SaxoBoy

This is going to be costly! I used to use my scooby for a 25 mile round trip each day and the miles piled up. First up you'll be getting mid-low 20s mpg if you are remotely having fun. Secondly those services (which are expensive) will come round often. When it eats tyres you usually have to change all 4 and then there is insurance which won't be cheap for a 19 year old. For the money I'd try and get a nice classic shape UK car with FSSH, around 50k miles, well looked after and probably unmodded just now unless it (somehow) doesn't make too much difference to your insurance. My scooby was the biggest money pit I have ever owned :eek:

Seen this in the flesh and been in it. Its an excellent example and Neil (paul's brother) regularly tells me paul drives it like a total poof so its well looked after

One of these had a game of 'keep up' with me today between the blocks of traffic which was good fun. Difficult to say if either of us had any significant advantage but it was friendly good spiritied banter I felt. Clocked what looked like a scoobysport back box so I'd be interested to know what mods you had if you are on here Kenny (S2000)

Doubt it - those mods should take you nicely over 300bhp will they not. I can live with 275bhp classics but once you push the 300bhp barrier its bye-bye

So, in short if I want to spank it now is the time

So do I understand that Johnny has come full circle from wagon to various other cars and back to wagon? Any plans to monster this one?

I would imagine that the £650 covers andy's liscense payment to Ecutek and the rest is his time spent mapping, running, checking, mapping, running, checking over and over. In other words a full monty remap. There defo used to be a 'broadbrush' decat remap when I was kicking around and it would be sad if that map has just dissapeared. I'd bet JB still has it on his laptop Actually, I recall being told to run the car from 20-silly speeds in the backroads of fife whilst John mapped her up to 1.4 bar (!!!!) just to cover mometary overboost, etc. Despite the turbo working above its normal range the car was crazy fast!! Might be worth the full fat remap for that alone

I did read the ono bit - but IMHO you'll have to let it go for around £100-125 to make it worth someone's while which is quite a big drop from £200. I don't know what map the ecu has now but John Banks basically invented the half fat Tek 3 known somewhat unofficially as Tek 2.5. This is a remap that will run just shy of 1.2bar and is designed for TD04 MY99-00s that have a full decat exhaust. I'm pretty sure I was told that this broad-brush map was discovered after he was doing full remaps on numerous MY99s with decats. He consistently found the maps were all very close to one another with just those mods so a 'standard' could be adopted. Most mappers will have the '2.5' map saved on their computers and it takes just a few minutes to flash the ecu so on the basis its licensed you might find a friendly mapper that will reflash it to the more universal map for a few pints. This will open your market right up, make the ECU more sellable and allow you to command a higher price. A few years back I sold my 2.5 ecu to a guy in Ireland on an ecu exchange basis for IIRC £300+ I also might be wrong but I seem to recall that you can run a 2.5 remap on a standard car but you will obviously get less gains. I don't mean to be objectionable its just that your first post didn't quite stack up in my mind. P.S. I should add that my info above is over 1.5 years old as I've been out the scooby game for that long and tend not to keep abreast of changes in the ecu market. Check before believing what I post

Am I missing something here! A full remap of a virgin MY99-00 ECU to a Tek2.5-3 standard is around £500 from memory. You have an licensed ECU and want £200 for it but seem to suggest its custom mapped and would not work on a standard or decatted scooby in a plug and play basis. Therefore anyone purchasing it for £200 then needs to pay a mapper £300 for his time to remap to a tek2.5 or custom standard. Total spend = £500 and you have the hassle of messing around in the footwell to change the ecu's. Er, why would anyone do that when they can just pay £500 from the outset to remap their own ecu?

Best people to ask for confirmation of this are Andy F or John Banks or perhaps a search on Scoobynet would give the exact answer. There has been peeps that have decatted STI5s and P1 without a remap but if I recall the margine for error isn't there. £300-500 for a remap that will give you added safety and extra power isn't money badly spent. I'll have to have words with adam about that garage at some point as my car isn't entirely MOT ready

Fee the centre cat is gone leaving only the downpipe. The downpipe cat is the biggest, the hardest to remove and refit and is usually required to pass on MOT. However, removing it does give a noticeable gain in grunt, spool up times and noise and its well worth it. One thing to check though is how happy the STI's are running a decat without a remap. There was a school of thought when I had my scooby that the UK classics were happy with a decat but that the P1 and sti's really should be remapped to allow them to run them safely. This wouldn't be the end of the world given that a decat and remap should see you over 300bhp

The RX7 is my mates and he made 390bhp at 7300rpm recently so you'd be doing well to take it. That said I thought his times were pretty dissapointing today and he could only pass me just before the line putting a few car lengths on me as we crossed. All that said, his clutch died suggesting he was never putting full power on the strip. The bonnet is delibrate to allow extra cooling Good turn out from you guys today - nice to see some old familure faces