Arrived at 0900, left at 1730, myself, Craig and Corbie, who came up for the weekend. Really makes a difference when you have the guy that writes Dastek's software for them, and knows the Hondata K-Pro backwards.
Craig’s car spent all day on the rollers, Ricky driving and Corbie mapping, and I did one power run at the end of the day. In between Craig and Ricky fitted my upgraded front hubs bolt kit, and changed over Geary’s 5" exhaust for his 6".
First surprise was that Ricky’s R/R only reads upto 250 hp at the wheels, or around 290 at the flywheel, and by the time that Corbie was part way through mapping, Craig’s car was taking it off the gauge at 7,200 rpm.
I was using a generic map that was close to my spec, but I do not have Craig’s purpose made 2Bular exhaust manifold/back box, and the smaller crankshaft pulley means I am running 6psi boost as opposed to 8.
Even so it was a similar result, the gauge reached 250 by 8000rpm. So both cars are putting out 290hp +.
We tried rolling acceleration comparisons on the way home, 3,4,5, and 6th for me (lower geared 4,5,6) and the cars seemed identical. With our back roads, holding onto the wheel was the main priority.
So a good days work, but arrived home knackered with ringing ears, and fume filled lungs.
tut
ps as usual it was a pleasure to work with Ricky, easy and relaxed, none of this health and safety crap, plus he made us lunch and a dram for the OAP.
A day at Rickys..........
You must both be chuffed! What's the next step, is that both cars fully mapped?
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We plan to go to Wallace Performance in the next couple of weeks and do a straight power run with Russel to get full power and torque figures.
In the meantime I will try to source either a 6" crankshaft pulley from a Civic Type-R, or a smaller 3.2" S/C pulley to replace my 3.4", to take the boost to 8psi.
tut
In the meantime I will try to source either a 6" crankshaft pulley from a Civic Type-R, or a smaller 3.2" S/C pulley to replace my 3.4", to take the boost to 8psi.
tut
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Numbers do not mean anything unless the cars are compared on the same R/R.
However for mapping, you are only comparing the car to itself as you make changes, or to another car at the same time.
I do not know how accurate Ricky's road is, though he had it calibrated recently, so for a comparison with other S/C Hondas in the country, we would have to use Abbey or Dave Walker's.
Dastek are also a known standard, so we will have a run on Wallace Performance in Aberdeen.
tut
Numbers do not mean anything unless the cars are compared on the same R/R.
However for mapping, you are only comparing the car to itself as you make changes, or to another car at the same time.
I do not know how accurate Ricky's road is, though he had it calibrated recently, so for a comparison with other S/C Hondas in the country, we would have to use Abbey or Dave Walker's.
Dastek are also a known standard, so we will have a run on Wallace Performance in Aberdeen.
tut
Yeah, had a really good day. She actually maxed out the rollers before 7 thou (around 6800) so still had over 1800 rpm left, so now looking to compare a power run from elsewhere to see how much she had left. We did lots of other things too, turned out that with my setup we were down some 30 hp at 3000 using the low cam so now my vtec comes in at 3 and is absolutely seamless changing over. Top end was difficult requiring concrete blocks and large motors, myself and tut all in the boot to get enough grip for power runs so quite a sight, pity nobody had a camera.
The biggest difference was driving to work today, firstly I used nothing more than 6th for over taking but more importantly my throttle pedal is no longer directly connected to the fuel gauge, less than a gallon to come in to work(30miles). So again a big thanks to corbie and ricky for all their help, both a pleasure to work with.
PS Hope rickys rollers are okay, after a full power run we had to leave them for half an hour to cool down, they were smokin big time!
PPS Dave, I must admit I was very impressed with your car, what spec is the engine again? (you told me the last time we met but I forgot). Still dont think Id change but was tempted.
Cheers Craig
The biggest difference was driving to work today, firstly I used nothing more than 6th for over taking but more importantly my throttle pedal is no longer directly connected to the fuel gauge, less than a gallon to come in to work(30miles). So again a big thanks to corbie and ricky for all their help, both a pleasure to work with.
PS Hope rickys rollers are okay, after a full power run we had to leave them for half an hour to cool down, they were smokin big time!
PPS Dave, I must admit I was very impressed with your car, what spec is the engine again? (you told me the last time we met but I forgot). Still dont think Id change but was tempted.
Cheers Craig
I'll leave it to Dave to fill you in with the details, but the basics are 1.6K with throttle bodies & Caterham roller barrels, giving 170-180bhp (plenty when it only weighs four hundred & odd kilosr10crw wrote:PPS Dave, I must admit I was very impressed with your car, what spec is the engine again? (you told me the last time we met but I forgot). Still dont think Id change but was tempted.
Cheers Craig
)To say we had an interesting run back from collecting it in London is an understatement
Ross
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1972 Alfaholics Giulia Super
2000 Elise S1 Sport 160
2004 Bentley Conti GT
2017 Schkoda Yeti
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1972 Alfaholics Giulia Super
2000 Elise S1 Sport 160
2004 Bentley Conti GT
2017 Schkoda Yeti
2x Hairy GRs (not Toyota)
Now browsing the tech pages
