Basically want to make the car quicker and I want to know what’s best to do and which parts I should upgrade etc

Welcome...a bit of history and what the car actually is would help BUT if its NOT something like a T jet(ie turbo'd) then your basically stuck with an underpowered,heavy ish car

Easiest and, usually, cheapest way is to sell your current car and buy the one you should have bought in the first place!

Got to go with what the guys said above. If you don't have a diesel or a T-Jet, there isn't really much you can do besides buy a faster car

Don't all GP models of the same era share the same chassis/engine mount? Then he could buy another GP - maybe a broken one with a working engine and gearbox? - with a bigger engine, and install it onto his current one?

Hi Brandon

The best way to make a car perform better is....

Take some advanced or circuit driver training, it will make you a more rounded safer driver in any circumstances and a faster driver when the environment and conditions are appropriate and most importantly know the difference.
You can take the lessons learned onwards to any other vehicle you ever own now or in the future.

please don't be the guy with the 850hp skyline who doesn't know how to drive.

Tim

torniojaws said:

Don't all GP models of the same era share the same chassis/engine mount? Then he could buy another GP - maybe a broken one with a working engine and gearbox? - with a bigger engine, and install it onto his current one?

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That would cost more and be lots more hassle than selling his and buying a faster one anyway.

But yes, there are some chances, but improvement of "power" will be small, maybe very small. If you have petrol engine, all you can do is:
1, real chip tuning (will increase max 5 horse power and few NMs)
2, modify air intake
3, replace whole exhaust without catalytic converter and silencer
4, add specific racing camshaft

Result - it costs 2500 Euro, gives you aditional 8-10 horses + car without catalytic converter = doesn't pass MOT + tons of error icons on dasboard because of unplugged lambdas, inproper fuel mixing, idle questionable, VVT off... so as guys said - no chance, 10 horses you almost doesnt feel.
Another chance - to make car much lighter because of its weight - but what you can change here? Let some company to make custom parts from fiber? 10.000 Euro?
Third option - install different custom engine, but whole original suspension+brakes must be modified to handle that big power

Yes, we can see a lot of modified Puntos over internet, YouTube, but those are "visual" tunings, bigger wheels, distance pads, custom silencers, lowered suspensions. Those cars are only "louder" but not quicker

Op didnt specify what they wish to achieve..

But.. this very forum has been covering the GP for 10YEARS+

Something tells me SEARCH on here could answer all their Questions

all these replies and the OP with one post is nowhere to be seen.

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levemircento said:

all these replies and the OP with one post is nowhere to be seen.

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Busy..

Reading

A.max power
B. Autotrader

You decide

Looks like he didn't like the answers!

Is max power still a thing?

Seriously though with a Grande most of which are now dipping below £1000 (excluding over priced dealer models) the main question is how much money do you want to put into an old car. Most are less than 100hp which is easily surpassed with an old ford Zetec engine or something with a Honda badge for a few hundred quid, where as to remap a Punto is going to cost £300+ new exhaust a couple of hundred, new intake set up maybe a hundred or so, and you spend all that money to have an extra 15hp and still less than 100hp.

The new car option is the most sensible. On this age of car I’d look at diesels which can be very easily boosted with a simple remap and no extra parts.

Hi Everyone.

Driver training doesn't increase your insurance premium either, advanced qualification may actually reduce it, It would make you a better choice if Driving is part of your employment.
Any alteration to car specification should be notified to the insurance provider too.

Happy motoring

Tim