Should have joined years ago ... 820 Turbo Coupe

[markyd68a]

Hello All,

I should have joined ages ago, got my silver 820 turbo couple as a company car over 10 years ago and loved it so much I bought it and looked after it the best I could.

As things have fallen off I have replaced with moderate go faster bit, stainless steel exhaust, K&N, boosted the turbo and fitted a "Fuel-Cat" (really does work) and Koni dampers. Still flies but getting parts is getting more difficult each year, my poor mechanic uses e-bay more that the trade now. RoverTune just off the M4/M25, top chap if anyone want's his number.

Regards,

MarkyD

[BlueRover]

Welcome to the site. You can get quite a few parts from several hoarders (sorry , members ) on here. Also, the wealth of knowledge is well worth the joining fee.

Seriously, much help has been received from the people on here, many top blokes and I don't think there is anything about the 800 you can't find out, just ask. Judging by where you are, you are in easy reach of several experts.

Once again, welcome.

Gordon.

[Richard Moss]

Welcome to the forum

[schuwolf]

Hi & welcome

[gibbzy2k1]

Welcome to the forum. Great place this and full of helpful people.

[CHR15E]

Welcome to the site.

[scoobyh123]

Welcome! An 820 turbo coupe as a company car? Can't be bad! What's this "Fuel-Cat" thing and is it some sort of economy device?

[markyd68a]

I was lucky, when I was deemed worthy enough to have a company car all those years ago I could either have a standard rep mobile or rummage around in the cars that had been returned but still had time left of the lease, were a few Merc's etc but always liked the Coupe's so when I saw one in the pool with just 10K on the clock and a year old I bit their hand off ... boy was I crucified on the tax though!

http://www.fuelcat.co.uk/ ... I have no connection with or receive any benefit from Fuel-Cat before I proceed basically they are a catalyst which improves the burn efficiency of fuel and increases its knock resistance, first used it on a Yamaha V-Twin I had when I got carried away with raising the compression ratio it pinked a bit until I fitted it. On cars that have an knock sensor it acts a bit like putting Shell Optimax in your tank, i.e. the car senses the increased knock resistance and advances the ignition (I believe this to be correct .. sure I will be correct if not) either way just like adding higher octane fuel, there is a noticeable extra zip by using it.

[scoobyh123]

I bet they did crucify you on the tax! Nice one though, i bagged myself an Astra SRi as a company car the same way many moons ago (bit of an upgrade from the standard issue Maestro 1.3L!) and if memory serves it would have cost me about £100/month on tax. As it was one of the few cars lease-owned (rather than lease-hired) by the company i got away with it thankfully!

Might look into getting one of those Fuel Cat things, always looking to squeeze a few extra mpg out of each gallon!