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Torque Junkie · Dieselhead My Car: . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 7181

I'm glad you like the name. I think your Passat looks like a Patsy.

A chip, chavvy? Its only doing what VW have done at a factory, but if you are happy with your meagre 140bhp then so be it.

PR · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject:

Steady on, you're forgetting that VW tends to under-quote power outputs so Patsy probably boasts, ooh, 150bhp!

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Torque Junkie · Dieselhead My Car: . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 7181

Do they also under-quote how many engines and fuel pumps are required to acheive that figure too?

Poor Patsy has had her internals replaced mroe times that a 50 a day chain smoking old fag!

Michael · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject:

chain smoking old VAG, surely?

PR · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, but don't forget, it has never broken down. Martin has elected voluntarily to stop and complete his journey on the back of a lorry!

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TimR · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject:

I bet Martin really wants to blow a turbo in a proper, 1980s F1, stylee with lots of white smoke.

Torque Junkie · Dieselhead My Car: . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 7181

I expect Patsy will do that for him about 4 miles from the end of his lease contract!

Martin · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject:

But as for 'Patsy' as a name

What most people forget is that the manufacturers usually do more than just pop a different bit of software in when they produce a car with a different power output. The engine is pretty much the same, but they do make some changes.

You would love the guy with the 123d that's going 'modding' crazy and it already gone past the 260bhp mark with a lot of work still to do.

Piers - I completed the rest of my journey in a slightly more basic Passat, not in the back of a lorry!

Yes, it may have 140-150bhp, but think of all that torque....

70,000 miles now past and still going strong

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Torque Junkie · Dieselhead My Car: . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 7181

Don't you like the name Patsy for the Passat, Martin? Calling it Martina just seemed, well, a bit wrong.

I like the sound of 123d man - that thing will have some serious shove by the sounds of things though I would probably concur with you that a 130i would have the edge on it in terms of that little extra something.

It was certainly the case with the 1.8TDCI's that the ECU was changed to give the 100bhp and 115bhp outputs. I assumed it was electronic tweakery and maybe slightly upgraded intercooler that gave the extra 30bhp in the 170 VAG 2.0TDI iteration.

Hopefully I will be getting mine on a rolling road soon so will find out exactly how many beans I have.

Martin · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

PR · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Well it sounds like the Passat has a name now, whether you like it or not...

You don't think it was me that decided to call my car Spanner, do you?!!!!

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Martin · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:

I have two children at home, which is more than enough. I used to get a break from them on here.....

The main difference is that I won't be using the name

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PR · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject:

But Martin, you could get yourself / Patsy this:

It's only £42,500!

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kraftwerk · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

Mmmm - Joe mooted the idea of giving a name to the bus (our first truly co-owned vehicle). I said 'Good idea, let's call it 'The Bus''. And so it remains.

Michael · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

What about Das Bus?
That plate would work in Cornwall as pasty. I really like those carrot filled traditional Cornish pasties.

kraftwerk · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject:

But it's not Da's Bus. It's our Bus.

"him" · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject:

PR · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

Michael · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

How much? we could get it for Tingtong! Carrots instead of euro badges, obviously.

PR · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject:

Price on application, sadly.

That means it would be a lot of fairy umbrellas and bumble bee costumes!
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Rodge · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

Here's mine, today.

Shortly after I fitted a K&N filter to it that was made for a Focus 2.0

Sounds a bit more throaty I think.

Apologies for the quality, I took it on my phone.

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Michael · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject:

Sounds naughty on a four door saloon!

franki68 · Petrolhead Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 1634

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQK4X1O1HE&feature=related

This is how it sounds now

and here is what it would sound like if I went the miltek route

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQK4X1O1HE&feature=related

Ill do a sound file of my own later.

Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject:

I think that might be the same link posted twice.
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Gurney · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:13 am Post subject:

Now this is a proper exhaust noise.

http://www.ozan.ca/ozansgtv6sound.mp3
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Matt · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:29 am Post subject:

Most definitely.
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TimR · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

Gurney · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

I have to admit the GTA is much more subdued. Must get a back box.
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DradusContact · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W3aTPjQyJAQ

probably should or revved it a bit harder but the engine was cold.
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Matt · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Sounds like I want my 306 to sound at idle. Just something so you know it's there.
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"him" · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject:

SpecB · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject:

I have only just seen your post in the other thread about the Ford show but it looks like you have found what I was on about in any case.

The Puma sounds good. As Matt said, just enough. I've seen a photo somewhere of the last one you had on and it did look like it had been reversed over a dustbin.
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BadmanMonkey · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: R32 Exhaust

A video of a bit of 'zorst noise from my newly acquired R32...sounds a bit meatier in real life but you get the general idea.

http://s490.photobucket.com/album...rrent=MVI_1425_Trimmed_zorsts.flv

Twelfth Monkey · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

Sounds lovely, doesn't it?
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"him" · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: Re: R32 Exhaust