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Or maybe not. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-661840,00.html

Seriously though, tea is very important to the English psyche. With or without the optional plunger. Take the British Empire for instance. We had to colonise India because thats where the tea mines are. It's also why we didn't mind loosing the American war of Independence - crap tea. You can bet your arse that if the US had the worlds supply of tea mines, you'd all be speaking English by now! We have 240 volt, 13 amp electrics simply so we can have the fastest boiling kettles on the planet. During national sporting events, they have to spark up extra power stations because at half time, the entire nation puts the kettle on. Failure to provide decent tea is known to lead to serious civil unrest. It could even topple the government. It's a serious business. MI5 have a unit dedicated to preserving the nations tea supply from international tea terrorists. In fact, during the second world war they used the ability to make a decent cup of tea as a test for determining who were German spies. A method still used today (along with being able to pronounce "Warwickshire beat Worcestershire by 3 wickets"). I shit you not, failure to make decent tea could cost you your life!!

PG tips is a particular brand of tea. Namby Pamby crud is anything that isn't made by either PG Tips, Tetleys or Yorkshire Tea. The so-called English Breakfast teas. There are acceptable alternatives but one should be extremely carefull not to mistake good tea for crap tea or it could lead to all out war. Us Brits are serious tea connoiseurs. It's a matter of national honour.

I drink industrial strength tea. By the pint. If they sold pints of tea in pubs, I'd drink it. Earl Grey, Camomile, Ginseng or any other namby pamby, arty farty "teas" are the epitomy of evil and must be stopped. Neither should Liptons be classed as tea, whatever people may tell you. It's not tea, it's wood shavings mascarading as tea. And all herbal teas are complete shite. Period. The British Empire was built on tea and bacon sandwiches and I blame it's demise on crap tea and that imported bacon that boils in its own brine when you try to fry it.

Ahh, so that's how they can justify this. I did wonder.

So this guy actually got the sack for giving a shit about friendly fire incidents? Maybe this explains why the US military is getting a reputation for being trigger happy nutters in some quarters. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-634936,00.html

Wendy, you do realise that your ratio is independent of posts numbers on DZ.com and as such doesn't reflect the post whore-iness of the individual (which some people seem to be quite proud of) (No of posts)/(no of jumps) * (years in sport)/(post average) subsituting (post average) = (no of posts)/(days registered) gives (days registered) * (years in sport)/ (no ofjumps)

A quote from Sky News: "Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said in The Commons yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth." Trivia time: In 1980, the city of Detroit awarded the freedom of the city to one Saddam Hussein. Ooops.

It seems that certain members of the Bush administration had descided on a war in Iraq long before they were even elected. http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm

