I must admit, that is what I'm afraid of happening to yours if you should sell it.

I looked the the front bumper skirt when I first thought of taking the HGT on track. Looked a lot nicer on eBay, but then I'm not a fan of Spirit blue.

The car sold but they have a stack of parts. I'll check those out as soon as possible.

The ECU cannot be remapped and it self-learns tot re-adjust piggybacks... I wonder if anyone has ever tried to fool it by re-adjusting the lambda-sensor output (like some environmentalists do the other way around with an EFIE, to make it run leaner) ?
In a closed loop system, it seems to me that you should fool the feedback in order to make it work. Of course this should be done very subtile in order to keep the small-band sensor system working good and not run out of its modulating regulation (like with an EFIE).
Should this stand any chance ?

That sounds suspiciously like the inline resistors people use to wire into the MaF to "trick" the car into thinking it was cold all the time. All that would do was make the engine run rich.

During the track day my exhaust split where the cat' meets the front box. I tack welded and puttied it well enough to get home but it needed doing properly so...





...get the car up on ramps, lift one wheel with the jack, turn the ramp a hundred and eighty degrees and drop it back down.



With the ramps acting as chocks and the car in gear it's safe(ish) to lift the back of the car and take the exhaust off.



It was a bit dark by the time I was finished so I embraced 1998 and used some under-car neon lights (well the florescent tubes from my shed at least).



The reason why the exhaust had split in the first place is rather odd. The rear section is standard HGT and the flexipipe looks to be normal as well but the cat' is poorly welded to the down pipe, has bends where it shouldn't that have been cut and welded straighter; but it's about half in inch too short so the whole system is under tension from the rubbers. This could been what was making the noise when I down shifted on track as the engine and gearbox moved in their mounts putting the exhaust under more tension transmitting vibration to the floor. :bang:

I may need to "experiment" with the Bravo exhaust and cat'.

EFIE is only slightly more sophisticated than the resistors, and will only influence A/F-ratio, no change in ignition timing unfotunately. Would only be usefull when you start tuning and would like a slightly richer overall mixture (e.g. to keep the engine or combustion cooler when your dynamic CR rises, or to overcome 'environmental' settings)

Liquid Knight II said:

That sounds suspiciously like the inline resistors people use to wire into the MaF to "trick" the car into thinking it was cold all the time. All that would do was make the engine run rich.

During the track day my exhaust split where the cat' meets the front box. I tack welded and puttied it well enough to get home but it needed doing properly so...

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Thats the front tire ,drivers side?Is it looking the wrong direction?

BILL33 said:

Thats the front tire ,drivers side?Is it looking the wrong direction?

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That's what I thought but it has "Inside" and "Outside" written on it.

its a rainsport 3 isnt it... they are asymmetrical but not directional. I do like them as a tyre but one side always looks weird cause of it... annoys me enough to not buy them lol

blu73 said:

its a rainsport 3 isnt it... they are asymmetrical but not directional. I do like them as a tyre but one side always looks weird cause of it... annoys me enough to not buy them lol

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They are also brilliant. It was like a swap this morning and I was driving on a dry road. The dove tails from the back were Mulsanne Straight-esque.

Boring update. Despite doing a track day my average consumption is 49.8mpg

I have had a bit of a Spring clean and so far eBay, this forum and the Punto GT page have netted me £407

:slayer:

That's enough to get that track day buggy thing and start messing about.

Is that mpg figure according to the trip computer?

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Is that mpg figure according to the trip computer?

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Yep. I'm fairly sure it's accurate as I was hammering the car round the track due to the conditions in the morning and the noise in the afternoon.

I'm now 90% certain it was the bodged exhaust hitting something sounding like a grinding box due to the knackered mounts.

New mounts on the way (well in Manchester and I have to pick them up with a spare set of wheels) and when it gets nicer I'll take the badged bits off and see if my Bravo cat' will fit.

Liquid Knight II said:

They are also brilliant.

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oh totally, i ran them on my bravo hgt155 & i made my mum put them on her old mk2 sporting after i had popped over to fix some other issue and noticed her cracking ancient budget tyres... she simply couldnt believe how different the car was after... so thats one person converted away from just buying whatevers cheapest

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Yep. I'm fairly sure it's accurate as I was hammering the car round the track due to the conditions in the morning and the noise in the afternoon.

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I find the trip computer readings to be quite inaccurate, and I use a free app to work mine out.

wouldnt have thought one of these could do 49mpg on a good day lol... how many miles is that over outta interest.

blu73 said:

wouldnt have thought one of these could do 49mpg on a good day lol... how many miles is that over outta interest.

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1,558 miles since I reset collected the car at Brighton.

I've put £180 in the tank.

£1.21 per liter today at my Shell (some have been more or less).

£180 / £1.21 = 148.76 (2dp) liters.

148.76 / 4.54 = 32.76 (2bp) Gallons.

1,558 miles / 32.76 Gallons = 47.55 mpg

That's pretty close considering variations in cost per Liter.

That's impressive!

i'm impressed... i've never got anywhere near that in my iggy which is significantly lighter i suspect and only a 1.5

clearly you are a very good boy on the public roads!

That's the thing. When you drive something that's either bright yellow or bloody rare you don't want to draw attention to yourself.

Also I treat the charity track days like an automotive Purge. Every time I'm sat at the speed limit bored or noticing all the idiots and twunts out there I bottle it up and unleash it on the track.

:devil:

It's a combination of three things.

Rare or obvious car.
Track day Purge.
Dash camera on board.

Decisions decisions.

Give up trying to sell my 145, get a tow bar for it or my HGT and tow this...



...to track days?

Keep trying to sell my 145 and get a more suitable tow or track day car?

If that is within the Alfas' towing capacity, I'd fit the 145 with a towbar, and keep both that and the HGT as cherished classics.

And is that seat out of a Punto mk2 ELX by any chance, lol?