the halfords tuning generation

I was just speaking to a young guy at a local supermarket i used to work there and know the manager very well. Anyways i got asked ''what you driving now'' i replied with a smile on my face a NOVA now this always makes people laugh why i dont know as there as good as any cheap run around. Then the young lad adds ''what you done to it'' so i tell him i have a full rebuild and give him the full spec and with a gormless look on his face he replies what bhp you running. So after telling him about 113+ after the rebuild he goes into saying my rover is 101bhp and my mate is gonna get me a egr valve that will up my bhp by 10%:eek:lol i surpressed laughing and he continued to tell me his mate has 1.2 clio and hes fitted a egr valve, exhaust and k&n airfilter and after putting it on a dyno has got 30 bhp extra:tard:lol now is this what this generation has come to shelling money out on these fraud mods and thinking they work!!!
Iam just confused why dont they wait till they can get a faster car and invest there money on proper mods etc. And it didnt just end there you see it everywhere and it brings on bad driving and recklesness. One kid a couple of months back had a k&n airfilter fitted on to his nissan sunny 1.4 and almost ran me off the road trying to overtake me (i wasnt even racing him) and just previous nights before his k&n airfilter upgradelol he was driving normally. sorry rant over :thumb:

K&N's come from the same factory as BMW's and they do something to the drivers personality to make them useless drivers.

Well its a cool idea anyway...

buy a cavalier or a calibra and you wont get asked 'wot u done to it'..
problem over. lol.

People ask me that about my Celica. Its like because it has a spoilarr and DV/filter it must be running lyk 400bhp innit. I hasten to point out the wing is factory fit, and despiter popular chav belief the DV has added sod all to my bhp. :roll:

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Originally Posted by Razorjack

the DV has added sod all to my bhp. :roll:

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gutted since that was the only reason you fitted it :thumb:

Dont make me post the RazorJack dump valve pic!!!!

You know how much you love your dump valve... even if it doesnt add bhp.

I agree. Car tuning has just gone out of control. Most of the young idiots here just rant it round in Clio's & Corsa that are loud as feck & barely reach motorway speeds. I'm sure when I got my license, blacked out windows, neons & V-loud exhausts were illegal.
I mentioned this the other day, but I was in Halfords buying some meguiars stuff & a kiddy in front me paid ?70 for a K&N 57i for his 1.2 8v Corsa. As he left the store in front of me, the staff on the till were ripping it out of him about what a waste of money it was & how it will have no gains on his car. The car wasnt even lowered or on alloys FFS.

Fast & Furious has a lot to answer for....

Thinking about it, my worst nightmare would be to walk around at MAX POWER live.

^^ agreed. gotta love the "stick a K&N and 'performance' back box on and ill get an extra 10bhp innit yo sik" generation. They wouldnt know a real mod if it jumped up and slapped them in the face lol

PMSL at it all! lol

just makes me laugh. someone i know has a 1.2 corsa c, he's put a back box and some filter onit. and he keeps tellin me all of these cars 'he's had of yeh' (d**k) and the best of it all is he over took me lol slowly then a few days later he was tellin his mates he'd 'had me off'!!! WTF i was doing 30mph in 4th gear or somthin, so he thinks my car with real mods, is slower than his 1.2 corsa with a back box from halfords!

so if an off my mates bring up car subjects i walk off cause im fed up of them sayin crap like k&n and ehausts. i know we all start somwhere, but with most people they dont even know what a cam is etc etc! winds me up even thinking about it! i want to carry on ranting now iv started!

Right i see what your all saying guys as it happens everywhere,theres a new generation of kids doing it in my town this summer..

But just think back to your first car,i got a 1.1 fiesta ghia and put ford KA five spoke trims on it and a tail trim and the extra fog light on the other side like the xr2's,inside i put a xr2 steering wheel on and some massive speakers and a sub..its all you can afford at that age and most your mates are doing it too...

You change with age,lol i have just bought a ****ing VW passat TDI even i feel a bit silly like im driving my dads car or something..

Scott