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F6 ute Are you just talking manual Box? I have seen 320rwkw out of a T5, lasted two weeks. My first box went at 274rwkw, second one was ok at 305rwkw, however you could tell it was struggling with the power and started to develop the well known 3rd gear whine which indicates that it is beggining to deteriorate. As for clutches the average seems to be around 260rwkw once again dependant on who's driving. Ben from Mal woods conducted alot of testing and as they have posted before they registered ireprable damage in the box from 250rwkw onwards. How the box performes from there onwards is dependant on how the car is driven. There are a couple of members on the forum that have 300rwkw in their T5's for sometime with no issues whatsoever. However in generalisation if you don't budget for something to go wrong from 250-260rwkw onwards then you are on borrowed time.

You will cause irreprable damage at 250+rwkw in the T5, clutch will not last much past 250-260rwkw dependant on how you drive. I had 305rwkw in mine with an aftermarket clutch, but that was my second box and it's just a matter of time before they go bang. A pretty average box that does not like power combined and very long gear shifts. You will not get into the 12's with a T5 unless you are running 300rwkw + or you are an incredible driver.. As suggested go an auto, you will be in the 12's with 250rwk. To strengthen the auto for 300rwkw-400rwkw you will look at $1800 for a strengthening on your auto and it will handle pretty much whatever you can dish out on it (see Geea). You would need to look at strengthening the pressure and even bands at 240rwkw onwards, obviously all of this is depenadant opn how you drive. Manuals have more power, auto's are quicker.........

thanks missxr its sad when a grown man doesnt know how to use his computer Going back a few months or so ago this Buf-Phoon tosser did exactly the same thing the idiot That's what happens when you get rid of a white T and choose some other random colour......

Dont think there the ducks guts either Jb as I had the pleasure of punching out an Aps cat last week due to the fact it was fuked and causing a host of problems since the punching it fixed the problems and a certain ex sponsor wanted $1200 to replace it CYA JEFF Thanks Jeff, it's really for the looks, I just think they look fantastic on the T while subtle they show there is something lurking but with quality...

There are 300 other threads on this exact topic with alot of input from some of the ford guys on here. Ford cannot detect the edit, flash the day before you take it in and it will log some drive data on the standard tune. The pcm does not have the capability to log times dates etc as well as overwriting itself after a certain period of time logging information. I had my car in at ford almost fortnightly with many problems each time flashing the car back to stock. After watching them try to diagnose a problem for two hrs hooked up to the PCM they did not have the foggiest that I had an edit let alone was running 968 injectors. I also checked with the delaer I used for servicing and he knew the car was modded and admitted that they could not detect it.

Out of interest are the typhoon exhausts same as the T's? Down the track I maylook at one but would want to put on a aps zorst

I remember. Does that exhaust stink with a gutted Cat? Hey Luke, no it does not smell, I had 294rwkw with the complete standard exhaust except I had Geeas gutted standard Cat. I would suggest it was close it it's limit as sometimes under full throttle or backing off you could hear it struggling under pressure and sometimes would hesitate until it had cleared itself. Cheers JB JB, did you have standard valve springs at the time? Hey Rob, no mate the valve springs got changed at 260rwkw which then took me up to 274rwkw.

Good on you Craig, glad to hear it's back and badder than ever! Great to see the customer support that dave from Kewish seems to give. Makes you happy to know that you are getting bang for your buck, not only from a product perspective but also customer service. Look forward to having a drive! Cheers JB

I remember. Does that exhaust stink with a gutted Cat? Hey Luke, no it does not smell, I had 294rwkw with the complete standard exhaust except I had Geeas gutted standard Cat. I would suggest it was close it it's limit as sometimes under full throttle or backing off you could hear it struggling under pressure and sometimes would hesitate until it had cleared itself. What also made it very obvious that it was the next restriction in my car, was I put the APS zorst on at that level and the car felt so much freer on acceleration and deceleration. The noises and pressure build up I had no longer existed. Cheers JB

Personally I don't car whether it's a Ford or a Expensive Daewoo or a Aston Martin or a Mini, you have to appreciate a nice car, I suppose I am a genuine enthusiast, I don't care what it is as long as you can apprecaite the time and effort that the owner has put into it. A TT Clubbie or Monaro is as much to be respected and appreciated as a ford or anything for that matter. When I say work and effort put into it, I am not talking ricer bodykit and exhaust system I mean people who modify and enhance their cars with taste. Go for it Adam, good luck with your next project, keep us posted.

Scary is'nt it? If only god supplied a manual with them.................

