and I'm dying to talk about it with someone, anyone?
Well as you are desperate.
It does look sickeningly good on the face of it, and potentialy very good value.
For those of us with Guru upgrades the MAP2 kit has got to be IRO £800-900 or a total spend of £1100 for up to +100 bhp. When you consider that the DPW/Wayne route was £1000/1200 (dependent on how you calculated it) for 30-50 bhp, I think we have a lot to thank Danno for.
I went to the Guru site this evening and I'm assuming Andrew's kit and Danno's are one and the same.
Having devastated the Beaky budget recently I'm in a position of sitting on the side lines at the moment. I want to spend some money on doing track days rather than blowing it all on making the car better and then not being able to enjoy it - if that makes sence.
I have been discussing this issue with Rick, who has gone the MAF route (or at least will when he gets the bits) in prefferance to MAP. Apparently, he had a few chummies who totaled Cossies in the past trying out new kit and is consequently sticking with tried yank practice. If, as I'm assuming above, Andrew's kit is just a Danno import then we shouldn't end up as Beta testers and this shouldn't be an issue.
As another though:-
In the wet, and on anything but the nicest of surfaces Beaky is now quite a handfull [
] If one was to consider giving him another 50 bhp to play with I think he could become almost too exciting.
When I started racing the were two of us with 1300 engines, pushing 100 bhp if you were lucky, all the rest had 50-100 bhp more. I came 10th overall in my first year, out of 30+ regular competitors, mainly because many of the others would throw themselves at the scenery.
Power is great. Being able to p122 on most cars on the road is very satisfiying but, lets face it, to demonstrate the fact you end up in serious spontainious licence loss territory. When you come to driving round corners, too much happy peddle and you have the back end going evey which way including loose and again into some dangerous territory.
I'm not whimping out here but, if I recal Mr Clarkson's article in the Sunday times, he was saying how much fun he had in the new Fiat Panda. It wasn't fast, in fact it was pedestrian, but it did 30 mph with gusto a verve. You could have fun, crash a Panda, and live. If you push the limit of a Mega Turbot and it goes wrong, they will be looking for bits to pack in the box for weeks after.
