Far out, I have never heard of a B4, being a wanted car.
There arn't enough of them.
I think the cops are all wrong hahaha

Yeah I think it's always going to be a bit of that when it comes to having a car like we've got.  Sometimes it either gets mistaken for something else (ie. WRX, mabye bcos of the boxer sound) or they believe it's stolen just bcos you happen to park it in a street and get out.

I live right next door to a busy police station and there are always at least 5 - 6 police cars parked on my street. Every time I drive by, and there happens to be police either getting out or getting in to their cars, they never give me a second glance. The only ones that occaisionally do are the highway patrol boys. Initially it's bcos they hear the boxer rumble, then they turn away after seeing it's not what they thought it was (WRX maybe).

Anyway, in my apartment block there is at least three other more noticeable cars than mine (a modified MY06 STi rex, a Mitsu Evo III with the works, and a 'Fast and Furious wannabe' Nissan Exa with bling LOL) so I'm not really worried when it comes to getting noticed by the wrong people on my street anyway.

my best dodge of the cops was when i drove past them at about 20 over the limit in a bit of road that was divided. I saw them put on the lights and 100m back up the road they turned around. By this time I was another 150m down the road and down a little side bit that came off one side of the road. I quickly turned off the car as i hear them go past me practically above me. lol. so i moved off in case they came back to look for me but they had no idea, they ended up turning down a side street where i guess they thought i went but got nothin. stopped in another side street down the road and watched em drive past lookin for me

The cops hate me, i live up the road from a school, and they RIGHT at the end of where my street joins the road that the schools on, just over a crest!!!

They directed me to pull over (although no speed gun was pointed at me) but i casualy turned up my street and BOY DID THEY RUN to their car, i drove sedately up my street and in full view of them i turned into my driveway and nailed it to 80Kph (our driveway is maybe 200M long.

There they sat untill i went to work (only 10 mins or so, just had to get changed), got to the end of my driveway and was confronted by them and some kind of ticket and told that i couldnt speed up the driveway, i polietly told them that this is private property, i can do my own speed limit, then they tried to tell me that my driveway was public property, i told them to go check it with the council. Then they tried to defect my car. it was stock at that time. They got nothin outta me, felt good to win for once.

But u just gotta love how they wont apologise.

Man that RSM is cool Joel!

B4 - usually the Q-Ship thats what I like about it!

Last week my mate was driving home from work and the cops followed him home and frisked him! infront of his house and his parents, now thats bad. Turns out that the car was owned by a shady character before and they suggested that he change his number plates or the same could happen again, they did not tell him the reason why this car was (well the number plate) was wanted :S

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Cheers Dave- its a fun little thing to have inside the car actually.

I actually dont mind driving along the highway sometimes and testing the 80kmh - 120kmh times or stuff like that. Keeps long boring drives interesting (as does the ensuing head slap from the girlfriend). Lets you put in numbers the difference ambient temps make on the cars performance too (to a certain degree of course) which is handy. Night and day difference in hot and cold temps!

As we were chatting about on sunday too, also very useful for highway driving with the B4's lack of cruise control. At night the flashing warning is obscenely bright, and the near blindness that comes from exceeding the set limit is almost as painful as the double demerits...not quite but its damn effective anyway.

Probably a good idea if you have one and ever get pulled over to reset the max readings on the Rev and Speed readouts. Would be hard to argue against breaking the limit when right next to your left hand is a digital readout of the speed you just got clocked at!

Yea the RSM is good but to me its a big bulky.. i opted for a Pivot speed meter.. so small, but only does speed eg 1/4 miles etc... 0=100m... the Apexi is much more advanced....

Nice boost guage as well WMD. similar to my one....

Yeah I spotted your HKS unit when I looked at the photos you posted a few days back- was thinking that myself!

You have the white faced one yes?

Good unit- I had an AVO gauge in there previously and it was, in a word, shite. The thing read 0.2 bar out of whack! So it was telling me the secondary was running up on 20psi...not helpful.

HKS unit is much more accurate and looks a treat too.

You have yours on the steering column right? What did you use to keep it there? I noticed some sort of pod/surround you had but where did you find that and how did you mount it? i previously had the AVO gauge on the steering column but couldnt (without drilling into the column- I usually avoid drilling at all costs) get the thing to stop rattling.

and yeah- admittedly it is bling. I only really wanted it for the speed warning thing, but the bling factor must have swayed me :king:

boost varies between gears, but first is about 0.8 on secondary, second is about 0.9, third just over 1.0 and fourth/fifth are about 1.1

Primary turbo is always lower- max 1.0 bar in fourth and fifth, and roughly goes down 0.1bar with each gear down.

I looked into an EBC, but thought better of it cause I really dont want to play with the good job the retune did of setting safe, but still effective boost levels. Knowing me I would wind the thing up too far one day, squeeze out just a little bit of performance and I would get about 100m before the primary turbo decided to chew its blades and spit them through the intake...

I hate cops...

i know this thread is from a while ago but i got pulled over a few weeks ago by a pajero cop, i was catching up to my cousin after dinner going through some round abouts and took one to the left pretty fast and the fiancee saw the cops and it was too late, they followed me for over 3km through a housing estate and pulled me over 10metres from my sisters house, they both got out and said you have been pulled over for a random breath test(random my a$$) had only had one beer so was let go.

I have to admit i was lucky over the weekend as i was turning into my street and had to give it a little hit probably doing 120 when i see a unmarked 380 pulling out of side street slow down to speed limit then get pulled over for random breath test as i cant get done for speeding without being on camera