fine let it run fine is my moto. I have a seperate savings account for mods, these mods will be alloys suspension and body kit. this will serve me fine until i have no claims bonuses and saved up enough for the 1.6/2ltr upgrade. theres is no point in paying £300 for a manifold and £300 for a full zorst system when the power increase would be 6BHP you wont even notice this. £600 can get you a nice kit and witha bit more saving get it fitted!!
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Noonster
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Registered: 20th Jul 03
Location: East Yorkshire
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Thanks - I think
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
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Exactly.
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OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
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thought id save you guys the time!
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Red_SXi
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Registered: 23rd Sep 02
Location: Dunstable Drives: 52 Plate BMW 3 M Sport Coupe
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Yep, its not worth tuning a slow engine
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Noonster
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Registered: 20th Jul 03
Location: East Yorkshire
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Agree!!!
Better to get a full engine conversion, like I will one day when I have some no claims, and some money
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OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
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I also feel a lot of young drivers only go round town anyway, so what they have it plenty for that, but its all about going round town with a nice kit and a nice set of rims.
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Mistamist
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Registered: 16th Jul 03
Location: Gillingham, Kent
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I see it this way, eventually i want a big engine conversion but its a matter of saving. as i live in london i cant drive fast, and around town i dont wanna drive fast cos i want people to see my rims and any bodywork that i have done. if your doin 100mph down the highstreet then whos gonna apreciate all the work you have done if they can only see a blur!
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OFcorsa
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PMSL! 100mph down the high street! i would be impressed doing that down oxford street in london! but joking apart your right!
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mike_southside
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Registered: 3rd Apr 03
Location: East Sussex, Bexhill
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yer i agree, go for looks until your insurance will let u get a 2lt! saves on speeding tickets too!
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tay_lor
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Registered: 28th Jul 03
Location: chester
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exactly wot im doing
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caddog
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
Location: Tamnaherin Eglinton N.Ireland
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Ive had my cav SRi 8 years with no mods to the engine at all..... Nothin added but time and 200k miles Mod the body and keep the engine standard for youill lose reliability and fuel economy..... Ahhh its great to be 32
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Korsa
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Registered: 25th Jan 03
Location: Cardiff S.Wales Drives :Blue/Purple Corsa
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quote: Originally posted by OFcorsa
theres is no point in paying £300 for a full zorst system when the power increase would be 6BHP you wont even notice this.
fcukin sounds nice though, that plays a part...
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Dav
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quote: Originally posted by XTC113
quote: Originally posted by OFcorsa
theres is no point in paying £300 for a full zorst system when the power increase would be 6BHP you wont even notice this.
fcukin sounds nice though, that plays a part...
And look a lot better than a rusty pee shooter hanging out the back of your kitted up car.
But I don't like bodykits anyway, think most of them are tacky fibreglass crap, so I bought an exhaust instead.
Each to their own opinion?
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
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so spend £100 on a backbox, not £400 on a whole system!
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essexracer
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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yea, get a bb4 (yes peco ) about 70ish notes and 20 odd notes for a pannel filter and drill the airbox and that should sound pritty nice thats the cheap route.
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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1.4
drop a mpi head onit 85bhp
for a afternoons spannering
and few hundred quid
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and-m
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Registered: 5th May 02
Location: Liverpool. Drives. Skud vRS.
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mpi head? youll need a new ecu, loom, different fuel pump, inlet, echaust manifold...not that easy
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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fuel pump same
yes new ecu
an engine loom
inlet yes
exhaust-not sure
easy enuff
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and-m
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Registered: 5th May 02
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you need an mpi fuel pump
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uprated
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Registered: 1st Sep 03
Location: York
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im going down that road with my 1.2, ive got an induction kit for sound when i open the taps, sounds nice . when my exhaust is shagged ill pay for a stainless steel magnex or something, but not until the current one is utterly bollocksed.
and im just gonna leave the bodywork standard but get the bumpers colour coded so my car is totally colour coded.
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