Caporegime
Your taste in cars is seriously warped :/
The 150BHP Rover 416 Explained... Mod Reccomendations needed! :)
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Whats wrong with a foucs.... might be a bit common but there must be a reason for them being common. 
Caporegime
There is nothing wrong with a Focus (well except for the interior being foul), but it certainly doesn't "look the dog's ********".
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I can agree the standard front isnt that nice but a few nice mods and I think it can look pritty good 
Caporegime
That just looks like a standard (boring) focus with some chrome grills. :/
I assumed most modern ECU's were quite programmable anyway? Depending on the cams I wouldn't have thought it would be worth while to go for pulleys etc. Pulleys might be useful for every single bit of power you want to extract but price vs power gain... worth it? Will adjusting the timing via the map/knock sensor be fine for most of the power anyway?
I hardly think a cam on a 1.6 would require increased fuelling, the pump should be fine for that? At higher RPM where the engine needs fuel what's the bottle neck? I doubt the injectors etc will be struggling nor will the pump and this can be sorted by a map on a RR.
You know your stuff so i'd like to know where I'm misunderstanding
Increased fuelling comes from keeping the injectors open for longer which is purely down to the ECU (assuming pump and injector capacity are up to the job). The whole point of a performance cam is to get more air into the engine, and you need to supply extra fuel to use this air. The lambda sensor will correct the fuelling under part throttle, but with the throttle nailed open the ECU ignores the lambda sensor since the engine requires a rich mixture for optimum power, and a narrow band sensor is only useful around stoich. A rising rate fuel pressure regulator is the bodgers way of fixing this.
The problem with aftermarket cams is that the timing accuracy can vary quite lot, some may be pretty close, other may be several degrees out. You should always check the cam timing against the manufacturers recommendations at least (though they may not be optimal for any given engine).
My brother has aftermarket cams in his Elise, and not only is the idle quality fairly poor on MEMS, the mid-top end performance from his Emerald system is significantly better.
Caporegime
GF = Grandfather.
At least that is the only way Rover 414 makes sense
At least that is the only way Rover 414 makes sense
GF = Grandfather.
At least that is the only way Rover 414 makes sense
oh thank god, I still have a chance!!
Yea run her untill she goes bang! Then street might be selling his car, so you could snap up a bargin!
Yeh.. August/September time and hopefully I'll have my shiny new Leon..
Nothing wrong with the interior in my opinion. I've got nice huggy, half leathers in mine!
eh?
you don't just bung cams in, they need to be timed up properly (using a DTI guage etc..)
Caporegime
Nothing wrong with the interior in my opinion. I've got nice huggy, half leathers in mine!
Doesn't stop the dashboard being utterly disghusting.
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1. Paint job! Rover red is bad. Smooth all over (lose the body trim)
2. Small spoiler
3. Alloys. Nothing too OTT. Some 16-17's
4. Lose the door locks/badges
5. Single wiper conversion
Sorted.
Sort some simple ICE. Head unit, some decent 6x9's and a small sub. Again, nice but not too OTT.
2. Small spoiler
3. Alloys. Nothing too OTT. Some 16-17's
4. Lose the door locks/badges
5. Single wiper conversion
Sorted.
Sort some simple ICE. Head unit, some decent 6x9's and a small sub. Again, nice but not too OTT.