andypandypoos

I wouldn't trust the word of someone on the end of the phone at the DVLA

what's best for each person depends on the person, for sure

there's no "could" about it, it's a fact. people seem to get suckered in by peak numbers and ignore drivability and the old area under the graph chestnut. in my experience (with a PD160, admittedly) the improvement going from a hybrid to a 2260 is greater than going from standard to hybrid. the oil feed/return pipes are a "can be reused if undamaged following removal and not blocked" item, you don't need to replace boost pipes or TIP. brackets? the whole point is that the smaller GTB turbos people are selling are a straight swap apart from the downpipe, that's you're whole extra expense for a turbo whose innards have been made by a company that's been making turbos for 60 years

you don't need an exhaust, diff, manifold, MAP sensor, cam, TIP, etc...etc...clutch and intercooler are as necessary as they would be for a hybrid turbo. someone has already said they got a GTB1756VK from xman for £500 so why would you buy a (potentially questionable) hybrid turbo for £50 less than an off the shelf, non-****ed about with turbo? if you wanted to you could get a GTB fitted and mapped for about half of your estimate, and that's at 'over-priced' Darkside prices

four grand? ok

I would definitely go small GTB over a hybrid

your gearbox didn't like it rough... ;-)

if you said that when compairing peloquin and quaife units, yes

they're literally not though

shurely shome mishtake!

I'm fully aware of that. I know, you know, every ****er knows that you don't use M$ when referring to Microsoft to avoid confusion with said medical condition

isn't it more likely that the pipe work would have to 180(?) back on itself to the throttle body or you move the throttle body to the other side by way of a different (225?) inlet manifold?

put a set of JOM coilovers on a mk4 Golf, they were bouncy and ****e. cheap though got some H&R jobbies on the Ibiza and they're pretty firm but generally lots better, not so cheap though

no such thing as a K03S :p

that's really not the same thing though

it's working, right? why are you ****ing about with the ecu? again?!?

good luck with that

having a similarly modded mk4 Ibiza TDI I reckon it's more down to your willingness than the Fabia out handling them. I did have someone in a rush try to follow me into, around and out of a roundabout the other though, that was funny having done a 60 mile drive to work, I'd just suck up the high wear rate of the better gripping tyres myself. and make sure to check pressures and wear regularly :-/

can't believe my 2010 MacBook Pro is running OS X 10.11 like a boss...

it probably won't :(

sure, but you saying that all maps are the same? and that there's no scope for tweaking/improvement?

things will surely have moved on in the years since it was mapped? possible gains in terms of torque, delivery, smoke and economy? maybe not huge gains to be had in any one area but probably noticeable, especially if you go custom

but like he said, if you increase the RPM at which peak torque is produced and the torque stays the same then you will automatically make more power (at that RPM), that's just a fact because of the way BHP is calculated. obviously you might not make peak torque at the same RPM as peak power and you might not gain anything in terms of peak power with a different cam buy you'll have to make more power than with a standard cam at some engine speed (and very probably less power at certain engine speeds)

I suppose it's sort of a combination of king of the hill and green hell, what with it beating it's fwd rivals around the Nurburgring

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/