Car mods no one seems to do any more
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McGtfour said:
SystemParanoia said:
I see your delta, and raise you Myhneer
Blimey, yes, now that does bring back awful memories - good shout.what a great thread.
first vehicle of mine was a Morris Ital van in bright BT yellow as I was a drummer in a band. Fitted a 1 and 3/4 SU carb on it with the outside of the airbox cut away and a JANPSEED race manifold. For a 1.3 Ital engine.
Fitted square aftermarket fogs on the front and I loved it to bits.
£/BHP for tuning NA engines killed it.
It's utterly daft to spend money on small capacity engines to eek out 10bhp here or there.
Taking a head off a 4 cylinder DOHC engine, fitting new cams, working on the head itself, remapping it, fitting an exhaust and air filter will add about 30bhp and cost about £1,500!
£50 per 1 bhp.
let that sink in.
Most people stick an exhaust and airfilter on an NA and think it;s better, but the OEM ECU doesn't like it and just retards the timing.
In comparisson, a £10 bleed valve on a turbo engine can add 30bhp and not even need to see the inside of a garage to do so.
It's utterly daft to spend money on small capacity engines to eek out 10bhp here or there.
Taking a head off a 4 cylinder DOHC engine, fitting new cams, working on the head itself, remapping it, fitting an exhaust and air filter will add about 30bhp and cost about £1,500!
£50 per 1 bhp.
let that sink in.
Most people stick an exhaust and airfilter on an NA and think it;s better, but the OEM ECU doesn't like it and just retards the timing.
In comparisson, a £10 bleed valve on a turbo engine can add 30bhp and not even need to see the inside of a garage to do so.
I remember those, and also the 'performance' HT leads that we'd all fit to our wheezy old engines 
Vitorio said:
Icehanger said:
Splitfire spark plugs.....all the rage in the MAX POWER days when you would do anything to get more BHP, including believing the adverts
Ive got two spark plugs per cylinder, does that count? 
Icehanger said:
I remember paying 8 quid each in 1993 for these in my 33 Cloverleaf......gawd I would of been even broker with a Twin spark hahahahha
Haha, i paid €60 for a full set of 8 plugs, and they last 36K, no fancy twin-prong V-spark though 
And those must have been a b
h to fit in a 33QV, did you have the 16v model? plugs is pretty much an engine out job on those isnt it?
Leins said:
Uncle John said:
Three spokes were awful even then, think there was a hot Saab that had them at the time as standard
I think we might have to disagree on that one 
Also, as demonstrated in that pic, does anyone put wind-deflectors on cars anymore, either for the sunroof or front windows?
ajprice said:
99t said:
I like that far more than I should... 
Yeah, I may have over sold it with the MR2 picture . This is a more realistic example.
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