Some of you will know that I've been quietly working away on my project T4... the third one I've owned. The aim has been to turn a fast road car into a faster road car, but without compromising much in the way of driveability or practicality. For example, I kept the aircon this time
Over the last year and a half, I've done pretty much everything that can be done to improve the car's performance (bar making it 4wd...) - engine / turbo, intake / exhaust, suspension / handling, brakes, etc - but I've held off discussing the car on here until it's "finished". It looks like "finished" will be tomorrow!
Until now it's been running a BSR Stage 3 map, but I've never been fully happy with an off-the-shelf map on a very custom build (it runs excessively rich in places and lean in others, for a start). So I'm off to RICA in the Netherlands tonight, to let them have a go at custom-mapping it (you'll find that there are very few people around who can custom-map an EMS2000 ECU). I'm hoping tomorrow that I'll get dyno results for the BSR tune, and then one for a directly-comparable (and hopefully improved) RICA custom tune. It should be an interesting day!
I'll update you guys when I have some results. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!!
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Tuesday 15th December 2009, 18:42 #2New Identity
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cool cant wait for the results Al, good luck matey with the results
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Thanked 419 Times in 308 Postsgood luck for tomorrow Al... if u need any help wiv anything. u have my number matey..
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Thanked 2,222 Times in 1,791 PostsCool, that's one hell of a drive for a tune though Al, hope you get what your expecting from it.
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsConveniently I'm working at Schipol airport tomorrow, so I'm not actually having to go far out of my way really (would have been quicker to fly though!) It took about half an hour to get from the ferry to RICA's facility in Wateringen and that was including the time it took me to get lost...
Slight annoyance at one of my recently-fitted HIDs failing before getting on the ferry - negated upon arrival in Wateringen by finding a colossal poster of yellow "Mugen" S2000... the exact same car that I drive when I'm not in the S40! Nice to have them both in the same room
Also noticed a couple of other interesting vehicles sitting around...
Now it's time for some dyno runs, I will post up with news when I have it.Alastair
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Al grab that 855 for me lol
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You can give me a lift if you like (so cheeky - how can you turn me down LOL).
Wateringen is not that far from Den Haag.
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsI suppose I could tow it back, if I could find a dolly for the front end...
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsHey hey Originally Posted by Wobbly Dave
I am off to Schiphol this evening and then onto Amsterdam Zuid to meet up with an old friend.
You can give me a lift if you like (so cheeky - how can you turn me down LOL).
Wateringen is not that far from Den Haag. I'll be at Schipol later today and would happily catch up for a beer if we happen to coincide. PM me your number if you're up for it!
It's about 10 mins on the train to Zuid... and about an hour in the traffic LOLAlastair
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hmmmmmmmm would be appreciated Al if you could do that for me Originally Posted by Al115
I suppose I could tow it back, if I could find a dolly for the front end...
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsSorry mate, I thought you were in the UK and arriving at Schipol by air tonight Originally Posted by Wobbly Dave
Yeah, you're only up the road from me here, I'm sure we can sort something out. PM me and we'll discuss!Alastair
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Thanked 127 Times in 90 PostsSo whats max revs, AFAIK 9500 is acheiveable on a well built T4 block making about 400BHP
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Thanked 3,484 Times in 2,466 Posts You are exactly 14.2Km from me. A hop skip and a jump up the A4 and you are there! Originally Posted by Al115
Sorry mate, I thought you were in the UK and arriving at Schipol by air tonight
Yeah, you're only up the road from me here, I'm sure we can sort something out. PM me and we'll discuss!
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsWe'll probably play it conservative at 8k or so, my rev counter doesn't go to 9.5 anyway Originally Posted by cookie
. It mainly depends on the turbo efficiency, the guys will be looking at that once we've got the mid-range sorted out nicely. My priority is the 3-5.5k range for now.
The turbo is a 16T for driveability reasons (got rid of the Garrett) so we won't get anywhere near 400. However we've spent some effort on the engine, crankshaft, head, etc and it revs nicely and freely... so let's see.Alastair
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsInteresting Fact of the Day, #1: my "BSR Stage 3" map is apparently identical to a "RICA Stage 1" map.
I'm not reading too much into that, but it did amuse me - Volvo tuning is a small world.
We couldn't dyno the car with that map on, as it was apparently running too lean. So now the guys are writing the first cut of the custom map... and I'm trying to find where I left my new set of injectors
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Thanked 887 Times in 593 PostsOf note for you diesel fanatics... the white BMW they've got making 280hp and... over 800NM. Plus it's pretty much all made of plastic
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