This lot arrived in my e-mail. PeaceNik: Why did you say we are we invading Iraq? WarMonger: We are invading Iraq because it is in violation of Security Council resolution 1441. A country cannot be allowed to violate Security Council resolutions. PN: But I thought many of our allies, including Israel, were in violation of more Security Council resolutions than Iraq. WM: It's not just about UN resolutions. The main point is that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction, and the first sign of a smoking gun could well be a mushroom cloud over NY. PN: Mushroom cloud? But I thought the weapons inspectors said Iraq had no nuclear weapons. WM: Yes, but biological and chemical weapon are the issue. PN: But I thought Iraq did not have any long range missiles for attacking us or our allies with such weapons. WM: The risk is not Iraq directly attacking us, but rather terrorists networks that Iraq could sell the weapons to. PN: But couldn't virtually any country sell chemical or biological materials? We sold quite a bit to Iraq in the eighties ourselves, didn't we? WM: That's ancient history. Look, Saddam Hussein is an evil man that has an undeniable track record of repressing his own people since the early eighties. He gasses his enemies. Everyone agrees that he is a power-hungry lunatic murderer. PN: We sold chemical and biological materials to a power-hungry lunatic murderer? WM: The issue is not what we sold, but rather what Saddam did. He is the one that launched a pre-emptive first strike on Kuwait. PN: A pre-emptive first strike does sound bad. But didn't our ambassador to Iraq, April Gillespie, know about and green-light the invasion of Kuwait? WM: Let's deal with the present, shall we? As of today, Iraq could sell its biological and chemical weapons to Al Qi'eda, Osama Bin Laden himself released an audio tape calling on Iraqis to suicide-attack us, proving a partnership between the two. PN: Osama Bin Laden? Wasn't the point of invading Afghanistan to kill him? WM: Actually, it's not 100% certain that it's really Osama Bin Laden on the tapes. But the lesson from the tape is the same: there could easily be a partnership between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein unless we act. PN: Is this the same audio tape where Osama Bin Laden labels Saddam a secular infidel? WM: You're missing the point by just focusing on the tape. Powell presented a strong case against Iraq. PN: He did? WM: Yes, he showed satellite pictures of an Al Qaida poison factory in Iraq. PN: But didn't that turn out to be a harmless shack in the part of Iraq controlled by the Kurdish opposition? WM: And a British intelligence report... PN: Didn't that turn out to be copied from an out-of-date graduate student paper? WM: And reports of mobile weapons labs... PN: Weren't those just artistic renderings? WM: And reports of Iraqis scuttling and hiding evidence from inspectors... PN: Wasn't that evidence contradicted by the chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix? WM: Yes, but there is plenty of other hard evidence that cannot be revealed because it would compromise our security. PN: So there is no publicly available evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? WM: The inspectors are not detectives, it's not their JOB to find evidence. You're missing the point. PN: So what is the point? WM: The main point is that we are invading Iraq because resolution 1441 threatened "severe consequences." If we do not act, the security council will become an irrelevant debating society. PN: So the main point is to uphold the rulings of the security council? WM: Absolutely....unless it rules against us. PN: And what if it does rule against us? WM: In that case, we must lead a coalition of the willing to invade Iraq. PN: Coalition of the willing? Who's that? WM: Britain, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, and Italy, for starters. PN: I thought Turkey refused to help us unless we gave them tens of billions of dollars. WM: Nevertheless, they may now be willing. PN: I thought public opinion in all those countries was against war. WM: Current public opinion is irrelevant. The majority expresses its will by electing leaders to make decisions. PN: So it's the decisions of leaders elected by the majority that is important? WM: Yes. PN: But George Bush wasn't elected by voters. He was selected by the U.S. Supreme C...- WM: I mean, we must support the decisions of our leaders, however they were elected, because they are acting in our best interest. This is about being a patriot. That's the bottom line. PN: So if we do not support the decisions of the president, we are not patriotic? WM: I never said that. PN: So what are you saying? Why are we invading Iraq? WM: As I said, because there is a chance that they have weapons of mass destruction that threaten us and our allies. PN: But the inspectors have not been able to find any such weapons. WM: Iraq is obviously hiding them. PN: You know this? How? WM: Because we know they had the weapons ten years ago, and they are still unaccounted for. PN: The weapons we sold them, you mean? WM: Precisely. PN: But I thought those biological and chemical weapons would degrade to an unusable state over ten years. WM: But there is a chance that some have not degraded. PN: So as long as there is even a small chance that such weapons exist, we must invade? WM: Exactly. PN: But North Korea actually has large amounts of usable chemical, biological, AND nuclear weapons, AND long range missiles that can reach the West Coast AND it has expelled nuclear weapons inspectors, AND threatened to turn America into a sea of fire. WM: That's a diplomatic issue. PN: So why are we invading Iraq instead of using diplomacy? WM: Aren't you listening? We are invading Iraq because we cannot allow the inspections to drag on indefinitely. Iraq has been delaying, deceiving, and denying for over ten years, and inspections cost us tens of millions. PN: But I thought war would cost us tens of billions. WM: Yes, but this is not about money. This is about security. PN: But wouldn't a pre-emptive war against Iraq ignite radical Muslim sentiments against us, and decrease our security? WM: Possibly, but we must not allow the terrorists to change the way we live. Once we do that, the terrorists have already won. PN: So what is the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security, color-coded terror alerts, and the Patriot Act? Don't these change the way we live? WM: I thought you had questions about Iraq. PN: I do. Why are we invading Iraq? WM: For the last time, we are invading Iraq because the world has called on Saddam Hussein to disarm, and he has failed to do so. He must now face the consequences. PN: So, likewise, if the world called on us to do something, such as find a peaceful solution, we would have an obligation to listen? WM: By "world", I meant the United Nations. PN: So, we have an obligation to listen to the United Nations? WM: By "United Nations" I meant the Security Council. PN: So, we have an an obligation to listen to the Security Council? WM: I meant the majority of the Security Council. PN: So, we have an obligation to listen to the majority of the Security Council? WM: Well... there could be an unreasonable veto. PN: In which case? WM: In which case, we have an obligation to ignore the veto. PN: And if the majority of the Security Council does not support us at all? WM: Then we have an obligation to ignore the Security Council. PN: That makes no sense. WM: If you love Iraq so much, you should move there. Or maybe France, with the all the other cheese-eating surrender monkeys. It's time to boycott their wine and cheese, no doubt about that. PN: I give up!

