tomfromthenorth

No they were second hand rubber and already chewed up, price was right, theyre getting sorted now, not ideal I know.

Yeah :blush: I know, I will wait a while on the rears, swap them side to side as the inside is wearing a bit quicker than the outside. But I hate cracked tyres, they've gone off quite quickly those fronts.

They are all above the wear markers, the fronts are cracking and one of them has been bitten by the arch (not by me) I was gonna get a pair of vredestein ultrac vertis on the front, but two rears too would be too much.

I know :/ difficult one, it isn't tyre wear is it, it's damage from something like a bit of metal? I can't rember anything, I avoid cans etc, with it being a back wheel it would have clattered on the underside whatever it was. I don't really have the money but if it blew out I'd be kicking myself. Bugger. More thoughts guys, wait or change?

Tyre damage. With my numberplate being legally cheeky, I was checking my tyres to make sure I was well prepared for a roadside discussion with the fuzz when I saw this. :( what is going on there? Have I run over a beer can? I wouldn't be happy to continue driving with a back tyre like that!

Nice mate :thumbup1:

It could be the one that went to france?

Happy birthday mate :happybday: :thumbup1:

Thanks Noz, I was told by someone I trust far less than you that they were better. In that case I will not be fitting one. :thumbup1:

As I understand, a large portion of the performance benefit is from the better aerodynamics in the turbo exhaust outlet. If you look at that picture above, gas leaves the turbine then enters a large chamber that houses the wastegate. The gasses will immediately expand and slow down, causing the gas following it that is travelling through the turbo to "run into a motorway pile up of slowing gas". Plus any mixing from the two sources if the wastegate is open, causing Eddie currents and what have you. And you need to buy a turbo that doesn't have an internal wasegate, leaving you with a choice of big ones. I think an EBC will control and damp any boost oscillations perfectly well for normal application. Buy a top end EBC.

Yeah on a drag impreza with a boost level measured in Atmospheres!

Slightly better spool and response, with the penalty of them being quite big and a sod to fit in our engine bays. Until you are in BIG after market turbo territory you don't get an option. And for those who are uncertain, as I understand it. The wastegate is a pressure relief valve in the power generation hot side of the turbo. It diverts exhaust gas around the compressor wheel to stop the turbo running away up creating more and more boost. It is actuated by the wastegate actuator (the bit that looks like a bicycle bell on a stick.) often this bit is refered to as a wastegate. The bicycle bell bit is a sprung diaphragm with a boost feed in the top, once at the set boost, it does a game of mousetrap and pushes the rod to open the wastegate about 6 inches away inside the turbo. An internal wastegate the actual relief valve is inside the snail of the turbo, an external wastegate diverts exhaust gasses around the entire turbo. The benefit is to the turbulance of the exhaust flow out the back of the power turbine. to my understanding.

Sorry to hear that mate, you're not the only one though, every member on here will have stories of going to garages and getting conned. My bodymech respray was needed to sort out a botch job. Only about a year ago I paid a man good money to future-proof my car, no rust he said! Took the skirts off and had a look he said. So sad that us trusting people can be seen off by people who will paper over cracks, or use tooth paste rather than plaster and shake our hands afterwards with a smile cash in their till. I hope you get somewhere with them, but they won't make it easy, in the hope you will back down. With a bit of luck you will be able to even the score for the ripped off masses in this case :clover:

Elliot breaks in the new 335 tires!!! - Burnout +…: That loud?

Look all of this up! I think 94 onwards you need a cat. I think its a fine & VOSA issue not a police & points issue being found without a cat. It will only flame when you make it do it, it won't be 'more firey generally' it will crackle when you hit the limiter, or a lowered limit you've set up on the BeeR. Spark plug in the exhaust :blink: Go and play with a kitchen hob if that's your idea of fun, 'tik-tik-tik whumph' It will burn your back bumper doing it that way. I would like one because I thought it was a bit safer for your engine, if it isn't then I'm not bothered about one, but I thought Z32 Bolt sounded sensible when he said, "it's not gona burn your valves out, because it's bloody hot in your cylinders during normal operation!"or something similar, and extending that logic, your turbo should be OK too. A cat I can see how that may be affected, there will be different chemical compounds going through it and they are after all, a catalyst, so temperature aside, that may knacker them.

Thats a really good outlook, keeping your eyes on various communities :thumbup1: Smart looking car mate :)

Is it legal? Doing 7000rpm in most gears is already illegal :lol:

I'd have one :thumbup1:. And what you said above Spin, this is my understanding. A normal rev limiter cuts fuel, this means you're running lean at 7000rpm and it's not a good idea. A BeeR cuts the spark so you still get a dose of fuel for cylinder cooling and it doesn't run lean. Obviously this means it runs rich which isn't great either, and you put flames through your turbo, but mine would be honestly for wet er... "non standard departures" from T junctions in first and second, the revs can hop up to the limiter playing that silly game.

I would like a BeeR limiter (there's a joke there isn't there) not for the flames just for the lean out protection in second gear in the wet.

My car came with AB Flug Bovs, not only did they sound like scania air brakes but they made it run like a pig. I have driven David1846291's car and that had 2 bailey valves I think. They squeaked a bit but weren't quite the need for speed spaceship noises you may be after, but it ran absolutely fine. It is true that it's not ideal but clearly you 'can' run bovs and get away with it. I had stock recircs for a long time that honked. I now have BDE Goose honk killers that have sort of reconditioned and uprated my stock valves. These are great, no running issues but they sound awesome. I get some compressor surge and some hissing and sound just right. They are silent under normal driving, or partial boost, but giving it full throttle they chirp beautifully. Remember the sound isn't the recircs alone it's: 16psi Recircs dual intake with apexi filters 2.5 inch intercooler pipework and bigfer intercoolers Big exhaust All of that stuff will change the way the air moves and how quickly and audibly it does so.

Your orange one was really nice, that one is too, you're a lucky bloke mate. Enjoy it :)

Yeah I know, Silverline had said that gas expands as it cools "like water expands when it freezes". I was unsure about that so gave it a google. Fascinating stuff :) The conversation went over to a thread called exhaust tuning, me bolt and silverline had a good long chat.

That is pretty cool, can't be many of those about :thumbup1:

OIL CAP! :ninja: Glad you still have this car by the way mate, I missed the end of the situation you were in where you considered selling the Zed. I hope it is all resolved now and you can enjoy the wonderful thing :thumbup1:

Just googled it 2.51 Australian dollars a litre. 10mpg???? So that 11 dollars a gallon. A dollar a mile! Whats that in pounds... 1.40 a litre 6 quid a gallon, 60p a mile.