VR6 turbo beast

This car is ridiculous, and its a 12V to boot. I remember my 16V turbo used to look the same after ragging it. Look how hot that turbo is!!!

did you have a 16v turbo pete?

what car was it? i didnt know thissss

er, yeah my turbo glows like that if i disconnect the coolant lines

i bet yours is like that james, surely that cant be healthy for the turbo being that hot?

i have had mine glowing red!!

really?!?

that sounds like the big turbo on my van

Yup look for a video on this site, that all I am saying dude, labeled for papa steve. Mk1 caddy

why would it get that hot? is it running at max boost? or is it just continual punishment?

Because its a big big turbo, running high boost, like 1.6 bar min.

your turbo will go like that simon..

ill get it glowing for ya

constantly rag it up and down dual carriageway couple of time, pop your bonnets and walla.. red u have it.

Like I said home look for the video I posted for papa steve.

wahoo, i want it glowing will bring some crumpets and butter

know what yours was like t'other day then

i had a burn up, where i was glowing red and my breaks were steaming

had to take it for a drive around fast but low revs, get oil round the turbo, and air to my brakes..

miss being a rebel, but much better to get it out ya system, now im an enthausiast...not a chav haha joke

ha ha, lol!

the faster your rev the more oil goes round your turbo?

Wildchild wrote:

i had a burn up, where i was glowing red and my breaks were steaming

had to take it for a drive around fast but low revs, get oil round the turbo, and air to my brakes..

miss being a rebel, but much better to get it out ya system, now im an enthausiast...not a chav haha joke

I see you have an evil twin like mine James, who only comes out to do the bad things! LOL!

I miss my fireblade, it was damn quick but not as comfortable as a car.

Calimori wrote:

I miss my fireblade, it was damn quick but not as comfortable as a car.

Snap, I really miss mine too. Mine was an 04/05 998. Did you have the proper blade, or the baby blade? Both bikes are incredible rides. So well balanced, and friking quick. I am older and wiser now. Well wise enough to know I am way to dam naughty for a bike!

gotta love a vr6 turbo... the vid prob dont do it justice apart from the 0-200kmh in 18secs (i think thats what it said)

Mine was an 02 954 running a 'special' exhaust and remapped with a powercommander. It broke all UK speed limits in first gear. Pleasant to ride too.

u cant get a baby blade in 04/05 they were old skool 400's from the early 90's


-u crazy man

Actualy you did, it was the CBR600F4i it was a 600 cc fireblade everone called it the baby blade it was in production from 1987 and was first know as the hurricane, I think it became the baby after the 400 dropped. Maybe you didn't get it here in the uk?

At Cali, nice one, I had an acropovic exhaust, custom ram airbox mobs and a few other tricks. Really do miss that bike.

We called the 400 the baby blade and most were gray imports. The cbr600F4 in the UK was never referred to as a baby, have you every tried to pick one up?

Calimori wrote:

We called the 400 the baby blade and most were gray imports. The cbr600F4 in the UK was never referred to as a baby, have you every tried to pick one up?

Yeah I know, but then the 400 blade was dropped and everyone I know reffers to the CBR600F4i as the baby blade from the late 90's. Grated it is a heavy bike. In fact from 2008 CBR600F4i was changed to CBR600-RR, noww remember the "original" baby blade was the CBR400-RR So even honda are seeing it as the baby blade.

We had the CBR600-RR from 2003 and it could be brought along side the 4i still. Very capable bike but it just reved like made and I didn't like that, prefered the power of the 954, similar weight too.

its all about the twins for me!!

My 2001 Aprilia falco was just amazing - to a point were it scared me!!!- -the one with the RSV mille engine in (i had a stubby twin can system and a renagade airbox -(which was basically short stacks, a sheet of carbon and a pipercross filter on top - it sucked ur nuts off!!!)

also had a 94 old skool air cooled ducati 600ss which i stripped and completly rebuilt- was slow fook but sounded great.

I did have a In line 4 at one point , it was a 1994 ratty -hand painted/dirty zephyr 550 and i loved it!!! - it had done 60k and smoked more than dot cotton but it was great fun - quite zippy too!

.......oh yeah i had a 1994 aprilia rs125 when i was younger..........i crashed it -----alot !!


ahhhh.................those were the days!! (until VW's took over my life!!)


pete i remember you saying u had a kawasaki ZXR 600 or 900 at some point ??

And the award for thread hijack of the year goes to....



I had a Raleigh Activator.