New Members Thread

[Ralph Wiggum]

Pics of rotangs?

[demon1300]

Good to know there are other fellow rotang lovers on here

[deee8888]

Hey, I am a noob

[jarmo]

Hello everybody !

Bought an fg 2009 turbo recently and what can I say it is an awesome car. I had a wrx before ,that had a t4 garret, plus a bigger intercooler and some other performance mods like a full exhaust of course.

good for around 230 awkw.. now that I have more kids I thought that I wanted a family car that still performs and I have not been disappointed.

anyway my fg upgrade was done by KPM motorsports and is running a stock turbo ,still a stock intercooler but the mods are 4 inch dump pipe into 3.5 inch cat back full exhaust,,growler intake ,high flow injectors and

boosting 14.5 psi 318 rwkw at the moment,however I am going to put a bigger intercooler on it and maybe valve springs and up the boost to about 16 psi later on but for now I am happy with it as it is.

The car has done 80 0000km now and the upgrade was done 10 000km ago.

All I can say is that I really enjoy my car and already start feeling pissed off about Ford closing down in Australia and not having these great cars built after a couple of years.

Mark

I also got a hayabusa with some mods and been to willowbank running 9.6 @147mph with a crappy 1.75 60 foot time so still room for improvement.

Edited 06/01/15 10:08 AM by jarmo

[jarmo]

yeah forgot to mention staggered wheels with nitto nt05 275 back rubber (still breaks traction in the first gear) so what are you guys using to harness your 300or (god forbid) 400-500rwkw?

Edited 06/01/15 10:41 AM by jarmo

[old_mate]

You don't really harness 500. You pedal it or just blaze them

[jarmo]

Ok. I guess not street tyres could handle 500.

[bamk2f6tornado]

I think nt05s are about the best you can get to handle power on the street while not having to sell an organ to afford them and retaining your life if it starts to rain.. my 275/30/19 with 30psi will hold 2nd once warm with 350rwkw

[jarmo]

at my power level 2nd is ok at 35psi so I suppose lowering the pressure would help in the 1st. for street use though would 30 psi be ok?

[BenDoCo]

Not sure if having -full- traction is a good idea with 318kw....unless you are ready to replace whatever snaps . eg. tailshaft....cv...half shaft etc. etc..

Maybe safer to let the tryes slip a bit or if you're determined to have full (1st gear) traction, check out some of the members build threads to see how easy things can break on some of these cars.

Enjoy the new car mate and I hope the family enjoys it as well.

Edited 06/01/15 12:33 PM by BenDoCo