It was the sensor in the downpipe, Simon plugged in his laptop to the simtek to try and sort the few niggles i had and the Lambda was reading rich all the time even with the engine off

 

Ok cheers, do you still have your old water spray set up with the under bonnet mounted tank? If so would you be willing to sell?

 

No sorry unfortunately i sold that ages ago

 

Cool no worries, do you know what model car the tank was from originally?

 

it was a option on JDM cars only

 

Thanks, i will continue on my quest to finding one.

 

Got to say what great service i've had from Just Lambda , ordered the Lambda sensor on Friday about 2pm, got a email on Saturday to say it's been posted and it arrived on Monday morning

 

Well it seems we may have finally sorted out the running issues I've had with the car lately, Simon (JGM) came round yesterday to switch the lambda sensor back on after i changed it

When we were driving he noticed that it was reading lean all the time (was reading rich last time) and he didn't want to leave it like that as the ECU would probably want to chuck in a load of fuel to compensate

After a bit of head scratching i suggested could the old CEL fix that was fitted by Xtreme Scoobies a few years back when i first had a decat be the problem as this was a resistor across 2 of the wires leading to the ECU

Simon removed the resistor and rejoined the wires and away we went again and now the lambda sensor was changing from rich to lean to rich etc as it should be

The car now drives a lot better and now does actually idle without any hunting so fingers crossed it's all sorted

I would like to say a big thank you to Simon for his patience in dealing with this issue and hopefully the next time i see you will be for a bit more power (meths)

 

Good news Ian

 

OK a bit of a update, went to Surrey rolling road today to have a tweak by Simon (JGM), since the last time i was there I've put in new spark plugs and a new fuel pump (walbro hi flow) which seemed to have cured a problem i had that i thought was down to the Simtek, last time it was remapped it made 434bhp & 380ft lbs

This time we got 444bhp & 385ft lbs on just V power but with a 15% methanol mix with V power it went up to 470bhp & 415ft lbs at 1.7 bar

I would like to say a big thank you to Simon for his mapping skills and putting up with all my emails over the last couple of months

New fuel pump against the old walbro 255lt pump

 

470\415 sounds nice Ian, any graphs? How big is your grin?

 

Very big grin , got graphs but it drives a lot better than the graphs suggests

 

it's been a while since I've had that forced induction shove in the back

PM me the graph if you want

 

I will scan them when i get a chance (and find my scanner lol)

 

Here you go Ian, the second graph shows i'm getting full boost at 5000rpm but on the road it more like 4000rpm which i don't think is too bad

 

I bet that is one hell of a kick...would quite like a go, I think the last time I drove your wagon was at Dunsfold

 

Blimey that was a while back , you said then it had a bit of a kick, well that kick has just got bigger

 

phew, a loooooong-*** while ago

Some unseen pics from the day...

 

Awsome car mate. very nice.

 

Your getting up there now matey!! Nice results Gramps

 

Just a little update on those people that asked what the air filter setup would be like in the rain, well i did a very wet track day at Brands yesterday and i did have the STi fog light cover on but i didn't have any problems with it

 

thats good news, as iv done something similar to your intake

 

what have you done, any pics

 

great results and a great read mate i have the same turbo and it made 454.1bhp and 462ftlb on vpower and e85 just can't up the boost anymore as im pushing the 2.5 liners then

keep up the good work

 

Thanks for the kind comments

 

Just a little update, with the APS intercooler you can't use the standard front towing eye, wasn't really too worried about it but after the track day at Brands and the marshals kept asking me about it i finally decided to get it sorted

Thanks to Alyn at AS Performance for delivering it in super quick time (and at a good price), all ready for 30-130 now

 

How much was that Granby?

 

They are around £10, meet all the new MSA/FIA regs

 

That's a bargain. Look pretty trick as well.

 

beat me to it...looks perfect Ian