OMG just had car back from TSL !!
01 February 2007, 06:39 PM
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OMG just had car back from TSL !!
Well what a day. Set off at 6am yesterday for a 2.5 hr drive to Nottingham to see the boys at TSL.
Arrived and saw Jon there who put the kettle on after our drive!, how nice. Talked me through what was going to be done to my car and the power, i must say very impressed. There workshop is amazing, very tidy, you can just wonder around and look at there demo cars or customer cars, it's great.
I had booked in for the TSL 333 conversion, which was the panel filter, fuel pump, full group N exhaust sytem and sports cat, and the remap.
Must have taken only 3 hours to do all the hardware, they then took out for about another hours for the remap.
When they returned and all finished, the owner took me out and my friend for a blast, OMG
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I could not believe how powerful the car is now
it pulls so hard from just over 3000rpm all the way to 6500rpm, i was so blown away. He then let me have a go, and again i was shocked, just seemed toooo fast in 1st, 2 nd OMG, 3RD OMG, 4TH OMG, 5TH OMG, Even 6th was outstanding.
The owner really liked my car, it should be for only 9500 miles, this is the best £1600+vat i have ever spent!. I would recommend to anyone with a 2003-sti, super cool. I am going back there shortly to have the new headers and get them ceramic coated, they said it should be just over 350 bhp and torque to match, that was £1000 fitted.
Also just received my 18's Gunmetal Inovit wheels, but still need toyo tyres, can anyone recommend the cheapest place. Will post all the pics i took soon.
Thanks again and to TSL.
Arrived and saw Jon there who put the kettle on after our drive!, how nice. Talked me through what was going to be done to my car and the power, i must say very impressed. There workshop is amazing, very tidy, you can just wonder around and look at there demo cars or customer cars, it's great.
I had booked in for the TSL 333 conversion, which was the panel filter, fuel pump, full group N exhaust sytem and sports cat, and the remap.
Must have taken only 3 hours to do all the hardware, they then took out for about another hours for the remap.
When they returned and all finished, the owner took me out and my friend for a blast, OMG
.I could not believe how powerful the car is now
it pulls so hard from just over 3000rpm all the way to 6500rpm, i was so blown away. He then let me have a go, and again i was shocked, just seemed toooo fast in 1st, 2 nd OMG, 3RD OMG, 4TH OMG, 5TH OMG, Even 6th was outstanding.The owner really liked my car, it should be for only 9500 miles, this is the best £1600+vat i have ever spent!. I would recommend to anyone with a 2003-sti, super cool. I am going back there shortly to have the new headers and get them ceramic coated, they said it should be just over 350 bhp and torque to match, that was £1000 fitted.
Also just received my 18's Gunmetal Inovit wheels, but still need toyo tyres, can anyone recommend the cheapest place. Will post all the pics i took soon.
Thanks again and to TSL.
01 February 2007, 07:11 PM
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Additional remap shouldn't cost that much as the Ecutek (I assume thats what they map with) license is paid for, just mappers time, if they have left sufficient headroom in the first map it should just be a tweak rather than a new base map build.
Depends if it's worth the extra to you for just 20bhp more.
Depends if it's worth the extra to you for just 20bhp more.
01 February 2007, 07:21 PM
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Was your car standard? or did it have PPP?
What was the BHP figure before ? afterwards?
Cheers
What was the BHP figure before ? afterwards?
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01 February 2007, 07:59 PM
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Glad you like you car now 
re tyres, have a look at the Michelin PS2 at Costco. iirc they are still doing 4 at 20% off (l/p is £137 ish) & they are the best wet / dry tyre imho by far.
Also, re the headers, have a look at Zen Performance, he does a nice stainless set wrapped for around £350 I believe + fitting. I would recomend them & Zen without hesitation
re tyres, have a look at the Michelin PS2 at Costco. iirc they are still doing 4 at 20% off (l/p is £137 ish) & they are the best wet / dry tyre imho by far.
Also, re the headers, have a look at Zen Performance, he does a nice stainless set wrapped for around £350 I believe + fitting. I would recomend them & Zen without hesitation
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01 February 2007, 10:50 PM
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Glad you like it mate,and also glad you noticed the difference.
As said on your last thread about you considering the 333,it is one of the options i am considering when i (eventually)get my STI PPP hopefully next week,so it's good to see positive feedback about the conversion .
As said on your last thread about you considering the 333,it is one of the options i am considering when i (eventually)get my STI PPP hopefully next week,so it's good to see positive feedback about the conversion
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02 February 2007, 02:36 PM
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So what have you had done to yours then mate,and how much power/torque is it running??
02 February 2007, 06:24 PM
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Hi yeah my sti was standard 265 bhp, and afterwards it was 334 bhp with torque to match, car has done 9800 miles so pulls very nicely, far better pack than PPP IN MY OPINION, you get almost 30bhp more!
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02 February 2007, 07:57 PM
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TBH i have spoken to TSL,Powerstation,Alan Jeffries,Andy Forrest,Roger Clarke and WRC Tech and all say that even with the PPP the STI's only run between 270-290bhp so that is either an indication that the STI's as standard don't even run the 265 they are meant to,or that the PPP is pretty worthless as far as performance gains go,so either way you are looking at 80bhp for £1800 which i think is fair especially if the overall driveability has been improved so much.
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20G turbo may just make 400bhp with supporting mods. 380 - 390 is more realistic.
I went for an 18G in the end and sold the 20G. Better mid range than the 20 although the latter will have better top end/ higher power figures on the rollers.
Ecutek map will be fine. My 53 plate sti was mapped by Bob Rawle and consists of:
3" decat exhaust
RCM downpipe
Harvey Smith up pipe and ported headers (wrapped)
Fuel pump
Andy Forrest 18G turbo
80mm RCM K&N filter
Uprated spark plugs
3 port boost solenoid
Running 1.45 boost and delta dash shows car running approx 390bhp/ 350lbs torque. Lag not an issue, mid range punch awesome. Standard sti injectors and top mount still in situ.
Next mods would be FMIC but decided too much outlay for very small gains.
HTH
I went for an 18G in the end and sold the 20G. Better mid range than the 20 although the latter will have better top end/ higher power figures on the rollers.
Ecutek map will be fine. My 53 plate sti was mapped by Bob Rawle and consists of:
3" decat exhaust
RCM downpipe
Harvey Smith up pipe and ported headers (wrapped)
Fuel pump
Andy Forrest 18G turbo
80mm RCM K&N filter
Uprated spark plugs
3 port boost solenoid
Running 1.45 boost and delta dash shows car running approx 390bhp/ 350lbs torque. Lag not an issue, mid range punch awesome. Standard sti injectors and top mount still in situ.
Next mods would be FMIC but decided too much outlay for very small gains.
HTH
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