http://www.kouki.co.uk Stuff about cars Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:08:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [ad#pps]North America’s drift competition sanctioning body, Formula Drift, has partnered with Red Bull to create the first world wide drift championship: the Red Bull Drifting World Championship.  The new championship will bring together 32 of the worlds best drifters on the 15th of November 2008 to decide the Drifting World ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/new-red-bull-drifting-world-championship [ad#pps]I’ve never been a fan of speed cameras, not because I’m some sort of deranged speed freak, but because I don’t think they work. I’m glad to find somebody else has the same opinion. Councillor Peter Greenhalgh, in charge of transport policy for Swindon Borough Council has stated ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/swindon-considers-axing-speed-cameras [ad#pps]Mazda are to introduce a new version of its Renesis rotary-engined Mazda RX-8, the RX-8 R3. Powered by an improved version of the 231ps twin-rotor engine, Mazda promise the new R3 will offer faster steering, chassis and engine responses, more refinement and more equipment. The R3 will come with a sports ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/new-mazda-rx8-r3 [ad#pps]Fiat are set to release a limited edition version of the Fiat 500 Abarth: the Fiat 500 “Opening Edition”. This limited edition model has a tweaked version of the Abarth turbocharged 1.4 engine that will produce 160bhp at 5750rpm and 230Nm of torque at 3000rpm. The Abarth Opening Edition is ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/fiat-500-abarth-opening-edition [ad#pps]It has taken some time, but I've eventually got round to adding some new ECU pinout references to the site. The new references are for the S14 & S15 SR20DET ECU's and the Nissan Stagea RB25DET Automatic. S14 SR20DET ECU Pinout Reference S15 SR20DET ECU Pinout Reference WGC34 Stagea RB25DET Automatic ECU Pinout ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/new-nissan-ecu-pinout-references [ad#pps]I popped up to Knockhill at the weekend with some friends to watch the first Scottish Motor Racing Club event of the season. Our main reason for visiting was to see the Sports/Saloons races and two cars in particular. The old Ford Focus Built by Andy Gallacher and now owned ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/knockhill-smrc-30th-march-2008 [ad#pps]There have been rumblings on the net about a new Mazda RX-7, which if true is very exciting. The Last UK RX-7 was produced in 1996 whith production in Japan stopping in 2003. The Mazda RX-8 succeeded the RX-7 in 2003 and has been very popular since. Speculation There had previously been ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/is-the-rex-back [ad#pps]Ford recently announced a new version of their high performance Focus ST. Its badged as the ST500 and is based on the current range topping Focus ST-3, unfortunately the 500 in the name doesn't refer to any extreme power hikes but rather thae fact that it is a limited run ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/ford-focus-st500 [ad#pps]I've added a new reference section to the site, over the years I've collected loads of random bits of information and I've decided I ought to organise it somehow. This way it'll hopefully benefit more than just me. The new reference section isn't all that busy yet, I'll be ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/new-reference-section-added [ad#pps]Today I received an email alerting me to a petion against section 59 of the Police Reform Act 2002. Personally I was never aware that this law existed... essentially it gives any uniformed officer the power to issue you with a written warning and, on a subsequent occasion, the ... http://www.kouki.co.uk/section-59-police-reform-act-petition