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Postby AJ » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:43 am

Matty wrote:
Steve 818 wrote:It's not like I'm planning on driving the car through a river or anything, so I'm not going to flood the engine with water.


I'm forecasting lots of rain and deep puddles once Steve gets his intake completed... :lol:



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Postby Fuzzlet » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:12 am

Just a warning to those who are thinking of fitting this - my fuel consumption has gone up....unfortunately the noise that the car makes above 3.5k rpm is fantastic, so of course i give it a boot a fair bit.......just a warning :P
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Postby StanTheMan » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:18 am

errr yes
mine went up by about a litre per 100........ohh well. :lol:
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Postby Fuzzlet » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:21 am

StanTheMan wrote:errr yes
mine went up by about a litre per 100........ohh well. :lol:
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I look at it in that although yes me using my car for what it was built for is gonna use more fuel + money, but hell, its damn good fun :mrgreen:
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Postby jules » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:18 am

That's the spirit!


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Postby Sean » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:24 pm

Steve 818 wrote:The funny part is that the cost of painting the entire car and the few extra bits of dunny pipe that I've bought for the intake is still less than the cost of a new Mania cowl intake!! :mrgreen: 8)


Holy Octane Booster Batman! That's a damn cheap repsray! My paints alone cost more than than that :oops:
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Postby irwin83r » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:55 pm

yeah sound mighten equal more power but it sure as helll equals more fuel usage and bigger grins.

im on holidays at the moment and will take some photos of my cold side dunny pipe jobbie when i pull it all out and paint it now im happy its not fouling anything.
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