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The car looks REALLY nice but for the love of all that is good, GET A TRIPOD :icon_razz

^was expecting way more technical info from you, lol.

I really hate the shipping fees people charge, I end up missing a lot of parts I want b/c the rates are rediculous. I'm not a moron, I've shipped items before, like a stock radio and an instrument cluster, and those did not cost me over $10 to ship, yet I see cluster all the time on ebay...

OK there's gotta be someone out there that's got all the answers, wish it was me but no. I get the general jist of timing, but not enough to where I can explain everything in a very enlightening technical manner. Don't know if it's wise on a boosted car, but advancing to 14/15 BTDC can...

I was referring to myself, a mkII owner with a measly 160hp 5MGE. I dyno'd 132whp stock, and 144whp with a header/exhaust. Haven't dyno'd with the ceramic coated intake yet. Planning on upgrading soon to a 70+mm throttle body as soon as I can get one, and an extra intake plenum to mess around...

Why bother reading the thread if it makes you ill? :icon_conf People are different, accept it. We want different things, I certainly wouldn't try to dissuade others from going turbo if that's their thing, just give the best advice possible or keep my mouth shut. I dont want to go turbo...

cause I said so, duhh :icon_razz My point was, and is, if you are inpatient, discourage easily or don't have a sense of realistic hp numbers with your particular budget, I wouldn't take the n/a route.

V6s are made more for hp, inline 6s for durability. Nothing wrong with dumping EFI, the 2000GTs 2.0 liter made 150hp with triple Weber carbs, and I think 200hp in race trim.

^yup, keyway munched on the crank for a week (had no other options, no car to borrow, no one to drive hubby to work, no money to fix). day before he got paid it couldn't stay in time long enough to get him out of his works parking lot.

eh, JBWeld can't answer every prayer. If it's chewed up too badly, there's almost nothing that'll save it, even if you had new metal welded in. I just said screw it and bought a crank kit for $280

Well I didn't want to put ideas into someones head that they could push a crazy amount of HP in n/a, cause it's not going to happen. Saying 250-280whp is a much more realistic expectation IMO. 100hp per liter should be doable.

Very sexiful car! Done very nice, LOVE that blue... talk about improvment O_o

timing belt tensioner pulley possibly

^trait0r! what happened to me doing your sigs!? :D oops /hijack

I was always under the impression the heaviest mkIV was about 3500lbs, but I'm probably wrong, lol

I'm a stay-at-home mom for now. Don't think you could call my cafepress store a job as I make way less than minimum wage, hehe

^WTF, how'd you get banned again already? O_o

Exactly. Although I really don't believe in any of this bullshit. People should accept the fact that we basically have no clue as to what's going on, just throwing out educated guesses. I think the best thing going is the earth's cycles, which I'll believe over any global warming BS. No...

I found that my car had all the sound deadening removed before I got it. I really didn't notice much of a difference in outside noise level, can hear the radio just fine. Don't know how it would be comparable to a mkIII however.

cars FTL.