What have you done to your car today?

[BLAZD]

ever since i saw a front mounted oil cooler you have gone straight #1 on my list

[petrolheadjman]

 Firenza said:

I took my car to the garage where it turns out my Head Gasket has gone *poof*

:-[

I thought Jap cars were ment to be reliable....

you are not having luck with your ride man, sorry to hear

[Johnnynz]

Swapped my rims back form Shayla.

Put a podfilter on my little sisters BF car, created an airbox for it, secured his sub, fixed a knock in his suspension and changed panel filter in mates new Levin.

Productive day... Shame none of it was on my car and its to do list

[Joker]

velcro!

[Johnnynz]

Nah he had pretty brackets all made up by someone, seemed a shame not to use them.

My velcro roll lives to fight another day.

[Guest]

Thank god the pages of rubbish are over

Bought a spare airbox today so I can hack it up and make it breeeathe...

Very much looking forward to it.

[Timmah]

 Munga said:

Thank god the pages of rubbish are over

Bought a spare airbox today so I can hack it up and make it breeeathe...

Very much looking forward to it.

Sounds interesting.

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

 Timmah']

[quote name='Munga said:

Thank god the pages of rubbish are over

Bought a spare airbox today so I can hack it up and make it breeeathe...

Very much looking forward to it.

/quote]

Sounds interesting.

i gather its by installing a pod and getting rid of the airbox alltogether?

[ODB]

contemplating selling the Bighorn for something nicer for mrs to drive.

Thinking something like http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Audi/A4/auction-350111811.htm as a bit of a present for when she returns from overseas.

Anyone know how these things go?

Im picking ok but shit reliability and costly to fix?

[DRFVDR]

my missus has an Audi 100 2.9 v6,which is the previous model,it seems to be reliable enough,no more expensive to fix than a subie ,I would try and find a quattro model for the extra safety/piece of mind

[ODB]

 DRFVDR said:

my missus has an Audi 100 2.9 v6,which is the previous model,it seems to be reliable enough,no more expensive to fix than a subie ,I would try and find a quattro model for the extra safety/piece of mind

looked at Quattros there is a 2.8v6 on there..an A8 but its a bit dated imo.

It only gets driven around town so....meh

[Guest]

 CP93MM']

[quote name='Munga said:

Thank god the pages of rubbish are over

Bought a spare airbox today so I can hack it up and make it breeeathe...

Very much looking forward to it.

/quote]

Sounds interesting.

i gather its by installing a pod and getting rid of the airbox alltogether?

Not at all...pods are dog sh!te, airbox is where it's at.

Either that or the designers of every WRC car in history don't know what they're talking about

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

hmm interesting, is it not performance is where its at? How about a compromise....turn your airbox into a cold airbox that houses a free flowing k&n or pod

[pedro]

Do the wrc cars run oem air box for homoligation reasons?

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

pass,koomey will know

[CUDDAS]

thought they were restricted

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

However, unlike Group A, manufacturers are no longer required to build "Homologation Specials" in order to meet approval. The base model need not have the characteristics of the WRC car, as evidenced from cars such the Peugeot 206, 307, Citroën Xsara and Škoda Fabia, which have no road car variant with a turbocharged petrol engine or four wheel drive.

To limit power, all forced induction (turbocharged) cars are fitted with a 34 mm diameter air restrictor before the turbocharger inlet, limiting the air flow to about 10 cubic meters per minute. This air flow limits power output of the engine to 300 hp officially, although the latest WRC engines are believed to produce around 330-340 hp in spite of the air restrictor. With this technologically easy to achieve, engine development is focused towards producing an engine with a very wide powerband (or power curve). Generally speaking, a power output in excess of 300 hp is available from 3000 rpm to the 7500 rpm maximum, with a peak of 330-340 hp at around 5500 rpm. At 2000 rpm, which is the idle speed in "stage" mode, the power output is slightly above 200 hp

[Guest vf20/21bg5]

QUOTED FROM WIKIPEDIA....NOW CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT POWER CURVE ON THE DYNO

[WRXONP]

Put my Zerosports intake on

Yuss have a fully aftermarket intake now

i noticed that the turbo spool sounds a bit different compared to the factory pipe...also the compressor surge at light throttle is louder

just gotta make the cold air box on sunday now

[BC5RA]

Neither a WRC or Group A spec Subaru runs anything close to the factory spec setup.

The latest Group N offering from Prodrive runs an unmodified engine.

[Guest]

Dadda drove mine.

"*shakes fist* bloody boy racers! Hurting my back, you can feel all the bumps in the road, how do you stand driving this piece of sh!t?"

[Guest]

 CP93MM said:

hmm interesting, is it not performance is where its at? How about a compromise....turn your airbox into a cold airbox that houses a free flowing k&n or pod

I'll amend that to "cold air box is where performance is at" then.

I intend to hack it up and give it a secondary feed to make it flow more.

K&N's let through A LOT of dirt and the flow gains are miniscule, they're a gimmick IMO.

All I'm saying is the factory air box, if properly fed, will get you more power than a pod stuck on the end of your AFM.

Yeah WRC's definitely don't run factory boxes. Here's my fav...

http://www.wheels-near-u.co.uk/gallery2/v/new/subaru-impreza-wrc-2007/subaru-2007wrc-enginebay.jpg.html

While not an airbox per-se, you can be sure it's sucking in cold air. Oh, and 300BHP at 3k, wow!

[Guest]

 WRXONP said:

Put my Zerosports intake on

Yuss have a fully aftermarket intake now

i noticed that the turbo spool sounds a bit different compared to the factory pipe...also the compressor surge at light throttle is louder

just gotta make the cold air box on sunday now

Chuck up some pics when you're done

Compressor surge is a nasty thing you definitely don't want...think you're just talking about spool up though.

[Firenza]

took my car to highbrook automotive to get the head gaskets done, and picked up my courtasy car.

A boggo spec 2004 Impreza1.5 that keeps telling me off in japanese not as bad as it sounds!

[Guest]

 ShaylaJ said:

Dadda drove mine.

"*shakes fist* bloody boy racers! Hurting my back, you can feel all the bumps in the road, how do you stand driving this piece of sh!t?"

hahaha gold!! lol thats the kind of thing my parents say about my car lol