I googled this. http://www.geocities.com/cpa_blacktown_02/19990609b2stealth.htm and this Serbs claim they ?downed' another stealth plane, while the Pentagon still prefers to use the verb ?crashed' in reference to the one and only stealth plane the Pentagon acknowledges as missing. The second Stealth plane was allegedly ?downed' over Bosnia, and the wreckage was promptly surrounded by American troops preventing Serbian TV of taking a shot. From http://balkansnet.org/raccoon/kosova.html

I'm also skint and on S/L progression at Langar and I asked myself the same questions when I started. Here's why I chose SL. 1) Even though you get to freefall from jump 1 on AFF, I still get to jump out of aeroplanes with SL. 2) I get more jumps for my money with SL. 3) Just because I could learn via AFF doesn't mean I wont have fun with SL. (Although the rope is frustrating if you keep screwing up DRP jumps like I do) 4) I can't afford AFF anyway unless I stop squandering all my money on food and rent. Hey, it made sense to me.

There is this farmer who is having problems with his chickens. All of the sudden, they are all getting very sick and he doesn't know what is wrong with them. After trying all conventional means, he calls a biologist, a chemist and a physicist to see if they can figure out what is wrong. So the biologist looks at the chickens, examines them a bit, and says he has no clue what could be wrong with them. Then the chemist takes some tests and makes some measurements, but he can't come to any conclusions either. So the physicist tries. He stands there and looks at the chickens for a long time without touching them or anything. Then all of the sudden he starts scribbling away in a notebook. Finally, after several gruesome calculations, he exclaims, "I've got it! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum."

Nothing. I just believe in one less God than your average theist which means I don't have to waste my time talking to myself thinking that someone is listening. People should look for the truth themselves and anyone who does not dispassionately evaluate evidence both in support and counter to his/her held beliefs makes themselves vulnerable to delusion. During the Nuremburg trials a German officer said something along the lines of "you can make people believe anything. You just blame someone else for everything that is wrong in the world and call your target audience unpatriotic if they don't agree with you". It seems to me that this method has been used by religious institutions for years.

I must admit, I'm a bit of a Nihonto nut. I'm jealous as hell. Who made it? But I have to ask, if you were looking to buy a tameshigiri sword why didn't you look into a Howard Clark Bainite? The Japanese make some outstanding swords that few can even come close to reproducing (I know, I've tried) but they are seriously limited in the materials they can use.

The Dark Sucker Theory For years, it has been believed that electric bulbs emit light, but recent information has proved otherwise. Electric bulbs don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus, we call these bulbs Dark Suckers. The Dark Sucker Theory and the existence of dark suckers prove that dark has mass and is heavier than light. First, the basis of the Dark Sucker Theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. For example, take the Dark Sucker in the room you are in. There is much less dark right next to it than there is elsewhere. The larger the Dark Sucker, the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark Suckers in the parking lot have a much greater capacity to suck dark than the ones in this room. So with all things, Dark Suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the dark spot on a full Dark Sucker. A candle is a primitive Dark Sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You can see that after the first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark that has been sucked into it. If you put a pencil next to the wick of an operating candle, it will turn black. This is because it got in the way of the dark flowing into the candle. One of the disadvantages of these primitive Dark Suckers is their limited range. There are also portable Dark Suckers. In these, the bulbs can't handle all the dark by themselves and must be aided by a Dark Storage Unit. When the Dark Storage Unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced before the portable Dark Sucker can operate again. Dark has mass. When dark goes into a Dark Sucker, friction from the mass generates heat. Thus, it is not wise to touch an operating Dark Sucker. Candles present a special problem as the mass must travel into a solid wick instead of through clear glass. This generates a great amount of heat and therefore it's not wise to touch an operating candle. Also, dark is heavier than light. If you were to swim just below the surface of the lake, you would see a lot of light. If you were to slowly swim deeper and deeper, you would notice it getting darker and darker. When you get really deep, you would be in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to the bottom of the lake and the lighter light floats at the top. The is why it is called light. Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you were to stand in a lit room in front of a closed, dark closet, and slowly opened the closet door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet. But since dark is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet. Next time you see an electric bulb, remember that it is a Dark Sucker.

