Turbo Cabriolet's

Yeah i think a genuine 200bhp is plenty of fun in these little cars! As you say gearbox's are one of the biggest problems too. Once i'm at 200-220bhp i'm not going any further for the same reasons.
Cossie eh? Something with real power potential

comon guy get some pics up of your cars or urls

The current spec is steel bottom end (fardon crank and rods, forged pistons all strapped with ARP bolts) turbosystems ported head and cam, cossie p8 with pectel board and coilpack, water injection, group A style twin air injectors, modified cossie throttle body on modified inlet, GRS twin pass intercooler and radiator and kenlow fans and currently a T3 .48 turbo from CRTurbos
I believe the car in its current state if im running high boost does somewhere around the 240 mark although ive not had it on rollers since ive started trying to make it more enjoyable to use and less powerfull
A lot of power in these cars over time causes a few issues, Ive suffering pretty bad from scuttle shake in the past and to be honest im really looking for a genuine 200 bhp as im done with being scared to launch it hard and kill yet another gearbox.
Last year I spent 2k on uprated gearboxes (two CTS boxes) and I really wish to avoid that cost this year I just want to enjoy driving the car more and by reducing the power a bit I can possibly claim back some money.
Im probably going to run L6 get rid of the P8, the water injection, maram shafted t3, and a few other bits hopefully that should make the car more fun and spend less time on axle stands.

I also may be buying an escort cossie and the money only stretches so far between the two

Standard turbo, why??
The .48 must be laggy (your running ALS though?), i've heard that the .36 housing is restrictive over about 225bhp what are you aiming for, and what are you putting out now?

Hello craig what's the spec of your car ?

im still 1600cc with farndon crank and rods.

The maram shaft is a special shaft to cope with the additional heat anti-lag creates in turbos. A non maram shafted turbo with aggressive anti-lag can fail pretty quickly.
The shafts are expensive and rare though, it doubled the price of the turbo in effect
Thinking about going to a standard turbo again but with maram shaft

are you still 1600cc? What turbo are you thinking of? and what is a Maram shaft? LOL

think about changing my turbo again as well at the moment its a t3 .48 with maram shaft.

Yea I found even on cossie disks front and rear I had a well long pedal really not a good think, ive now dumped the servo and gone for a pedalbox and bias bar setup

I've just bought some Focus ST Calipers, Pads, and Discs (300mm) and i think they dont fit behind anything less than 17's, which is what I have so it's ok!
What master cylinder are you running with those 4 pots, i've read the escort one is not really up to the job?