Go faster bits

[Pillock]

 

Stainless Powerflow exhaust on the Pug v6 Coupe, don't know if its faster but the neighbours have mentioned how much louder it is !

My neighbours once complemented* me on my exhaust on the Polo. Long driveway between two houses, used to really sound off the walls.

 

Well, actually they pointed out it makes their toddler cry at night and he calls me the "nasty man". Same thing I suppose.

[Forty-two]

I fitted a Peco Big Bore 2 onto a 1.6 pinto engined Sierra. I would have swore blind at the time it made it faster!

 

I fitted a K&N to Range Rover. I would have swore blind at the time it made it faster!

 

Finally I purchased a properly quick car (Subaru WRX) that needed no modification, it was already faster than unmarked Ovlov Police Cars.

[cort16]

Speed holes

 

[Asimo]

I scrounged a pair of huge SU carbs, from an early 1060(?) Mini Cooper and fitted them to my Minor. No faster, much more petrol used and more noise. Just one carb was better, but not as good as the tiny carburettor that Morris fitted. Back to standard and so ended my career as a go-faster master.

[MrDuke]

I once stuck a chrome exhaust tip on a Riva. It definitely sounded a bit throatier.

[Stanky]

Ah yes, I found a chrome exhaust tip that had obviously fallen off someone P&J late one night while comign home from the pub, so i attached it to the Almera. It added at least 500bhp, so much so that the raw power caused it to fall off a few weeks later, probably on the A32 but potentially further afield.

 

I like to think it was a 'wandering' exhaust tip and that someone else found it after if fell off my car and attached it to theirs, and the cycle continued, though I suspect the reality is that its in a hedge/ditch slowly corroding.

[Paul Dupart]

The V8 badge on a Rover P6 on the speaker grill in front of the gear lever.  Just to remind you that it has the 'go faster bit' engine 

[Pete-M]

I've done plenty of tweaking. The bits that make more noise are the bits that tend to ruin cars more than anything, but over stiff / low suspension can also make cars nasty to drive.

 

The trick is to know what you're doing.

[willswitchengage]

 

Aerodynamically sculpted frame, more aggressive riding position, flat spokes, Q-rings, aerodynamic clothing, frame made from lightweight materials, reduced rider profile... shaved legs...

[AlabamaShrimp]

So far it's sounding like messing with your car is either a waste of money that either does bugger all, cocks it up someway but makes it sound louder

[Des]

My first car was a Moggy van with a restricted carb, the hole in the choke cable retaining plate between carb and manifold was only half the size it should have been, swapped it with a saloon one and, while I'm not sure exactly how many extra crazy horsepowers were unleashed, it certainly made a difference that amounted to more or less fuckall. I've had noticeable gains from un-convoluting air intakes and advancing timing to the limit, dicking around with dizzy bob weights and opening carb jets a tad, this malarky once upped the top speed of a Datsun by a terrifying 10 MPH, but probably sheer luck it didn't just go bang.

I did a tedious stint working in a garage that had a rolling road which kind of left me with a bad taste and general feeling of contempt toward all that old go faster rubbish, there was a shower of wankers publishing some wanker car mag wank up the road who were round all the time filling the place with a cloud of utter wank and bullshit, but that was the nineties and the ebay performance resistor was yet to be invented. That said, when I LPG'd my Rangy, I skimmed the shit out of the heads and plopped in a cam just slightly more knobbly than standard, made more of an improvement than I'd expected, but I reckon going any further would disappoint, law of diminishing returns and all that.

I bought an old Sprite from a friend many years ago, he'd bought it from his friend who had spazzed four figures on all the go faster knobbery, the thing certainly seemed fast, but was an illusion, wouldn't do anything until the engine was at silly bollocks revs, I'm sure a standard one would perform the same if razzed similarly, only had to undo half the nonsense to get it nice and driveable, then started having silly thoughts of using Metro bits to turbo it for easy and brutal powerz, had a word with myself instead though.

[Des]

 

Aerodynamically sculpted frame, more aggressive riding position, flat spokes, Q-rings, aerodynamic clothing, frame made from lightweight materials, reduced rider profile... shaved legs...

