Right then, here we are, winter again, seems to be permenent in this part of the world but never mind, Anyway, the car, Had a Exedy semi-race clutch and flywheel fitted, was ripped off with the fitting as they said it would cost £250 then the bill came in for £500. slight difference, but I can't really say who did that. So the car has been perfect......honestly......until I blew up the gearbox. I know, its never ending. A friend of mine said he wants it, so we swapped cars. He's getting it rebuilt in some garage in Bristol, not sure who they are, gearbox specialists. I wouldn't be surprised if the bill came in close to £4000. Ouch.

But, some good news, before the gearbox went, Future Power LPG came out to me, ripped out the LPG system and fitted a new one that's half the weight and more efficient. Only thing is it struggles with the boost pressure I'm asking (29-30 psi) But Malc the genius of LPG says he can fix it and I'm sure he can. As I said before I swapped cars with a friend so I will keep you updated on progress of that. Len (the new owner) says he wants to dyno the car too, that would be interesting as the last time that was done it came out at 380 bhp (at the fly) and it's had a bit of tweaking since then including the water/methanol kit being turned on. 400 bhp?? hopefully, as that's what I set out to do. I'll keep you posted.

The car I now have to replace the Subaru is to the right, It's a 2000 reg Nissan 200sx s14a (UK model) with a few tweaks to take it to 300 bhp. Quite good fun, but personally nothing compares to an Impreza turbo. You may recognise it from driving around in circles in Devizes. Thanks for that reputation Len.

been away a while, i'm no bennyblogger1980

hello, how have we been? had a good summer? its over now, right, moving on. The car, well, turned out, it was the oil pump that packed up so no lubrication for any internal parts, the car died, obviously. i had a rebuild at David Hendry Subaru in Malmesbury, not sure how happy I am with that yet, I'll let you know. I had AEM water/methanol injection fitted also, this is very good, big improvement, highly recommended. I did my 1000 miles running in period, then put my foot down and aside from the slipping clutch (Hendrys said was fine, clearly not) it goes like a battering ram. So soon as I have my new clutch fitted (Exedy) and another remap from Bob (BR Developments, Swindon) Then the car is finnished and probably up for sale, so any offers let me know, ciao!

...er, hi. not good news I'm afraid, thats why i been away from here. Firstly, got the car mapped upto 380bhp just to see if all the new components work well enough to handle 400bhp. Brilliant result, next I went down to Somerset and Future Power LPG who mapped the car for gas again....at 380bhp! I'm very impressed with this result, feels a bit quicker on gas too. 

  But then, disaster. Driving through my local town nice and steady and start to hear a grinding noise, the big end bearings have had it. So it's in need of a rebuild now. Not sure who to go to for this because I've not had to before. Tried Graham Goode but they dont do rebuilds anymore. So if anyone can help, please let me know asap (oldpigbarn@gmail.com) I am booked for the Nurburgring in early July so need to get this sorted very quickly! any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!

Right, I've not been on here for a while because I've been busy with the car, so nbow I can tell you that I ruined the oil feed to the turbo somehow (don't ask me how) and had to get a replacement from Roger Clark Motorsport and it arrived the very next day, Im impressed. After that was fitted I put the injectors in and put the engine back togethor. Brilliant. Sounds like a rally car now so my inner child is very happy. All thats left is the remap then I can move on to my next project, which I will let you know about soon. It's a good 'un!

The remap is again from BR Developments in Swindon next Saturday, so if you see a P1 plodding along very slowly it's me on the way there, If you see one overtake you it's me on the way back. Let you know how it goes.

Picture me rollin'

So, another couple of days pass and finally I get to see if there is still life in the Scoob. Stick on some jump leads, turn the key and she starts straight up. Sort of. Ok, not straight up. I forgot to connect the induction kit so all I got was the starter motor going. But once I put that on it was perfect. The new turbo sings beautifully when you rev it a bit. Just waiting for the injectors STILL! And a new up pipe, cos it split some how. Maybe the car thinks I don't have enough to deal with, maybe it wants to test me and see at what point I stop working on it and say 'Right then, screw you, I've had enough of your shenanigans, some one else can do this'. Anyway, be sorted before long, report back soon.
- Sputch x

Our Benner bangs his head a lot

Evening all, lets get down to buisness as I have many Z's to catch up on. Right, this weekend at OPB has been very productive... for some. Our Benner (pictured here in his wheelarch) managed to fit his new K-Sport brakes to his Nissan 200sx (s14a for those in the know). He's currently bedding them in and is chuffed that OPB could help him out once more. Benner has been to us on many occasion's, he is an asset to the group and will be a regular on the blog. If you would like to know more about our Benner and his 200sx please visit http://bennyblogger1980.blogspot.com/.

Also this weekend after many weeks of waiting most of the parts arrived that I was waiting for. The project I have going is a 400bhp upgrade for my Scooby P1. I wouldn't have bothered to upgrade the car normally because it's brilliant as standard but since I blew the turbo to pieces and showered a long line of traffic in thick black smoke I figured I just as well.

The new turbo itself is a brand new product from http://www.rogerclarkmotorsport.co.uk/ called the Garrett RM400. I will let you know how good it is once I get the car running again, but I have heard excellent reviews about it.

The thing with upgrading is that you can't just stick a big turbo on and leave it at that, the car would blow up again, so I bought some other bits to prevent that from happening. Again, from Roger Clark Motorsport I bought a Samco turbo hose, Ngk Iridium spark plugs, Warlbro stage 2 fuel pump, and from other sources a K&N 57i induction kit and some FlatFourOnline 740cc injectors. This should be all I need to do the job (hopefully) then just a second remap from http://www.brdevelopments.com/. Who I have used before, Bob is brilliant and great to get on with, I recommend seeing him if you need a remap.

Before the turbo popped I was running the car at 340bhp on LPG. Sounds hard to believe, but it's true. I have been dealing with a company called Future Power and a chap their called Malcom Douglas, They work mainly with high performance vehicles such as Mitsibishi Evo's and Cosworths. Malc said he'd never done a Scooby before so it was a challenge for him, but it worked perfectly as proved when me and our Benner drove to the Nurburgring last year. (More on that later) If the gas can cope with 400bhp is yet to be seen, I hope it can. Let you know very soon. If you are interested in halfing your fuel bills, contact future power here: http://www.futurepower-lpg.co.uk/ Right, enough plugging for evening, I'm going to bed. Have a great evening and come see us soon at OPB!

- Sputch

Our Benner gets a shafting (above). My engine before the turbo went in (below)

The return of OldPigBarn

Guess who's back in the the muthafukin' hizouse??

Hi, for those of you who can remember the old 'oldpigbarn' Hello and Welcome back! For all you new peeps, What up y'all?! There are some slight changes since the last time I was on here. For a start, the blog is now actually about the 'Old pig barn' (which is a garage) and no longer just random jabberings from a place called All Cannings. What I'm going to do is upload pictures and info on projects going on at OPB, I'll do this as often as I can, However I'm a very busy man, but I'll try my best to keep on top of it.

- Sputch