johnd-mkiv

Def worth it mate, the noise, power and fuel economy is great.

Voodoo remix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krhWjIcvrQw Teisto 4 strings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOkh7lYkgo Rachel macfarlane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Fdf5kgP6g love this tune only ever heard it in ibiza

there remix of prodigys voodoo people is the nuts

just got that too??

Yer I think we will all make it ill bring mine along too, be good to catch up with every one

Thanks mate

Modball 07 has to be one of the most random weeks of our lifes, myself (John) and Steve agreed to take part after seeing it advertised with a £300 entry fee for 8 countries 1) london 2) Amsterdam 3) Cologne 4) prague 5) vienna 6) Millan 7) Leon 8) Geneva I have spent the last 8 months prepping my supra so it was ready for the event, but I was let down and the car was not ready in time. It was not looking good for us with only 1 day to organise going, we managed to get steves car on my insurance so we both had cover. Modding steves car and getting stickers made up was the next priority. We also managed to find a couple of hunnies who insisted on coming on the trip with us http://www.promomodelsonline.co.uk decided to come along and see us off at the dome:p Team trouble who entered with us the diver being Tim Palmer also a member on her The drive from the dome to Amsterdam has to be one of the best convoys I have ever been in, I have loads of videos of modballers doing flybyes ect which I will send off to be included in the DVD. We arrived in amsterdam around 10pm after a few in the bar, we needed to get into some cafes, after a smoke we headed for macdonalds after munching 3 cheese burgers we left, bumped into burger king next door 19 chicken nuggets later it was time for home in a stonned drunken mess. The next leg was to arrive at a show ground in Cologne around 12pm, this turned out to be one of the most random days of my life, all 150 cars were on display when the german police arrived and seized all 150 cars, we were told by the organisers that they wanted a 1000 euros of each driver and they will be impounding the cars untill the rally was over due to reports of street racing. It all become a bit out of hand and they then come to a solution of 150 euro fine to each driver and a police escort out of the country, we also had to remove all the stickers and say goodbye to our woman. Word got around that there was still a way to carry on with the rally and the Brittish side come out in all of us to stick together and do our best to get through it. We was all told to meet at the first service staition after the police escort had finnished this happened to be Brussels. When we arrived in the service station I have never seen so many maps, sat navs and lap tops being used in a car park at 1am. We had met up with a couple of lads in the green golf turbo on the way to amsterdam as well as team trouble so we all desided to make our own way to prague. after driving till 5am all around france we was 30 miles from the swiss border we decided to be safe park up and sleep in the car for a bit, only to be woken up by the french police they was fine though just wanted to know what we was doing there ect This was Hotel D Roadside Driving through Switzerland was amasing lovely place, we rang others to find out how they were doing only to find out they had turned back at the services an headed straight back into germany. We desided to save 200miles we would cut the corner off germany. Me mate tim was getting tired in his supra so I offered to drive it so I swapped places with his co pilot and he jumped places in the BMW. Arriving at the Czech Republic border things took a turn for the worce, with the bmw in front my self driving the supra and the golf boys behind we all got pulled over for a search by the police. with the bmw they just checked their passports then told to leave, so my co pilot after being shouted at had no choice but to go. My self and tim in the supra and Ross and andy in the golf were led into there office where we had our bags searched the tosser then put his gloves on and began to seach andy and ross to which I found funny until I realised me an tim would be getting the same treatment all was clear then until he told me to come with him where he began to shine a torch in my eyes then asking me how long ago I took drugs I said around a week ago to which he done his nut and said no way and asked if I would do a drugs test, I agreed to was taken into the police station and tested with a swab in my mouth, this all come up clean:guitar: he then said they will be searching the car they had us empty it and then sniffer dogs check it, all this come up clean. He really started getting the hump especially when we started smiling and laughing. they had no choice but to let us go. Arriving in the hotel at Prague was one of the best welcomes we could have asked for with most of the modballers there it was a time to get hammered and tell the tales of what routes we had taken. We worked out we had done around 1000 miles in 22 hours. After all that happened in Germany I think it was one of the best things that could have happened as it brought the Modball group closer together. Milan for me was great the veiws that we have seen is mental, along with one of the best clubs on the trip, it was great to once again meet more modballers and tell tails of the trip along with it being my 25th birthday at 12am. After a heavy Night in milan we was all feeling it in Lyon so we monged out in the hotel for a while which meant missing the awards and trolly dash outside which im gutted about. We desided to give the motor show in geneva a miss as the car was not stickered up any more there did not seem much point, steve was shattered and feeling unwell too. Myself and team trouble (John and Tim) desided to spend the day out side in a pub getting pist, later on that day we met up with steve had some munch We headed back to the hotel to get ready for a club. me and John from team trouble ended up getting stuck in a lift for 30 mins which was one of the funnyest bits of the trip we had the engineer on the phone asking where we was in french, john was screaming, there was old ladys out side trying to calm us down not realising we were sitting down inside with 2 bottles of corrona eventually the engineer arrived, broke the door open and we had to climb out the lift as it was stuck between floors The drive to calais was great with around 10 of us in convoy all doing flybyes and generally having a laugh also bumped into some french bird on the way home seems strange it was only a week seemed like months, has been one of the best holidays for a while, big thanks to John and all the crew involved with organising the event was great to hear how much was raised for charity, also all the people who made modball what it was, made some great friends from it. Sorry for all the spelling and grammer