 

Yeah nice try but not shaved off his eyebrows, not a serious player at all, just another poser.

[M'coli]

Fiat 126: this one, to be exact.

 

Knife-edged carburettor butterfly and spindle, with screws Loctited in. It helped it rev a bit, but not as much as:-

A spare cylinder head with 80 thou machined off of it and the ports ravaged. With the standard engine you were meant to change up from 3rd to 4th at 50, but if you held on in third it flatted out at 52 in third on the run out of the Dunglas roundabout above Bowling on the A82.

 

With the modified heaid, I bottled out at 56...it was the older style head that had 7.5:1 compression as standard, and 9.5:1 as modified, the later head was 0.5 above that.  This was 24 years ago, I'd've loved to be able to run 12:1 on Superplus juice and programmable ignition, but could barely afford the petrol at the time...


Did an indicated 74 on the Gargunnock flats, only to be overtaken by a Volvo 240 estate so must have been doing less than 60, eh ? and it went well off the 80 MPH clock chasing a Corrado VR6 at Gavinburn on the A82.

Rock'n'roll, no'?

[fred]

I painted a''Starsky and Hutch'' stripe on a old FE and it in my mind made it very quick indeed

[Foeux]

I chipped my V70 TDI and wound up the boost pressure. The ailing clutch gave up instantly, as did the flywheel.

 

New clutch and flywheel and it goes like a scorched cat and startles many an onlooker.

[Jim Bell]

Like Station, I have a Cybox larger bore stainless steel cat-back exhaust on the 25 gti. I really rate it. It's louder, but not overly ridiculous. It was about a third more expensive than a pattern steel system and should last forever. I upgraded to a larger metal bodied throttle body and free flowing air filter too. On paper there should be small gains. If I'm honest with myself, they're probably negligible. Throttle response is improved though, and there's nicer noises at WOT.

 

VERDICT: Approved.

[sierraman]

It takes no small amount of skill to tune a car successfully, given the manufacturer spent millions developing it, then you step in, £50 in hand with some screwdrivers and get it horrendously wrong.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

19" wheels on a people carrier, will they ?

A. Improve handling and road holding .

B. Make your Alhambra look Gangsta.

C. Make your 115 bhp pd faster than 130 bhp Galaxys.

D. Destroy the ride, make every kerb in the land want to jump into your path and destroy your 30 profile side walls. Whilst at the same time make your wife call you a sad wanker with a mid life crisis trying to look as if you haven't got 4 kids and why don't you fuck up your own car with stupid wheels and leave mine alone ?

 

Is it a coincidence that I did this just before I turned 40?

[The Moog]

Only really played with C900's 

 

Mostly 3 inch straight through exhausts, decatted them, tweaked waste gate and one I played with APC settings. Oh and of course K & N for induction roar. Contemplated moving battery to boot and then put less restrictive elbow on turbo but CBA.  Definitely quicker and exhaust noise in tunnel is ace. Older and wiser now so not sure I would do it! 

 

9-5 toyed with noobtune but as I couldnt find time to get to him it has fizzled out. 

[Taff]

So far it's sounding like messing with your car is either a waste of money that either does bugger all, cocks it up someway but makes it sound louder

 

/\ this

 

being a hotrodder by inclination, I've tried many things and largely fucked them all up.

[dave21478]

Whilst modern cars are shite they are much, much better for modding to go faster.

 

All that stuff from the back of magazines was crap. You would spunk an awful lot of weeks worth of wages on a stage 3 head and a Billy Big Balls camshaft, fit it all up, spend three weekends on the trot annoying the fuck out of your neighbours revving it up trying to get the timing right and for what? Marginally faster? yeah and also for tragically worse fuel economy and often piss poor cold starting or other reliability problems.

Knowing and experiencing this never stopped me though. I hate to think how much I have pissed away on shiny exhausts and different carbs.

 

Now? You plug the laptop in and get an immediate hike in power and torque and often no worse economy. Sometimes you even IMPROVE the mpg by remapping.

