How's your year been then ?

Deffo not an urban myth this, it happened right in front of me. The guy also took a swig from a can earlier in the evening, which someone had filled with piss...

I can give you all 100bhp (up to 140 plus) extra for about a hundred squid. Really... Gone to the pub to celebrate - lets all hope 2k8 is a good one!

Most people want a fortune to remap a TDi for nitrous oxide.

I know that but I am a bugger who wants those extra 100 HP as long as there is fuel in the tanc.

Cheers!

Celebrated 2008 my own way. Took the Honda out for a spin: Brussels Ring (the large on). 80 km in 23 min... 208 KPH. Not bad for a old car. Looking really forward what a 600 HP Porsche 928 can do.

You don't have to hope for a good 2008. It will be a cracker for all!

Tom - who should know better ;-) - De Moor

Err you dont need to remap anything.

You can a) fool the injection system in a multitude of ways to give more fuel b) add petrol, methanol, lpg, propane straight up the intake as it doesent compression ignite. Very cheaply and easily. Dont add extra diesel this way though bcos you will run over your crankshaft!

(disclaimer - your turbo will likley go into orbit bcos they are tiny on deseasels, but dont let it scare you!)

Ok £200, for plenty of tanks.

All the VAG PDs that I have seen on nitrous run a switchable map to add extra diesel when on nitrous, mostly because they want to run lpg/propane all the time as it's so much cheaper.

HNY to you too :-)

I went out last night, and woke up today with no back ache for the first time in months! I dunno what I did in the pub, but I guess it was awesome.

I drove home this morning and almost chucked the Vee into a hedge aquaplaning on a steep, twisty hill. It was awesome fun :-)

Not saying it's an urban myth. That one about the snake straightening itself out definately is. I'm unsure about the one with the shrooms and the puppy...

I know someone whose cat jumped on his knee just as he was making a joint.

A freshly unwrapped 1/8th of canabis resin bounced off his knee and the cat chased, pounced on it, and ate it. 10 minutes later the cat stopped what it was doing and started staring at the wall, didn't move for 2-3 days. If I hadn't seen it myself I would have cried myth, but I did.

I shall be bringing my brother's 2CV down to you then. I want to see this....

Mike P

The only slightly unbelievable bit is that a cat could be stoned on only an eighth of street black ;)

Actually the same thing happened to an ex-neighbours 3 year old girl, she went kinda transparent (pale and wan) for a few hours and slept it off....

Years ago my mate had a sheepdog (can't remember the breed) and someone gave it a tab of LSD, it was so happy, kept running and running, then disappeared for 3 days... When he came back there was no explanation or owt ! :)

Why not! Its possible. I said I could give you a 100 extra and I can. Whether a 2cv can stay in one bit is a different matter! I stuck a non pulsed all or nothing 140 extra on Gary Atkinsons stock gsxr1100 (1074cc) suzuki with no worries. And with a stronger clutch (2 diaphrams) it ran 9.01 secs at 156 on the next run. Down massively from its best of 11.4 at 119. It spat most of its oil out (no retarded timing) but it survived a whole 2 seasons of this abuse without anything more than a bigger catch tank!

A 100 hit "may" be ok is set up a bit rich and retarded (sounds like a few people I know) on a 2 cv... Lets try it! Remember though that its 100 extra from all rpms including idle revs if you are daft enough to try that.

Needs an extra baffle to stop the gears flinging oil straight up the breather stack. OK a big catch tank is cheaper than an engine strip.

It already had a big extra one on the oil filler cap on the clutch cover. No, the problem is that if you ignite it too early you get stupidly and unessasarily high cylinder pressures that a) can cause detonation (not really good!) but also you waste power and b) you get most of the gasses blowing past the rings into the sump and taking the oil with it. They cant push the piston down because its still on the way up! So the gasses go past the rings. The real solution is to retard it to almost top dead and get a faster burn and more power where it matters while the crank is in a more advantagous position to take advantage.

Its possibe to have both cooler or around the same exhaust temperatures (richer) without having higher peak cylinder pressures (retarded) this way and still get big power increases from stock engines. The extra power comes from having a much higher average cylinder pressure. In other words more pressure where it counts - after top dead and all the way down the cylinder.

Rich and retarded allows more power from a stock engine without stressing it any more than it already was. Set up correctly a nitrous system can give big power increases on standard engines without giving any problems! Trouble is most are not! So you hear about nitrous destroying engines.

Wth nitrous on a stock engine the the morepower you add the richer and the more retarded you need to go. With especially built engines with low top rings, lowered compression, nitrous cams, big exhaust valves and exhaust cams, then you can safely run a bit leaner for better efficiency, but timing still needs to be conservative!

Been there - got the tee shirt! But Garys mechanic thought he knew better and decided the timing was fine where it was. All year! IF he had retarded it he would have gone faster.

I've worked with a lot of people for whom that would be a great description.

i love it when burgerman goes geek!

Geek?