Derelict Town Centre Building Options

[TJHaines]

What shops would people like to see put in the old ATS tyre & exhaust centre in Thatcham Broadway that's supposedly going to be redeveloped into 3 shops and 13 flats?!

[motormad]

What shops would people like to see put in the old ATS tyre & exhaust centre in Thatcham Broadway that's supposedly going to be redeveloped into 3 shops and 13 flats?!

Hopefully it'll be neither.
We don't need any more shops there - There are plenty of shops both shoot and super within 2 minutes walk, and there are enough people living in that area as it is, for new flats for council tenants who will undoubtedly keep smashing the bus stop up.
Ok that's presumptuous but are they going to be private flats, or council flats? Are they going to be to buy, or to rent?
Where are they going to park? There is not parking for 13 shops and a bunch of shops - Parking is bad enough on the A4 along that way as it is.....

If I had the money I'd open up a car tuning place.

[Exhausted]

If I had the money I'd open up a car tuning place.

How do you tune a modern car other than reprogram the ECU .

[motormad]

How do you tune a modern car other than reprogram the ECU .

Many ways.
Big turbo, decats, high lift camshafts, uprated head bolts, etc etc.

The thing with modern cars, especially turbo petrol & turbo diesel, is the manufacturer leaves so much headroom, you can often get a genuine 30-50bhp and 40-60lb ft of torque from pretty much any turbocharged car. And the component parts are often able to take far more than that. EG My car has over 145k on the clock. I've owned it since 99k and it's had various levels of tune on it since 103k. Always been serviced well with the correct oils, I'm now running over twice the stock BHP that my car came with and (so far) it's fine!

EG a Golf Mk4 1.8T with 150bhp will go to over 200bhp with only a remap (programming the ECU) and can very safely take the power. They can take around 320lb ft of torque before engine work is required, and then it's only rods and pistons which are pretty easy all things considered.

A lot of tuning is electronic because of the way the fuel injection system is operated, but "old school" tuning still exists and works along side the electronics - cam timing is changed, compression ratios, head porting, uprated pistons and rods, just because you need to use a computer to change fuelling rates and injection durations, does not mean that "old school" tuning is dead and I think those who go "oh it's just plugging a computer in" are normally pretty clueless!

Also having seen first hand a cars ECU when being remapped, and having a play with the mapping software itself, even I can't get it and I'm a geek!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFodFAuemAY

https://sites.google.com/site/vagecumap/und...anding-ecu-maps - This is just specific to my brand of car, but gives you an idea. If you actually want to learn it's a good starter site.