Nood for Spood

30mph in a built up area, 60 on a single carriageway, 70 on a dual carriageway/motorway, unless the signs say otherwise.

Maybe he plans to go on a touring holiday around the UK's finest disused airstrips? I know I would.

Id vote for a Volvo with a T5 badge on the back.

;D

Good shouts in here so far, I'd say the st220 might be another if you can find one cheap enough.

The thing is, I suggest it would be more fun, more RR and more satisfying to buy a not-at-all-fast old barge like a Montego or something and then make it fast on a budget - let's say by adding a turboed rover 827 lump for example? I bet you could do it under budget. The only limit is your imagination and spanner wielding ability.

Much more fun to be had by surprising that guy next to you at the lights too

i would buy this

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-FIAT-ESTATE-MAREA-100-SX-WEEKEND-BLUE-/300680290016?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4601f11ee0

and this

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-coupe-20-v-turbo-/170810445157?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27c5188d65

then i would spend a week taking bits from one and adding them to the other, plus there will be some money left over for a bigger turbo and some other bits, once you have sold the other bits you will prob have £500 left over and then you can have a quick, one of a kind estate car

and could look like this and go like stink



extra reading here

www.fiatforum.com/marea/153748-first-uk-marea-turbo-build-thread.html

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

my Volvo was 550 quid with tax and test, add 60 quid onto that for the boost gauge, MBC and the bits of pipe and plumbing to fit it and its gone from 136bhp up to about 190.

That would leave you as grand to spend on bits to make it properly fly, one of the guys on the Volvo forum appears to have changed a cam, added a couple of chips and some bigger injectors and is seeing more than 250bhp at the wheels.

(edited to say last year he got 265bhp at the flywheel with his first lot of mods and was running,



So there ya go)


RWD fun too, although if you want instant speed with no messing I guess later FWD turbo Volvo would be easier.

+1 Dirt cheap insurance too if you look in the right places