NothernDan

On 6/15/2018 at 12:39 AM, ISF V8 JAY said:

Thanks Pete,

 

looking at the H&S systems.

would the cat back system be loud enough ?

Here are some examples of mine. Cat Back and intake pipe only. Full details in the description on YouTube.

No-can-do for me on the 13th :(

It'll be July or bust for me.

On a positive note, next batch of mods on the ISF as of the 15th. Pics to follow.

Had mine fitted about 2 weeks ago too!

Bearing in mind I am lowered 25mm at the front on Tein H-Tech springs (which actually made the ride a little softer than stock) and have 15mm H&R spacers each side.

In my opinion the car now feels (comfort wise) like it did stock but with a much more positive steering response and far less vagueness when you turn in hard.

With the springs and the USRS it's no firmer than it was stock, it looks better and handles like my old R32 Golf used to. I'm impressed.

I was just starting to notice a little inner tyre wear on the fronts after 15,000 miles in a little under a year of ownership so hopefully that should will no longer be an issue now.

Keep toying with the idea of putting a set of lightweight 18's on the car having just gone down an inch on the Mrs' Cooper S and saw a huge improvement in overall comfort levels in that car. Anyone running 18's?

On 14/04/2018 at 7:40 PM, Paul zug said:

Hi all, new to forum so hello😁

I am looking at buying a GSF from my local Lexus dealer in Hedge End Hampshire. 

https://usedcars.lexus.co.uk/en/used-lexus/Lexus/GS-50-F-4dr-Saloon/Mark-Levinson-Sunroof-pbbmkpp

I was wondering if this car is known by anyone here? I have test driven it but upon entry, it smelled like an exsmokers car, but was assured by the sales rep that it was the smell of the leather seats!

And could someone please confirm mpg, this car was showing 8 mpg after reset, and after a 30 mile test drive! Is this mpg usual or unusual.

Thanks in advance🤗

Hi Paul and welcome to the forum.

Should you end up buying the ex-smokers edition let me know. I have a tried and tested process which has managed to completely eradicate any smell of smoke from cars, including my current ISF (which I am pretty sure was owned by Dot Cotton) and 3 of my previous cars that must have each been used on the set of a Dr Dre production.

I managed to knock £2k off the asking price of my ISF due to the smell of smoke. Took me about 4 hours of graft and the smell is totally gone.

Managed to stumble across two great techniques online and use a combination of the two.

Might be worth it if you can use the smell as a bargaining chip.

Good luck!!

Hey Big Rat!

Ta for all your efforts on this. I'll be there no matter what.

Let us know once you know about the 21st/22nd, it woul be great to see those that can still make it again.

Who needs a stupid LFA when you've got an ISF with the Actuator hose unplugged!

#whocaresaboutheatsoak

30 minutes ago, ColinBarber said:

Happy to get the drill out...

 

on someone else's car 

Measure twice, drill once!

58 minutes ago, Comedian said:

Make a cardboard template tube and go from there. A lot of effort for not much gain?

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 But you get a totally custom mod and you're an innovator (legend!) :)

This looks like a great opportunity for some warranty destroying homegrown mods!!

Who's willing to open up an inbound line to the wheel arch and drill some holes in their wheel liner then?

I'm defo there for at least one of the days, will try and do both if I can wangle it.

Thankfully the Mrs is supportive of me coming, especially given the dates. We share the same birthday (20th April) and to help with my inability to remember 'special' dates we also got married on our birthdays so this is our wedding anniversary weekend too!

I'll be there but will no doubt have to buy my way out of Mrs NothernDan's debt with sparkly and/or golden things!

Now there's F-commitment for ya!

3 hours ago, Comedian said:

Flap just opens into engine bay on rcf. Unless I've missed something, will have a better look.

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You should get an ISF Sean, purely for intake temperature reduction!

Check the wheel arch liner for a vented section above the brake disc duct, mines definitely there mate and runs straight into a duct into the bottom if the induction box but can’t vouch for you ‘modern’ lot in your spangly RCFs 

So, as you'll know from the thread above I have this mod and love it. Induction growl from 2000 instead of 3400 and unless I am mistaken, all it does is permanently open the flap that allows air to be sucked in through the vent in your offside wheel arch. With that in mind, unless you live in Florida then how does this increase heat soak?