Sheeeeiiiite, that was the typo I edited, brain dead obviously.

I thought this would just be E minor e--0 B--0 G--0 D--2 A--2 E--0 E major 7th would be e--0 B--3 G--1 D--2 A--2 E--0 F would be e--1 B--1 G--2 D--3 A--3 E--1 (or X) X means don't play this string But then my tab is pretty rusty. Edit for typo

from a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954. It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. Did you know that Hitler was Catholic? The more people understand the scientific explaination of the universe the firmer becomes the belief that there is no room left for explainations of any other type. The existence of God is unlikely to be completely disproved by science since God can always be said to exist in areas that science has not yet addressed. Any belief system which is only able to exist in areas that have not been explained in a more rational and logical way must eventually lose it's hold over people and be discarded just as all bad theories do. I'm only surprised it's taking so long.

Cheers guys, lots of things to think about and try. I know that the risers can bite which is one of the reasons I want to break this habit. I practice DRPs with a juggling ball stuck to my shirt tails with velcro because not pulling a handle teaches you how to not pull a handle. The count I've been taught is... arch... two... reach... pull... I might try ..look.. instead of ..two.. but I will have to make sure this doesn't inspire a de-arch just to complicate things, years of judo taught me where that the head goes, the body usually follows. The thing that got me over my door terror was constant visualisation of the perfect jump. I'm still fizzed up in the door, but not to the point of busting a blood vessel anymore. I'll try this and if all else fails to break my riser addiction, I'll drop DRPs for a jump or two to get some perspective, which I don't want to do but sometimes you just have to suck it up. Thanks again.

I keep screwing up dummy ripcord pulls. The exit and initial arch are both good, then I reach but can't find the handle and I seem to have developed the habit of grabbing the risers as the S/L deploys the canopy. However, I've been told that I am not content to just grab one riser with my left hand, but have been known to grab with both hands before going for the handle. A habit I have to break ASAP. So disscussing this problem over a pint, I finally put two and two together. I'm absolutely paranoid about the fact that leg straps are the only things that hold me into the rig. So now that I've figured out that a nice set of risers will present themselves at head height, I subconciously grab them just in case the leg straps fail. Fat lot of good that'll do. Has anyone got any tips on getting it through my thick skull that the leg straps are more than capeable of holding my fat ass up off the floor and/or how to keep my hands out of the risers so that I can do a DRP jump without it going tits up? Cos it's really frigging annoying. Cheers

The best way I've found to reduce spam is to run several e-mail addresses. One for all high risk use, like signing up to news groups, online services and websites. This address should be considered disposable, as soon as it gets overloaded with junk get another account. Hotmail is good for this but be advised, hotmail (and presumably other online email servers) recycle e-mail addresses. If you don't access your account in 30 days they allow it to be registered by someone else, which means if you sign up, you just might be getting someone elses spam from day one. Your second address is just for work use, don't be tempted to use it for anything else as you will probably need to keep this active indefinately. The third is for personal use e-mailing friends etc, change it when you need to. Make sure all these addresses don't all go to the same inbox. Don't reply to any junk, ever. Not even to tell them to quit bugging you or remove your address. All this does is tell them that there is a real person on the other end, pure gold to the spammers. Delete anything from a source you don't recognise, preferably from the server before you down load it. Get a spam filter or a firewall with an ad blocker even though most firewalls are snake oil. Quit accepting cookies from anyone other than sites you trust. Spam written with HTML markup can contain web bugs which with cookies can be used to trace your movements and tell if you have opened an infected e-mail even if you don't reply to it. A program downloadable from http://www.bugnosis.org will alert you to the presence of web bugs but wont squash them. If you really want to trace an IP address try http://www.samspade.org but trying to get anything done about abuse is next to useless. Although abuse desks do take their work seriously, they get shit loads of business so don't expect spectacular results. There is no privacy on the web and spam will always get through, you just have to accept it. You can reduce your foot prints by following some simple rules. But if you really don't want spam, make a simple little modification to your modem... with a hammer.