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Can you imagine forking out your hard earned for a T or Typhoon, having it for a few weeks then it getting stolen before you could insure it. So in 2043 you get a phone call saying they have retreived your pride and joy. Then you find out that it's like a GT HO as they have not made them for years and it's worth a fortune. It's the only one of it's kind around. I'd be sad but imagine rolling that out of your garage in 37 years.....

For your reading pleasure, from the New York Times. January 17, 2006 A Stolen Love Is Found, 37 Years Down the Road By MICHAEL WILSON Alan Poster had been going through a rough time that winter. A Brooklyn native and a 26-year-old guitar salesman, he had just divorced and moved from Queens to a 21st Street studio in Chelsea. He bought himself a flashy treat that he could barely afford but could not resist: a blue Corvette. He had owned it for only two or three months when it was stolen from a parking garage on 23rd Street. It was Jan. 22, 1969. Years passed, and there were other cars, but he never forgot that 1968 Corvette. "Probably the only car I've ever really loved," Mr. Poster, now 63, said in an interview last week. "That car and my new life started together." The new life took him to California. Turns out, the car followed. Almost 37 years after the Corvette was stolen, Mr. Poster got a call last month that it had been recovered, just days before it was supposed to be shipped to a buyer in Sweden. It was flagged during a routine Customs Service check of the vehicle identification number, sending two New York City detectives on a long-shot search through thousands of crime reports to connect the car to its first owner. "We can call this a miracle," Mr. Poster said. "I stand in the shower going, 'Why me?' Has anything like this ever happened to you?" The car is to be returned to Mr. Poster today, at a news conference in Carson, Calif. It is silver now, with a red interior, and the engine was replaced at some point. Inexplicably, it has no transmission. "Up until this moment, I thought it was chopped up and shipped away," Mr. Poster said. "It's in great shape, I understand." He said he does not plan to drive it much. "I am going to be a collector of a Corvette." The 1968 Corvette represented a breakthrough for Chevrolet, created in the so-called Mako Shark design and ushering in the third generation of Corvettes. There were 18,630 Corvette convertibles made that year. One of those convertibles, painted International Blue, rolled out of the factory and to a dealer in Great Neck on Long Island on July 16, 1968. Mr. Poster paid $6,000 for the car a few months later, he said. "I didn't have a lot of money," he said. "I went out on a limb to get this thing. It was an egocentric muscle car that just came out. Back then, Corvette was hot as heck. That was an absolute fantasy of mine." A 1968 Corvette in mint condition would be worth anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 now, depending on the type of engine, according to Classic Corvettes and Convertibles in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Most of the 32 1968 Corvettes listed for sale yesterday on the Hemmings Motor News Web site were in that range, with some priced at more than $100,000. He liked, in no particular order, to drive fast with the top down and impress girls. "I was dating back then," he said. "I used to drive up the West Side Highway to Jersey. Trips like that. For the little time I had it, it was fun." On the night before the Corvette was stolen, Mr. Poster foiled an attempt to steal it from a curbside parking spot on the Upper West Side, he said. He was picking up a date and saw the car pulling away, but managed to pull the man out. "I let him go," he said, and he did not report the incident. The next night, a garage attendant went to get the Corvette, but returned and said it was gone. Mr. Poster did not have insurance against theft because he could not afford it, he said. He went years without owning another car. "It was a wake-up call," he said. "It made me believe you can't fall in love with things. It was kind of an interesting awakening." The police report, dated Jan. 22, 1969, offered little hope that Mr. Poster was ever going to see his Corvette again. It stated, in full: "Comp reports that at the t/p/o his car below was taken from the above premises in some unknown manner." If it seemed - full as it was with police abbreviation - that the officer was in a hurry, there was good reason: With 1969 just 22 days old, Mr. Poster's was the 6,620th car reported stolen in New York City so far that year, and one of more than 78,000 by year's end. On average, about 215 vehicles were stolen in the city every day - more than four times the current rate. He eventually left New York for California, founding the Ace Products Group, a company that makes cases for cameras and guitars, drums and other musical instruments. He settled in Petaluma, north of San Francisco. He is a single father with a 17-year-old daughter. He drives a Mercedes. The National Insurance Crime Bureau keeps a database of stolen vehicles, a database that is routinely checked before a vehicle is exported. On Dec. 7 last year, Customs checked three cars being sold by a collector in Long Beach, Calif. One of them had been reported stolen in New York City on Jan. 22, 1969. No further information was available. No name of the owner, no address, not even a police precinct or borough. The case was given to two detectives in the auto crimes division in Queens, Cliff Bieder, 44, and William Heiser, 41. They went to police headquarters in Lower Manhattan, and to Room 300, the daunting records room, to search on microfilm. If they had not found the report by Jan. 1, the car would have been shipped to Sweden, they said. "It was the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack, that report," Detective Heiser said. "One of the guys bet us a steak dinner we wouldn't find it." With 44 years' experience between them, the detectives spent four days in Room 300, squinting at fine print - "Our eyes were hurting," Detective Bieder said - when Detective Heiser found the report on Dec. 23. He told his partner. "I thought he was going to pass out," he said. Finding Mr. Poster was easier. The detectives tracked him through the buyer of his last house in the New York metropolitan region, who said he lived in California. Mr. Poster said Detective Bieder called him at his office. "He said, 'You had a car stolen in '69? A Corvette? What color was it?'" Mr. Poster recalled. "I said, 'Blue.' He said, 'We have your car.' " Less is known about what happened to the Corvette over the past 36 years than what did not happen to it: apparently no one ever tried to register or insure it, the detectives said, or the same flag from the database would have surfaced. "It's almost like it was just put somewhere and then pulled out a year ago and put up for sale," he said. The man who was selling the car to the buyer in Sweden is not suspected of any wrongdoing, the detectives said. The detectives are trying to trace the car's history backward. "It could have been through so many hands already," Detective Bieder said. "It's hard to find who's culpable." Auto thefts in New York have dropped sharply, to 17,875 last year, the police said. The detectives have been gloating over their success since the day they found the report. "We came back and said after the new year, we'd be eating steak dinner," Detective Heiser said. "Somewhere nice. Not Sizzler." The whole affair put Mr. Poster in a reflective mood. "Things don't happen by accident," he said. "Things come back to me. I have no idea why. Maybe it all comes back to you at some point." New York Police Department Alan Poster's '68 Corvette, taken in New York and found in California last month.

