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OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
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31st Oct 03 at 10:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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!!
Noonster
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Registered: 20th Jul 03
Location: East Yorkshire
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31st Oct 03 at 10:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Thanks - I think
Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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31st Oct 03 at 10:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Exactly.
OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
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31st Oct 03 at 10:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

thought id save you guys the time!
Red_SXi
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Registered: 23rd Sep 02
Location: Dunstable Drives: 52 Plate BMW 3 M Sport Coupe
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31st Oct 03 at 10:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Yep, its not worth tuning a slow engine
Noonster
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31st Oct 03 at 10:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Agree!!!
Better to get a full engine conversion, like I will one day when I have some no claims, and some money
OFcorsa
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31st Oct 03 at 10:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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.
Mistamist
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Registered: 16th Jul 03
Location: Gillingham, Kent
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31st Oct 03 at 10:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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!
OFcorsa
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Registered: 6th Jan 03
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31st Oct 03 at 11:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

PMSL! 100mph down the high street! i would be impressed doing that down oxford street in london! but joking apart your right!
mike_southside
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Registered: 3rd Apr 03
Location: East Sussex, Bexhill
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31st Oct 03 at 11:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

yer i agree, go for looks until your insurance will let u get a 2lt! saves on speeding tickets too!
tay_lor
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Registered: 28th Jul 03
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31st Oct 03 at 12:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

exactly wot im doing
caddog
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
Location: Tamnaherin Eglinton N.Ireland
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   31st Oct 03 at 12:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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
Korsa
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Registered: 25th Jan 03
Location: Cardiff S.Wales Drives :Blue/Purple Corsa
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31st Oct 03 at 14:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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...
Dav
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Registered: 23rd Jul 02
Location: Falkirk, Scotland
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31st Oct 03 at 16:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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?
Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
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31st Oct 03 at 16:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

so spend £100 on a backbox, not £400 on a whole system!
essexracer
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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31st Oct 03 at 17:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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.
Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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31st Oct 03 at 17:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

1.4
drop a mpi head onit 85bhp
for a afternoons spannering
and few hundred quid
and-m
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Registered: 5th May 02
Location: Liverpool. Drives. Skud vRS.
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31st Oct 03 at 17:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

mpi head? youll need a new ecu, loom, different fuel pump, inlet, echaust manifold...not that easy
Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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31st Oct 03 at 18:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

fuel pump same
yes new ecu
an engine loom
inlet yes
exhaust-not sure
easy enuff
and-m
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Registered: 5th May 02
Location: Liverpool. Drives. Skud vRS.
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31st Oct 03 at 19:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

you need an mpi fuel pump
uprated
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Registered: 1st Sep 03
Location: York
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31st Oct 03 at 19:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

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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