"Yeah, about that EcoBoost engine lol

Pretty much all of them are at risk for head warpage prior to 50k miles

The cylinders have a "water cooled jacket", so they're only attached to the rest of the head at the bottom end"

Tune of what? An ECU remap?

Yes

It's called an open deck, and it's only one motor that's open deck.

Also that thread sounds about like what i was saying

190hp is easy

Above 200hp takes work

Which, tbf, isnt worth it on an econobox

I have seen people do it, but they throw tons of money at it

I might do that if i get a second car tho

at no point does it suggest 190 was easy, unfortunately the guy removed his setup from his signature but he does say he was running 33% E85 mixed with 93 gas

Also just saying. The bit that started this, with me talking about cam and turbo upgrades, was a joke.

Also i gave a range. 180 to 190. Not just 190

Tune by itself gives 39 to 50 hp iirc.

From trifecta at least.

Bnr has a less aggressive tune i think

Now maybe when i was looking this shit up before i missed details about using e85 to get those last few horses

Absolutely possible. Likely, in fact

But even 180hp is a sizeable increase in juice for just an intake, exhaust, and ecu tune

Anything beyond that is messing around for fun on an extra car. You are absolutely right in saying its probably not worth it. @LOGiK

I question the use of e85 tho.

For just 10 to 15hp, doesnt seem worth the hassle

does your car have a 126mph limiter on it?

also the 180 is probably gonna need a decat without other mods from what I can see

HOLY SHIT EBAY SELLERS SUCK BALLS FML

Well yeah.

dude

I just wanna fucking buy something and pick it up

not pay postage

I messaged the dude

he responds

I tell him he needs to amend his goddamn ebay listing because it forces full payment at present

nothing

I also want this but I can't justify the cost right now

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-silvia-Brembo-big-brake-kit-200sx-s14-s15-r33/223053683804?hash=item33ef091c5c:g:GjkAAOSwldZbG~XB

Whenever i see Brembo it looks like Bimbo at first glance

Bimbo brakes

Ugly small brakes

Lol

Big Tits on BIG Wheels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdv-o-4YYg

Last thing I'll post on this subject

But really, the Cruze is not a bad car for light to medium mods

Some of the stuff they talk about is just _yeesh_

240hp with an upgraded stock turbo and e85 kit is just too much

"brake fluid upgrade"

Yeah lol i dont see that doing much

you gotta protect your investment my dude

my 'oversized'

brakes

Alright sure, replace the brake fluid

But calling it an upgrade is stupid

it's an adjustment

a tune

if you increase power maybe I guess so

we don't want school run mom brake fluid eh?

I figure what he means is he replaced dot3 with like dot5.1 or something

but I don't see why you'd even mention it

^

That, it is a upgrade

* *vapes* Yeah, I totally replaced the engine oil with Amsoil synthetic.*

but it came with everything else or you end up falling off cliff

he just wants credit for bleeding it out

he can bleed a brake line, can you?

the actual performance difference would be down to the boiling point and my bet is you'd max out even upgraded calipers and rotors before you reached even the dot3 boiling point

the cruze isn't designed as a performance car so unless you really went crazy on brakes I doubt "upgrading" the fluid will ever do anything

but it's still an upgrade

SCIENTIFICALLY

I'm not really sure if you can call something that makes no difference to performance an upgrade

like, if you bolted a gt28 onto a 50cc, is that an upgrade?

the engine would never spool it, it would never actually do anything

have you upgraded the engine?

have you upgraded the car?

What I'm saying is if you add bits onto a car that have the potential to increase performance but for whatever reason due to the configuration the vehicle is unable to utilise the potential, is that an upgrade?

I don't think it is

the best example would actually be adding rear spoilers to fwd cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2KHxU3Uqws

https://youtu.be/FECvkbb57i8?t=4m39s

I'm a racing fan

if I can get 0.1 of a second

@LOGiK if your car cant feasibly use an upgrade, its really just...nothing really

If its not visible, you cant even call it rice. Its even less useful

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253761659207

fucking cool

@LOGiK Closest thing we had...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Matrix

I don't think that's quite in the same bracket lol

@LOGiK It's shorter, but the underpinnings are very similar.

it's white, i'm racist against white cars

no awd or 3sgte though

It's AWD

and the 3S swaps in easily (for a FWD car)

lol but yeah, it's nothing compared to a Caldina

as far as I can tell the caldina is basically a celica gt4 estate/wagon, but I don't know much about them

Sort of. The transmissions aren't nearly as strong as the Celica GT4

Those were pretty unique

well that has some garbage ass triptronic shit

And the "center" differential is different as well

it's weird how nice cars often end up with garbage transmissions

my friends stagea has some shitty slushbox in it that he still hasn't replaced yet

he needs to hurry up with that, he bought that car for like £900 and it's worth like 4x that now