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OUCH! That's a lotta rwhp! I /definitely/ wanna be taken for a blast in that! And promise not to leave stains on the carpet. Heck, I'll even chase down your gearbox when it jumps out tries to get as far away from the lump as possible ;) Seriously tho (like I wasn't being serious?), are you doing anything about the box? "It cannay tek tha poooo'er, cap'n!" springs to mind.

Nah, when Pete's finished with it (ever?) the passenger's gonna have such a puckered up anus they won't be able to sh*t for a week ;)

Haha! I thought you had to be the target of the insult to make it to the "getting chucked in the lake" list? I'm not even sure they'll let me in yet (tickets anyone?!).

Obviously, that's an unfortunate TLA John gave his "John Went Tuning" chip, based on freely available code... not to be mistaken with a small company in the US ;) :D

Says a lot of things that pic does. Obviously, it's a toilet used solely by blokes - note the lack of bog-roll, and the seat up like it should be... It also aptly describes how my car was running, up til it went bang... It's where I sat in the mornings dreaming about owning a fast 300, the whole time I was on holiday... having a damn good dump to make sure, if I came of a jump wrong and wow'd me botty (common snowboarding term), I wouldn't end up with pants full of turd. That toilet did us proud for a couple of weeks. It needed acknowledgement.

D'ya reckon I'll be OK if I turn up at Billing with a f*cking big sponge cake to keep him happy then? :D

Well, I finally added some HTML to my rides section. Have a look if you like... but it's done with Notepad, so don't expect anything good.

Hello, by the way ;)

That's Mac's mate Sponge Cake idn't it?!

OK, cool. Cheers for that - I'll keep it in mind for when (/if) I ever do it. But I'm gonna shut up now, cos it's a PS2 thread, right?

Ah yeah, I gotta have a copy too! I don't mind admitting I had a 2.8i Capri - dropped to the floor, detrimmed and a total ass out grunt monster :) Not very quick, but a big heap of fun.

:D OK, playa hataz!... Anyway, this PS2 problem sounds a bit like an Xbox problem I heard about - something about having to route your XB through a PC to connect properly to some BB providers. I should really have stayed the f*ck out of this conversation because I h'aint got a chipped XB, a PS2 or broadband.

You're OK if you switch the chip off before using Live.

You've got a point Mark. I've seen a few Clarkson videos and thought they were great. And his talk-show was kinda funny (hoovering up petrol / firing chickens from a trash-can?!). Top Gear has become The Clarkson Show... maybe they should rename it? IMO 5th Gear is Top Gear. The Top Gear name should've been buried when they all f*cked off to C5.

I'm just kidding really. It's one of those cars that just seems to beg to be made better / faster / more powerful. It's pretty frickin' cool as standard, so don't go thinking you /have/ to mod the nuts off it. Gears would be good ;)

As soon as it's back you can bet I'll be on here gurgling on about how fantastic it is... hopefully! It's not just a matter of making the car feel better - I've had an engine rebuild / cams / bigger injectors, so it's an absolute necessity. What mods have you had done to your car Shahid? I wouldn't expect a dramatic difference if the car's still pretty much standard. Best to go the standard (?) route... filter and exhaust, more boost (maybe with a boost controller like you mentioned), then map around that.

It's a loverly looking thing. I wonder what it is. I'm not sure I can afford it, now that it's got all popular.

SE will make you a custom chip tuned for your car if that's what you want. They book time at a rolling road to do the fine tuning. I can't remember what the all-in charge is, but I think it's something like 400 quid, which is way cheaper than buying a (exchange!) JWT ECU... 1000+ dollars last look. Hopefully mine will be tearing up that rolling road this Friday :D

We could be talking about different problems of course, but yes, it was my original ECU (from my auto) that used to work fine, but now has the problem. That had an SE programmed 27C256.

A tad too much burnt rubber there maybe? My mate mailed me saying: I think it's a pair of 300's - they're a bit hard to see! So, was that at Max Power this year?

With a 2-page EPROM you could run HP or Tabasco.

I'm confused (nothing new there then). It sounds like everyone who's got one thinks they're great, but how does it make the box feel better... I don't mean how does it work - what's it doing to your ride? I've had SE's fast-road rebuild so is an ALC pointless?

Yes, you have :D Now... bring on the mods ;)

Oh, OK. I wasn't sure if there'd been a ton of discussion about this already. Anyway, I was mighty impressed. I love precision driving stuff. Two 300's sliding around as close as they are...? Hmm. Quality. Cheers for the link Mac... great to see Mark throwing his mota around with a big smug grin ;)

Nice to see the car being driven about, but he did come into it with a crap attitude. The engine note didn't sound that bad to me (fair enough, I wasn't driving it). And as for practicality... he wouldn't have knocked a Porker for the same thing. Whine, moan... the stereo's too loud. He can be funny, but he's sounding like a out of touch old git. And knocking guests that've gone to the trouble to get their cars on the show... that's just stupid.