power

[mattn388gfc]

how much dose a turbo chip tho and i dont like the look of the front of a v70

[byootox]

Most stage 1 remaps seem to be around £300-£400 approx (give or take)and whilst you will never get turbo increases it might give you about 10_20 bhp easily which is actually areasonable amount.
Of course a T5 is the instant fix but you will pay a lot more.

[mattn388gfc]

so after i have done the remap and a full service new k&n pannle fillter cat back exhaust dose anyone roughly how bhp it will have

[JamesV70R]

Still not a huge amount unfortunately.

By the time you've spent a small fortune buying + fitting the new parts, and the extra insurance costs that go with modding the car, you'll probably find it cheaper to have sold your current car and bought a T5 which is a much better starting point.

I'd say your looking at ~£1k for the downpipe/exhaust/remap even using 2nd hand parts for the exhaust, I'm not sure what "extras" you'll need as well as that though.

From my understanding a free flowing exhaust on a non-turbo car can actually *lose* you power as they need a certain amount of back pressure. (I could be talking rubbish here ... )

Power gain .. 20hp? £50 per horsepower or thereabouts.

The downside of buying a T5 over your current n/a is that you'll be spending a LOT more on fuel - but if you're in a search for power then it sounds like fuel costs aren't much of an issue?

For comparison: A friend of mine spent £thousands rebuilding his Saxo engine for more power - this was a n/a engine too, so it had expensive things like Jenvy throttle bodies, race cams, new rods+pistons to tweak the cc, custom map, custom exhaust manifold+downpipe and exhaust. Grand total after all that ... an extra 60whp and an engine that threw its oil all over the track during its first track day.

[surrey_man]

yea petrol costs are much more in a T-5 My old 850 20V did me 20mpg my lovley fast T-5 does 17 mpg

Mind you I wanted a T-5 and living in London it does stop start trips and does not go on long runs offen so that said it might do 18-19mph on long trips

[mattn388gfc]

will just putting the k&n filtter exhaust cat back with box give it little bit more i am looking for

[JamesV70R]

Very unlikely you'll notice any difference with just an air filter and an exhaust.

If I had the choice of spending for a remap or a new exhaust, it would be the remap every time, the exhaust will make more noise, the remap will actually make more power.

[mattn388gfc]

how easy is it to put a t5 engine in my 850

[surrey_man]

There's some diffince in air pipes and water pipes I believe

If you want you can check out under the good of mine when I see you Thursday ? Give you an idea of what goes where and what's diffent