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oof, royal steering wheels do recovering if you fancy going that route. no idea on price but they do look dam good when they are done

haha yeah. tbh if your planning to keep it a while and wanting to tune it then it might be worth looking at getting the engine sorted. Not cheap (well prob will be compared ot bmw prices haha), circa 5k+ for proper closed deck forged build.

aye, unfortunatly i dont know any friendly MOT stations your way who can help 😞

Mine passes on sports cats no problem, and you know how tuned mine is hahaha

ah, torque is a bit lower than i woudl expect for a 2.1 :S

main thing im looking at is fuel/boost but its hard to see whats what. What turbo is it on? im guessing its a 2.0?

got any other graphs?

NP, how far you want to go on spending is totaly yup to you. there becomes a point where its just worth saying 'sod it' and trading it in against something else, that point is up to you and what you want to do, Might be a good time to think about upgrading in all truth.

haha nice 😄 Clinic built one with about 450bhp and other than aftermarket wheels and brembo brakes looks stock, proper sleeper 😄

Alot of units have different connectors and will need an addaptor as jay has said/linked. Find the right one and plug it in and job should be a fish.

It's one of those daft rules. If its there it has to be in good nick, if its not, doesnt matter. It's there due to uk/eu crash regs so personaly i would get another one. Being a bolt on part its not a big job. Part number might be different, but the video shows what to do etc.

welcome, make sure you get a decent warrenty from the seller that covers the engine inc a rebuild just in case

U shape bit can be taken off and pass with it off (JDM's dont have them). Sills is repairable (my dad has his done), brake pipes can be repalced without too much hassel. Could get it retested at a friendlier place after the repairs are done, get some quotes for the repairs and go from there

i'm guessing its a 2.5 turbo? the 1500-2k is for an engine rebuild, although a cheap one. i suspect it may have dropped a ring land, but as said needs looking at properly to diagnose

was she fit? or not pics exchanged? asking for a friend,,,,, pmsl

i havnt got one yet 😞 i kinda feel left out,,,, pmsl

Appologies one and all Not sure what we can do about it at the min, short version they are creating accounts and sending the PM's, we ban one, another pops up.

welcome. As said you'd be better selling it and buying another car, costs involved will be prohibative and it wont help with low down grunt anyway. For towing you want torque not BHP.

Make sure you get a prob description/list of what is included in the price. Makre sure you are comparing apples with apples 🙂

depends what sort oif job you want done. To do it properly glass out, disasembly where required (some go full engine out) could be anywhere from 2k and up for the time needed to do it right.

Its pretty much pot luck, I know 2.5s that have been treated withbkid gloves and have shat themselves and I know cars that have been hammered that have been ok. I've had 3 scoobs with 2.5s, 2 of the 3 have failed.

type uk and gb270 are the same car mechanicly pretty much so just consider them the same. as said jdm is 2.0 engine and is alot less prone to failure than the 2.5, however the jdm engine is no longer a proper forged engine. Which you go for is really up to you, i preffer the 2.5 over the 2.0 as they have alot more low down grunt, however if you go 2.5 i would make sure you budget for a proper rebuild just in case (cirac 3-4k for a basic rebuild done properly). It may never go, but then you might drive it 5 miles and it might go.

Don't know much about HSD tbh, I've got tein flex z on my hawk and they are great, handles well but not back breaking hard or crashy.

are you sure its headgaskets and not rocker gasket?

why do you need an s7? s7 and s6 are pretty similar