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sorry got my facts wrong there 
mate's got a 200sx that he's got for track days - running about 230bhp with 15-16psi, air filter and exhaust done. He reckons his HKS intercooler (going on when he gets a bumper which can take it!) will give at least another 30bhp. The car doesn't really get going until about 100mph...! It's an awesome machine.
he from north yorkshire and does the autotest stuff as a hobby. mad as a hatter.
anyhow, with all the bits and car he's spent 3k. And his insurance isn't so bad either... will find out who does it for him if you like.
mate's got a 200sx that he's got for track days - running about 230bhp with 15-16psi, air filter and exhaust done. He reckons his HKS intercooler (going on when he gets a bumper which can take it!) will give at least another 30bhp. The car doesn't really get going until about 100mph...! It's an awesome machine.
he from north yorkshire and does the autotest stuff as a hobby. mad as a hatter.
anyhow, with all the bits and car he's spent 3k. And his insurance isn't so bad either... will find out who does it for him if you like.
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Considering the way it took off in front of me today it may be an Audi S4 1.9TDi (yeah... like I could afford one in less than another 10 years... not). Zipping down a dual carriageway at a touch over 60, dude in one of them pulls out from a side-road standstill with barely 200m clearance, and is pulling away *from* me before I think of hitting the brakes. 0-60 in decidedly less than 8 seconds there I'm thinking. Not a supercar screamer, but for something that looked fairly low key, it would be cool.
(still, thanks to the traffic, he didn't manage to get more than another 30m ahead for the next few miles).
Either that or the G60 Polo MkII Breadvan once Phoenix gets bored of it. Full stealth conversion I'm trusting? Fox trim, faded pinkey red or navy, beige colour with no attempt made to hide any creeping (tiny) rust patches, the most subtle of alloys and lowering (but thiiiick tyres up front), bonkers massive brakes, all of it near impossible to tell apart from at the side?? Stick some NOS in it as well
(or a 2.0 Ford TDCDXPGLi RSOL motor with the highest level of tweak.... um ok background on this one, went on a looooooong x-country trek with my dad and all of his possessions in a big b*stard transit this weekend, it had the same one but in the weak-as-a-crippled-kitten (but sniffs derv, rather than drinks) tune state... Made about as good time as I'd expect my Polo to make if loaded down heavy, difference being this thing was hauling about 3x the weight as a conservative estimate. Ran out of reading material and hit the ford manual. Turns out there's about 5 different tune states, and the top one is a monster in comparison to the loaner-block (130 vs 70bhp, and an incredible improvement to the torque curve), though uses about 20% more derv. Now imagine that in a stripped down Polo... only 130 horse, true, but grunt to die for, pretty much from idle on upwards, and will still rev happily past 5000)
(still, thanks to the traffic, he didn't manage to get more than another 30m ahead for the next few miles).
Either that or the G60 Polo MkII Breadvan once Phoenix gets bored of it. Full stealth conversion I'm trusting? Fox trim, faded pinkey red or navy, beige colour with no attempt made to hide any creeping (tiny) rust patches, the most subtle of alloys and lowering (but thiiiick tyres up front), bonkers massive brakes, all of it near impossible to tell apart from at the side?? Stick some NOS in it as well
(or a 2.0 Ford TDCDXPGLi RSOL motor with the highest level of tweak.... um ok background on this one, went on a looooooong x-country trek with my dad and all of his possessions in a big b*stard transit this weekend, it had the same one but in the weak-as-a-crippled-kitten (but sniffs derv, rather than drinks) tune state... Made about as good time as I'd expect my Polo to make if loaded down heavy, difference being this thing was hauling about 3x the weight as a conservative estimate. Ran out of reading material and hit the ford manual. Turns out there's about 5 different tune states, and the top one is a monster in comparison to the loaner-block (130 vs 70bhp, and an incredible improvement to the torque curve), though uses about 20% more derv. Now imagine that in a stripped down Polo... only 130 horse, true, but grunt to die for, pretty much from idle on upwards, and will still rev happily past 5000)
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Pretty sure thats what it was... and have seen ads for them?
Then again could be far wrong. Everything was such a blur - all I could make out was it was an Audi, not a TT, not a *big* saloon or any estate, and went like manure off a polished branch.
Whatever it was... want
Plus it's a middle-distance Polo relation to boot.
Or a jet black Dodge Charger/Challenger, standard except for a straight-thru exhaust (better torque curve and few other effects) with a custom 5-speed box in place of the standard 45-65-125 3-speed. Or... a Chevy Z28, 1969, totally stock all over, deep blue with white stripes. Oh baby.
(Charger = current GT2 car, totally against the game's apparent philosophy. A big, distinctive, beautiful hunking piece of metal that accelerates very hard then peters out around 130mph, and requires you to get the back out to corner, as opposed to all the small samey K-class cube cars that will go as fast in top gear but take all day getting there and understeer if you so much as whisper "steering wheel" in the next room. Apparently you can get hold of a MkIII G40 using a Gameshark - still hunting the code for that one... hell, still hunting a greybox Playstation game shark..)
(ok, i'll shut up about that f***ing game for the evening. big mistake getting a 2nd hand PSX )
Then again could be far wrong. Everything was such a blur - all I could make out was it was an Audi, not a TT, not a *big* saloon or any estate, and went like manure off a polished branch.
Whatever it was... want
Plus it's a middle-distance Polo relation to boot.
Or a jet black Dodge Charger/Challenger, standard except for a straight-thru exhaust (better torque curve and few other effects) with a custom 5-speed box in place of the standard 45-65-125 3-speed. Or... a Chevy Z28, 1969, totally stock all over, deep blue with white stripes. Oh baby.
(Charger = current GT2 car, totally against the game's apparent philosophy. A big, distinctive, beautiful hunking piece of metal that accelerates very hard then peters out around 130mph, and requires you to get the back out to corner, as opposed to all the small samey K-class cube cars that will go as fast in top gear but take all day getting there and understeer if you so much as whisper "steering wheel" in the next room. Apparently you can get hold of a MkIII G40 using a Gameshark - still hunting the code for that one... hell, still hunting a greybox Playstation game shark..)
(ok, i'll shut up about that f***ing game for the evening. big mistake getting a 2nd hand PSX
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