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Subject: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 11:53
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!!!
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:02
did you have a 16v turbo pete?
what car was it? i didnt know thissss
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:08
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?
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:11
i have had mine glowing red!!
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:12
really?!?
that sounds like the big turbo on my van
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:15
Yup look for a video on this site, that all I am saying dude, labeled for papa steve. Mk1 caddy
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:19
why would it get that hot? is it running at max boost? or is it just continual punishment?
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:21
Because its a big big turbo, running high boost, like 1.6 bar min.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:23
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.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:25
Like I said home look for the video I posted for papa steve.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:25
wahoo, i want it glowing will bring some crumpets and butter
know what yours was like t'other day then
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:33
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
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 12:35
ha ha, lol!
the faster your rev the more oil goes round your turbo?
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Mon Feb 16 2009, 13:03
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!
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Tue Feb 17 2009, 13:47
I miss my fireblade, it was damn quick but not as comfortable as a car.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Tue Feb 17 2009, 14:07
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!
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Tue Feb 17 2009, 14:40
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)
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Tue Feb 17 2009, 23:29
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.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Wed Feb 18 2009, 00:19
u cant get a baby blade in 04/05 they were old skool 400's from the early 90's
-u crazy man
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Wed Feb 18 2009, 02:35
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.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Wed Feb 18 2009, 14:35
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?
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Wed Feb 18 2009, 14:59
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.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Wed Feb 18 2009, 23:35
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.
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Thu Feb 19 2009, 02:04
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 ??
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Subject: Re: VR6 turbo beast Thu Feb 19 2009, 03:50
And the award for thread hijack of the year goes to....