Your motoring history in bhp

Caporegime
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You poor thing I feel your pain. Did you have a whole 4 gears of doom or lucky enough to get a fifth?

3 - 4th was shagged! :o:D - you had to hold it in 4th, I'd come to a roundabout, start to steer & it would pop into neutral. :o


We should add torque figures also..... :D

ENGINE SPECIFICATIONS - Scania R500
Type: Scania DC1604 direct injection diesel
Displacement: 15.6 litre
Cylinders: V8 turbocharged
Max power: 500bhp @ 1900 rpm
Max torque: 2400 Nm
 
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Associate
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1st car 55ish (1.3i classic mini)
2nd car 150ish (Mk2 MR2)
3rd car 220bhp (Mk4 Supra SZ)
4th car 390ish (Mk4 Supra RZ...tweeked)
5th car 3bhp (every day runner Micra 1.0)
6th car 385bhp (TVR Tuscan)
7th car 120ish (Mk2 golf GTi Daily runner)
 
Man of Honour
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Oldest first:

Car 1: 39hp upgraded to 145hp
Car 2: 145hp
Car 3: 30hp, died and upgraded to 45hp, went pop, upgraded to 50hp, upgraded to 60hp, went pop again, decided enough was enough and returned to standard :D
Back to car 2 again.
 
Associate
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Swindon
1st 59BHP Mk3 Escort 1.3
2nd 60BHP 106 1.1
3rd 90BHP Sierra Saphire 1.8
4th 113BHP Rover 416
5th around 245BHP Mk2 MR2 GT Turbo (slightly tuned from 225BHP)
6th 65BHP Clio 1.9D
7th 90BHP Passat 1.9TDI
8th 120BHP Laguna 2 1.9DCi (225lb/ft) (Getting it mapped to 150BHP and an extra 60 torques apparently)
 

dsb

dsb

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85 Citroen AX GT
60 Citroen Saxo 1.1
80 Vauxhall Vectra 2.0 dti (is that right?)
75 Citroen C3
115 Mini cooper park lane
155 Ford mondeo
170 BMW 320i M Sport
170 Mini cooper sidewalk



80 bhp from a 2.0dti that seems low, but it was a crap car, infact most of my cars are crap until my Mini.
 

Cob

Cob

Soldato
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45bhp - Nova 1.0 L
72bhp - Nova SR 1.4
90bhp - Mondeo 1.6i LX
50bhp - Polo 1.0i L
101bhp - Rover 214 16v


Nothing remotely earth-shattering in my 13 years of car ownership.
 

Jez

Jez

Caporegime
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Starting with the oldest, but later not in necessarily the right order due to overlaps etc. Some not kept very long, and excluding standard auction turnover;

105bhp
170bhp
250bhp
90bhp
250bhp
231bhp
184bhp
240bhp
231bhp
131bhp
279bhp
 
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