The official Lexus line (as posted on a fair few US forums) is that you are only pulling in 'cool' air from the wheel well once the car is up to speed and they see that as being any speed where revs are over 3400rpm. This may correlate to the power band of the engine too?

As we live in what is primarily a siberian climate I reckon we're pretty much getting cool air all the time from the wheel well, although I'm gonna drop my front wheel out and curl up in there with the engine running for a day to see how hot I get.

Given that the RR racing intake ditches the stupid actuator all together and leaves the wheel well intake permanently open then I'm fairly confident this mod won't do any harm, unless you happen to be on the Fuji Speedway and it's 100 degrees celcius in the shade.

I'm no expert but my car sounds ace with the mod and I'm sure it's added at least 1,000 horsepower, especially when combined with my Intel inspired "V8 inside" sticker. 

Just to be clear. I do not have that sticker......

Enjoy!

I'm there! Good idea on the poll too.

It's not a million miles for me but if there is going to be a busiest day then it would be good to do that one.

Pressure's on to get the new mods on the ISF by then! :)

11 hours ago, Big Rat said:

@Comedian Sean has drawn my attention to this at the motor show and the phrase ‘ Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ‘ springs to mind when looking at many aspects of the RCF 🤔

Big Rat

After years of development, millions of euros of investment and combining the efforts of the greatest minds in BMW, we introduce the much heralded and highly anticipated........... Slightly more aggressive Audi RS7.

This car gives me a feeling that reminds me of that time when I lost a tenner and found a fiver.

Nice one BMW. I've got a load of betamax players if you're interested.

21 hours ago, NemesisUK said:

Yup, doesn't get the clothes any cleaner but the machine keeps functioning at it's best for longer 

Bottom line is one isn't going to cause any damage 

I've just put some Calgon in the ISF. What happens next?

Just adding my two cents.

Despite many reports to the contrary I do see a difference running V-Power and as a result have run it in all my cars for the last 10 years plus.

You only see a difference when you’ve used it tank after tank for many miles. After that, when you have to put a tank of bog standard fuel in, you see a loss of power and rougher idling straight away. It’s as if the car gets used to the higher octane.

We drive to France every year and stick a few thousand miles on the car every time. Have never found a shell that stocked VPower in France (not many shells tbh) and I do notice the difference over there when running on bog standard fuel.

On return to uk and with a few tanks of VPower back in her the drive is noticeably different.

VPower only, where possible, for me.

Lots of press in the US forums that it adds no power as it lets Warner air into the intake below 3600. Clearly they’ve not been to England..... I mean, “warm air”....... if only.

Had that mod on my ISF for about 3 months now although I did buy 2 nice black plastic/rubber 3mm vacuum end caps and totally removed the little hose. You get chewbacca from 2000rpm and a much more linear acceleration curve too.

Hard to conceive a worse car than a gen1 SLK but it seems everyone else except Chrysler just wasn’t trying hard enough.

Just had a quick look on welovecrossfires.com out of curiosity but the page hasn’t been opened for so long it’s rusted shut!

1 hour ago, dutchie01 said:

Dan, be fair to Chrysler please. It is an achievement in itself to build a car that totally fails on all fronts.

Not easy to achieve it is an engineering accomplishment in itself!

Did the americans ever build a car that could compete with the standard in the automobile industry?

Why oh why do they still use regenerated coca cola bottles for the interior, why are the gap panels so flexible that sometimes you can literally stick your fingers in it? Why are there no engineering accomplishments no technical innovations apart from Tesla?   

Anyway, i still think it is not a simple task to build a car that is engineered so badly as the Crossfire, hats off!

I must concede, it did have a good........... errrrrr.......... ummmmmmmm.............. no, on second thoughts it didn’t!

6 hours ago, baxlin said:

Hi Dan,

Quick question, what was wrong with the Chrysler Crossfire?