Yep, guilty as charged. A mate of mine used to smoke 3 or 4 packs a day before he gave up. He used those little patches that you stick on your arm. He reckoned that they worked well but his dog was having a hard time going cold turkey with the passive smoking so he shaved a little patch to try and wean the dog off. To cut a long story short, the dog died 3 weeks later. I guess he didn't figure on 1 patch being equal to 7 doggie patches.

I came across this, enjoy. Princess Leia apperars, crouches over R2D2, fiddling about a bit. After a moment, there's a ringing sound, a pick up type noise, then the answering machine kicks in Ben Kenobi: I'm sorry there's no-one here to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Leia: Oh bollocks, erm, well......, I hate these things.... Look, just help OK? Leia rushes off. Narrator: A long time ago, in a Galaxy somewhere in South London, a part-time exotic dancer is being threatened with a good kicking by her Dad who runs the local skin flick joint, the Empire cinema. She recorded a message on a portable hoover which just got nicked by the local Craigmiller Radga Posse................. A shell-suited casual comes on. A moment later, Luke comes on. Radga: eh no man. Like this is a topper man, topper. Straight up man. Luke: Is this 'oover working? It's not nicked is it? Radga: No, man. It's topper, straight up man. Me mams had it for ages, like. She just needs the money till like, the social comes in, man Luke: All right then. Radga: Cheers, man, That's pure magic like. Luke gives the Radgas the money. They scarper. Luke goes towards R2. Suddenly, Leia's message appears. Leia: I hate these things...Look, just help, ok? The message repeats untill Luke kicks the droid, and wanders off calling for Ben. Narrator: Luke goes in search of his social worker seeing as he's still on probation for joy-riding. Meanwhile, Darth Vader sends the lads round over the matter of a bounced cheque, and they top Luke's court appointed guardians, which is a bit of a bummer. Luke: Shit! Me uncle 'n' aunt are dead, and all I've got left is this friggin' 'oover with some stupid princess talking bollocks on it. Ben: Look on the bright side Luke. I know this wicked boozer down the road. We'll drop off at the Death Star afterwards and smash the fuckin' place up. Luke: I'm well up for that, mate! Narrator: Down at the local juicer, Luke and Ben try to blag a lift round to Darth's house to save the Princess. First, they have to get past the locals. Local: Oi! Grandad! It's your round. Other Local: Drink! Arse! Ben (Waves hands in 'using the force' kind of way): It's not my round Local: It's not your round Other Local: Feck Luke 'bottles' the other local. Ben continues. Ben: It's your round, and you forgot to give me the fivers change from the last one. Local: It's my round. Oh, here's the change from the last one. A fiver wasn't it? Barman! The lacal shuffles off and Luke and Ben go to Han's table. Narrator: Luke and Ben finnaly meet the legendary Han Solo, the man who made the Castlemilk run in less than ten minutes, with his hub caps intact. Han: Aye, Chewie. What is it? Chewbacca: Woof! Han: Oh right you are, customers. What can I do fer ya? Luke: How much to the Death Star, mate? Han: That's south, innit. I dunno, this time of night. I could give you a price, but like I say, it's on the meter. I'm cutting me arm aff. What are ye goin' there for anyway? Ben (Producing Porno mag and showing centerfold): We're rescuing her. Han: Aye, right y'are.(Takes the mag) Outside, five minutes. (Looks at the mag.....) Better make that ten minutes. Han stands to leave. Greedo comes up. Greedo: Oota goota, Solo? Han nuts him and walks off. Chewbacca: Woof! Narrator: Our heros are pulled over by the Death Star. Ben and Vader meet up again to settle a ruck of principal. Darth: Outside grandad, you've been asking for it all night! Ben: Try it, disco poof. Knock me on the head, I'll only get more powerful. They struggle off, Vader with Ben in a headlock. Narrator: Meanwhile, Luke makes off with the bird. Leia: Cheers, Luke mate. Luke: Nice firm arse darlin'. Howdya like yer eggs? Chewbacca: Woof! Stormtrooper: Oi! You lot, come 'ere!! Narrator: Luke and the others escape. Once back at her flat, Leia sends the Luke and a heavy squad of homies round to the Death Star. Luke, Biggs and Wedge sit in chairs forming a triangle. Biggs: Luke, I'm your best childhood friend! Luke: Never seen you before till five minutes ago. Vader: BANG! Biggs: AAAAARGH! Wedge: Luke, this is stupid! Luke: Hang in there Wedge, We're almost there. Wedge: No, I'm serious, this is really stupid. I mean look at the size of that thing! A baloon with Death Star drawn on it appears in front of Luke. Luke: Almost there. Wedge: Erm....Luke, I've just remembered, I've left the gas on at home. Luke: Get clear Wedge. You can't do any good back there. Wedge: Sorry. Vader: I never touched him! Ben: Use brute Force Luke. Technician: Luke your computers off. What's wrong. Luke: Nothing. I've just decided to ignore the latest state of the art heads-up display in favour of the voice of a dead guy that only I can hear. Techician: Fair enough. Luke runs up to the baloon and sticks a pin in it. BANG!! Luke: Bugger, that went with a pop! Darth (Before spinning off): Bollocks! I've only gone and left me cigs in there. Narrator: Massive Knees-up, much partying. Medals, big up on the chest. Luke fancies his sister and Darth's legged it. Han is standing looking incredulously at the centerfold and at Leia. Han: Wait a minute. Whats goin' on? Leia: Sorry I've been a bit moody lately. I just wanna say, cheers lads. Whole Cast: Cheers! Narrator: The end.

