as i have some bed time...
what happened with my coupe...
Well, i had recently been moaning about a lack of power.
After speaking to Nigel, Flea and a few others about the massive loss in power we found a few boost leaks and came to the conclusion the FMIC was restricting it.
So I changed that before the map.
I assumed every thing was as it was perfect ready for flea.
When we got there, it went onto the rollers and made...
206bhp LOL
three was hardly any boost and what was there was falling off at 3.5k ish.
then with a few minor adjustments, it made some thing like 216bhp.
the boost would climb nicely, then drop off the face of the earth soon as it hit 1bar of boost.
I left the car with flea (already heart broken but glad it was in safe hands) and went shopping in bath with the Mrs.. (BAD IDEA)
any way, come back to find that flea had been working flat out to sort the issue's.
i was also over fuelling quite badly.
Any way, i left fleas happier as i had a list to work to and need to finally fix my boost issue.
the list was simple..
shorten my FMIC pipe work as its a bit longer than it needs to be
sort out why I cant have more than 1 bar of boost
also sort out my high det issue.
Since then, well, ive been as busy as i can be.
ive shortened the FMIC pipe work
ive looped the vac pipes off the turbo to run actuating boost and found that standard boost is only set to 0.4 bar... impressive.
i need to re-adjust the preload on the turbo so it can hold more boost.
also, im in the process of sorting out a water/meth injection kit so i can reduce the high det problem..
then she will be back up to Flea for round 2.
One thing I will say, Flea is a real good guy.
He could of just turned around and said, its got issue’s go away and sort them then come back and not to waste his time.. but instead, he told me what was roughly wrong, pointed me in the best direction to fix it and also offered over the phone support (which ive already used quite a bit
)
He also sorted my fuelling out so it was not really a wasted trip!
Also, he made do with what he could, it feels nice to drive, its running safe, MPG is great..
he really made the best out of s sh*t situation!
Flea, i shall be seeing you soon for round 2!!