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dan_c4rsa
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27th Apr 08 at 13:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Headed to Halifax/bradford area (Clapton i think?) yesterday to test drive this turbo HKS converted EK9 i found.

To be honest i was expecting an alright car, like with most conversions/modde cars, but this was like it was fresh out of the factory.

The only things we found in a half hour check was a small gearbox oil leak, and a chip in the windscreen.

Took it for a test drive and my lord We only used 6500rpm (limit of 9500) and its pretty mental. The sound of the turbo spooling up is as loud as the exhaust, and the chatter when changing gear is lovely


Just thought i'd warn you I will be getting it if i can sort out issues with the Nova concerning money etc


woohoo.
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Drives supercharged Tec with torque
dan_c4rsa
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i shall posteth them.
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Has a vtec controller (rectangle by steering wheel) and BOF sequential valve plus many more nice gadgets!
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looks very very nice i love this in white but its all about whats under the bonet but is the gear knob missing?lol
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no.

the gear knobs are aluminium, and shaped like those TVR style indicator stalks.

You grab it with a fist if you get me, the gearbox is soooooooooooo tight and nice,


Also has a twin plate clutch, so you really shoot off the line.
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cool sounds good to me got to love the japs for something and there it is lol
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omg


i bet that is rapid, how much bhp and torque are we talking?
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Very nice that mate.
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quote:
Originally posted by warren.g
omg


i bet that is rapid, how much bhp and torque are we talking?




on low boost around 220bhp and 200lbs of torque.

Higher boost around 235bhp and 225lbs of torque the dude said.

Will easily do 0-60 in 5.4 seconds. The standard does it in 5.7


0-60 isnt really important but is to give you an idea

When we test drove it it was running low boost coming in at about 3500rpm to give torque, then the vtec kicked in at about 5.5k, the guy said with it set up you only need to change at about 8000rpm
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oh. i just pm'd the guy on ek9.org forum to check proper power figures.


The kit is a 5000 dollar HKS kit, capable of being set to 300bhp on standard internals when RR'd and dyno'd on high (but reasonable) boost


Think i'll be sending it off to an RR if/when i get it as it has a black box which is kind of like standalone management.
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pure sex m8,,i plan on boosting/charging or t.b's my ek4
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How are you going to insure that thing at your age?
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5.7 standard?

i drove one and didnt find it as quick as my cupra. and i was thinking high 6's for mine
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Didnt think you could run turbo and vtec together?
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5.7 standard?

i drove one and didnt find it as quick as my cupra. and i was thinking high 6's for mine



it is possible as a mate of mine from leeds had one totally standard bar a spoon back box.

Set off about 3000rpm double clutch to counter the crappy torque
dan_c4rsa
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quote:
Originally posted by wilson_sri
How are you going to insure that thing at your age?




£1500 a year through Graham-Sykes


Theyre mint.
dan_c4rsa
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Originally posted by SXI - Matt
Didnt think you could run turbo and vtec together?



yep. you can
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Hows that work then though one was high comp and other low sorry if im completley wrong just read some think about it a lottle while ago?
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One cam prodile is higher lift. Doesn't change the compression ratio.
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So at one point the vtec and turbo are going?
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Yeah the turbo will start spooling around 2000 rpm and the vtec will kick in arond 5000 with the turbo still going.
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on this.


the turbo spools quite low - around 3500, and the vtec controller is set so vtec starts barking at about 5500/6000
dan_c4rsa
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quote:
Originally posted by allza
Yeah the turbo will start spooling around 2000 rpm and the vtec will kick in arond 5000 with the turbo still going.


you were nearly there
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If it only starts spooling at 3.5 it must be fairly laggy. Most probably starts spooling before that just not significant enough to feel. May be wrong tho.

[Edited on 27-04-2008 by allza]

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