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There's a Dr. Dre song, ft. Snoop (I forget its name) wherein he ponders over the bitter sweet reality of being too endowed to the point that his willing recipients just aren't able to accommodate all of him. It's a sad tale of a man who literally cannot give enough love because his environment won't allow him to unwind it all. Nevertheless, always the willing soldier, he gives what he can and finds peace and contentment in the knowledge that, freed from such restrictions, he'd be able to - how did he put it? - "give it the whole eight".That's how I feel about massive engines. You can never have too much.
tenfour said:
There's a Dr. Dre song, ft. Snoop (I forget its name) wherein he ponders over the bitter sweet reality of being too endowed to the point that his willing recipients just aren't able to accommodate all of him. It's a sad tale of a man who literally cannot give enough love because his environment won't allow him to unwind it all. Nevertheless, always the willing soldier, he gives what he can and finds peace and contentment in the knowledge that, freed from such restrictions, he'd be able to - how did he put it? - "give it the whole eight".
That's how I feel about massive engines. You can never have too much.
That's how I feel about massive engines. You can never have too much.
Threadistas, forgive me if bad form to post my own wagon considering my relatively low post count (long time lurker prior) but I bought this back in November 2015 and it's been fair to say there have been a few teething troubles but it's finally sorted and fresh from mapping yesterday (TDI South not cheap, but can't recommend them highly enough) and I have 'just purchased' levels of excitement I had to share. Honda k20 SC/CC now has 325 bhp at the hubs so in region of 370 bhp flywheel, 880 kilos with half a tank of fuel, AP 4 pots, Nitron suspension etc. needless to say it is now a properly quick (and more importantly drivable since the mapping !) little car and last night journey home made it all worth while. Now just got to fix the handbrake and unjam the heater mechanism...
TheRocket said:
Threadistas, forgive me if bad form to post my own wagon considering my relatively low post count (long time lurker prior) but I bought this back in November 2015 and it's been fair to say there have been a few teething troubles but it's finally sorted and fresh from mapping yesterday (TDI South not cheap, but can't recommend them highly enough) and I have 'just purchased' levels of excitement I had to share. Honda k20 SC/CC now has 325 bhp at the hubs so in region of 370 bhp flywheel, 880 kilos with half a tank of fuel, AP 4 pots, Nitron suspension etc. needless to say it is now a properly quick (and more importantly drivable since the mapping !) little car and last night journey home made it all worth while. Now just got to fix the handbrake and unjam the heater mechanism...
Oooooof!Patrick Bateman said:
shirt said:
how about a z3m coupe?
cat d car but honest and owned by someone with an m striped beard. porsche calipers, schnitzer exhaust/front & rear spoiler, coilovers. reckon a 20% budget stretch might secure it.
Looking to escape the M tax for a while!cat d car but honest and owned by someone with an m striped beard. porsche calipers, schnitzer exhaust/front & rear spoiler, coilovers. reckon a 20% budget stretch might secure it.
Awesome, awesome chariot. Let me know when I can get a shotgun ride!TheRocket said:
Threadistas, forgive me if bad form to post my own wagon considering my relatively low post count (long time lurker prior) but I bought this back in November 2015 and it's been fair to say there have been a few teething troubles but it's finally sorted and fresh from mapping yesterday (TDI South not cheap, but can't recommend them highly enough) and I have 'just purchased' levels of excitement I had to share. Honda k20 SC/CC now has 325 bhp at the hubs so in region of 370 bhp flywheel, 880 kilos with half a tank of fuel, AP 4 pots, Nitron suspension etc. needless to say it is now a properly quick (and more importantly drivable since the mapping !) little car and last night journey home made it all worth while. Now just got to fix the handbrake and unjam the heater mechanism...
Now, that is all sorts of awesome.
Edited by tenfour on Friday 22 July 18:10
One hell of a little beastie. In other news my 335i has left the building. Had a fantastic 20 months and 24k miles with the car and naturally have pangs of sellers remorse from time to time. Still thinking about an F31 Alpina D3, but in the meantime have bought a smoker. Not quite bangernomics, but a 181k mile (with FBMWSH!) E91 330i. It's scrubbed up ok!
Edited by MattOz on Friday 22 July 21:14
MattOz said:
In other news my 335i has left the building. Had a fantastic 20 months and 24k miles with the car and naturally have pangs of sellers remorse from time to time. Still thinking about an F31 Alpina D3, but in the meantime have bought a smoker. Not quite bangernomics, but a 181k mile (with FBMWSH!) E91 330i. It's scrubbed up ok!
Was it a coupe?Edited by MattOz on Friday 22 July 21:14
Couple of 335i Touring on ebay now.
Cheers Chaps after my old car it had big shoes to fill, but now it's sorted it is a bonkers little thing, just hope it holds together but for the most part it's been done properly and these conversions are quite well proven now.
Braddo, yes I reckon Supercharger plus gubins, Chargecooler, pump, pre rad and plumbing must be getting on for 80 kilos worth, there are tuned k20 290hp n/a cars that are a lot lighter and perhaps they are the purer steer in line with Lotus values, the SC does give proper shove all the way through which I am growing to like a lot. Heat management is the biggest challenge and after a while I'm told power will tail off as air intake temps rise.
DM of course, I'll be in touch
Braddo, yes I reckon Supercharger plus gubins, Chargecooler, pump, pre rad and plumbing must be getting on for 80 kilos worth, there are tuned k20 290hp n/a cars that are a lot lighter and perhaps they are the purer steer in line with Lotus values, the SC does give proper shove all the way through which I am growing to like a lot. Heat management is the biggest challenge and after a while I'm told power will tail off as air intake temps rise.
DM of course, I'll be in touch
MattOz said:
In other news my 335i has left the building. Had a fantastic 20 months and 24k miles with the car and naturally have pangs of sellers remorse from time to time. Still thinking about an F31 Alpina D3, but in the meantime have bought a smoker. Not quite bangernomics, but a 181k mile (with FBMWSH!) E91 330i. It's scrubbed up ok!
Is that manual, too?Edited by MattOz on Friday 22 July 21:14
TheRocket said:
Braddo, yes I reckon Supercharger plus gubins, Chargecooler, pump, pre rad and plumbing must be getting on for 80 kilos worth, there are tuned k20 290hp n/a cars that are a lot lighter and perhaps they are the purer steer in line with Lotus values, the SC does give proper shove all the way through which I am growing to like a lot. Heat management is the biggest challenge and after a while I'm told power will tail off as air intake temps rise.
That's an understated way of putting it. The extra weight is definitely worth it but it's interesting to see how it adds up.I was surprised in another thread a while ago that a PHer boffin, kambites, was saying that despite the Elise's poor drag coefficient, its smaller frontal area makes it about as slippery through the air as a 911. The cd of a GT3 is around 0.29 (good) and the Elise is something like 0.37 (brick) but whatever, it basically meant that a 350hp+ Elise will pull as hard as a 415hp 911 all the way up to 190mph (or until the Elise runs out of gears!). Normally Elises feel pretty gutless above about 80-100mph.
Long story short, the Rocket's Elise will still be accelerating hard at 160mph+.
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