Completing the S60R

[S70T5Chris]

Yes mate go ahead. Did you have a go in it?

[stribo]

No idea on figures mate. I'll try and get on a dyno at some point, so I can put a figure on it.

The main reason was to get a smoother drive. With the previous map, it was difficult to drive smoothly if that makes sense. Where the turbo is so aggressive, just a slight dab of the throttle and it would try and give you all the boost it could. And it would spike boost to 1.6/7 bar on occasion. So all that is sorted now, and it should be a real nice drive.

That could have been the throttle map, since ours was remapped the throttle is a lot more sensitive, but that's because the throttle map's been changed (at my request), in the first 4 gears you only have to breathe on the accelerator, and it takes off, unless the revs are below 2,000, but that's turbo lag for you,

[T5RatherAmusin]

theres no throttle map with my dream3r map. the turbo control is a lot nicer tho and makes its feels nicer to drive daily
also ive never seen a spike from it

[stribo]

theres no throttle map with my dream3r map. the turbo control is a lot nicer tho and makes its feels nicer to drive daily
also ive never seen a spike from it

There has to be a throttle map, otherwise it won't work.

[Dream3r]

I think you are confusing the pedal map guys. The pedal map requests x torque at y pedal %. The throttle plate isn't controlled directly by those maps (DBW).

[T5RatherAmusin]

yes matey-pedal, we know what we were on about lol
you of all people (other than myself) know what my maps like

[S70T5Chris]

Picked the car up from Tims last weekend. The drive home was superb! The car is so controllable, it's a nice easy drive. Great for pottering around, without the jerkiness that it had before. And put your foot down, and it absolutely flies. And more importantly, no more over boosting. I WAS very very happy. Until Tuesday came...

And it seems to have developed a boost problem. Go for a drive, and it won't boost above 1bar, then on another occasion it'll only hit 0.6bar. Then on another drive, it'll hit 1.1bar max, and so on. I'm hoping a new BCS will cure the problem, and it's not something more sinister! We'll see this week. All these these things are sent to try us, as they say!

Once this niggle is sorted it'll be onto refurbing and repainting the calipers (most likely going for red). And then repaint the door strips and rear bumper.

Fitted 4 new ContiSportContacts 5's this week too.

[stribo]

Is it still on the original MAF? Obviously the TCV would be the first thing to change, but if there's no improvement I'd look at the MAF. Also is it throwing up any codes?

[S70T5Chris]

Plugged the dice in, no codes of any relevance. See what happens after changing the tcv.

[S70T5Chris]

Boost issue fixed! Boost gauge replaced with a working one

To be fair to me (the retard), as soon as I noticed something was up with the boost, I have only driven the car gently, as if I had a problem I didn't want to make it worse.

I did buy a new boost gauge just in case that was the 'fault'! Tim came down yesterday to do a couple of jobs on the ATR, and he confirmed that the boost gauge was fuggered in the S60! So binned off the cheapo gauge, and a nice new Defi gauge was fitted!

Now I can get back to driving the S60 properly! LOL!

Also Tim fitted a one way valve on the breather pipe for the WI tank, as it puked out a load of meth after a blast!

On another note, I have found another bodyshop to do my bits and bobs. The S60 is booked in mid December to have the rear bumper, door trims and side skirts repainted (all smoothed out properly). And he's going to smooth out and repaint PPC style tailgate piece - I have never been completely happy with the finish, as the original moulding of the panel isn't 100% smooth, it's a little rippled.

Not many jobs left to do now...

[Shinsplintz 101]

Glad you & Mr Williams got it running right. Looking forward to seeing the results of the paint job, should finish it off nicely

Cheer, morgan

[Dream3r]

Lol, Weird failure. Mine is still working thankfully.

[stribo]

Great you got it all sorted, but did you think there was a boost problem because of what the gauge was reading?

[S70T5Chris]

Should get the calipers back this week

[WOODY T5]

Liking the colour of them mate been thinking about doing my ap's a nice blue

[Dream3r]

THEY ARE SWEET! How much???????????????

[S70T5Chris]

THEY ARE SWEET! How much???????????????

£220 per set IIRC

These and the AP's for the 850 should be back this week.

[Dream3r]

Nice pics please once you're sorted

[Harvey]

Very nice .was that new seal kits and paint / powder coating ?.

[S70T5Chris]

Very nice .was that new seal kits and paint / powder coating ?.

Actually I think there was about another £40 or so for new seals