First VTR - but big plans for her, just need opinions and help

29th July 2009, 21:55

Just got a saxo in icelandic blue - love it

Such a nice car to drive, its just spotless! and the power low down is just... fun, im used to driving motorbikes and had a shit runabout car which had no power, so this is my first ROAD pocket rocket.

The car at the moment is really standard, and i want to squeeze as much power as i can out of her without TURBO or an S Lump

I know there are threads, and ive used the search button but nothing is helping.

so here we go... im not a mechanic so please bear with me, i just get my mechanic doing all the dirty work

Cams

I hear people talking about PH3 Cams (kamracing have them on their website) and im wondering why are people saying these are the best cam? and whats the difference between non-RR and roller rocker

What else would i need if i got the cams? just new pulleys a belt and remap?, what pulleys would be best? and obviously change the cambelt at the same time, and a remap (but ill only remap after all engine breathing mods and exhaust/mani are done.

Exhaust/manifold

So there are a few variants of options, 4-2-1 and 4-1 im bassicly looking for a little more power in the midrange of the gears, which one suits best?

Also, throttle bodies.... anyone fitted these to a VTR? and does it make much of a difference?

IS there anything else that i could do to it to squeeze more power out of it? im not wanting to spend big ammounts of money, about 2k or less

Cheers and thank you

30th July 2009, 00:25

For 2k, apex suspension, raceland 4-2-1 or 4-1, and a super sprint race exhaust (£650 delivered from Kam, jsut bout all that myself) Then with with 1.3 large left, I'd get a decent induction kit and a medium cam, vernier and an ecu (dastek is nice and cheap)or some other some kind and could maybe get a set of bike tb's and inlet, but would have to do some real bargain hunting to get it all in the budget.

30th July 2009, 12:36

if you want to spend 2k i would not blow it all on engine as not really much you can do with a vtr cam remap and 4-2-1 start there then allarm as you dont want it goinging bye bye. but for 2 k personaly id of bought the vts one. any way have fun driving it