just had my simtec fitted and mapped by BRDevelopments

first 1 Bob Rawle has ever done , yes i was his guninea pig

did it on the rollers at AP Motors Ltd - Home then finalised it on the road

previous power run at APM was 440 / 469
now it's 464 / 505

was a fun drive home

cheers to Bob Rawle , and Kevin Hodson and Andy Hodson at AP Motors


can't wait to get it on the strip now and beat my 11.82

 

Nice Puts mine to shame! lol
I bet it was a good drive home too.

 

the first 15 miles weren't
petrol light was on lol



the last 12 miles was fun though after i stuck some V-power in

 

so are AP motors yr sponser

 

What ECU duid you run previously?
A big gain.
What turbo do you run?
Well done.
Very interesting and a fantastic result if this is the first one of these ECUs the guy has mapped.

 

yup

 

standard ecu , was tek 3

turbo is lateral performance MD321T

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was a good result , Bob was well happy with it, onwards and upwards for Mr Rawle

 

nice one mate, glad to hear you`ve got a simtec too now

seems worthwhile with the added performance, I take it the only thing you`ve had done this time is the simtec?

 

Excellent to see Bob taking on the Simtek, sounds like good gains also. I hope he comes on here to comment on how he found it.

 

hey, glad to see things went alrite, im really gutted mine wasnt ready in time. still awaiting for my turbo to be delivered......

 

hi bud

yeah , only mod this year is the ecu . and a spoiler-less carbon bootlid

 

he's probably still at AP Motors , he had 3 more to do after mine
mine took from 9 - 3

 

i did ask kevin if you were about . he did say the FP hadn't come yet

should have got an MD321H

 

it was a hard choice but i paid £1050 for the FP green, aero motive fuel reg and a perrin 3" turbo intake delivered. so all that for that price i thought was a steel and couldnt say no. the only problem being that its taking god knows how long for this turbo to come. it was ordered being of December and said to be here in 7 days........ im half tempted to cancel the order and go for the MD but the FP is ment to be alittle more powerful.
im sure we will meet one day lol

 

What ??? 6 hours

I assume that includes the time you had to 'pleasure' Bob to pay for the job

I am getting one soon, but I'm not paying Andy.F by the hour at that rate

 

It was probably about six hours (but the oil change, charge temp sensor fit and antilag enable switch fit etc took up the first hour and a half) but I always work fixed price so no extra charge to Dazza from me, started mapping in earnest at about 11:00 and finished at 14:00, no starting point, no base map so first principles. Some experimentation to suss the software capability involved as well, normally when starting with a new ecu I would fit to my car and do all the up front type experiments but Dazza's need was greater.

I'll add another post tomorrow about how it went, only just got back, "bit of a day" so to speak, up at 05:15 this morning.

cheers

BOB

 

Bob, come on now, we both know you are being evasive here. Was Dazza good for you or not ?

Sounds like a hard days work, impressive results.

---john---

 

Great results mate.
Any chance you could post some engine bays shots?

 

Impressive results Dazza.

Cant wait til the DBW version comes out

 

you jealous John

yeah the mapping was 3 hours but my mechanic took 3 hours fart ar5ing about with switches,oil changes,making tea and stuff like that

 

 

I presume that was through choice Bob ? The ECU's come with a full set of base maps which will let you start and run the car.
Nice result regardless

Andy

 

Andy you took the words right out of our mouths.....lol
Mine always start on the button too.....

 

Cracking car mate!!

Needs more stickers though!!

Great result with the Simtek ECU too; that's some increase in torque!

Ns04

 

Hi Andy, ecu defaults are nothing like a correctly prepared base map which is, in my terms, totaly different. Since this is the starting point for Simtek with BRD then I didn't, of course, have anything other than defaults to work from. The car fired up fine, ran for all of 3 secs on the defaults before it died. You'll see what I mean when you start, for a pretty basic upgrade of exhaust, induction etc then defaults should be expected to start and idle the car. Darrens car ... lol it was never likely to happen.

The defaults in the ecu are no better or worse than Link or Motec et al provide, same scenario just different hardware.

Darren's car was a very good motivator to get up to speed quickly.

I didn't get the one on one run through the software as you had at Autosport.

cheers

bob

 

certainly motivates well

after i put some juice in it

that's another full tank you used

 

Ok, I understand Bob, I thought you meant there was no map whatsoever in the ECU.
I've had one in testing on my 22b for a few weeks now

 

Nice increase there, encouraging for me as I'm planning on the simtek

Are you running UK or STI Heads? What boost is it set to?


cheers
Jay

 

standard UK heads . . . boost,not sure, i'm Bob will confirm though
i know it's alot steadier though . think it's about 1.8 holding at 1.65 to redline

too busy hanging on to look

 

Know what you mean, are you able to deliver the power to road in second or Wheelspin?