I've never even sat in one, let alone driven or owned one, but I have always liked the looks of the soft top version, and, as shown by my list, particularly the JZR, I tend to go for 'not quite mainstream' cars.

thanks

Malcolm

Edit.  The Lexus was a company car, (my choice) now I'm retired I have a Volvo C70 folding hardtop

Hi Malcolm,

There was so much wrong with the Crossfire it was untrue! Any that are still around now should be OK maintenance and reliability wise but they are not without their issues;

• It's a Chrysler so was/is made from the cheapest possible forms of all materials. To say it felt like it was made from old biscuit tins would be flattering
• 18 inch front wheels, 19 inch rears.....why oh why oh why!?
• The chassis legs were unncapped and exposed beneath the front bumper so in certain wind conditions it howled like blowing across the top of a bottle and you only found the source of the problem out after 6 months of annoying ownership as the dealers said they 'could not hear it' even when you took them out and replicated it with them sat in the car. They always said they could not replicate it when they had it to themselves, odd that.
• It shared most of it's construction with the SLK of the same era (Gen 1). Have a look at one of those and the interiors are quite nasty and plastic-ey. Chrysler used cheaper plastics and harder materials so it just looked and felt worse.
• Interior fit of everything was very poor, very rattly.
• Radio looked like one out of a 1984 Cavalier
• most of the interior trim on mine was silver hard plastic which scratched up in no time.
• Both cats went on mine within 1,000 miles of each other on a 24,000 mile car (very common fault), which required the full exhaust system to be replaced unless you went with after market weld in variety, which at the time I didn't. a very pricey job to fix
• Very, very uncomfortable and very sweaty seats that were made of what was supposed to be leather but looked and felt more like plastic. Mine were in a fetching murky green colour (if you wanted the gunmetal grey one, which I did).
• Worthless boot space.
• Clarkson said they looked like a dog bending over for a poo so consequently every bloke between the age of 15 and 45 also said the same to you and found it hilarious (oh how we laughed!)
• Doors are about 50,000 miles long so you can't park in most places
• Bonnet is about 100,000 miles long and with the roof being so low you can't get up high enough to see over it.
• Sounded like a far slower car, accelerated like a far slower car
• Other than that it was great..... you should get one!! (DON'T!!) 

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There's been a fair few for me too! Haven't listed them like this before, it brings back some good memories

• Mk4 Golf 1.4S - company car
• Rover 75 2.5 V6 - company car
• E46 BMW 320 M Sport - company car
• Volvo 850 T5R
• E30 BMW 325 Touring Alpina Spec
• Vauxhall Calibra 2.0 16v
• Vauxhall Calibra Turbo
• Rev 2 MR2 2.0 G-Limited (still got it!)
• MG ZT 2.5 V6
• Mitsubushi L200 - company car
• Lexus IS250 - company car
• E36 BMW 328i M sport
• Subaru Impreza WRX STI Wagon
• E46 BMW 325i M sport
• E46 BMW M3
• Chrysler Crossfire (what was I thinking!?)
• Jaguar S Type R
• Mk5 Golf R32
• E46 BMW 325i M Sport
• Mercedes e320 sport
• E92 BMW 335i M sport
• Mercedes CLS 350 CDI
• Lexus ISF

The last one is a perfect mix of the best bits of all of the others although I did enjoy;

• The noise the 335i made (heavily modified!)
• The pure badass looks of the MR2
• The stick-to-the-road handling of the R32
• The old school cool of the E30 touring

I may be wrong but in all applications I've ever seen turbos are known for heat generation where's a supercharger typically runs cold.

Running a turbo from the rear of the car has obvious disadvantages (length of pipework for one) which will certainly affect power output and efficiency of any turbo.

Turbos are popular now for cheap power gains in most cases and for those manufacturers with a focus on emissions in 'power' cars.

As already advised, you need a recirc or dump valve on a turbo ot it'll be laggy as a laggy thing or fluttering like a pigeon!

I'm not sure if i'm reading it wrong but the very first post here sounds like you've got the requirements (and pros and cons) for a turbo and supercharger the wrong way round? Might just be me.

I'm with Pete and all other responders. SC all the way for our motors. Preferably from RR so you know it's well thought out and properly tested, unlike the Tesco Value Range Turbo kits that eBay has on buy one get one free!

You gets what you pays for and if you've shelled out top money for an F-Car don't stick a shonky turbo on it cos it was 'cheaper'.

And that's coming from Mr Fast and Furious MR2!