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andi said:
RSAP and exhaust money could have helped ;)
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Oooh yea 150 quid for an exhuast 2 years ago will help me spend £10k on a BMW :p

My opinion is cosmetic stuff? Cool. I've even posted things like 'That looks great' in thats Scooby's posted on cosmetically modifying his Sport.

Engine mods? Waste of time unless it's going to see proper gains, you might as well just upgrade. Thats my view. I want more power now - could mod my engine, there is loads available but it's all largely pointless next to the 'just buy a faster car' plan.
 
guys chill... like I said I never did this for performance... :) the only "performance" mods I have done are Turbo brakes upfront, a backbox and the manifold... nothing exactly major as the backbox was free :p and the manifold was for sound... and well standard sport brakes just suck !
 
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[TW]Fox said:
Oooh yea 150 quid for an exhuast 2 years ago will help me spend £10k on a BMW :p

My opinion is cosmetic stuff? Cool. I've even posted things like 'That looks great' in thats Scooby's posted on cosmetically modifying his Sport.

Engine mods? Waste of time unless it's going to see proper gains, you might as well just upgrade. Thats my view. I want more power now - could mod my engine, there is loads available but it's all largely pointless next to the 'just buy a faster car' plan.
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Every little helps ;)

I'm with you. Spending a fortune on the engine of a Sport is largely pointless. Seeing people on IS.net go on about their plans to supercharge, rebore and rebuild their engines at a cost of x thousand pounds makes me cringe. But as Kosta says, its more cosmetic than performance. And it didn't cost the earth.
 
urm no pics of the engine. But yeah it's a 2.0litre flat four.

I don't it would be cheap to do cams though! buying, fitting... remapping ecu so it doesnt kill itself at idle!
hmm maybe not :) unless I suddenly get flush and want to toy about!
 
haha nope :p
Colour coding is going to be done soon I hope. March's pay is going to new tyres though :( although I will be 18 (28th March ;) ) by then... so maybe get it on credit.. but I'm trying to avoid doing things like that.

I think I might decat it soon, just to have a full stainless exhaust, and maybe a Gen 2 K&N induction kit, other than that not much more I can do. Unless I go into harder NA tuning with cams, porting inlets and things. But again I won't be doing that because it's not really worth the gains :)

Otherwise I just want to lower it, and I'll be happy with it - even though I love the car at the moment :)

In terms of styling I've finished it, bar colour coding. Its got STi Rear lights, full crystal set, turbo wing, and STi6 front splitter. Nothing more needs to be done IMHO as I love how it looks!
 
Nickg said:
theres always unorthodox under drive pulleys, + a few other bolt ons u could experiment withs
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I have an ICE system... so I don't want to kill my alternator. Lighter ones at the same size might work though :confused:

[TW]Fox said:
It needs an STi-6 rear wing.

Really, all Scoobs should have the huge wing, it looks uber.
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HELL no :)
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
I didn't do this mod for more power, there really is no point doing power mods on NA cars. This was purely for the noise.
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...of course your referring to NA Scoobs there. ;)
 
I'm going to be honest... I dont like the Prodrive WR Sport wing on the RB5... there's just too much of a gap to the boot. ah well :D
 
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ScoobyDoo69 said:
nope. NA cars in general, there's really not a lot of gains to be had with most NA cars from what I know
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Well, your certainly going to get higher power figures from introducing forced induction to an engine, built properly obviously. In your case, i'd agree - not much point trying to tune your nasp flat four when theres an excellent turbocharged variant in a higher spec model.

I'd not discount NA tuning for other marques by any means. Some manufacturers make superb NA engines, and yes you can add a lottle boost, and yes pound for power turbocharging can seem a tempting option, but for fast road applications, theres a lot of fun to be had NA...

...but then I'm biased, even more biased when the needle hits the 5.5k mark :D

Anyway - i dont mean to hijack your thread.
 
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