I will break from tradition and cease lurking to respond to this since I am a race engine builder and I've been asked similar questions many times before. If the modification is not for a race car I would strongly advise against it unless you are absolutely 100% sure this is what you want to do. There are loads of potential problems fitting turbos to stock engines and it's certainly not as simple as bolting a dirty great blower to your exhaust manifold. Luckily most reputable kit manufacturers will have thought of all this and should supply the correct parts. The main problem is compression ratio. Most normally aspirated engines run around a 9:1 compression ratio. For a turbo engine, this has to be dropped to around 6:1 (numbers depend on the specifics of each engine) You achieve this by either removing material from the combustion chambers in the cylinder head or by fitting low compression pistons. Not doing this will cause severe detonation problems and probably burn out pistons and valves. A burned out piston may cost you a new cylinder block and at least a rebore. You can reduce the chance of detonation probelms by using aviation fuel which has a much higher octane rating than what passes for fuel at a regular gas station. If you are running carburrettors you are going to have to rejet accordingly. It's best set the whole thing up on a dynomometer. If you are running electronic fuel injection, your ECU will have to be remapped or chipped to suit by a specialist. The size of turbo should be chosen for a specific engine type. Too small and you get loads of low down grunt but it will be strangled at higher revs and will actually be slower than it was as standard. Too large and you will have no low down power at all and suffer turbo lag problems. I remember fitting a turbo technics kit to a rally car once and if you floored the throttle is just died for about 3 seconds while the turbo caught up and then took off like the space shuttle. It was truly horrible to drive. Turbo F1 cars used to pump neat fuel into the exhaust manifold just to keep the turbo spinning and thereby avoid the lag problems at the expense of shit loads of fuel. If you are going to run anything above the most modest of boost presures you will probably need to beef up the bottom end. This will mean a steel crank, rods, main caps and forged pistons. The whole thing needs to be ballanced. You may also find that the cam profile is not best suited to the turbo and need to find a camshaft that matches the new power curve. I'm sorry if this lot sounds a bit harsh, but for every engine I build, I probably talk two people out of spending money on a modification that will by expensive, time consuming and generally not much of an improvement and definately wont add anything to the value of their car. My advice would be that If you want more power from your road engine, it is much easier to sell your car and buy one with more cubic inches. I hope this helps and good luck.