Boost up my car

[s2d4]

Originally Posted by bomexq

Ohh! Thank you sir! Now ive got few ideas already in starting to mod up! Some people are not helpful in these club. But i'm glad that there are some understanding people like you

What do you consider helpful?

[BlueDubbinTDI]

Originally Posted by bomexq

Ohh! Thank you sir! Now ive got few ideas already in starting to mod up! Some people are not helpful in these club. But i'm glad that there are some understanding people like you


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Please stop saying "mod up".... and start reading other threads. You wont be wasting your time I promise

[cdrazic93]

Funny how I was regarding him as a troll earlier in the thread and now he says I'm helpful lol

[King Tut]

OP should watch all episodes of Mighty Car Mods and then report back:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mightycarmods

[utekineir]

I love Australian motoring clubs

[phloozy]

Originally Posted by King Tut

OP should watch all episodes of Mighty Car Mods and then report back:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mightycarmods

i get so excited when I see a new video posted

[King Tut]

Originally Posted by phloozy

i get so excited when I see a new video posted

So do I.

[Luckrider]

As do I! I enjoy their videos and the quality has improved. I just wish they did more mod work recently.

[phloozy]

Originally Posted by Luckrider

As do I! I enjoy their videos and the quality has improved. I just wish they did more mod work recently.

agreed, the last video was really well done but I like the at home budget mod stuff.

[SirBrass]

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the OP is just a clueless newbie, not a troll.

Which is why my first reaction to the OP was:



Okay, OP. Let's lay out the most important facts pre-turbo about you and your car:

1) This is your first car
2) You've stated that reliability is paramount for you (you'd like this to be your last car also).
3) You are absolutely new to modding cars (based upon your questions and acute gullibility)

These are complex, if fairly well understood, machines. That means, if you know what you're doing, getting in there with a wrench is not exactly a majorly risky proposition. However, for those who don't know diddly about cars, this is not the case.

You have several optional paths, none of which immediately result in you getting turbo in your car, but all which greatly increase the chance of this car remaining with you for quite a long, happy, while.

Path 1) Don't do anything.
-This is the easiest and most risk-free path you can take. Let the dealership handle routine scheduled maintenance and run the stock tune with stock everything. Maybe upgrade your audio, but let a good audio shop do that. This really isn't a bad idea, honestly. This car is incredibly fun AS IS, and practical to boot. The reason many of us don't go that way, though, is we simply cannot resist tinkering and trying to extract the most out of this platform. But that by no means means that this car isn't absolutely delightful to drive as a bone stock car from the dealership.

Path 2) Read, learn, get experience.
-Stick around. Read, read, read and do some research on your own before asking complex questions about the ins and outs of this car. This has the advantage of using brainpower, which is the only resource I know of which replenishes itself and increases the more it is used.

Most of us around here are either self-taught and learned from our mistakes and getting blown motors, etc., or learned from others, or are professionals in the automotive field (I'm in that 2nd group, and still learning much from others).

As far as getting experience, I also mean behind the wheel of your car as a stock car. You will not be able to get the most out of a turbo'd 86, even maximum FUN, if you cannot by your own skills extract a good bit of that from the car in stock form. This means doing the most important mod of them all, and one which I and others still find hard to do, b/c we just love gadgets way too much: tune the nut behind the wheel.

That is, seat time, time with a track instructor, learning how to drive properly. This isn't street driving where any ninny with half a brain can mindlessly drive a numb econobox down streets. This is performance driving where YOU are the master of the car, not just the prime passenger. This will not only result in you being a much safer driver in normal situations (if you can resist hooning on the streets with traffic), but also makes simple driving much more enjoyable.

This car is great in that thanks to its low power and low stock torque, a guy can easily push this car to the limits at lower speeds and the car will in a way teach him when he's done right. Augmented with professional instruction on track days and putting your money into those things well before doing much power modification to the car, will greatly help you drive the car that much better and you'll realize just how much the car has to offer to you in stock form.

You also gain the satisfaction of doing more with less (less hp and less tq). It's like when a paintball player takes on a group of electro-toting speedballers with only a stock class pump: an intentional handicap for the pure thrill and purity of the challenge. It makes everything else that much sweeter and emphasizes your skill over the car's natural abilities.

Remember, Aytron Senna went to fame while mostly driving some of the least impressive F1 cars on the track at the time. It was his pure skill that let him trump the other drivers so often even with their better machines.

Once you've gotten more experience under your belt, read up on things and learned enough to be truly confident (and not confident in ignorance), take the money you've saved by NOT going turbo, and based upon your research, time in the forums, and own wants and needs after getting to know this car well, choose a FI kit... if indeed you still want to go FI. Some folks realize that they just want to stay NA, actually, and put their money elsewhere.

There's more to going FI than just bolting on parts onto this car. You'll need a tune, for one, and possibly fuel pump and injectors depending on the kit you want, exhaust mods, even new wheels and tires, and possibly suspension reinforcement depending on just what you go with.

But suggesting what to get would be foolhardy when you're so new that you don't even have an idea of what you don't know. You'd simply be too much of a danger to your car for me to give recommendations right now.

However, stick around and learn and put LOTS of driving time into your stock 86. She's a gorgeous lady as she is, and she's got lots of potential ready to be unlocked by the driver just as she is.

[EZWood]

don't forget some sort of driving instruction. i would recommend taking an extensive course in order to be able to control your new found power you are looking for.