Roll cages

Normally you put in reinforcing plates. Sometimes bolt to the rear strut tops too I think.

Depends on the roll cage tbh.

lol so basically he is saying:

"carbs are really s*it"

Oh yeah here are some ebay auctions I found:

whoops ment to email you those, nvm.

Get a full cage :) :)

Make a huge noticeable difference to the stiffness of the car i've had a few motors that have been caged.

Nova with a Full S/D cage RST with a half cage w diagional Nova with a Half Cage w/o diagonal Mk2 astra with half cage w diagonal

And yes the family 4 door Cav is getting caged with a pair of front buckets shortly :)

You'll notice a big difference in the the handling and the car will give more feedback

also consider strut braces(upper and lower) front and rear try googling autocavan for a rear brace consider somethign that triangulates into the boot floor just to give a bit of extra rigidty.

But first things first sort the suspension try ebaying for some h&r gear

Well, he's not going to say they're are, is he? Not if he's got any sense.

FWIW, I've just looked on ebay. A pair of weber 40s seems to go for £200

Have you got a big valve head btw? Otherwise you're going to be pissing in the wind.

Credit cards aren't money. They are potential debt. Remember that.

Fraser

Injection is generally more efficient than carbs, but they work ok and sports cars have used carbs for decades so you can't really argue they are rubbish.

They're not good for emissions. Whoopy do. It is probably a cheaper way to modify a car as you can tune up a carb fairly easily compared to modifying the engine management computer as found in modern cars.

They are a bit different to normal credit cards, first year you have a £1k limit then £2k for the next and finally £3k for the last year...

Then they charge you according to how much debt you have left... so:

After graduation

and so on up until the 5th year then you are charged for everything on 7.9% apr (I think?)

Burgerman has advised I go for twin 40s on a 2.0 crossflow block now, and it makes alot more sense after he described the physics of how a carb actually works! Bigger isn't always better after all ;)

Oh indeed. Unless the car came with carbs that were underweight in the first place. I should listen to B on that one anyway, he knows of what he speaketh.

Do you have a link to that as it seems you may well have misunderstood something. A quick google doesn't bring up this deal of which you talk.

I don't know if it is online because I was given a leaflet and the terms and conditions were described by one of the bank staff, I filled in the necessary paperwork and they did a credit check. 5 days later I got the card and pack in the post.

The scheme is called "Barclays Student Additions", I don't know what the Natwest version is called because I have got the paperwork to hand.

Just had a quick gander and found this:

Can't really afford fuel injection unless I can located a K-Star ECU, or something similar second hand! Besides I don't want to spend mega bucks on the car ;)

Well my car will have everything but higher compression on that list I think. There is such a huge price leap between 40 and 45s, 48s are quite rare 2nd hand it seems as well. I also need a different manifold for 48s i've been told (is this true?), but a guy in the US has offered me a crossflow version for $200 not inc shipping.

All different.

If you have race cams you would be better with 45s (but not much). But also, you NEED big valves and higher compression for a race cam to be really effective. Everything needs to be a balance and work together,

Think about this, bikes that make 180bhp only use 38 or 40mm carbs. How much power are you expecting?

As I thought, you've got this totally wrong.

The credit card is a standard student card with crippling interest rate and low credit limit.

Their student account is no different to anyone else's - everyone gets an interest free overdraft starting at £1k and increasing by a grand a year for each year of study.

So you still end up in debt.

Fraser