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  1. Yeah thats just it my car has got to be an aero. I don't want a non aero would rather go without the turbo's. Gawd did I just say that??? And the price difference between turbo and non-turbo aero's is massive. They are almost twice the price, For a couple of turbo's and a leather interior, oh and retracting wing mirrors lol. The insurance issue is a valid point but at 330-350 horses the turbo converted NA is gonna show a standard 280 horse TT a very clean pair of heels, and probably the UK spec motor would flush with embarrassment a little as well. So come on someone must know a man that can fit one of these kits.
  2. 1. Supragal CONFIRMED 2. Trig (pending work) 3. 4. HISUPE 5. Patrick and SusiQ 6. Oxygene 7. Shaf 8. Green Supra + 1 9. CJ 10. Pulse (maybe? certainly not arriving in a Supra anyway) 11. Gatso & Ouzlover 12. reno 13. Batgirl 14. Dangerous brain (confirmed) 15. Mad Ad 16. mawby 17. stu 18. amazing grace 19. mfs 20. darren blake (supragals lift bitch) (confirmed) 21. The Pink Lady (with sunglasses as my paint job is very bright) 22. Red
  3. Sheesh this one is going down like a lead balloon lol If I drive all the way up to bloody Chieveley and I am the only one there I will not a happy bunny be!!!!
  4. From what i could gather it would have to be the engine gearbox and most of the drive train to do a direct TT swap and that would just be way too much cash. The turbo kits are going at around $4k which is circa £2k at the mo and fitting shouldn't come to more than a grand so all in £3k hopefully which is less than a TT aero swap! and less than a TT engine gearbox and drivetrain swap.
  5. I have seen a lot of blurb about turbo-ing a soop N/A and the merits of doing so against selling and buying a TT instead. I have decided I want to keep my car and want to extract circa 330 horses from it. I would prefer to supercharge it but am getting no-where fast sourcing a supercharging kit for the soop. So that leaves me fitting a turbo kit instead. There are various kits for sale in the States and bearing in mind the strong pound against the dollar now is a very good time to buy. My problem is that I really wouldn't want to touch the install job myself. I am pretty sure that the job needs rolling road setups etc so I need a reputable installer to do the job. About time too the question is does anyone know a reputable installer of N/A turbo kits in the Bournemouth Poole Southampton area?
  6. Oh comeon the Bournemouth Massif consists of just me at the moment LOL
  7. I used millers oils Octane plus in my N/A soop it says on it gives 20 point boost to fuel and in the small print a raise of 2 octane RONs. It does make a bit of difference to my soop at low revs making it feel a lot more responsive to the throttle and kicking it up to the higher rev ranges quicker. In my book thats a little more power surely?
  8. Forty or so soops in one place check out last months meet at fleet lol
  9. Some of us coming up m27 m3 are meeting at winnal on m3 a34 junction and convoying to a34 m4 chieveley services from there.
  10. Looks like Winnal will be seeing a load of soops again then. Wonder if the guys in that clapped out BMW crop top will show up again LOL.
  11. So where is it and when is it I cant be bothered to trawl through the whole thread ROFL
  12. Ok So what would I need to de-cat my rudely underpowered N/A ??? Poor car needs all the power it can squeeze lol.
  13. OK who painted my car pink???? The lens on your camera has made my car pink mawby!!!
  14. I'm in I know of some of the pubs along the A33 one has a bigger carpark than the last one and again does food if you go for that option. I came down the A34 in both directions no problems at all.
