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#1 Crazyfrog (Fab)

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 02:12 PM

fitted since a week now and the car is :wub: to drive
lovely grumble and beautiful after 4000 rpm til 7100
fuel consumption at the moment is up by 3 liter every 60 miles average but if playing with the throttle to ear those lovely buterfly be prepare to go more often to the petrol station B)
car is running richer as well and the alpha unit is running the thermostat at 82 c now
the gear shift light is now the light management unit so easy to see from the corner of your eyes
so now is few month to enjoy and to go to stage two :wub: .................

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 02:16 PM

Looks good Fab. video soundtrack? ;)

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 02:23 PM

Looks good Fab.

video soundtrack? ;)

pm :D

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 02:36 PM

a friend of mine went to London this week and ask me to post it :rolleyes:
his boot and front passenger seat was full of meat :D

here......................... chinky chinky

Edited by crazyfrog, 20 June 2009 - 02:38 PM.


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Posted 20 June 2009 - 03:07 PM

Mind those solid white lines!! :unsure:

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 03:24 PM

Sounds good Fab!

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 03:57 PM

Sounds good Fab!


the video sound is bad but if the sound has been capture from the driver seat it is awesome :wub:
my friend is addicted to those itb"s now and wish he did it before :D

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:03 PM

:tumble: That sounds fcuking fantastic fab thumbsup

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:04 PM

now take-away all of that sound proofing (very very very very heavy!) inside the cabin and the engine bay! :wub: sound of the itbs :wub:

Edited by joe_589, 20 June 2009 - 04:04 PM.


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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:20 PM

now take-away all of that sound proofing (very very very very heavy!) inside the cabin and the engine bay!

:wub: sound of the itbs :wub:

when are you coming to do it joe after your holiday `````````??

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:21 PM

:lol: when i come and pick up the other clam :lol:

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:44 PM

:lol: when i come and pick up the other clam :lol:

when :huh:

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Posted 20 June 2009 - 04:45 PM

will sort something out in a couple of weeks ;)

Edited by joe_589, 20 June 2009 - 04:49 PM.


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Posted 20 June 2009 - 09:21 PM

will sort something out in a couple of weeks ;)


look forward to that joe ;)

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Posted 21 June 2009 - 03:00 PM

fitted since a week now and the car is :wub: to drive
lovely grumble and beautiful after 4000 rpm til 7100
fuel consumption at the moment is up by 3 liter every 60 miles average but if playing with the throttle to ear those lovely buterfly be prepare to go more often to the petrol station B)
car is running richer as well and the alpha unit is running the thermostat at 82 c now
the gear shift light is now the light management unit so easy to see from the corner of your eyes
so now is few month to enjoy and to go to stage two :wub: .................


Looks and sounds great, so what else have you done? Any graphs, before and after?

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 08:15 AM

So were these supplied/ fitted by Courtneys?

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 08:27 AM

fitted since a week now and the car is :wub: to drive
lovely grumble and beautiful after 4000 rpm til 7100
fuel consumption at the moment is up by 3 liter every 60 miles average but if playing with the throttle to ear those lovely buterfly be prepare to go more often to the petrol station B)
car is running richer as well and the alpha unit is running the thermostat at 82 c now
the gear shift light is now the light management unit so easy to see from the corner of your eyes
so now is few month to enjoy and to go to stage two :wub: .................


Looks and sounds great, so what else have you done? Any graphs, before and after?

no graph yet stefan as i am doing next stage on it
will do a remap when all those xtra things are added the power is great from 3500 rpm to 7100 rpm :rolleyes:

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 02:31 PM

Looking forward to spec and full review then chinky chinky

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 03:58 PM

So were these supplied/ fitted by Courtneys?


as far as I'm aware courtenay don't supply or fit itb's thumbsup

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Posted 23 June 2009 - 01:43 PM

how hard is the cable throttle link to fit?? Sounds :wub: BTW thumbsup

Edited by rsg, 23 June 2009 - 01:43 PM.





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