Charles,What sort of torque did your STi8 produce?

My Similar spec STI8 made 315bhp at John Nobles yesterday,but a standard '8' with PPP only made 285!

Si.

[Edited by SiBurt - 1/25/2004 11:12:41 AM]

 

Charles isn't your STI8 de-catted.

My STI8 PPP with cat made 292 at G-Force yesterday, seriously thinking of de-catting.

Deryck

 

Think Mark's getting all the charts etc sent to his work email, so we'll likely not see the results today

 

Nice day......... good to see a few familiar faces......

And yes for those of you who have seen the car before I DID NOT make it home again wihout the headers going again...... think they were ok on the run - but they were again like a tractor by the time I hit Oxford! - and then I had to get to Bristol..... cant see any lose bolts so I'll assume its something to do with GRUPPE -S headers being total focking sh*t - DO NOT BUY these headers they will make you want to kill your car!!!

Anyway - good day - cant wait to put on a proper Turbo then I might make reasonable numbers on the rollers instead of 419bhp - dont think G Force were too happy with me getting that sort of power on a small turbo

At least I've seen another outfit working - what an odd place to have 8 injectors on a 400bp car just to control the fuel idle...... ah well....... nothing wrong with my idle on 740cc injectors.........strange is all I'll say

 

Pictures here Thanks to Cliff for being there all day to take them
Fangoria - sorry to hear about the headers - but at least it gives you an excuse to do more to the car...

[Edited by pele - 1/25/2004 6:34:02 PM]

 

Pele

I think my mod days are now numbered on the Scoob. Not much more I can do to it - except put on a huge turbo - which I may do - but then it wont be as driveable on the road....... maybe a few £k and thats it..... I think I said the same thing £30k ago

I keep thinking about a nice modded Porsche Turbo - but I need to win the lottery first!

 

Nice one Steve i know what to aim for now what torque did you make???.... I'm not sure i like your advice about the Gruppe-S headers, you was the one that told me to get them!

Picking my car up next week, so i will have to see what it will do!

 

Cheers Mark and the guys at G -Force, a well orgainsed event. Well pleased with the readings too.
Hopefully next time the cafe will open a bit longer

 

Si Burt, I think the torque was 305 ft lb at 4500.... My boost is all over the place tho so def having tek 3 now... and then GEMS..

Pro drive do state that the figures they have are easily re creatable in normal driving conditions

Deryck yeah decat and rear resonator removed too... oh and a ITG filter..
Gonna get a cold air feed as temps were too high

 

thank you all for being nice to Kate as I had to work and she didn't want to take the car by her self.

Shame that I couldn't make it, but does anybody have a list of all figures?

Thanks again
Robert

 

Scott - Torque was a paltry 362lbs I think

Re Gruppe S - maybe you'll have nore luck than me - about a 50/50 success rate. I'll be having them off and machining them

Bizarely enough the power figure at G Force was the same as Powerstation

Maybe I need some Tolulene (sp?)!!!!

 

Quality day out Very nice to meet up with people. Where are these results then

 

Morning Guys!

As NaTurbo2000 said - the Local Power supply failed just as we had strapped down and wired up my car (5:30pm)...... so we couldn't even see the sheets and obviously the computers were dead!
- My car is obviously jinxed / worships the Devil.

If you haven't sent me your number plate already - please do so (as this is how G-force saved the computer files).

Will try and get everything started today!

Some good figures produced on the day - and obviously my commiserations to those who didn't get what they wanted - but at least we know the rollers are probably the most accurate in the country. There was a close correlation with those who went to Power Engineering, so theirs on a given day are pretty good too.

 

Bl00dy hell mark You had an unlucky day then Your car must be truely cursed Time for a 666 number plate

 

Paul - but that's why a an 03WRX with just a Prodrive Backbox can produce 260bhp ....

Just wait till I start tweaking it ..... Heh Heh Heh

 

Great day even though I was just havin a look about

 

Marks car is definatly not cursed the way he overtook me leaving the handycross r/bout sat eve about 6.30pm onto the 404 towards marlow,(jet fighter mode!!!)

 

Chris - oh yeah, forgot about that!
Well I thought I'm going to get blown into the weeds - so I might as well give it the full 259bhp .....
- Had just been in convoy with V5Man and Naturbo2000 too.

*** As you may have gathered the "Mad" element applies to the driving style - not the personality! ***


[Edited by MadMark - 1/26/2004 2:08:18 PM]

 

VELRYBA:- Interesting engine conversion. I like it. here's me thinking that its some standard uk turbo and Low & behold 304BHP

Very sweet.

I had a chat with Kate and her mate 4 quite a while. Ur lucky that u have a woman that likes cars. Mine rams her fist down my throat as soon as i even mention the word car.

Say a big hello to them both from me.

Mark- Great organised day even though I'm a Honda driver. Spot-on.

Cheers,

Marc

 

Marc

Was that you in the 'teg?

 

Marc - Saw the car and was dying to come over and have a chat (I used to have a CTR) - but something cropped up everytime I wondered over!

 

Marc> thank you for the compliment, yes I cannot complain and I would past the regards
I know the car looks VERY slow and underpowered but mind you it's still fairly standard and it has a long way to go as the engine had only standard mapping done so we can drive it and now the "tweaking" will be done

MadMark> you have mail

ALL> can somebody tell me what are those numbers at the bottom of the sheet (IT, RT, RH etc.)?

Thanks
Robert

 

more pics just posted in gallery topic thread thingy

Cliff

 

At a guess from the figures

RT, room temp
IT, inltet temp (I think I saw a sensor being put on my cone filter)
RH, Relative humidity

As for the rest I haven't a clue

 

They def. measure inlet temp as well as air/fuel ratio - but the air fuel is done on a seperate graph

Figures look reasonable for IT and RT (it was cold!)

I guess one of the figures is engine revs/wheel revs ratio, cos they set that up on a per car basis
+ guess they ought to state what they measure transmission losses as (cos they measure power at wheels and scale up)

Just guesses and don't know which is what

 

Steve/Fangoria:
You got 419 bhp?. Yes? Were you joking when you said torque was paltry? Pretty good result I would have thought.
Are you on one of Andy f's turbos? I would think a lot of people would like these results for not a lot of outlay, relatively speaking, for a turbo.
You made reference to lag or poor spool or tractability from a bigger turbo but that does not need to be the case. Come for a drive in my STi Wagon and find out for yourself. I have had a car here for the last week for a re-map and some other work. It has an MD 304. Nothing below 3000rpm in 5th. 1bar at 3.4 and starting to runout of puff shortly after 5.5k. ie a narrow powerband. The bigger Ion Turbo on the STi wagon is far more tractable with a powerband more than twice the width.

 

Interested to know what you would consider to be a proper turbo as i am about to fit something to the WRX to replace the TD04???

 

Can tell you what "shootout mode means:"

looking on dyno dynamics site, I think RP is Air Pressure

 

Andy - so RP = Relative Pressure? Sounds reasonable to me!