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Overreaction of the year?

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I went further than that and it was worth every bit of it. Next is wheel refurb, getting that done this week hopefully. After that it'll probably be handling and a few other bits. I've poured a lot of money into it this year and it'd be nice to spend money on something else for a couple of months. Thanks bud. You're up my way every weekend. I'll let you know if I'm about though as I can drive and you can adjust the dsbc innit. ;)

I agree with Rick, get your arse down here.

May be best for ease of mind if you were to close this thread until you definitely know what happened? Never nice that people start rumours when peoples lives are in the question. My thoughts are with both parties if this is true, a very sad situation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/7052569.stm

Despite the fact that it's illegal since he's saying he will be the main driver.

Thanks mate, it's been running like a dream the last couple of days, I'm absolutely loving it right now. Tell me about it, it's one of those moments where you thought you had checked everything but there's always something you didn't notice! Glad yours is all together bro, get on MSN sometime it'll be good to have a chat if you get some free time. Pleasure meeting both of you aswell mate, it was rather hard to show emotion whilst practically sleepwalking but your work was outstanding. You're right that no expense has been spared and I'm reaping the benefits from that now, the car's running so nicely it's unreal. Get your arse up to that Nando's mate, it was worth the 10-odd hour journey for! If I ever need anything doing that justifies a journey like that again yours will be the direction I'm heading in mate! Thanks bud, I'd like to have 200bhp ATF but it runs really nicely and at the end of the day I'd just be chasing figures which is really, really pointless. I have what I set out for, a fast road car that is fun and practical for every day use. I'm sure you can see my feelings on Nick's work mate, both his work and hospitality were great, I'd recommend him to anyone who's thinking of making the journey. Postcode is WA3 mate. (Warrington, Cheshire.) Thanks mate, I'm running a Blitz DSBC, it's been great not had any issues with it whatsoever. I'm unsure why the torque is low, I don't know much about it personally. At the end of the day the car runs nicely and doesn't struggle when it comes to pulling so I won't worry about it too much. Maybe one day but for now I'm more than happy with it, if it aint broke, don't fix it! Indeed! Thanks mate Thanks bud!

Another vote for Rainsport2's, can get a set on eBay for about £150 and as Rick stated they shit all over T1R's. I had them before and they span for fun.

My poor old turbo!

I recommended Chanelle to the above company, he did both my bumpers at very good prices including smoothing both lips.

Just to add to this, I finally got around to getting mine mapped and this turbo with proper mapping to a bar is a serious weapon. Jason, believe me in a buggy if you got the supporting mods and decent mapping done you can get 200bhp, believe me that's more than enough in a Starlet let alone that thing you have!

I'm going to be keeping an eye on the compression levels, it was all rather random but Nick gave me an in-depth explaination as to what could've happened but since I'm not too mechanical minded I find it a bit hard to explain but I know what he meant. I think possibly that because I haven't been driving it hard at all for so long (I was waiting for mapping) that it could've just needed a real ragging, which the mapping provided. Thanks for the kind comments guys, and I sure as hell will enjoy it Phil, I bet you're enjoying the beginning stage of boost? Wait until you get the hunger for more!

Thanks a lot mate, glad you like it!

rofl, such a prick. It's true however, that I wasn't too keen on getting it done, I'm glad I did though it was a gamble that paid off for once. I'm glad you agree that the power it's putting out is nice mate, I've driven it a fair bit today and it's had me giggling like a little girl again. You were glad to get home? Imagine how I fucking felt after you ate that whole chicken and just did Nandos/semen burps the whole way home that actually made me want to die? I've had praise about the car from Nick, yourself and the guy who carried out the mapping today, with the exception of the dodgy compression test everyone has said it's a great engine too, which is always nice to hear.

Haha, I am going to get it up to a bar and take it back, it was sodding cold in Warrington yesterday but it was 13 degrees where I had the dyno done, so I guess that had some effect on it. Of course you can add it to the dyno records mate, absolutely fine with me.

