Pashley26

You should know, you only know wide open throttle and off. Ironic I know, but you're worse than I was!

Find me something faster than my Golf for £4000. By faster I mean >290bh/ton.

Is giving me the right raging hump. I want to talk about wide open throttle and I can't. It keeps changing what to what. Can we make a new rule, which is that what be removed from automatic spelling correct, and anybody who uses what in a way other than relative to a throttle position gets banned? Thanks.

I think you're used to seeing graphs from inefficiently large turbos. I don't mean this negatively, or in as an 'I'm better than you nerrrr nerrrrr nerrrrr' statement however if we break it down. We've got two engine that are the same displacement. 20VT with tiny K04 B18C with probably a GT28? 2000RPM 60BHP Would probably do absolutely nothing if you put your foot down. 3000RPM 160BHP 60BHP 4000RPM 220BHP 110BHP 5000RPM 250BHP 220BHP 6000RPM 235BHP 270BHP At which point I change to the next gear, and repeat. 4000RPM 220BHP 7000RPM 308BHP At this point you change a gear and it becomes 5000RPM 250BHP 5000RPM 220BHP 6000RPM 235BHP 6000RPM 270BHP So absolutely flat out the 308BHP Civic with a large turbo, when changing gears in a straight line is technically and correctly speaking a faster car. In the real world the same Civic with a smaller turbo which provides torque earlier would be a more beneficial addition than a big turbo that gives nothing for 5500RPM then goes mad for 2000RPM and gives nothing again. Does that makes sense? Or do you think I'm a cock? Sorry...

