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Originally posted by Big_Gav

I gathered as much when he mentioned he rides bikes mate!! Haha

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why does everyone assume that riders are all nutters? [88]

not far from the truth though [(#)]

try having long hair and not shaving on a daily basis, that adds even more to the assumptions of nutty behaviour [}:)]

I am only a "half nutter"... I ride Motorcross.. not on the road!!!

A few weeks after I took delivery Kurt I threw it on the rollers. It only made 205BHP at the rears. We put this down to mainly the boost. The Speco gauge that was in there was saying that it was running 21psi then dropping back to 19. The dyno gauge told another story... it said it was running 18 peak then dropping to 12psi!! The power curve was a hidious looking thing that peaked then dropped and flattened. I put the AVC-R EBC on soon after and it felt so much faster on the road. Im looking forward to seeing what happens on the dyno in a month or so after the turd-bo is all finished. We shall see.
Thanks for your history lesson mate. Always interesting to know.

[:0]hmmm! that's about 145rwkw. My F6 Typhoon makes 260rwkw, but in comparison, I think the Cossie was faster! Like Ty said, it went hard while I had it!!!???? interesting!!!

Yer it was a wierd one. All those nice Stage 3 bits and it only did that. As I said we put it down to boost. Low boost, low power...

I had bought all the injectors, chip amd 3 bar map sensor went in, and took it for a spin and couldn't get it to go over 10psi. It wasn't until I put the -31 on that made the massive difference. I am wandering whether the spring in the actuator had gone soft. It was a second hand one that I only paid around 10 quid for. I don't know how old it was!

Hmmm... Like I said, once I put the electronic boost controller on that made a big difference! Wound it out to 26psi just before I pulled it to bits a few weeks ago! Hehehe. I knew the new turbo was going in so if it popped no biggy. It just flattened out at about 6500rpm. Reaching its limits I think. The rest of the engine spec is above that T3 anyway I think. Stage 3 they so to go to a T34. All good

Hey, I tell you one thing Gav I DIDN'T fix when I had it, and I should of... Is the "A" in the "Sierra" decal on the boot lid looks like it is on a diet!!![88][88] Please do me a favour and feed it some food... It always bothered me....[^]

HAHA! Yer I saw that. I have since redone them in chrome vinyl. Looks a lot more obese now! I know its not the original Cosworth. Its a new logo I have seen going around.

Oh yer.. Shaun, that mk1 was one of 2 I had at the time. That grey 1300 auto has since been sold and is now receiving the turboed SR20 treatment! I always wanted to Cossie it but gave up after the third attempt at trying to get permission from the DPI just to start to build the thing!! They would let me build it mainly because of power to weight ratio. Buggers...