Supercharging. Should I?
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Yes but you think everything is a waste of money Fox. 
And cos a VRS wont do the MPGz Will Gill.
I'll just buy a second car again. I'm going to look at a red MX5 on Saturday. NB 1.8S in red, 100K miles, new sills, new rails, undersealed, re-spray in 2014, new alternator, new Mohair in 2011, not CAT C/D.
And cos a VRS wont do the MPGz Will Gill.
I'll just buy a second car again. I'm going to look at a red MX5 on Saturday. NB 1.8S in red, 100K miles, new sills, new rails, undersealed, re-spray in 2014, new alternator, new Mohair in 2011, not CAT C/D.
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keep your car as is................only modify it if you're going to make it far more radical than just a blower............because if not, you're better off buying the next model up.
2nd cars make no sense when you are young, the double insurance costs, tax costs and maintenance costs outweigh any positives.Yes but you think everything is a waste of money Fox.
And cos a VRS wont do the MPGz Will Gill.
I'll just buy a second car again. I'm going to look at a red MX5 on Saturday.
If you were flush enough to not care about the inflated costs of running and owning two cars, one wouldn't be an old poverty spec Octavia, and the other wouldn't be an old rusting MX5. You also wouldn't care about "the MPGz".
Yes but you think everything is a waste of money Fox.
And cos a VRS wont do the MPGz Will Gill.
I'll just buy a second car again. I'm going to look at a red MX5 on Saturday. NB 1.8S in red, 100K miles, new sills, new rails, undersealed, re-spray in 2014, new alternator, new Mohair in 2011, not CAT C/D.
look what's been done to this MX5 to get rid off and try and hide the existing rust !!!!!!!! dont bother viewing it.
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People don't usually go the expense of respraying a whole car if it wasn't already a good one though. It's not cheap.
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Don't be a Muppet.
All MX5's go rotten. The fact that all of that has been done (with photographic logs) is nothing but a good thing.
Anyway, I'm not talking about this any further, I shouldn't have mentioned it!
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There is nothing to worry about by doing this. There is only absolute certainty. You strip a car like the M3 of its soul by deleting the airbox, and slapping a supercharger in its place.
Would be mega quick mind, but soulless.
I would say so. It's clearly the better choice.
The problem with it if the kit is only £1500 instead of £4k, that the supporting mods still need to be there. Whoever said that uprated discs and pads will be enough for the extra 100 horses is deluding themselves. Sure, grippier pads will help, but you really can't beat disc diameter and extra pistons when it comes to braking.
And sure, standard suspension will work. But whats the point in having 100 extra horses and struggling to get that power down, or hold that bit extra speed in the corners? Sure, you might not be thinking of tracking it, but you will still be driving it. These things need done, because car manufacturers don't put better brakes and suspension on the more powerful motors for nothing.
As for the 335d. I loved mine. And would have another. That engine is simply ace. Mine was mapped to around 340 bhp, and still returned close to 40 mpg average (I think it was worse than my 530d by 1-2 mpg overall, which was only 258 BHP).
My point entirely.
We've already covered this, he doesn't have standard suspension. And uprated disks and pads will surely 'handle' an extra 100HP... I'm guessing he won't lay into the brakes much more than he does now.
Not planning on doing multiple 150MPH to 0 stops are you Vita..?
Not planning on doing multiple 150MPH to 0 stops are you Vita..?
Early ones ran 328 discs, later models used 330i/d discs.
http://thealpinaregister.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15236
You’re potentially adding what, 50% more power? I'm assuming you are going to use it, otherwise why bother at all.
Uprated brakes doesn't really equal aftermarket discs and pads - and I would argue Zimmerman discs and anything other than race pads give you any performance improvement over factory. Uprated should mean bigger discs and callipers with more/larger pistons and increased clamping pressure.
Most cars have brakes designed to work with the power they produce as standard. Adding 100+ hp is unlikely to be engineered in. And this is when the car and all it's components are new. How old is your car and it's components, 10 years? Adding more power will mean money needed to be spent elsewhere. If you don't cook your 'uprated' brakes, you will certainly hasten their demise.
Ps the B3 is a different car, more a cruiser and not something with a SC strapped to it. I’d say it’s brakes were already on the limit there.
In fact, just but one of these instead (Coupe/convertible only though).
Uprated brakes doesn't really equal aftermarket discs and pads - and I would argue Zimmerman discs and anything other than race pads give you any performance improvement over factory. Uprated should mean bigger discs and callipers with more/larger pistons and increased clamping pressure.
Most cars have brakes designed to work with the power they produce as standard. Adding 100+ hp is unlikely to be engineered in. And this is when the car and all it's components are new. How old is your car and it's components, 10 years? Adding more power will mean money needed to be spent elsewhere. If you don't cook your 'uprated' brakes, you will certainly hasten their demise.
Ps the B3 is a different car, more a cruiser and not something with a SC strapped to it. I’d say it’s brakes were already on the limit there.
In fact, just but one of these instead (Coupe/convertible only though).
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Just buy a 335i/D
As said it's only worth modifying when what you want doesn't exist. I have modified cars but only cos they were already essentially the 'top of the tree' models anyway. Integra DC5, Subaru STi and now my old Subaru WRX import.
You see the same thing happening on places like scoobynet, someone buys a WRX and spends loads uprating and fitting half of an STi to it and ends up spending more than an STi would have been in the first place. They always try and justify what they've done but i just can't see any logic to it.
Acme - Please don't mess with your daily oil burner, i've been tempted to mod my little diesel Yaris with a bigger turbo etc but at the end of the day it'd be a huge waste of time money and effort. Time money and effort would could and did go into messing around with a proper fast/fun car instead.
As said it's only worth modifying when what you want doesn't exist. I have modified cars but only cos they were already essentially the 'top of the tree' models anyway. Integra DC5, Subaru STi and now my old Subaru WRX import.
You see the same thing happening on places like scoobynet, someone buys a WRX and spends loads uprating and fitting half of an STi to it and ends up spending more than an STi would have been in the first place. They always try and justify what they've done but i just can't see any logic to it.
Acme - Please don't mess with your daily oil burner, i've been tempted to mod my little diesel Yaris with a bigger turbo etc but at the end of the day it'd be a huge waste of time money and effort. Time money and effort would could and did go into messing around with a proper fast/fun car instead.
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