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(roughly around 300 at the fly at a guess?)(mapped and dyno'd by THOR)(with fan sensor disconnected).. 
@ wheels. 
£1000 won't get you very far at all, maybe to 300-310 @ fly max.@ wheels you'll need at least 800cc injectors, 255 l/hr fuel pump, a standalone ECU to control it including bigger MAP sensor etc (Link or Apexi PowerFC are most common), a new turbo, 3" dp and exhaust, ebc, good intercooler or chargecooler. I think 350 @ fly (~290-300 @ wheels) is where most people start to uprate internals too, you could of course take a chance if you can afford to.- both power and financially, start with the first figure as you'll need the same basic mods, then if your pockets and desire stretches you can do the rest - turbo, ecu, fuelling and internals. If you are going the whole hog you'd probably not want to limit yourself to 300 @ wheels anyway 
Leeroy wrote:
xistance wrote:i cant belive my car is 196 at the flywheel somthing has got to be seriously wrong
that means my car is about 120hp at the wheels which my old 106 gti was
.......really depends what sort of tranny losses this dyno gave you. without knowing this, your still at square one........that money will of course mean you could strap a huge turbo on and remap for lots more power.£2500 to £3000!....labour is where so much money goes... mattcambs wrote:The absolute limit of the stock turbo is about 280bhp at the wheels
'90 turbo. 291rwhp @ 15psi on 95 octane fuel with his stock ct20b. ..... 300hp is not the limit of the standard engine longblock.. .. and i know a rev2 using a box standard head / cams / valves / intake / TB managed a 10.88 1/4 mile on c16 gt3076r @ 457whp iirc -pulls nice wheelies too 
£3 -5K to get that little power increase?(3rd gear wheel spin) I dont even have time to look at the revs or the speedo as you run out of road to fast and if you take it any where near 8K your doing way over 100mph so I find my self changing up at around 4500K otherwise I would loose my license every time I take it out , the car is a Torque monster like that., much more usable , I can use the power band fully without having to surgically have my eyes removed from the back of my head and put back in there sockets, it much more of a work out to drive it at it best especially on a track and far more rewarding and enjoyable - guess that just me , also as it effectively stock and Toyota made them to be used like that day in day out I'm not worrying about it going bang anymore., but for my daily driver IMPO I feel the MR2 is more than fast enough at 250 -280 FWHP and BHP per £ to get them there is cheap and more than adequate!Hellboy wrote:
If I run about at 16psi the car is barely drivable as it so fast
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i have to admit tho, with the 300 RWHP that i had before i took it off the road, it was mind blowingly quick and quite 'touchy' !!- un drivable on boost IMO , good for a drag car but cant see the point on a road car, the chassis cant cope with it , not knocking you btw. Unless you plan on living next to an autobahn then i can't see how 600bhp can be used everyday Will be fun too see though 
This exact tuitle has to be on here at least every 2-3 weeks!! With all the same answers. The difference between 280-300bhp is very marginal anyway. My old Rev3 was running a touch under 270rwhp and that was plenty quick enough. From memory the actual tuning to get to that level cost about £1,500, although I did have an uprated clutch (old one was at the end of it's life) and an alloy flywheel done at the same time (WELL worth it).'nearly undriveable' although you did have to watch yourself in the wet when the rears got down to around 4mm (ooh...say every 6,000 miles or so ). Really cannot see anyone actually *needing* more power than this, the speeds you could hit with such ease in built-up areas was really a bit OTT and a lot of restraint was needed. At that range you really get the best bang-per-buck...after that it's the law of diminishing returns.a16vwn1 wrote:turbo-g from the forum just made 312bhp and 308ft/lbs at 0.95bar on stock gen 3 ecu and fueling and a gt2860rs
I bet the spool-up is nice and fast too.