scott your first car sounds a beast mate! 1.1 fiestas are where its at!
but this is my first car, i was doing good things to mine when i got it. gte bumpers, vuaxhall wheels, good things, prehaps im too cool tho lol
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scott your first car sounds a beast mate! 1.1 fiestas are where its at!
but this is my first car, i was doing good things to mine when i got it. gte bumpers, vuaxhall wheels, good things, prehaps im too cool tho lol
Or maybe you just earn too much money..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SRlew
When i first got a car i was an apprentice in my job and all i got was ?118 a week to live on...i can earn that in a day now..so you see how times change and you do also as you get older etc.
Scott
lucky for some, i was earning ?72 a week and had to pay ?20 a week board !!Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
and i was paying my dad ?15 a week towards my insurance
I never did it with my first car, it was a K plate corsa merit, and i nicknamed it 'Rubber band' due to the immense torque. I still believe it was the slowest thing I ever drove, and the only mod i ever made was a magic tree air freshner and a sticker on the back that said 'Honk if you Bonk' (iNo, my sense of humour hasnt matured with age), thats if you dont include modifying the camshaft by snapping it clean in two after deciding that if i ignored the oil light, it would go away lol
My next car was a 2.0 cav saloon, so i didnt really need to bolt on useless stuff to try to get 10bhp more out of it. I spent all my time replacing sump gaskets and gearboxes lol
Its not that its the fact that they drive act and think like morons who dont have the slightest hint or common sense to think before they buy. How much does it take to actually look up that these kind of mods do **** all to your cars bhp. Asking a compatent mechanic will suffice for gods sake. But the guy i mentioned actaully thought he was going to get 10% extra bhp from an egr valve and airfilter they were his own words. I just dont understand:confused: please someone tell me if iam missing something:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
lol no when i baught the car i just qut a job so spent all of my wages on it lol thought it was a good thing to do at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
and im on ok money now like but i'll be on less soon (quiting this job) so im making the most of it.
dont some k&n's actually have a negative effect and reduce the bhp because there is no cold air feed set up and its just taking in hotter air from the exhaust manifold region
if i was a mechanic and someone wasked me to fit an EGR valve to "increase power" i would do so... purely for the money.... and i guess thats why most mechanics/tuners dont give a toss anymore as no matter what you tell people, no one listens so you can jsut rip them off with their gay ideas.
btw egr valves lose upto 30% power lol
Yep:thumb: But they sound loud so they make your car so fastlol the reason for the thread is that i have now almost had a couple of near misses with boyracers/chavs driving like complete knobs mainly cus they think there cars better faster with these so called mods on and the fact they think iam gonna race back cus iam in a modded nova. my car looks slighty modded the tell tale hints are the 3 inch exhaust and the growling twin webbers popping and barking away oh and the black wheels. But i dont go driving around like a knob. This is what is driving insurance up for young drivers and it really offends me :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by hendrix
I really wanted to tell this guy to not waste his money but it was his whole attitude on tuning that got me riled up. As soon as i said anything tech like a 1.6 ported and polished+ skimmed, road rally cam he just looked like i was bull****ting and carried on about his mates 1.2 clio. And i use the word tech loosley now because i thought these things were common knowlodge. I have found out though that tunings not what it was and there are rip of merchants everywhere!!!:mad: its hard to find a good tuner let alone a good rolling road machine:wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart