mystery machine

your right i got rb

Respiratory bronchiolitis? Tough break in this weather

Just kidding

Be interested to know how you get on with that, Paul.

Need to get myself up to the East Neuk soon

Meant to say...

the lady formerly my girlfriend and now my wife

Is that not how it usually works? i.e. I'm sure my wife used to be my girlfriend, but I usually just introduce her as "the wife"

I might have made the same comment before, but what an absolutely fantastic-looking Scoob - one of the nicest I've ever seen...

Pity they don't make 'em looking like that any more

I had a couple of great runs at New Year - roads were almost totally dry and refreshingly bereft of traffic - great fun

Out again this morn, but for some reason there seemed to be more grit and rubble than a couple of weeks ago, and more Sunday drivers too

Never mind, gave the Scoob its first hand wash of 2011 this afternoon and that cheered us up

Which roads in Fife would you recommend mate? I gave up on the place a while back - got sick of driving on bad surfaces and speed bumps in every village in one large chunk of the Kingdom (WTF is that all about?!).

I did the same today although it wasnt the scoob, it was the Audi

Looking braw - liking the Red Bull graphics

Mine had its first hand wash of 2011 today too

Jeez-oh, Craig - read the title and thought that you were planning a drive-by...

Round trip from home - (Falkirk) - Dornoch - Thurso - Loch Inver - Inverness - Home via Glencoe. Have to say the roads were fantastic. Great fun!

That sounds worth a shot - I need to get me out on a real run this spring, and to feck with the petrol costs!

weird how its sat there a good few days though

Aye - you'd think that as long as it was insured it'd have been towed away the same day...

Anything on it worth plundering, Gus?

Just kidding

Might've known an AUDIot would be involved somewhere

Oh, ma ribs

Good luck finding a lady who meets even 10% of those requirements

Yup scoob was sold in 4 hours my record so far for selling a car.

But everyone around here says that Hawkeyes are unsaleable?

330 straight six Diesel lol 231bhp model goes really well and handles great with all the toys (48mpg bombing back home with it too lol)....

Never mind about 231bhp, think of all that torque - fair bit more than a standard Hawk STI I would think?

I'm generally not a fan of TDs, but that BM 3L 6cyl must be one of the very best diesel engines money can buy - nice choice

AWD is good - rear-biased AWD is even better

But aye, reckon my next car will be RWD, with a naturally aspirated engine, maybe mid-mounted (thinks he's an F1 driver), maybe only two seats.....

So is that the Hawk gone then? Nice choice of motor with the BM, BTW (for an estate, granda!). Which engine? Dinnae be tellin' us it's a TDi noo

Get a set of spare wheels with winter tyres and you'll be fine in the snow in your BM

Don`t buy the focus st mine was worse on fuel then the scoob.

And front-wheel drive, although apparently not everyone feels the benefit of AWD...

That's OK - it only counts as a thread invasion if you repeat yourself

I'd heard that Evos have unpredictable lift-off, but I wasn't expecting that

When I got the car it had a 2nd decat but with a small resonator section about the size of the cat itself and had the subaru stamp on the heatshields (I thought it was a cat until I took it off and found it was straight through, possibly standard with the STI), the next section was a funny flat triangle shape section then the prodrive back box.The work I got done was a downpipe and 2nd cat pipe in 1 section including the sports cat where the 2nd cat would have been bought from meerkat exhausts, then got a straight trhough pipe with resonator to replace the triangle shape type bit which i bought from cobra sport, and left the prodrive back box as is as i liked teh burble it made, the noise inside the car is pretty quiet, not any louder than it was before i did the changes. If you want I could meet up and let you hear just what it sounds like.

cheers

stevie

Cheers again for the insights, Stevie.

I wonder if anyone can shed light on the triangle-shape section... whether that's the standard STI reso pipe?

Great stuff Kenny - but go easy on the accolades, eh?

...don't want this guy to put his prices up before I get a chance to take my car to him for a remap!