Because of all the space where the torque should be on your plot... - I know you're all bored of this, but here's a proper update that I can copy and paste everywhere. - Today was the day. As everyone knows the Mk2's been running around on an unknown map, which I deemed as safe because I think I know everything. The Mk2 had it's problems, it would misfire under full throttle, I had various N75 faults, throttle body faults, atmospheric pressure sensor faults, overboost issues, no real way of telling the AFR, no real indication of timing, no idea if the MAF values were correct, and no idea if the injector tables were adjusted correctly. I did however rectify 99% of those problems, overlook one and develop ways of driving the car so that it was safe enough to still have fun in. So in my mind, it wasn't all that bad. Getting the car mapped at Jabbasport was a big thing for me, for many reasons. As we all know I'm wholly devoted to Niki at R Tech, and he has looked after me so well in the past, and done such an absolutely fantastic job that I felt disloyal to him and nervous about taking the car anywhere else. I didn't want to burden him with the uncertainty of mapping my car, I didn't want to experience his wrath if I turned up and it was an un-tunable shit heap, and I didn't want to cost him money by booking me in and wasting his time. Kevin from Jabba approached me on Facebook and talked me through mapping options, said it could be done in a day, quoted me a very reasonable price and won over my business. Up at 5 this morning, and on the road for 6. My appointment with Jabba was at 9:30, and I didn't have a clue what to expect. Traffic was easy, made plenty of time. I had to deliver something to a mate of mine, we agreed to meet at a service station on the A1. So, a service station on the A1 consists of a petrol station, a BBQ shop and a sex shop...f**k me, they really are great up North. I then drove past another three 'gentleman clubs' on the A1. Maybe I live in the wrong place? Got totally lost trying to find Jabba, they've built a stupid bypass and changed their postcode location; but they haven't moved! I got a lovely warm welcome from Jabba, really nice family run business, everybody was so accommodating and friendly all day. I felt really welcome and nothing was too much trouble. They let me use some of their tools to raise the suspension a bit more on the Mk2 to get it on the rollers, their setup is quite deep and a bit different to other dyne's I've been around. Their rollers sit like this. They must work though, we had no traction issues all day and we didn't even need to use a contact adhesive on the tires. Got the car on the rollers, did a few low speed runs, a few half throttle runs and worked out where we were. Mike was having a few issues, and we couldn't work out why. Now, Prawn told me about this...And I forgot. AGU's run an atmospheric pressure sensor, to tell the ECU the atmospheric correction factor required to adjust the fueling for a denser airflow. When we fault code read my car the fault code came up and wouldn't disappear. The atmospheric pressure sensor sits near the airbox, and has a three pin connector. The wiring goes with the loom which runs behind the engine. I didn't have a plug, so I assumed it had been coded out. I changed the TB, reset the fault codes and it didn't re-appear. So I assumed it was an anomaly. It wasn't, it's the reason the car hasn't been running right. These aren't a part which EVER fails, so nobody has spares of them because they just don't break. And I didn't have one, and we couldn't map my car without one. TPS didn't have one, Euro didn't have one, none of the breakers within a 30 mile radius had one, there wasn't one on a car at the workshop that we could nick one from. And we couldn't find the wiring for it either. Googled the wiring, found the colours. Eventually found the plug. The plug had been shortened and was positioned along side where the carbon canister would sit in a Mk4/A3, so on the opposite side of the engine bay to where it should be. But we still didn't have a sensor. So Mike took me back to his house, a fairly lengthy drive away and we had a rummage though his workshop. At this point you can imagine I'm freaking out; I've driven hours, paid a load of money and taken up a load of his time for a £20 part I could have fixed weeks ago had I of known. BINGO! BINGO BINGO! Phhhhhew. We raced back, I fitted the sensor, Mike got logging at part throttle and everything was sweet. Now for those who don't know. AGU's are a bit weird. At part throttle they use the lambda sensor to keep everything in check. At full throttle they resort to a pre-defined table of values to determine almost everything. So an AGU is almost indestructible at part throttle, because it'll just shit the bed and protect itself when things get out of hand. But on full throttle they have basically closed their eyes and started running around based on what you've told them. Bless. So Mike cleared the fault codes, the car was then registering what so we did a quick run. Then we started getting a misfire at what again. You can really hear how eager the car is to spool up, it really wants to go at low revs. Mike thought it might be a dodgy ignition amplifier, potentially a coil pack or a failing injector. But we both agreed it would be the plug gaps (Prawn told me this days ago...) So I pulled the plugs out, gapped them and put them back. This gave us a really clean pull, no misfires, no faults, no issues, no codes raised. We were happy The mapping wasn't great, and it sounded like it was overboosting. It was however a clean run with no faults. Or so we thought... A few weeks ago Prawn gave me an N75 valve, before I changed the throttle body. Because the car had an N75 fault code. We fitted the N75, I drove it around on part throttle and still had the issue, so he gave me another. That was before I correctly diagnosed the throttle body and changed it...The N75 I had fitted didn't throw a code, and the car drove 100% better than it did before the TB. So I assumed I'd sorted both issues. Turns out that the N75 Prawn had given me first was sticky, and was fully open. This resulted in exactly the overboost and terrifying experience I've been driving around for the last few weeks, and when coupled with the atmospheric sensor and the gapped plugs it gave a strong and clean run...With 1.8bar boost! The resulting chaos was a true 'before' reading of my car, as per the map, as I was driving it and what I've been honing around in. Quite scary really. Which begs the question; maybe this engine has a set of rods in it? Or maybe it's just stronger than any stock internal 1.8t known to man? Who knows... So I swapped the N75 for Prawn's spare which I'd taken with me, and from there on in it was all plain sailing! Until my car decided that the expansion tank was going to blow up, and thew coolant all over my ECU, all over Jabba's emulator, all over the car, all over the rollers, all over everything basically. Shit me was I worried about that when it went off haha! So Mike spent a few hours refining the map, making it smooth, load testing it, logging and explaining to me what he was doing. And we ended up with this. Which sounded like this. And thanks to the gliding centre air strip which is just round the corner from Jabba (actual truth) went like this. It just keeps pulling and pulling, and it's so smooth. Absolutely love it. To drive it feels like a constant pull, low down the torque kicks in with a little boost spike to get things going and just as the torque starts to go it is replaced with power. It is exactly what I wanted, almost to the digit in terms of figures. It doesn't feel like any of my 1.8t's have before, and it's great. Deceptive, but great. There's a few things to sort, the exhaust is very restrictive and could be freeing up some power. And I really need to sort the oil leaks out now. Now the most important thing that I can say about today, which totally eclipses the car because cars come and go... EVERYBODY at Jabbasport was outstanding, I literally cannot thank them enough. My car was an absolute b*****d today, but the entire family were so patient and helpful today that I feel they need a huge shout out and recognition for a hard days work with me. The quality of mapping was outstanding, the knowledge that Mike had was fantastic and the business as a whole was so welcoming and professional that I can't urge people enough to go and see them. And just look at the finished product. From a misfiring 1.8t conversion with missing sensors and dodgy mapping to this in a day... Spot on.