My work hack is a fucking diesel Freelander.....Imagine the hassle expense and inevitable failures you would have had to go through to get an old Landy to go faster. Nowadays, I bought a box of electronic voodoo, connected 4 plugs under the bonnet and immediately gained a very noticeable hike in power. First test is the road to the farm which it used to plod up in second gear but will now breeze up it in third! Its much more pleasant to drive, surprises a few people on the road and gives a solidly reliable 36 - 38mpg.

£150 exceptionally well spent IMO, especially when I was a teenager £150 would buy a camshaft for whatever heap I owned that had no real effect than making it idle badly and stall on cold mornings but might give me another 4mph top speed.

[seth]

Old go-faster bits are definitely best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lisbon_road]

I converted my Mk3 Astra from single point injection to MPi.  It totally revolutionised it, loads more power and torque and much much better mpg.  OK, the SPi was dire.

 

I have also been really happy with lpg conversions, which isn't exactly a go faster mod, and want to look at taking this further with a better ignition map.  It may take me time..........

 

I have put higher back axle ratios in the Viva and my fathers Vauxhall VX (FE) which have also been of great benefit, given the daft ratios before.

 

And fully electronic ignition and a Weber carb took the Viva from basically a useless pile of rubbish to, er, a very old car that basically works.  

 

So some mods have been very good where the original equipment was total tosh.

[xtriple]

I've never really been that into tuning cars: if I want to go faster, buy another car with a bigger engine! I have done a few (that bloody Mini being the last!) but bikes used to get 'the treatment' all the time!

 

2 strokes, out with the files, head gaskets are for poofs so you need two base gaskets to prove your manliness.... I used to love it. Knew a bike mechanic (proper old skool chap) who could do unbelievable things to MZs  and then used to race round winding up LC Yamahas... very successfully I might add! I had a 350 LC that had been tuned by him and it was basically, a TZ on the road. It didn't even START to make any power until the redline and then went ballistic. It was major fun but cranks used to die frequently.

 

Had a job for a short while building engines for a bloke called Steve Tong who drag raced. That was fun and it was nice to see what you could do with a huge budget. We used to start the bike (on rollers) in the back of the coach and when it started, your eyes would stream within five seconds and you'd be pretty high within thirty... That was the most evil, vicious sounding engine (actually, one of several all the same based around old 900 cc Kawasaki Z1 engines) I have ever heard. It had a wild, dangerous crackle at tickover and went from it's lumpy, smokey , vicious idle to full revs in about 0.0005 of a second.

 

It was a pretty fast thing as well!

 

The most impressive engine I ever saw/heard was a full works Suzuki GS1000 with Roger Marshal on it riding through the pits. He stopped to talk to a mate/someone and it just sat there ticking over quietly and sweetly like a standard road bike and then went and won the race.

[PhillipM]

I don't think anything on my 306 was standard by the time I'd done with it. I made most of the parts as strangely enough there aren't many go faster bits for a 1400cc shopping hatchback....it was wider, lower, had adjustable arms and dampers, fancy brakes, etc, etc.

The buggy was, technically, originally an aircooled Beetle. So I guess that's slightly modified too.

[Uncle Jimmy]

I bought an Autoshite* sticker to go on the back window of my rusty van. Cars seem to recede further behind me now.

I'm considering buying a tartan look vacuum flask to take coffee to shows in when in the Volvo.

[Uncle Jimmy]

 

Aerodynamically sculpted frame, more aggressive riding position, flat spokes, Q-rings, aerodynamic clothing, frame made from lightweight materials, reduced rider profile... shaved legs...

Jordan AKA Katie Price?

[nacho man]

I had a 4.1L badge and clear indicators on a mk4 escort.

 

 

That made it faster*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can't guarantee any increase in speed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[nacho man]

I have pissed about loads with cars, often spending loads on bits.

 

 

In my old days rims init.

 

 

a bit of lowering here and there 

 

 

 

I still spend lots on cars not worth much.

 

But normally nothing mega noticeable.

 

Whatever floats your boat though hey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[UltraWomble]

The micra is running a 1.3 cam.

Made it slightly faster off the mark.

The Picasso had a remap and De cat.

Made it rather a lot faster.

I have also drilled holes in the air box of a metro

 

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