smithyithy

Well my PS4 was my present to myself last month, but from family and friends I got:

Loads of shower stuff / aftershave

Lego Star Wars

Games Workshop voucher

Jumpers, T-shirts, a Reindeer onesie, socks..

Massive tube of Jelly Beans and loads of chocolate - Reeses, Wonka, Hershey's etc

Few really nice books

Starbucks mugs and coffee stuff, Swiss thermal mug

DVDs

I'm 24 now so can't expect loads anymore, it's more the gesture that counts

My sister was 19 on the 25th, so I spent the most on her, gave her my 32" LCD, bought some Nicky Clarke hair stick thing, and loads of stuff from Boots (3 for 2!)..

I was gonna buy her a car as she's nearly ready to take her practical, but I spoke to my dad and he's giving her his Grande Punto when she passes so he can get something new, she does alright off us!!

I'm so tempted.... What's the usual price to get one made ? The white glanza is sweet!!

There's a place local to me that make exhausts, he made me a decat-back exhaust for my old Polo that exited just in front of the rear wheel for £100..

Depends if you want a proper backbox incorporated or not, but for essentially just a pipe running from your downpipe, down and out your bumper, I wouldn't pay 3 figures.

Is there anybody that's gone from GT5 to this, willing to gift me a Glanza on GT5?

I've spent the best part of 2 days trying to find one, refreshing he UCD, and I can't get one to appear...

PSN is CBRsmithy if anyone can help me out

You wouldn't be buying one of these for flat out performance anyway, they're proper collector's items now.

And I know which of these would look cooler cruising around on a Sunday afternoon:

I think they're lovely looking cars when kept standard (bare a set of wheels) especially the facelift..

Not too clued up on the models, I think the later MIVEC's were around 200bhp? And I don't think they're overly heavy cars either..

I mean if you want a proper FWD coupe you'd probably buy an ITR, but I do like these. Wouldn't want to pay a great amount for one though..

^ Watched your other vid of the engine bay with a few revs.. The chatter sounds cool! I'm not a fan of screamer pipes myself. What BOV are you running? (if one at all)

Probably the wrong section for this, and there was a thread not so long back, so I'll just copy pasta my post from there..

First piece was my Japanese Koi sleeve, by Matt Hunt at Modern Body Art, Birmingham:

tumblr_lp40xbe3E61qe7wq1o1_400 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Then got my plague doctor left bicep piece, by Ricardo Pedro at MBA, Brum:

Finished Plague Doctor by Smithyithy, on Flickr

And around the same time, Modern Body Art organised a day of non-stop tattooing, with something like 15 artists in total, with all proceeds going to Cancer Research, I'm sure they raised about £8000 in one day! I got this on my knee, was a fun 3 hours....

Tattoo for Cancer Research. by Smithyithy, on Flickr

I've also got a little old school diamond on my thumb, and a troll face meme on my ass cheek for a dare, I'll spare you the photos of that haha.

Should be getting back in the groove in the new year with the money from my new job, hopefully fill my left arm and complete torso throughout 2014

Aye sorry to hijack your thread mate, hope you got whatever answers you were looking.

Phil

Naa it's alright dude, I did actually learn a bit from different people's inputs

Check the difference between the car quality in that boy racer video to the megs video.

There's the difference between cunty boy racers and true car enthusiasts.

Yeah, but at the same time, the Geordie mong has (somehow) put a fair bit of money into that Scooby, yet he's still an utter tool.

There are folks on here with basic Starlets as first cars, built on a shoe-string budget that probably wouldn't act anything like the idiots in the documentary..

It's the same with lot's of things, all bikers are criminals, all car enthusiasts are boy racers, all tattooed people are thugs..

It's the corrupt portrayal by the media that puts these stereotypes into people's minds, and this is actually quite disappointing because Vice usually do some good documentaries, but here all they choose to do is focus on the bad apples of the much wider scene, and the general public will lap it up with the rest of their Proletariat garbage, so they can continue to fuel their stereotypes, and have somebody they can point the finger at and look down on.

You shouldnt take it like that, the thread started off airy fairy, 2+2 does a bov give me more power crap.

It started off as a genuine technical question, that spiralled into petty arguing, actually..

Thanks for the relevant replies though guys, all I wanted to know is whether they're really needed on aftermarket turbo setups.. I'll be going down the TD04 route soon(ish) and I'm not overly bothered about having the car go WOOSH all the time, so I just wanted to check if I'll actually need to buy an aftermarket BOV or not.

If I do, I'll just recirculate it, same as the screamer pipe, depending on which turbo kit I end up buying.

It's a shame if someone made a good effort at showing why we are into cars it may do some kind of justice. Instead all just the worse part.

Some do try..

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQNRAb97k8

Thats kinda crap cause you can always pick up bargains on here for brand new parts, pistons, rods etc but just cause they haven't made a profit on them from you then they dont warrenty it!! They are being paid to build an engine so thats what should be warranted!

Fair enough if it was used parts but not brand new items.

Allan

Well yes and no...

Warranty is designed to cover parts and labour, not one or the other.

If they do a perfect job fitting all the parts, but one of them happens to be faulty and ruins the engine, it can't always be proved where the fault lay, so a company won't want to put it's neck on the line and offer warranties, which can cost them a lot of money to honour, on parts they didn't personally supply.

