Rollinz

ok this is as the title suggests aimed at people with more than the average bolt on goodies!!

i was just wondering if you are all the same as me (you may laugh)


everytime i go out in my focus the radio is off and i love to get the wastegate open (like a big kid) but after every foot down moment i still leave the radio and find myself opening the window and listening prefusly at the engine to make sure it sounds ok lol
(even tho i have a stack dash with all the warnings set etc etc)

earlier today i PO0D myself when i pulled up at some lights and thought it was knocking... turns out it was a diesel pug that was behind me


is it just me thats like this or are all you big power blokes the same??

Ben26

what about us small powered cars boooooooooooooooooo

Rollinz

wel... do you? lol

bigchez

i had some healthy cossie paranoia when i had 3 door - even had the heater on blowing on my right hand all the time just incase!!

Jay,

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ive been there too

Rollinz

ive just got past that stage now as ive set my high temp warning light at 93 degs lol!!

its SAD and i love the car and everything but it kind of makes me not enjoy driving it as much as i should be lol!

saph4be

Never bothered me I built the engine and knew it was fine!

Rollinz

i built mine too and know my workmanship of it is fine...

doesnt mean somthing cant go wrong...

waynefrst235

I'm the same. Never had any problems with my car but always listening and feeling slightly paraniod

Rossy43

I do the same and im only stage 3 3 door.

Dont think it makes a difference what power your car is like.

pani_k

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Don't know if it is just me that does this but have you ever been stopped at a set of lights or in traffic and there's a diesel or some clattery sounding heap of crap close by and you think to yourself "shit is that my engine?" So I give mine a little rev to see if it is and when it revs clean I'm like "ahh someone elses"

Rollinz

thats what happened to me today!!

when i realised it was a pug behind me i was like
and drove off steaming with the wastegate opened

then it all starts again when i come to next junction

Shings

I had big power cossie paranoia and it was founded.... such is life.

I do wonder sometimes after a good beating if my focus will start and run next time round.

The only thing I can say is I had an ST170 with a supposedly bullet proof engine and I killed that so I will just get on with it and enjoy driving my car for me.

End of the day if you're not enjoying it then it doesn't matter how much horse power you've got because you'll never enjoy it - so what was the point.

ajamesc

I love the sound of coming on boost lol plus 2.6 bar in 2nd and 3rd sounds mint! But its not all about horse power my bike only has 150bhp and that's more fun lol

Rsmat

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I also like the sound of 2.5bar.... But I never worry about the engine... If it goes it goes tbh.

Harris.

Im the same, i tend to leave the radio off all the time , my sub has been on about 5 times in 2 years

Acidburn

with the audi s2's 20vt's i've had i've never worried one bit about them, even the one's with 240k on the clock, I know they will always start and run fine one thing i've loved about them. Not many cars i've had that I can say that about.

gibbo frst

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ive just been out in mine and thrashed it.. not driven it for a while and felt rapid.. untill i had a tear up with a new golf gti that totally out handled me.. although i pulled away on the straights after the wheelspin had stopped i was braking for the corners that aint even really corners on my local race track and he was gaining every time..
couldnt hear much appart from my new side exit hooligan screamer pipe..

cosworth89

I'm like this aswel in my VIII MR always a bit paranoid, I do like the sound of a nice turbo spooling

Rab

I remember this feeling....

Panic at junctions. Panic on the motorway. Panic when you run over a pebble and it 'tings' off the sump. Panic. Panic. Panic.

scoooby slayer

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just maintain it well and use it. when things go wrong fix them straight away, ive had the supra over a year now and im still fixing what previous mechanics have fooked up

Alps Pacino

I had this argument years ago when i got my integra type r and everyone was saying its shit and fords are better.

My argument was that i can absolutly kill it and i mean kill it without so much as worrying that the next time i put my foot down its going to end up in terminal failure and a bill for thousands. Thats what takes the fun out of cossie ownership and what makes other cars more fun to drive and own imo

Alps Pacino

sometimes it aint that simple though is it, i maintained me old saph regardless of cost, top quality oil every 2k miles regular services if it need anything it got it. Sold it and within a week it had melted 2 pistons. Sometimes taking care of something cant help against stuff like that

scoooby slayer

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did it have a wideband on it though ? the supra didnt when i bought it so i didnt wot it once til id got one on and low and behold leaning off to 17 afr ! only 1 fuel pump was working, that would of ended exactly the same way with melted pistons had i not checked it.

everything needs to be monitored as much as possible.

joffy

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not at all, i never worry about mine knocking as it never leaves the garage

Rollinz

Ive got
Wide band
Knock link
Blitz controler lights up red if it over boosts
Stack dash warns me of temps above 95
And oil pressure alarm come one at 2.5 bar
Fuel pressure alarm set at 2 bar,


Got every warning set in a very good safe area lol

xr2wishy

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i'm not sure i'm on big power, but for an xr2 i'm up there.
i do find myself trying to listen to problems, it was a clattery van the other day behind the car behind me, i shit it thinking the pump had gone, same ending though with foot down and wastegate shouting at the road
just got a 413 pump today so will push on again

zetec-Sam

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Not got big power, only stage 1 sr20 in the 200, and I still shit it constantly.

Gav Diamond

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I turn the radio up to drown the engine noises, lol

zippyobrien

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I've got a fully fucked about with mk5 fiesta that gets killed at every opportunity and all Ido is put more oil in it. Never worry about noises or temps. Shes a tropper.

On the flip side got a very mildly tunes fiesta Rs turbo. And I'm paranoid to fuck in it even though just done a ill nut and bolt resto lol.

Robs Frst

No worries in the Evo, Ive enjoyed using it for the past 3 years on the forged block.

CrOwSoN15

I've got a 1.3 mk4 Escort and I always have the radio very low so I can hear any noises

Rod-Tarry

I love the way this guy likes the sound of his wastegate . My engine sounds like a bucket of nails being shaken in a bathroom never ever heard the wastegate or the radio . Still hes got big Power to have overtaken that Pug diesel before the lights .

DAN-Saff

Nope I don't worry about it

I have only got a boost gauge in mine that goes up to 30psi and it goes over that.

RstAaron.

Not bothered in my Saab, cost less for the whole thing then some of your Turbos probably Do what I can to stop it exploding but there is no paranoia. Makes it so much more enjoyable to drive and not worry when playing with more expensive machinery

escoskmv

i dont worry bout my cossie at all, my engine has done bout 1500 miles now on new build an it is sweet. it has a good hammering every time i take it out an she loves it lol, when it goes ill just build another bigger an better. if it was my every day car im sure things would be different as you tend to worry a bit more bout it going wrong.

PileOfRust

Classic car owners have the same problem topspeed run and watch the temperature gauge rise !

Chip

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The question with a big power old car isnt "Am I being paranoid?" its more a question of "Am I being paranoid enough?"

Brendan

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It's state of mind and I'm **cked!

Bungle

YES lol