NOS can be a very quick way to destroy your engine apparently.

Nah, wouldn't blow your engine up unless you went silly when you were specifying it...and diesels are generally pretty tough blocks due to the higher compression ratios anyway. Oh, and being a diesel you wouldn't have to muck about with timings, etc. so it would be pretty simple to fit...

But if it's not allowed in competitions, not much use to you.

I see no good reason why you couldn't get a different set of cams put on, but it depends what you want them for...are you trying to get more low down torque, or better top end?

If you're using the car day-to-day with the occasional competition, really the best thing is to chuck out the seats/spare wheel, etc. before the event and run with them in the rest of the time...costs nothing!

Rob.

To be honest anything other than remap, exhaust, turbo, filter is gonna cost some serious dosh. The parts are becomming available but its still early days. The flywheel and clutch wont take much more than my output so that would have to be figured into the equation. A FMIC would deffo be a good idea, mines being sortd out now, with more boost pressure comes higher temp so the IC needs to be sorted.

JBS's Revo + Nitrous sounds good but its not practial to be used all the time.

The best bet is to uprate everything else so you can use what you have to the full. My car struggles sometimes to put down 340lbft through the little Fabia chassis so grip needs to be looked at.

And by the way phase 1 of the 1.8T Fabia has allready been discussed and planned. A suitable project car has been found, watch this space

Rob..not allowed to strip the interior out in sprinting, unless you're in either fully modified or rally car class. Then you are up against some very serious machinery..spaceframe cars, slicks, thousands spent on engine mods...only the size of your bank balance dictates. The sky's the limit! :eek:

If Ross is stiil around..what can be done with the head? Polishing, porting, blue printing ?

To be honest anything other than remap, exhaust, turbo, filter is gonna cost some serious dosh. The parts are becomming available but its still early days. The flywheel and clutch wont take much more than my output so that would have to be figured into the equation. A FMIC would deffo be a good idea, mines being sortd out now, with more boost pressure comes higher temp so the IC needs to be sorted.

My mate got clutch slippage on his Jabba'd Ibiza TDI Sport (185 bhp). He also got a "shuddering" flywheel, which occured below 2200 rpm. Apparently its caused by having more than 300 lb ft @ < 2,200 rpm.

And by the way phase 1 of the 1.8T Fabia has allready been discussed and planned. A suitable project car has been found, watch this space

The Fabia vRS would have been really fun with the 1.8T engine in. Even though I think the 1.9 TDI PD engine is good, the car would have handled better with the 1.8T engine and is slightly quicker in a straight line. Unfortunately, my mate drives his 1.8 FR in a similar fashion as I drive mine, and gets more than 50% worse fuel economy!

Rob..not allowed to strip the interior out in sprinting

How do they know if it's stripped or not? Surely if you don't have any rear seats due to, er, "theft" they can't penalise you for that?

Rob.

You can get the shuddering effect from the flywheel on a standard car if you try hard enough. I very rarely feel mine now, your driving style adapts and you drive around it. To be honest loading up the car to get the judder will destroy the clutch eventually and thats what probably causes them to slip.

C.J, Im assuming the same sort of results would occur if you gas flowed a diesel head as a petrol one. But air isnt normally the problem on higer powered diesels anyhow, its fuel. Uprated PD injectors are becomming availalbe but standard ones are around

How do they know if it's stripped or not? Surely if you don't have any rear seats due to' date=' er, "theft" they can't penalise you for that?

Rob.[/quote']

When the car is scrutineered and found not to be per the blue book,you are told quite catergorically what you MUST do before you will be allowed to start.

If you don't like what they say..you go home.Simple as that..no arguing.

I got pulled up at the weekend for not having an on/off sticker by the ignition barrel. Bit of masking tape sorted it with the appropriate words written upon.

He came back and checked I'd done it though.

hi CJ, thanks for the texts on saturday, what was the final score btw,

Jonno.

CJ, you have a PM

Oh and hollowing out the rear seats is an option As is removing tthe sound deadeneing from under the carpets and above the roof lining

CJ

You have another PM

I got pulled up at the weekend for not having an on/off sticker by the ignition barrel. Bit of masking tape sorted it with the appropriate words written upon.

He came back and checked I'd done it though.

WTF? did they want a P.T.O sticker underneath the car too... (like the one jason has?)

Jason's new bumper sticker....

hi CJ' date=' thanks for the texts on saturday, what was the final score btw,

Jonno.[/quote']

5-3. Speak to you later

Told you so didn't I Colin?

CJ' date=' you have a PM

Oh and hollowing out the rear seats is an option As is removing tthe sound deadeneing from under the carpets and above the roof lining [/quote']

Got to be able to sell this car one day as a normal everyday runaround!

Can hear it now..the seats were too comfy,so I decided to take the foam out, and it was a bit quiet in here so ripped all the sound deadening pads out too!!

Without a doubt the cheapest and possibly most fun mod is to join a gym! Wonder if they have a pie n cake shop in there?

You can get the shuddering effect from the flywheel on a standard car if you try hard enough. I very rarely feel mine now, your driving style adapts and you drive around it. To be honest loading up the car to get the judder will destroy the clutch eventually and thats what probably causes them to slip.

How do you get it to do that then, because after 10,000 miles in mine I've never had it yet?

Why?

would need about 250+bhp to pull away from a chipped TDi.

even then would still get spanked by an octy over 100mph

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