Heres my 2p gents
Gen 1,
I am talking about affordable and quite straight foreward mods clearly fitting a blower will do a lot more but its 10k and uprating other bits as well .
biggest single wins are fitting a IPD GT3 TB/Plen which will need a remap to bring it together , yes it will run without one and the car will relearn some of the paramiters but your fitting this mod to get wins and your missing a big one by not remaping it
second biggest win 200cell cats either straght of xpipe , cat bypass will fail mots and the very slight gain for going 100cell over the hastle of getting an MOT on it are just are not worth it.
the induction hose resinator blank with a BMC make the car breath more freely gives a nice note at full hoon the BHP gains on their own are not enough to do the mod just for that, but combined with the other things its important to do as your basically aiming to get more air in and quicker gas out .
These are the simplest things the factory did when restricting the Carreras for several reasons 1/ to pass all the international Eco laws 2/ to stop the Carrera performing too close to its flagship models 3/ the beancounters force compromises when trying to get the car to the desired pricepoint .
Most of us are fast road drivers and occational track days , So the wins we want are slightly different to the track cars, we want the gains in the low mid range which is where we spend most of our time and improvements there are more important than MAX BHP .
There are other things like fitting a 4" underdrive pulley , fitting a sprint booster on a tip car that will also make it an improved drivers car the big win for the underdrive is not the redirected unused energy to the back wheels but for me it was the slight increase in wieght of the power steering made a huge difference to confidence as the 997.1 steering is very light. The sprint booster for a tip just keeps the box in alive mode as the tip box has the ability to learn your driving style and if your in town etc it adopts a lazy style , a quick kickdown will reset it, but it soons gets lazy again the sprint booster goes a long way to overcoming that by making the car think your driving it harder than you actually are.
The mods for the gen2 are similar and for similar gains but have to be done slightly differently e.g. an extra muffler on the gen2 and the cats are connected as a single unit to the headers.
Remaps , DONT go and get a £299 generic off the shelf map they are ok, but its better if you spend £500/600 and get a custom live map from a mapper that it taking into account you ,your driving style, what your looking to achieve, and any mods you have fitted.
remember this important piece if info MOST people that say all these things are a waste of time HAVE NEVER DONE THEM and they are just making assumptions or have done the wrong mod for the wrong reasons .
Mods is such a broad subject and If anyone wants a bit more detail on a specific mod please ask . Each mod brings something different to the party and some on there own like eg the induction hose will bring something but if your fitting it for the wrong reason you may be underwhelmed, for instance purely that mod and expecting big performance gains will leave you dissapinted ,doing it as part of a group of mods for performance gains is a must. If like me you just wanted to do that mod because the car in its stock form sounded so wheezy and stiffled and you just want to hear the car breathing like it should so much more freely and get a nice industion hown when pushing on. then its
a good mod to do just on its own , personally I think its the first thing anyone with a carrera should do its £150 inc the BMC filter and so worth spending the money on.
I hope that helps :thumb: :thumb:
Note, on the gen1 and ideally the gen2 before spending money on performance mods I highly reccomend you ensure you have taken the basic risk minimising advise to protect the car the best we can e.g.. fit an LTT, look at what oil your using versus you motors mileage etc , change it at 10k or annually min . warm the car up fully before hooning ,
Lastly get out there and bloody well enjoy driving these cars :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
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