A little bit more Beetlejuice...
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As a small child, I recall one glorious Christmas morning when, upon opening up the necessaries, there appeared before me a quite marvellous thing.
It was a NASA space suit, complete with helmet and retractable, tinted visor. I was more than a little excited.
Minutes later, a knock at the door registered the arrival of my little pal for the inevitable 'what did you get' session.
As I opened the door, Chummy McPants's enthusiastic expression evaporated instantly as his Lone Ranger garb melted into insignignificance, next to the power of my newfound, extraterrestrial majesty.
In a fit of uncontained frustration and unbridled jealousy, the Chumster had turned on his heels and was gone.
Years later, a version of this condition exists amongst the hosts of Porsche Turbo loonmeisters. Unsullied by gestures of petty envy and the like, there nevertheless exists a deeply Germanic compulsion to extract ever further dollops of scnhellerkraut from the 911's venerable and much whooped rump and no sooner has one chap carbon fibred his lederhosen to a titanium undergarment than another mad Prussian is chomping at the bit, demanding spankage of the requisite calibre from some other, strangely moustachioed hombre of das forset schwarzten.
I don't know where it will all end but by the middle of the week I hope to reaquaint myself with unstable derangement c/o the works of Professor Belton.
He claims to have extracted 543bhp and 553lb/ft from the wretched beetleblighter which by all accounts, is quickish.
Alas, what have we become that on the eve of what once might have seemed like reasonable Gruppenkreigen, one is instead reliably informed of mad Yorkist plots to uncork the heart of maddest Ruffendorf and brutally unleash 630+ bhp?
It is simply unfair, unsporting and worthy of an unholy strop.
Bastard!
It was a NASA space suit, complete with helmet and retractable, tinted visor. I was more than a little excited.
Minutes later, a knock at the door registered the arrival of my little pal for the inevitable 'what did you get' session.
As I opened the door, Chummy McPants's enthusiastic expression evaporated instantly as his Lone Ranger garb melted into insignignificance, next to the power of my newfound, extraterrestrial majesty.
In a fit of uncontained frustration and unbridled jealousy, the Chumster had turned on his heels and was gone.
Years later, a version of this condition exists amongst the hosts of Porsche Turbo loonmeisters. Unsullied by gestures of petty envy and the like, there nevertheless exists a deeply Germanic compulsion to extract ever further dollops of scnhellerkraut from the 911's venerable and much whooped rump and no sooner has one chap carbon fibred his lederhosen to a titanium undergarment than another mad Prussian is chomping at the bit, demanding spankage of the requisite calibre from some other, strangely moustachioed hombre of das forset schwarzten.
I don't know where it will all end but by the middle of the week I hope to reaquaint myself with unstable derangement c/o the works of Professor Belton.
He claims to have extracted 543bhp and 553lb/ft from the wretched beetleblighter which by all accounts, is quickish.
Alas, what have we become that on the eve of what once might have seemed like reasonable Gruppenkreigen, one is instead reliably informed of mad Yorkist plots to uncork the heart of maddest Ruffendorf and brutally unleash 630+ bhp?
It is simply unfair, unsporting and worthy of an unholy strop.
Bastard!
dazren said:
Years later, a version of this condition exists amongst the hosts of Porsche Turbo loonmeisters.
Yep. VMAX appears to have turned the condition into something not too dissimilar to the nucleur arms race.
So in another few years you'll all be hiding them, denying knowledge and driving Nissan Micra's..?
right now thats over with 
according to Cartest that's 0-100 in under 8 seconds Rods said:
Congratulations on the new figures Simon,i heard a rumour on the Eurohoon that you were catching me.
You left me no option but to seak out Ruf and beg them for more.
They happily obliged and work will begin this summer,check mate matey or is their more to come from the beetle????
A-ha, the Papal Transgressor from Heckmondwike: has anyone told you, Squire, that thou art clinically insane?
It has to be said, for the price of something all wailing and histrionic, the concept of what you are emabarking upon ~ especially given 996tt values ~ does not seem all that deranged.
I suppose it's merely a case of reconciling 80% of the car again in tweakage!
630bhp - or more - can you conceive of it? That's interplanetary thrust! I daren't imagine.
I think the emerging attraction of the Ruf resides in that ability to combine frankly illicit power whilst maintaining the everyday tractability (within reason) of the standard car.
Of course you do pay for this supremacy but hey - when in Yorkshire, do what all millionaires do, right?
"Ay up luv, 'ast tha seen mi chest of ingots, like?"
I have a feeling 550 with an oldy worldy viscous whatsit might be a handful to be going on with...but we both know that's a load of old bollox...you first...
johnny senna said:
Wow oh wow. Nice one DeR. That is a lot of power.
And as for Rods.....that is gong to be a mad engine (Nardo I presume?). Deidre B must be paying you good money for that roofing!! Good man. I won't tell her what you are spemding it on. I will maintain that you are skint.
Hi Johnny,Mrs B needs to know nothing!!!
As for the engine its not a Nardo as this only produces a minimum 590 bhp.
This is called Rturbo 630,Guy can correct me if i'm wrong and guarantees a minimum 630bhp.
Rods said:
As for the engine its not a Nardo as this only produces a minimum 590 bhp.
This is called Rturbo 630,Guy can correct me if i'm wrong and guarantees a minimum 630bhp.
I am at your disposal should you need an over night stop at Hotel Marki or picking up from air ports and such like , all i ask is a ride in the beast Mate
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