Happy with that.

Roughly speaking 285bhp would give me 300bh/ton. "Something" like that. Peak run so far today was 292. And now we're winding it down because I don't want it to drive spikey and like a bag of shit.

If you can't see the ripples on the outside, it doesn't matter. Fact.

Remove your sun visors they said. Because Racecar they said.

Not totally true. Only certain early AUM engines are eligible for a recall. The rest aren't. I have only had one coil pack fail, that was on my last A3 at a little over 120k. I put a spare in, drove to the dealers and they changed all four FOC. My S3 had TFSI coil packs, my A3 had normal cool packs as said above, and all my other 1.8t's have had bolt down coil packs with a separate ignition amplifier and have been trouble free. Prawn had a problem where his coil pack loom had cracked and was shorting out but only when the car was hot. A bit weird.

Yeah, jog on! My S3, 187,000 miles and constantly thrashed at 290bhp. Alternator failed, big deal. Last A3, 130,000 miles and constantly thrashed at 245bhp. Never missed a beat for the 5 years Lou and I owned it. My A3 before that, 175,000 miles and constantly thrashed at 230bhp. Also faultlessly reliable. Prawns A3 did 210k of faultless miles at 230bhp. His daily he bought after was on 150k, that was 235/240bhp and never had any problems. Buy a good one, treat it right and they're awesome. *all of the above were mapped by Niki at R Tech.

Mapping tomorrow. I think it is realistically going to make 277bhp and 272lbft torque. But I hope for lots more I would rather keep it sub 280/280 and reliable than all da powaaaah. If it doesn't go bang. Guesses on a post card.

I was more thinking I could offer it to him haha.

I bought in a 944 S2 today in PX, £800. I'll ping you a PM if they will let me buy it

Huge thanks to Prawn for letting me use his pit! CV joint changed, solid front engine mount fitted, rear engine mount fitted. Car just feels better and better; really tight now and no more slop. It isn't showing it's 220+,000 miles any more

Prawn drove my Golf this morning. He said it was teriffying and likened it to having Hiroshima under your right foot. I lol'd. Cannot WAIT to get it mapped on Thursday.

It will be.

I've known that TFSI's use oil for absolutely years, but so do all turbo Audi's. Our old 1.8t engines, it's within spec to use 1L of oil every 1000 miles. It's just the way it is, all explained in the hand books. I could understand if the car had done say 5000 miles, you can shrug that off as 'running in' or explain it away within that mileage but not 35,000 miles. The horse has kind of bolted then. In my eye's you've got a year or 12,500 miles to claim something like that, or the first service interval (which is 18K/2 years on an A5 TFSI.) But to park it up outside the dealership for 7 months, 35,000 miles down the line?

If you mechanically force a car to rev way past it's manufacturer tolerances then of cause it's your fault. You miss select a gear, force the engine past it's limiter, why's that the manufacturers responsibility to sort it out? You wouldn't phone up the manufacturer if you crashed the car on a slippery road and say that the ABS wasn't good enough? And you wouldn't expect them to pay out because you should have shown more care.

Engines don't like revving that high, everything is out of tolerance, balance and it's vibration damping ranges. Causes huge amounts of wear on everything. Like putting maltesers in your bottom bracket and expecting them to work like bearings...

What's his beef? The car's done 35,000 miles, if it was a manufacturing fault it wouldn't have taken 35,000 miles for him to do this. I've had Fiat refuse the warranty on a car because the customer missed a gear and the ECU logged 10,200RPM then it started drinking oil. Customer missed a gear, their problem...

I'm actually sat on my sofa lolling at this blokes name. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3052043/That-s-one-way-make-point-Unhappy-motorist-plasters-35-000-Audi-A5-slogans-parks-outside-dealership-drinks-litre-oil-time-fills-up.html You got beef? Nah blud.... Beefnah. Ha.

I buy new rear bumper for de-tow-bar-action.

Prove it.

It's legal now, no worries. I think you can do it online now? I'd actually marry you. http://www.wedonweb.net