No Nesh, I had 19's with King Springs on it SSL rears and SL front to level it out. Only had a wheel balance when I put the springs in, never needed touching it after that. Also had an APS exhaust which made it lower again as that became the lowest point on the car. Took speedhumps carefully, besides that no probs. Cheers JB

It'll drop for sure as 9's aren't my target OUCH! Sorry when I mean drop I mean the times not the engine LOL yeah I know Steve I meant ouch as 9's aren'nt your target! What comes before 9's - 8's

It'll drop for sure as 9's aren't my target OUCH! That's going to Hurt.

Good luck with it Steve it will be good to bring the title anywhere north of Mexico CYA JEFF Yeah about time you lot got off ya asses and stop letting us Mexicans have all the good numbers, it was getting boring!

Adam's was 9.981 @ 144.05MPH Good luck Steve.

Guys just wanting everyone's thoughts on a KIA sportage vs a Mazda 323. Which do you think is better?

Tough wheels Dave, very nice. Not sure how long the yokis will last you though. They are normally a very soft compound tyre, great to start with but will be an interesting test to see how many K's you get out of them with 330rwkw. keep us up to date.

Can you mod on Gas?

I had Kings with my 19's and APS exhaust. Speedhumps were not always the best, however you take and give a little I suppose. One thing no one has mentioned is you need to ensure you get the "Comfort Option" which will retain mmost of the quality of your standard ride. It's in the coding of the springs something like KKFMSSL etc. I would highly recommend the comfort option as you also loose quality of ride when you go aftermarket wheels. Cheers JB

I was reading through this and saw the link to the hotlap rankings. I was the drive show on a regular basis and they definitely had the T faster than the clubby and I taped that episode and replayed to make sure and the was listed as faster than the clubby. Robbie. The T's quicker than the clubby due to it's handling. This is also from the way it puts it's power down. To me the way a clubbie handles vs a T is not comparable, the T for a mass produced car is very well balanced and instill's alot of confidence, it just shows that the Expensive Daewoo Chasis is past it's used by date. In relation to the T being one second slower than the M5 round the track, yes it could be pegged back. However ,you are not paying for a brand name and luxury, the difference is that you can run the M5 all day round sandown without it missing a beat, then drive it home accordingly. 3 laps of sandown in a T and you don't have any brakes left, the clutch overheats, tyres are spongy and you loose alot of confidence in the cars ability if you try to do more laps. Sure is 1 sec down on one lap, where is it after 20 straight? Yes it will definately give it a run in a straight line but that where the comparison ends. Sure the M5 is probably overpriced but nothing more rings true with "you get what you pay for". Cheers JB

This is what happens when you pump 100psi into a Cummins Diesel, notice it's not the head that was the weak point ! Hmm...... may be time to boost up the Bavarian Cabbage Cutter (BMW)