UPDATE! As some of you know I had a hideous noise appearing whenever I was booting the car. I took it to two qualified mechanics and a tuning company and neither of them could figure out what was making the noise. After putting up with it for over a week I decided while I was pissed off with the car to take it out and boot it to see if that gets me anywhere. After a few miles the car started sounding absolutely awful, so I could tell whatever was making the noise had now become more evident. Upon popping the bonnet Rick realised that the bolts to the mani had vibrated themselves off and it was very slightly held on by 1 bolt which was causing the turbo to vibrate and make the noise occour. I was extremely glad that the issue was now solved as this was at about 11pm on Saturday and I had booked to get mapping done with Nick Jones (Tuning Developments) on the Sunday. Rick being Rick obviously had to have his Call of Duty fix before we headed to bed so we ended up getting to bed a bit too late! Rick and I woke up at 5:30am on the Sunday to make the journey to Nick, it was a 250-odd mile journey so we had to leave bloody early. I was generally feeling very upbeat with the car as it was no longer making any suspicious noises and it was running just as it should do. We arrived at Nick at about 10:45am-ish and had a chat for a while before him getting on to changing my gearbox oil, fitting all new manifold bolts (2 of them were seemingly impossible to reach with my tools) and having the eManage fitted into the Field Harness. Mike dropped us off in town to burn some time while Nick did his work, thanks for the lift/pick up again mate. We did some shopping and dribbled over the waitresses in Nando's (for a very long time.) We then rang Nick to see how he was getting on and he said that he'd like us to come back as there's an issue, my heart pretty much sank again. We got back to Nick's and he explained that there was low compression on one of the cylinders and that he really didn't want to go ahead with mapping unless I really wanted it done. I explained that it was a long way to come to head back with just an eManage fitted and that I haven't got much time anytime soon to go back again. I double checked with my insurance that I had recovery and told him I would really appreciate it if he would be willing to go ahead with the mapping. I had a nervous wait for what seemed like an eternity while the mapping was carried out, a good bit of banter with Mike and co at base made it go by quicker though. Eventually the car pulled up and since it didn't sound like an Impreza I assumed all was well. Nick said the mapping had gone fine and that it was all sorted and mapped to a bar, to say I was happy was an understatement. He re-did the compression test and whatever the issue was before had now seemingly corrected itself as it was running perfect on all cylinders. (Around 180 I think?) After a fair bit more banter with Nick and Mike we headed back on our way, needless to say the journey home was quite a bit of fun. The improvement is absolutely amazing and it's really noticeable in the upper gears, even in fifth if you put your foot down you can see cars slowly disappearing in the rear view. It was another bloody long journey home but we got back at about 10pm-ish. Today I woke up and took the car for a spin to remind myself just how much fun it is now, yesterday is all of a bit of a blur due to being so shattered and an emotional yo-yo throughout the entire day. I decided to book the car in for a dyno to see what kind of power it's putting out so I rang up a local company and they said pop down and they'll stick it on the rollers. I was really pleased with the result, the figures were good but obviously where it had been a lot colder up by Nick yesterday afternoon where he had set the boost it had now dropped. I figured I would leave it exactly as the map had been done though and then tweak it at a later date, I just wanted to make sure everything was sorted and running spot on. The result was 154.0HP ATW with 122.6ft/lb torque @ 12.79PSI/0.88 bar. Graph: Video: They were very impressed with Nick's map, especially for a road map and they explained it could be run a bit more lean but that it was a good, safe map. As stated I will be upping the boost a bit before I go back again, I'll hopefully see a bit more power but for now I'm more than happy with it. It pulls like a train in every gear and I'm sure it's capable of upsetting some much bigger cars. I would like to say many thanks to Rick for helping me with everything and giving me spot on advice whenever I need it. Nick and Mike at Tuning Developments for their great work and hospitality during our visit. All the other people who have helped me out and given me advice recently, it's very much appreciated. Oh, and of course the amazingly hot waitress who basically nearly forced both Rick and I to drown in pools of our own dribble. If anyone's going to Nando's in Warrington anytime soon I'd recommend going on a Sunday afternoon.

Clearly things he broke, it's not like you broke a drivers side door hinge and put it back together is it? Also, the rad leak is a bit silly too.

I won't be saying who it was but it was just a local company and I've never heard of them mentioned in here but I had a recommendation from someone locally. Wouldn't really recommend anyone going there though!

RESOLVED! Basically I took the car to 3 garages this week, one of which was a local "tuning" company. Noone could give me an answer as to what it was, however the tuning company tried to convince me it was coming from the DSBC. (Right!) Basically I drove the car a bit harder to see if the noise got any worse and suddenly it started sounding like hell. This was a good thing though as it made it a lot more obvious what it was. As soon as I popped my bonnet Rick noticed some black soot had leaked onto my FMIC hot pipe. After then starting the car it was blatant that the air was escaping from below the mani. It seems that the bolts on the manifold>turbo had vibrated themselves loose which had been causing vibrations within the turbo. All sorted now, it's running awesome! Thanks for anyone who offered any advice, it was greatly appreciated.

It's all got blown out of proportion now guys, can everyone tone it down please. Points have been made but we need to remember that this is an open club and people are still more than welcome to attend. As always it won't be appreciated if people are doing things as previously stated, like burnouts/drag racing or generally being complete idiots. Anyone who doesn't have the intention of getting us banned from holding our meets there is welcome to attend.

Why? I called you sexy. Also, you have to come for continuation of the quest for us to eventually touch.

We'd probably need to book something in advance with them I think. Judging by how busy it always is on a Friday anyway the chances of us getting a table for 20-odd is going to be near impossible.