  15. HEH heh wsb2 cannot undertake or even drive as well as i can so in light of my sheer stupidity and dangerous abilities over any given distance (not on a bloody airfield or 1/4 mile strip) i reckon that is a brash youthfull boast. How much is wsb2's insurance woot woot As for the organisation many thanks have to go to supragal for her all out patience [i mean how many times does a person have to say "look at the first page for the meet details"??]. It sounds like my choice of public establishment wasn't a bad one. Sorry the convoy from fleet to pub was so slow but I was the only one that knew where we were going lol (I do have to ask how anyone managed to go the wrong bloody way??? we surely cant have lost anyone at 56 mph?????) The post pub blast home sounded like a hoot [you irresponsible galoots:devil: ] Now then CAKES!!!! List your fave's and I will get Mrs dangerous to purchase them from the WI stand in Wimborne arguably the best cakes in the world!!!! AND I don't even want any womanly compliments, you can send all of them WSB2's way:flame Dev
  16. Yeah I want to do the burnin bournemouth thing. Thats whitesupralads old bosum buddies so get the gen off him about it. Whilst your at it ask him about his escort wrx 1.3 lookalike roffl my ass off.
  17. Oh that is a kph dial.... Right where do I get a de-limiter you bstards!!!!!
  18. oi now thats just about enough of that kind of talk Mr!!!!! Time to get it delimited
  19. Ah looks like my little spot of local muppet baiting was mild in comparison to you lot LOL (and I am usually the most dangerous) That muppet that kept cruising through the front car park in a green renault (19 I think) came barreling around that corner towards the pub at nearly 50 so I blatantly pulled out oh him with as much spin as I could get and left him doing 50 in a thick tyre smoke fog lol. He then proceeded to try and keep up with me on the dual carriageway to the motorway but despite my inadequate N/A proportions I wasted him and vanished into the blue yonder. It must really hack people off when you do that to them.
  20. Cant say I have ever had a problem on gear shift in manual when keeping that peddle buried in the carpet. No horrid over-rev's so I assume it must cut the fuel auto-matically for the nano-second it takes for the box to smoothly transition up a gear for a spot more wooohoooo lol.
  21. Agrred on the service station idea totally tops. Just gotta find a service station near someone that knows the area to find another public establishment close by. The Miller we were in today said they were happy for us to back but obviously we want to move the venue each time or people will get bored.
  22. I have been wondering just what my auto box can do. So after a lot of testing i have found that for daily use leaving it in D to its own devices is the best. It handles most situations quite nicely. On motorways when anticipating a car moving over at 70-95 podge the overdrive button to switch it off and down to third then hit the accelerator for a better acceleration rate and smoother launch up to the rev limiter when you repodge the button and it changes back up. For the best take off i find the only way to go is to apply the handbrake podge the manual button and slide it all the way back to first. Sit with the revs just at biting the handbrake will let go as soon as you put enough power in to cause much harm to the machine itself either brakes or transmission. When your lights change simultaneously apply enough power to launch without wheel spinning outrageously and drop the handbrake. The handbrake will start to give up as soon as you apply power and then its up to you to hold the thing as the power hammers in. You can then reach across to the gear lever and this is the beauty of manual mode you can hold the power on all the way to your rev limiter and manually change the gear by clicking it forward a notch without even having to take your foot off the go pedal at all. It changes smoothly into the next gears power band and you just hold on until it again nears the old rev limiter. Same drill slot it fwds into D which again puts you in the power band for that gear. This is good on mine to approx 110 ish at which point you podge the old manual button again for the overdrive gear to kick in. I find this method particularly effective at most lights especially the ones near my house that have a sharp 90 degree bend with 2 lanes going into one at the apex of the bend right in front of them. Also manual mode makes for safer driving in the wet. There is nothing quite as scary as the box changin on you unexpectedly on that roundabout exit apex and the back just going on you. If you are allready rolling podge the manual button and click it once back into 2nd as you approach. This has two effects, if you come in fast the engine braking afforded assists you to slow down into the start of the roundabout or bend (which you just don't get in normal mode), it also then avoids the nasty surprise of it changing on you midbend like when you apply the power on the exit. (I nearly lost my car in just that way when I first had it at only 15 miles an hour) 2nd is good from standstill to 80 mph on mine. I have an N/A and it may proove different to launch a turbo motor but i expect the principles of launching a turbo will be similar due to the fact that the tyres will still only put so much power down regardless of the power you have before they lose traction and as long as you are wheelspinning you arent going anywhere.
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