I'd guess the auto-gearbox is a slightly different shape, so where the screamer pipe would normally run, the gearbox would be in the way...

It wouldn't be difficult or expensive to get a suitable one made up though, it's 1 piece of stainless with a flange at one end as far as I know...

In terms of benefits, I'm not clued up enough on them to give an accurate answer, so I won't. But when I get a new turbo setup, whatever it may be, I'll be having a recirc pipe rather than a screamer as they don't really appeal to me.

Haha, i assume 'you what mate' was about the black bonnet preference?

to me it looks ok, but abit chavvy and nasty.

not that im saying i want to go and slap everyone who has done it, just that in a favourite looking ep91s thread i feel opinions are being looked for

Phil

That's the route I was gonna take it dude ;)

It's a great look for white pre-facelifts

Thats Danthemans cars.

mint, but bonnets the wrong colour.

Phil

U WOT MATE?

dsc00023pn8 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

I prefer the black / carbon tbh, I like the contrast, similar to the route Liam D's gone with my old Glanza.

I believe this was Dan's GT?..

pic2n by Smithyithy, on Flickr

pic4bsf by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Some cool stuff in this thread!! Here's my history so far (I'm 23 now, for reference!)

First car was a £400 Mk3 Polo Coupe 1.3, learned so much form this car, didn't have it too long though:

Mk3 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Mk3 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Sold that and bought a Mk4 (6n) Polo, 1.4 SE Openair, did loads to this, bodywork, wheels from Germany, Colour Concept leather interior, stupidly loud stereo etc, had it for a year or so and did quite a few shows:

24 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Mmmmm by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Made a profit on that between the car and parts on it, so bought my kinda dream car at 19, my first Glanza, then get screwed over with insurance and sold it after a month. This is now Liam D's car

1 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Went a year or so without a car then, being at college / uni etc.. Then bought this cheap runaround which turned out to be a POS:

Untitled by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Then April this year I passed my A2 bike license and got my CBR400RR

400 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

CBR by Smithyithy, on Flickr

That's in hibernation until Spring, then I'll do my full license in May and get a Ducati 848 Evo

Sold the red Polo a few months ago when I got a promotion and company car, nice Focus:

IMG_0009 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Which meant I needed a new toy, so got my current Glanza now I can actually insure one:

Glanza in a Tunnel. by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Glanza Tunnel by Smithyithy, on Flickr

And 10 days ago I got my brand new company car, fresh from the factory

IMG_0126 by Smithyithy, on Flickr

Only one I've got is my shitty Facebook pic, I hate photos

That's about a year old though, I've got shorter combed hair now, a bit of a beard and bigger hole in my ear

If I remember right, he had an immaculate black on black GT too

If am right but don't hold me too this a subaru is a td04l am thinking not sure witch model maybe 22b not 100% sure tho

It won't just be the 22b though if that's the case, it's not like many were around to be broke ;)

Here's a great thread listing pretty much all the Subaru turbos and what they were fitted to:

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1141476

No idea whose this was, but it was what made me want a Glanza a few years back

I think people are getting "fake" and "replica" mixed up a bit here!

IMO

Replica = good. Gives people the option of having performance parts at a fraction of the cost of genuine with no pretence of being the genuine article. Granted you won;t get eh same build quaility, but then you know that when you buy it

Fake = bad. Items being passed off as genuine so the buyer is being con'd.

Exactly this.

Rota's are replicas. They're very closely based on some existing, expensive wheels, but are branded differently and cost a lot less. This is fair enough because people have the choice, if they are only after the looks then Rota will suit them, if they want to pay more for a better brand, higher quality etc then they are free to do so.

Some of that fake stuff listed above is shocking, things like the HKS pulley... I for one wouldn't know the real from the fake, OK maybe now I can spot the differences..

But whereas a real HKS one might cost say, £100, it's gonna be well made, well designed and reliable. Someone having very passable fakes made up and packaged as the real thing for cheap bulk pricing then selling them for the same £100 RRP as the genuine thing, is wrong. The buyer isn't being given a choice between real and replica, like Autobahn and Blitz, instead they're being tricked into paying the price of a genuine item, for something that could fail or break because it's a cheaply made fake.

I'll only ever buy branded items from reputable sites and traders, eBay is pretty bad for this stuff nowadays..

Still a wise investment at £50k! I'd absolutely love one of these, I'm quite often browsing Rocky Auto, dreaming of having the money to spend there:

http://www.rockyauto.co.jp

I'd seriously consider snapping this up as a track project if I had the space, we've already got 3 cars in 2 spaces

Possibly mate. But as i said i ran back to back on both the TF035 And my VF24 And could notice it both times. Possibly if your very quick with gearchanges it may be less noticeable but normal fast driving it was mega noticeable. Properly slows the turbo down and is well documented. BUT as i said a small amount of charged air in the system does help. Hence why i now have my R2D2 Set up to only dump very quickly and when flat out.

Try it yourself dan ;)

And im not sure unless you set up some sort of system it may be possible, possibly using a forge Split r or whatever they are called

So would this just be a case of running a stiff spring setup?