Stephen

Battery connections. Temp sensor and connector. Ptu. Lot of potential issues. Have you run the ecu for codes?

A set of KYBs with Ebiach springs or similar transforms the stock car. Mines pretty abrasive now and crashy, tends to skip on jolt. I think a lot of it's the spring rate but the front in particular is quite hard, the worst thing is to hit a pot hole etc that's got harsh edges. Dips and damaged road are fine. If the road surface is good the cars good but let's face it the roads are crap.

Soon as it broke traction it would start to fish tail or follow the road camber. Probably fooked bushes yeah, although it seems a common complaint. Now when I spin up the car stays on corse much better.

It's a good question, one I can't honestly answer. My cars very similarly spec'd running gear wise to yours. Apparently the quaife diff helps a lot. I know that switching out the diff and subframe bushes helped to stop the fish tailing I was experiencing.

It's ok. Just gotta be mindful. Stab it at low speed and it will likely bite. Is what it is, you certainly can't just boot it at every occasion.

I think I'd need a custom remap rather than a generic chip tbh Dan. The cams and turbos would likely change the delivery more than out and out power. 400hp has been reached and destroyed on stock turbos more than once but it's doing it safely. I recon you'll get over 500 out of that set up with the right tune. 500 is possible with gt525s with the right mods etc.

Yeah. Auto turbos too. Probably why it has very little lag. 200@3.5k

Something like that, he said add 20% roughly which is over 370. I think it's safe it say it's over 350 maybe 360. The main thing is it's not leaning out and it's pretty quick.

2.5" decats with divorced downs, cat back. Cone filter. The usual basically. Don't forget that's rwhp not fly numbers.

So today I took a winding A road route to Salisbury, it's about an hour in the zed. I did have a purpose to visit Janspeed, i booked the time and this a few weeks back so I've been looking forward to it. The task was, check the boost levels are suitable with the AFRs. Here's a pic on the rollers. Russel the Dyno operator was really helpful and chatty, bit of a Nissan fan. He's got a couple of Pulsars and an R32. Had a few issues with the MBC, basically it's a bit pants, so an EBC is on the list. With 16psi of boost I made 312hp and 336ftlb at the wheels. The AFR was rich if anything and apparently there was room in the feeling for more boost. Anyway the 16 seems safe and not too knife edged. So I think certainly until I sort out some AFR control and the EBC this is enough. Got about 8 runs in, started to hear soak by the end he reckons.

Having just googled it, I recon your right.

Certainly is pretty strong salmon. I was going to go Vauxhall because of the vent assembly but the stitched dash put me off that idea. You could be right though about a Rangie.

I recon that's, an Audi interior.

Reminds me of this for some reason;

You want some rust killer on there mate, plenty of it. Time spent now is time well spent. Good on you for getting stuck in, too many people don't even know which end of a hammer does what these days. I got some zinc primer the other week, pretty good stuff and it's pretty cheap from screwfix, you can weld through it etc. If nothing else it will keep the surface rust away whilst your working on it. This is the stuff I use £3.60 a tin; http://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-zinc-galvanising-spray-paint-silver-400ml/40801

Indeed. The tears are quite hefty. Compare this to the akemboko kit, or the Evo calipers etc and the rears are pretty big. My rears look pretty small in comparison to the front but the balance is about right. It's worth pointing out these won't make you stop any quicker. Bigger brakes don't necessarily mean smaller stopping distances. The limiting factor within the stock brakes (if healthy) is grip, you can lock the fronts up without too much effort at which point your skidding or in ABS. The advantage of bigger brakes is the ability to do this repeatly without cooking them.

Thought that would be the case.

Interested what the rear combination and fitment is.

Auto and manual, NA and TT and SWB and LWB are all different.

Me either. I certainly haven't heard he's back to normal.

I thought Mike was still outta action?

Those locating bolts are very handy aren't they.

Agreed, the "horseshoe" is a grower. It can look great.

I kinda guessed the trailer bit but yeah always helpful to include the relivant information lol.

£400!?