Its not meant to be safe/sane/rational, its supposed to be cool.  
Build your own nitrous system, die like a real geek!

The Golf developed a problem.
It would break down with no warning, and become very unreliable.
 
It got to the point where it would break down on every journey.
I paid to get it fixed (I don't have an ECU fault code reader).  
The coil pack was replaced which seemed to solve the problem.
 
However after about 1500miles the problem was there again. And for some reason the rev limit had been re-set to 5000.
That coupled with the drivers side window and door lock not working (bot mechanical not electrical faults), meant it was time to git rid.
 
Hence the:
Quote:

 
The golf was nicer, but this is faster.....

crap, cant believe i bought the same car as Varnish, really should come on here more
V whats the craic with yours, mine is a 93 2.0 gti in turquoise i got it for 400 after my mate was caught doing 140 in it and doesnt need a car any more
tempted to cover it in sega rally stickers

Good lad, nice cars alright.  What's your running total now?

Quote from maso on Mar 5^th, 2010, 9:51am:

 
Mine is a 1990 Gen 5 Celica GTi-16.
It uses a 2.0L 3S-GE engine which produces about 156bhp. Toyota did produce another revision of the 3S-GE engine which has a freer flowing cylinder head, more aggressive cams, and a remaped ECU, and produces 177BHP. A lot of people use the head and ecu as an easy swap to gain 20bhp.
 
0-60 is 7.9 seconds. But I've only bean able to do an 8.2 due to a slipping clutch and economy tires.
Top speed 137mph, but I've never been over 100mph.
ACIS kicks in at about 4500 rpm, which is fun.
Acis is a variable length inlet manifold which uses acoustic tuning of the inlet harmonics to increase power at certain rpm.
 
I think your car will have thicker anti roll bars, and a smaller or bigger fuel tank (I can't remember off hand).
 
Anyway....Wanna drag race?

oh and drag race is on

I feel a bit cheated that my 2.6 extra litres only gain me about 50 extra BHP.  Stupid americans.

More power than me from a 2 litre.  lies.

What ever % increase in power I get from the nitrous, that's how much my insurance goes up by.
 
So a 25bhp shot, or 17% power increase = 17% more on insurance.
Which is about £65 + admin fees.
 

It doesn't matter, like you say Pop up head lights are all that matters.
I like flashing them so they pop up and go down on their own.

no, the chicks dig opups
varn i was wondering if its possible to put them on a seperate circuit so you can wink

you lot really are strange....... like, gay strange.
 
Its like I've woken up in the early 90's.

No it's not.
It's a piece of early 90's Jap Crap.
 
Well boys and girls. Three years after I first brought up the topic, I now have a running, fully tested Nitrous system on the Celica.
 
Just 25 bhp shot at the mo.
I expect to increase this very soon.
 
Haven't tried it in first, no traction in second, nice acceleration in third, fourth and fifth.
Heating the bottle makes a huge difference.
 
Oh and to all you nay sayers. It didn't blow up, so there!

Parents are driving the Mustang all week.  I'm a bit afraid.  The da has a habit of putting it a bit sideways, everywhere.

I haven't done owt about it.
 
Can you come to carnival this year?
 
How about you Gay 10?

Tom, you big gay, I can't link your pics to here.  WTF?
 
Also, what about the rendezpaddy vid (like Claude Lelouche's Cetait un rendezvous, except with me driving a mustang with a broken exhaust around Bahrain like a lunatic delivering Tom to the airport, late again)?  
 
Upload it for the craic.  It's much fun.

Oh the nitrous kit broke.
 
Not the engine. Thats fine.
 
I was fine tuning the system, changing the jets as it was running too rich.
I had set the fuelling on the rich side to be safe, but turns out I was being way to cautious. So I was changing the nitrous jet to the next size up to get the mixture correct.
 
Anyway, We were doing a static test with the car sat on the drive way.
All was fine, but when we shut the system off Nitrous was leaking past the solenoid valve.
 
Turns out the seat has worn out, so its not creating a gas tight seal anymore.
Lucky we spotted this as it could have leaned the engine out and melted bits.
 
So we aborted the rest of the tests and made some nitrous powered rockets instead.

I'm an engineer pregnant dog.
 
I was pulling dyno runs on a cosworth DFV the other day.
Well thats a bit of a lie. I helped put the engine on the dyno, and watched someone else pull runs.

The pretend kind.
I don't think the degree is worth jack TBH.
We certainly don't do any real engineering type stuff.
 
But it'll give me a good chance of getting a job building engines.
I've got a placement at an engine builders which is great. They have a contract to build engines for the BTCC this year.

Thats does look pretty cool.
 
 
 

The lawn mowers are being a little bit tricky.
But they will run.
When I had one apart I decided I'd give it a little bit of a porting.
Just need to sort the ignition and I think I'll have at least one running.
 
The second one needs a strip and rebuild (could do a 3 angle valve job, and a bit of porting).
 
The nitrous will also be making a return next month. Along with a progressive controller, and a wideband lambda gauge.

Quote from Varnish5000 on Apr 1^st, 2010, 4:28pm:

 
I have a target for you...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8641240.stm?ls

Stripped down a kart engine today - these things are really cool.  So simple, 2 stroke rocks.  Going to use this instead - a far more interesting bit of kit than a generator.  50cc single cylinder, with a cool centrifugal clutch arrangement.