Is "Blueprinting" a "Performance mod"

[NickXX]

I declared my Eibach Springs, and Enkei 17" Track rims to Admiral insurance the other week. They told me they'd be unable to insure my car as a I go on track!

Admiral are morons. They will cover 'chips' but not cover 'remaps'.

Additionally, they list 'Blueprinting' as a tick-box modificiation.

 

[andi]

They also flat out refuse to cover front mount intercooler upgrades?!

 

[Matt82]

Admiral are morons. They will cover 'chips' but not cover 'remaps'.

Additionally, they list 'Blueprinting' as a tick-box modificiation.

I spoke to an insurer the other day about an agreed value policy on the BMW. I was explaining which parts hard been rebuilt, the guy on the phone took this to mean they had all been modified and really struggled to grasp that people would replace worn out parts on an old car and replace them with new bits. he was insisting that the car should be insured as modified for that reason

 

[Housey]

i don't see how they would ever know you had your engine blueprinted unless internals were changed and even then they'd need to do a dismantle of the engine.......well unless you bent it proper and the engine was 100 yards from the car....that might make it easier.

 

[Scythe]

The thing is as soon as you declare to them that you drive on a track, it immediately puts you into a bracket of people who enjoy driving their cars fast.

It doesn't matter to them that because you're doing your fast driving on the track you're probably less likely to be driving in the same manner on the roads, they now know that you like driving fast, which makes you a bigger risk.

In that case motorcycle insurance shouldn't be considerably cheaper than my car insurance at 21!

 

[Dis86]

Can't help but thing that the amount of work and time involved would mean that most other forms of performance enhancement are superior?

Or are the gains really that significant?

 

[Dr Who]

Can't help but thing that the amount of work and time involved would mean that most other forms of performance enhancement are superior?

Or are the gains really that significant?

If your engine is down on power compared to stock it should meet the specifications of the original design after blueprinting. It really depends how shot/out of spec your engine is in the first place.

Blueprinting is usually used in stock race classes as the only performance boosting allowed, but it can be very expensive compared to other mods that will net more.

Once you change other aspects of the engine to boost performance then you are "out of blueprint" so it can become worthless in some cases.