Bloody hell, we left sharpish as more turned up done 1000 mile trip around germany to make prague. Hope to make next year will see what me mates want to do

hmm think I best get this sorted then what wastegate and size would you recommend best suited to the turbo aplication I have, I will cut and modify the manifold myself to make the lot fit thanks for your help

Just started to notice mine being better on fuel thought it was just me how did you get on with the modball mate last time I see you was in the service station in brussels after the massive police convoy

Bambi on ice springs to mind

its going to need doing as its not holding apparently shown on the mapping charts. i think boost creep was the term, he said it was basically due to the XS wastegate.

does the car have to be remapped after this mod?

whats involved with having it changed? does the manifold have to be removed to alter the flange on the wastegate pipe. and will the car need a remap?

Its a bit of a handfull mate but was expecting that to be honest, I get bored easilly can see myself wanting more as the car does'nt scare me yet Mind you I have not driven it in the wet yet and with no TC it should prove interesting

That was just before it all kicked off did you stay and finnish the trip? yes mate glad im back in her but gutted it was not finnished in time for the event

I was told 590 flywheel and 520 at the wheels seems a big loss though?? Ill have a look out for a good decent hks wastegate then and try get some power graphs up

Ill have a look tomorrow where its been taken from to be honest I did think the same but went with there experience. I think its running 1.4 but bob has said that the xs wastegate is not up to scratch and needs to be changed, im not to worried about power at the mo as im happy with it but I can see myself wanting more in the near future, so I guess there is a few options I can go for. Bought a turbo blanket from the start, still waiting for it to arrive

yes mate never looked back on that car once owning one of these;)

I had a polished one to go on that I had spare but bob said it does not fit which seem strange unless there is differences between an auto throttle body and a manual one?? Videos will be soon just getting the hang of her first then when ive mastered it ill post some up I may go to the jap show all depends what im doing sat night

Seems like its taken years but after all the ball ache I have her back the car has had some changes to the origional spec list due to bob at GBH not being happy, so I have a fair few bits forsale in the next few days. The spec BL T67 single turbo XS power 50mm wastegate XS power manifold XS power, down pipe, induction pipe, screamer pipe XS power, front mount intercooler GBH Motorsport oil feed and return lines AEM air filter Turbo blanket (still waiting from andy) My own 1 off custom 3" custom stainless exhaust system, from the turbo back JE 86.50mm pistons Eagle 4340 Steel H Beam rods with ARP bolts ARP head bolts and mains New Oem, oil pump and water pump Greedy timing belt Crower Ti springs and retainers HKS 2mm head gasket HKS 264" EX & IN cams HKS cam wheels Koyo rad Excedy twin plate clutch Mocal oil cooler and oil filter relocation kit HKS fuel rail with HKS injectors Aeromotive fpr Walbro fuel pump HKS Fcon Apexi el series 2 60mm gauges - Boost, EGT, Water temp, Oil temp, Oil pressure. twin 60mm a pilar gauge holder Greddy turbo timer Greddy Profec b spec 2 boost controller Polished cambox, throttle body, intake manifold, water pipes. Block has been bored crank, rods and pistons have been ballenced The car has made 590bhp at abby motor sports think ill be needing a bigger turbo soon as thats about its limmits and I want more power, really happy with it though especially the noise going to enjoy the car before i do any more to it but theres a few bits of bling ill be adding under the bonnet

Not alot I can do now mate im off tomorrow, abby motorsports are shut today too

I have spent the last 6 months getting my car ready for the modball rally that takes place this sunday. Most of the mods done to my car have been done for this event for example I have done the following Full respray full engine rebuild single turbo install leather interior I had a spare engine that went into gbh around feb time along with all the parts needed to finnish the job. I told them there the car had to be completed for the begining of june at the latest, I would ring up and send emails for progress reports and keep reminding them of the event im doing. 2 weeks before I go away they pull the car in for an engine swap which I thought a bit late but he promised it would be done. The car has run into problems with mapping and a few other bits, I had to go down there and modify a few pipes to make them fit but nothing to hold them up any longer. I rang abby motorsports direct yesterday as they were mapping the car, I had not heard anything from gbh on the progress on my car. Abby motorsports basically told me that theres no way it will be done for sunday and they will be looking at it again monday. Still not heard anything from gbh which has pissed me right off. Where do I stand with this? with regards to money im loosing and me being promised the car

4 easy

My car comes back fri night or sat morn this is make or break for me going:(