In all seriousness, welcome to the 2.5 brigade (even if mine's the "four finger-o-fudge" variety)

Will give you a wee bit information I found out, My car is a 55 plate hawk sti type uk, Wasnt sure if my car had ppp or not (was sold to me as ppp but had no certificate), but when I took it to andy forrest for a remap he confirmed that it had been remapped 3 times by prodrive (It was a subaru uk car the exact car shown on that prodrive advert BV55 TCO ye its famous lol, so i guess they were wanting it right), My car had the normal cat downpipe,(I was told prodrive didnt replace the downpipes on the 2.5ltr), straight through up pipe and straight through with resonator where the 2nd cat would have been. Before i got a sports cat andy did say he could achieve about 330bhp but the spool up on turbo would be slower due to the restriction or 350-360bhp with a sports/delete cat and early boost. I got a 200cell meerkat sports cat fitted and andy got it to 350bhp and turbo spooling up 500rpm earlier. I also replaced the fuel pump with a walbro but when I went to take the old one out I did noticed someone had wrote ppp on the cover you have to remove. Feel free to ask any more questions hopefully i can answer them.

cheers

Stevie

Thanks for all the info Stevie, very useful

I've just one question for you, if that's OK. You say that the PPP has a "straight through with resonator where the 2nd cat would have been". As I understand it, the standard hawk STI exhaust uses these parts, from turbo back:

[downpipe cat] -> [second cat] -> [resonator pipe] -> [back box]

So are you saying that the PPP modifies this to:

[downpipe cat] -> [resonator pipe] -> [resonator pipe] -> [prodrive back box]

In other words, two resonator pipes?

I ask because I can buy a 'straight through' pipe to replace the second cat for about £110... but I don't think it has any resonator section. Bit concerned I'll end up with more exhaust drone in the cabin (resonator pipes are supposed to reduce cabin noise so that the majority of the exhaust noise comes from the back box).

Cheers again mate!

P.S. Interesting to hear that your very car was the Prodrive pinup!

Thanks for the replies, folks. OK, sounds like the downpipe cat has to be sports catted. Interesting that the PPP brochures make no mention of this (political correctness?).

Dave - my car doesn't have the PPP.

Kenny, that's interesting - do you know if the Jap Speed cats are the type that also decat the second cat (i.e. one part to replace two)? £200 is probably about as much as I'd want to spend, would rather not pay for a second cat delete pipe on top of that.

BalliSTIc - can't be arsed swapping cats in and out at MOT time, or locating a shifty MOT garage

Hi folks,

I'd be very grateful if someone could tell me whether the PPP for a Hawkeye STI removes any of the cats? (this doc suggests not).

I'd like to have the car remapped for some fairly modest gains, really to increase power and response between 4.5K-6.5K rpm - I don't really need peak torque @ around 3.6K rpm to increase much, but 320-ish bhp at 6K rpm would be nice

It seems that - prior to mapping - most folks around here will replace the downpipe cat with a decat pipe or sports cat, as it's the greatest restriction in the exhaust system. Fair enough if you're after big power gains, but the problem I have with this is expense - seems that a sports cat will set me back around £400

I figure that, if the PPP doesn't spec a sports cat or decat downpipe, then a good mapper should be able to map my car to a similar level (i.e. 320-ish bhp) without me being required to fit the same? I should add that I would be willing to replace the lower cat with a decat pipe, as these can be had for only £110 (this in lieu of the PPP backbox - I want to keep the existing backbox). I'd also be willing to fit an uprated fuel pump, if required.

Anyone care to comment? Does this sound feasible, worthwhile and MOT-friendly, or am I being an optimistic skinflint?

Cheers

Ah, the guy I was speaking to said "the road between Larbert and Camelon", but I was thinking of the road that heads out towards Bonnybridge...

With you now though - the 50mph limit straight, past the golf course. Jings, wonder what you'd have to do to get a tank-slapper going along there!

I heard about this through the grape vine - the road between Larbert and Roughmute, by any chance?

Guy told me the Scoob looked totalled... slid on ice, you reckon?

P.S. What are you thinking of replacing it with, out of curiosity?