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If its that quick, see you at Cadwell Park next year.

Lets see how fast it REALLY is..........

i had a drunken £5000 bet with a twat that my car is quicker than his cupra over the 1/4mile

he was so confident that he would be quicker, but he never rang me to go and find out

is this your tm? and was it a leon or a ibiza.

obviously depends on spec and driver, but a chipped leon should hit early 15s _maybe_ late 14s. I'll post times when i finally get my arse to the pod, but i'm a shite driver so it won't be a true representation.

So if you've got a sub 15.5 mini, there's a good chance you'd dust a cupra

Nic's got a sub 14 mini.......

love the bit about breaking in to do a phat burnout!!! Nics mini is gorgeous now and no nova will ever look as smart.

Edited by jamesfawcett on 14th Oct, 2005.

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

Pretty quick way to earn £5k then!!!

id hope, i dont have £5k!!

cheers feebs

ive got a nova as a daily driver and its mint. i love my mini but it just goes to show how many people have them as second cars there not a real car there toys. i have a mate with a 1.4 modified a little and its 99 bhp at the wheels. also a guy round r way has a 2ltr 16v turbo let engine thats 300 odd bhp fucking rapid. also a mate has a 1.7td 1 with the engine in out of a cav its got the pump wound up and an adjustable boost 133bhp and 175lb of torque at 4400 rpm n 22lb of boost as reliable as u like. 3 of us went all the way from stoke went from stoke to weymouth in three novas mine a 1.2 my mates 101bhp 1600. and the turbo diesel 1 if 3 people made it all that way in minis with no probs id be amazed and id also buy them all new hearing aids. dont get me wrong minis r ace ive had mine since i was 14 but novas r a really good car. wot u can get 4 up in comfortable. and still hear to have a decent conversation. not if u have a big stereo like the blue 1 in the add though ha ha. rant over

Sig changed to suit the latest intake of Nova Fans.

lol

i love you dave

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

Huh?

I was making a point about how this is a forum for Turbocharged minis.
It is not for cinquicento's
It is not for saxo's
It is not for RS turbo's
It is not for R5GT's
It is not for Cosworths
It is not for etc, etc, etc.


As an example. Tom Fenton off this very site has a very rapid modified Pug205 which he primarilly uses on the track. Without a doubt, this would pizz all over the majority of minis from this site, let alone 99.99999% of novas, corsas whatever.
Tom also likes his Pugs as 'normal' transportation; he has one as his daily driver I believe.

What you will notice (and everyone else for that matter) is that Tom DOESN'T feel the need to mention his 205 on a regular basis - reminding us all how great it is. In fact - I doubt you'll find him mentioning it all unless asked.

Why - Probably because it has naff-all to do with Minis.

Another Example; AlexB, this site's owner.
A huge VW fan - take a look at his sig and you'll see something special - but that's all you'll see or hear unless someone asks him a specific question about it.


Now sure - we're all petrol heads - and if you or anyone bought (for example) a ford Escort and re-engineered it to take a subaru drivetrain - now that is somethign we'd be interested in. Another exaple - http://www.spagweb.com/v8mini/
See - something different again, something that any petrolhead might want to take a look at.

If we want to see novas, corsas, saxo's, imprezzas with 20" alloys and a 'chip' we just have to buy MAX POWER. It's all been done before - it's nothing new.
The other thing we can do is enter 'saxo forum' into google and 'hey presto':

www.saxosportsclub.com/forum/ SEURLF/ASP/SFS/USERID.95/SFE/profile.htm
www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f131/
pub39.bravenet.com/forum/3322150964
www.forum-auto.com/sqlforum/section14/debut.htm
www.tintdude.com/forum/ lofiversion/index.php/t20814.html

There you go - plenty of like-minded individuals. On those site's you'll find a similar attitude to this (after you've separated the wheat from the Chav) - but log-on and talk about nothing else other than a different marque all day long, and you'll soon be unwelcome.

I'm not being funny, or singling out anyone in particular here - I'm just pointing out the Bleedin obvious.

Edited by turbodave16v on 20th Oct, 2005.

I agree 100% with that Dave

Team Racing

gold star for nicky please!

Team Racing

Whether my track car is quick enough to beat the quick turbo minis I wouldn't like to say, JF is the only man that has driven both so I'll leave it up to him to comment.

However, Dave's point is 100% spot on. In actual fact I have 3 Peugeots and a Citroen, total power of them all is 570bhp. However, I don't talk about them on here, as no-one is really interested. If I want to talk Peugeot I regularly log on to www.psooc.co.uk, a forum full of Peugeot nuts. In the same way, I don't go on there and talk about my Mini project; I'm sure they wouldn't be interested in that.

WWW.TURBO-MINI.COM

while we are on the subject of other motors
i was at argoose earlier in the week buying some plates, just parked in the carpark when a gren vtec crx puls up next to me (im in lisa's corrado) its a guy i havent seen in like 4-5 years , he says nice car then starts telling me all about how fast his crx is without me even saying a word! i tryed to avoide him in argoose but apart from telling him to shut the fcuk up he wouldent shut up about his 230 brake crx i pointed out there 160 brake but he reconds its had a larger throttle body so i tell him i bashed one at usc even though i lost comression in a cylinder, still he went on about how the supercharger hes getting and he will beat everything there thats a 1.6 or under, i just laughed

right moral of the story is we dont give a fcuk lmao

i sound pissed

wolfie-why were you at argos buying no plates?

i was thinking that too nic!!! i really cant work out what else he was trying to type if he didnt mean argoose lol its like predictive txt

Edited by jamesfawcett on 21st Oct, 2005.

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

td - pm sent

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3