DreXel - Mk2 8v on R1 Carbs

[lemski]

Section 59 haha and I rekon bout 130. But a sharp line for torque

[Baylez8v]

lol DH amuses me. any way. ive ran illegal plates, i know plenty of people that have and do, infact recently my house mate got pulled for pressed plates on his mk2 1.8t, for some odd reason they threatened him with having his car re-registerd as a 'q' plate, i cant see that as appropriate, any how, i dont wish to continue an arguement about plates and cages on this poor guys thread.

who gives a crap what it puts out, its gonna sound the bomb, but if i had to vote id say 130 - 135, nice boost in torque and unfortuantly a massive increase in fuel consumption, but ultimately big smiles when ure foots planted to the floor.

[Wayne]

infact recently my house mate got pulled for pressed plates on his mk2 1.8t, for some odd reason they threatened him with having his car re-registerd as a 'q' plate, i cant see that as appropriate, any how,

Appropriate or not it is now the law I was told the same after being fined twice, 3 strikes and they can do it if they wish.

[Diamond Hell]

Appropriate or not it is now the law I was told the same after being fined twice, 3 strikes and they can do it if they wish.

Not appropriate FFS - since when has a moron like you been able to decide what's 'appropriate'?

It's a punishment - devalues your car and is inconvenient.  Strikes me as entirely appropriate.

[Wayne]

Appropriate or not it is now the law I was told the same after being fined twice, 3 strikes and they can do it if they wish.

Not appropriate FFS - since when has a moron like you been able to decide what's 'appropriate'?

It's a punishment - devalues your car and is inconvenient.  Strikes me as entirely appropriate.

Why call me a moron 

[lemski]

Dh what is with your attitude to everyone. Ur obv intitled to your oppinion but if he wants his car like that, its his car, can't go round having everyones cars how you want them.

[Peej1981]

DH i can agree that you dont like all the cars that are on here and by the look of it you dont like this one or you just get a kick out of winding other people up, what i tend to do (and i am sure i can say this is the same for others) is if i dont really like a car on this forum then i dont post anything  We are all not denying that you are wrong about the law, we know you are rite but some people like living life on the edge and let them. Basically like my mum use to say "if you dont have anything nice to say, then ***k off" 

Anyway Drexel, love the car think you have done a good job and it looks sweet, will be very intresting to see what it will do on the rolling road, argree with lemski on this i would be looking toward the 130-140bhp but you will be running crazy torque, i have a mate with a blue print racing 8v engine and he isnt running much bhp (think it is 130ish) but the torque is off the scale, thats what you should be happy for. 
What is it like on fuel?

Keep up the good work 

[Diamond Hell]

Why call me a moron

I didn't, re-read it instead of being a poor wounded soldier.

[DreXeL]

OK, we've established that I'm a child killer for having illegal plates, and in any accident my brains are going to be neatly distributed around my 80's Bavarian interior. Can we let it go now please 

Anyway........

Clearly I was optimistic with my BHP guestimate, but like I said I wasn't going for ultimate power. 130-140bhp with plenty of torque is fine by me, and the noise is incredible

Fuel consumption doesn't seem that bad TBH, I haven't really driven it hard yet on the carbs though as I've still to get it on the dyno, and it's been off the road for the last week as I needed to sort a couple of things for the MOT. Whilst sorting the stuff for the MOT I also bought these:





No point in posting pics after fitting the coilovers as I've set them to the same height as the lowering springs that were already on the car. The reason for the coilovers was because the car felt massively under-damped with the stock shocks, this was especially noticeable on track Combe. The car handled nicely (I have fitted a Whiteline rear ARB so it's a little tail happy on the edge, just how I like it), but also felt a little wollowy. Hopefully these coilovers will help that, I know that Hot-Tuning coilovers (Mine are branded Tuning-ART) are not the last word in high performance/quality, but they should be much better than slammed springs on well-worn standard shocks (cue DH ripping into me about fitting shiny ebay crap to my car  ).

I've still yet to install the manifold, will be doing that over the next few days.

[Diamond Hell]

Haha - you've fitted shiny ebay tat to your car now, to go with the scaffold inside it. 

Make sure you put a flexi joint on that 4-branch, or it'll fracture pretty quick.

Crack on and get it on the rollers and let's see the 'torque off the scale' then.