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(Message started by: grahar81 on Sep 16^th, 2004, 7:56am)

Title: increase of power
Post by grahar81 on Sep 16^th, 2004, 7:56am

Does any one know what i can do to my 24v to make it have extra power. I have already modified the throttle body and air box. Any suggestions would be great.

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by john.n on Sep 16^th, 2004, 8:22am

You mean its not fast enough! john.n :o

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by JohnJ on Sep 16^th, 2004, 10:29am

What are you going to do with it, Drag racing? :)

I wish I had the power of the 24v!

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by grahar81 on Sep 16^th, 2004, 1:22pm

maybe take it upto 300bhp, not sure. I dont want to nitro it though.

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by VladSoare on Sep 16^th, 2004, 4:05pm

Quote:

You mean its not fast enough! john.n

It's fast enough on kick-down, when the odometer rises to redline. But in the first gear, when the box doesn't have a lower gear to change to, it's sluggish.
I have driven 150 HP cars that were able to take off much, much faster than a Cossie.
That's because Cossie's first gear is too long.

So an increase in power is welcome anytime. ;D

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by grahar81 on Sep 16^th, 2004, 6:05pm

yeah, but i owned a nissan 300zx twin turbo before this, so i know how fast i want it.

so does anyone have any ideas.

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by JohnJ on Sep 16^th, 2004, 7:48pm

Yea stick an manual gearbox in it

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by des on Sep 16^th, 2004, 8:14pm

have you taken the cats off yet they,ll be stranglin it for breathin and try a ram air system like the old boss 302/429 hemi/mustangs used to run they were frightening when you got the power down s*** of a shovel and able to keep up with 1000,kawasaki,s
asta,la vista we gone.......................................

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by grahar81 on Sep 16^th, 2004, 10:20pm

yeah, i still need it to pass the MOT, so takin the cats off is silly, and they are already free flowing. The ram air debate is nonsense.

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by Badboytunes on Sep 16^th, 2004, 10:43pm

Rip out the engine and stick a 5.7 chevy in. Loads of power!!!!! ;) ;) ;)

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by des on Sep 17^th, 2004, 8:48am

sell the car and buy a t.v.r the one they had on top,gear that beat everything ......................

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by grahar81 on Sep 17^th, 2004, 11:30am

so i guess no one knows, or has any ideas of what to do.

what about performance parts websites?

anyone?

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by john.n on Sep 17^th, 2004, 12:18pm

I do know that whatever you do you will have to be carefull because of the engine mapping. john.n ???

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by phuturephantasy on Sep 18^th, 2004, 10:35pm

BBRGTI do a Superchip that's supposed to up it to 228bhp - about 10% increase and Pipercross do a Viper induction kit that's supposed to give about 10% more.

I believe STN has a Cossie with a Manual gearbox and a 3.7 bigbore engine - not sure where you can get this done though - Bigbossperformance is supposed to do bigbore conversions on Scorpios but there website has been down for about the last 30 years....

Let me know if you find out anything more interesting..

Graeme

Title: Re: increase of power
Post by Badboytunes on Sep 19^th, 2004, 4:22pm

i think you mean TOP BOSS PERFORMANCE. The guys name is Fitz and he can be contacted on 01332 347406 or email ........ sales@topbossperformance.co.uk . They are located in Derby and currently specialise in single and twin turbo conversions.
Hope this helps

Cheers Nick ;)