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Well that's not entirely true :D by removing the cats you are removing the back preasure from the exhaust system. The standard turbo's have oil seal rather than ball bearing seals. What tends to happen when you decat is that although you allow a more breathable engine you are also taking that little bit of back pressure away. Which means that you may (and I say may as I don't believe it's actually been proven) speed up the lifecycle of your turbo seals. Put it this way, These cars where designed and built with a lot of time and though put into the mechanics, the body, suspension etc etc. If you start modifiying one part of the engine to improve the power, then you will put more strain on another component. There is always a bottle neck when it comes to modifiying the engine. You need to think about how much you want to spend before thinking about how much power you want.

But isn't this to do with the fact that the injectors are maxing our so you are running lean on that much boost. I know there was a lot of debate about how much the stock internals can take. Some claimed it was good for 450 bhp, and others although maybe a little dilusional claimed 600bhp. I guess it comes down to how old and what condition your engine is in. A brand new stock engine may be able to hold a lot of power, but we are talking about 15 year old engines now and in most cases 15 year old pistons. You put a granny into a weight lifting competition without strenghening her bones, she's gonna snap !

At 14 psi it's not really the turbo's that are maxing out, it's the injectors. You can run 14psi on stock injectors, turbo's. But I don't think the mapping on the standard chip was coded for boosts higher than 10 - 11 psi. If you want to up the boost you need to have the following: Upgraded exhaust, induction kit, after market chip. Once you have those you can use boost jets or a boost controller, but running more than stock boost I would reccomend getting an aftermarket boost gauge if you are going to use boost jets, or a visual display boost controller.

Since when did we stop calling these T-pot's anyway ?. What ever happened to protecting ourselves :)

As a temp messure I've put a standard plate on the front, I've just trimmer the sides slightly but still left a big enough boarder. Some before and after shots.

Sometimes I wish I kept pets just so I could post someone a shit in a box at times like this :). Pure class. However I don't think this is the first for someone on here asking other members if they have got any shit they don't need :).

I'll have a midday slot please mate. 12:00 on the dot is good.

Very skillful indeed. Don't think much of the look of it although I do quite like the rear end !

Busted !!! :D I know Prince charles, he's a personal friend LMAO !!

I'm not going to take any chances, forgot to call you on Saturday Berkley, but will get roun dto it this week. Thanks all for the comments and links.

I was very impressed with them. It's a shame that this year there was so many good acts. I thought the top three would have been Escala, George and little smith. But I was surprised to see only one of them in the top 3. Too many good acts this year to choose from. I think Cheeky Monkeys & the plumber were the only two I thought didn't have a hope in hell of winning.

Don't like it at all, however this don't look too shabby

You can use the same relay as the headlights (blue one) to test the sub fan, I'm sure that's the fan that only comes on if the car is seriously overheating, I also didn't have a relay in my sub fan either, so not sure if it's just us ??

I'll give you a buzz tomorrow mate and we can sort out payment etc. I'd only want standard lettering rather than all that fancy 3D or carbon stuff :). Yes, Andy I know I can put standard one on there, I think I'll go with B19rks one to save getting pulled over all the time. Usually I don;t mind getting pulled over for checks and stuff as it makes me feel like if someone did manage to steal my car it wouldn't get far. The annoying thing today was, I just picked my wife up from the hospital where she had to have an operation on her nose. They could clearly see her sitting in the front seat with plastercast on her nose and a swab filling up with blood as they walked around the car.

Thanks Guys, Nick, thanks for the input mate, I'll have a search through the forum. I know my letters are actually smaller than standard, but only slightly. I'll take a picture tomorrow along side the one on the car, as I have a standard front plate in the shed. One of the things that annoyed me is they also said I need to change the rear plate, Ok, I know the front one might be touch and go, but surely there's nothing wrong with this one ??? Oh and in response to the other question, I just got a pink slip whihc was a notification/warning of a stop - no documents needed to be produced and no mot needed to be rechecked, also no fine or points etc.

Nah, they are City of London cops, they are only interested in petty crime :).

Are you sure they're fake, Ones bigger than the other :D. That's the one thing all women have in common, although they never think that any man will notice :)

I know, I know, I'm allowed to havea non standard plate because it's an import or so I was lead to believe. I don't have a license plate bracket on my Stillen. I was trying to get some sense out of the police that pulled me over but they were adament that as soon as imports come into this country they need to obide by the UK rules, fair enough I guess. So I'll be ording new plates tomorrow. Any suggestions about what type would look best on a stillen front end (UK legal that is). Also where would I put it ? Any ideas, any photoshop ideas also ?

Every one to thier own but I really don't like it at all if I'm honest. I've gone off spoilers so much recently that I've decided to take mine off at the next convienient time. Also the Brake light looks very square and dated, maybe it goes with the age of the car, I'm not sure but just not my cuppa. The white tail lights look top notch though :D

don't we have a car of the month competition for this sort of thing ? which reminds me, where's my trophy :)

all I can say is that's gonna be one hell of a food trap lol

Don't you need to stick up the hole it left or something before it gets infected, you don't want infection to get into your jaw bone, cause then you're really fooked... May be worth going for a check up, it's cheaper than tooth pulling, but better safe than sorry.

superb. When you say keypad, it is the one with the star and the square or numerics. If it's the star and square, you can get replacements for these for about £15. 2 wires, bit of mastic, job done.

Hi mate, I take it you already have upgraded exhaust and induction kit. Becuase you need to improve the breathing before you up the boost in most cases.

It's not clean at all, I haven't cleaned it yet. I'm going to clean it all and underseal the lot of it. But it is a Jap import so I guess it didn't have to put up with all the salt on the UK roads for 10 years of it's life before it came here. You can always tell if it's a UK or Jap model by the rust or lack of under the car :).