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Originally Posted by MikeF350zed
Looks like they're upgrading the server. With luck and a following wind anyway. By the way, your sig is a little out of date over here 
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Steve,
Just for reference - the second run in the afternoon on my car had the mid range torque restored - I will show the graphs later when the uk forum is back online.
Cheers
RickB
Just for reference - the second run in the afternoon on my car had the mid range torque restored - I will show the graphs later when the uk forum is back online.
Cheers
RickB
Originally Posted by steve.uk
Mileage has a lot to do with the results as well V.
Ricks car showing 283 at the flywheel showed less at the wheels than quite a few of the other cars, he only has a few hundred miles on the clock yet though.
Peter who ran the road and was a fountain of knowledge and after spending most of the day chatting to him I learned a few things.
Your car put out 6hp less at the fly wheel than mine true.
Peak hp is not the true test though according to peter.
Peter put the first 4 runs up on the computer and between 3k and 5k my car was pulling at the lowest 25hp and the highest 48hp more in that range than the other 3 one of them being Ricks. This is where my gains have been made by what I have fitted.
Ricks car showing 283 at the flywheel showed less at the wheels than quite a few of the other cars, he only has a few hundred miles on the clock yet though.
Peter who ran the road and was a fountain of knowledge and after spending most of the day chatting to him I learned a few things.
Your car put out 6hp less at the fly wheel than mine true.
Peak hp is not the true test though according to peter.
Peter put the first 4 runs up on the computer and between 3k and 5k my car was pulling at the lowest 25hp and the highest 48hp more in that range than the other 3 one of them being Ricks. This is where my gains have been made by what I have fitted.
Originally Posted by RickB
Steve,
Just for reference - the second run in the afternoon on my car had the mid range torque restored - I will show the graphs later when the uk forum is back online.
Cheers
RickB
Just for reference - the second run in the afternoon on my car had the mid range torque restored - I will show the graphs later when the uk forum is back online.
Cheers
RickB
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So who's running Octane Booster...
are you using the ****ing stuff on your GT4 Rick, or is it V trying to play catch up
I can't be arsed with additives, too much of a ballache
(Just seeing what gets ****ed by the swearfilter BTW)
are you using the ****ing stuff on your GT4 Rick, or is it V trying to play catch up
I can't be arsed with additives, too much of a ballache
(Just seeing what gets ****ed by the swearfilter BTW)
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Giles,
Val was so upset by the power output of his car in the morning that he disappeared off for a bit. When he finally returned it transpires that he had bought octane booster and inflated his tyres to 50psi.
He then ran his car again and lost horsepower over the mornings run
My car was absolutely as it was delivered. Val even got a tyre pressure gauge to check everyones tyres he was that convinced everyone was cheating on him
RickB
Val was so upset by the power output of his car in the morning that he disappeared off for a bit. When he finally returned it transpires that he had bought octane booster and inflated his tyres to 50psi.
He then ran his car again and lost horsepower over the mornings run
My car was absolutely as it was delivered. Val even got a tyre pressure gauge to check everyones tyres he was that convinced everyone was cheating on him
RickB
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Giles,
Yeah - Ruraidh recommended against it - from experience it wont do any harm in the short term. I prefer to use race fuel rather than octane booster, problem is that the EURO Zed is setup to run on 98 RON so it doesnt matter what you put in over and above that - the ECU just wont use it. At least you can be sure your getting the full 98 RON performance though which obviously isnt guaranteed on Optimax as Ruraidh said.
RickB
Yeah - Ruraidh recommended against it - from experience it wont do any harm in the short term. I prefer to use race fuel rather than octane booster, problem is that the EURO Zed is setup to run on 98 RON so it doesnt matter what you put in over and above that - the ECU just wont use it. At least you can be sure your getting the full 98 RON performance though which obviously isnt guaranteed on Optimax as Ruraidh said.
RickB
Last edited by RickB; May 2, 2005 at 03:55 AM.
Originally Posted by RickB
Giles,
Val was so upset by the power output of his car in the morning that he disappeared off for a bit. When he finally returned it transpires that he had bought octane booster and inflated his tyres to 50psi.
He then ran his car again and lost horsepower over the mornings run
My car was absolutely as it was delivered. Val even got a tyre pressure gauge to check everyones tyres he was that convinced everyone was cheating on him
RickB
Val was so upset by the power output of his car in the morning that he disappeared off for a bit. When he finally returned it transpires that he had bought octane booster and inflated his tyres to 50psi.
He then ran his car again and lost horsepower over the mornings run
My car was absolutely as it was delivered. Val even got a tyre pressure gauge to check everyones tyres he was that convinced everyone was cheating on him
RickB
wrong as usual.
you chickened out from weighing your wheels with the really bad excuse that they'd scratch if taken off, by the way
I was really pleased with the morning results, being the 3rd or 4th most powerful car.
I was running UL97, not optimax, and I always use octane booster, which was already in the tank.
I then, for the sake of experimenting, inflated the tyres for the second run, and also swapped the oem filter with the S-Tune. Lost about 5hp. Like everyone else apart from a couple of cars on their second run, mostly due to the fact that it got much warmer than in the morning. IIRC Seb tried and did about 3 runs consecutively, getting lower and lower in hp, to about 259
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Val,
Yeah - but as above - that first run was actually the 4th consecutive on the dyno.
I've spoken to Peter about getting the car back on the dyno in a few weeks - more than welcome to come along and try resetting your ecu to see if we can get some bhp out of it etc.
Cheers
Rick
Yeah - but as above - that first run was actually the 4th consecutive on the dyno.
I've spoken to Peter about getting the car back on the dyno in a few weeks - more than welcome to come along and try resetting your ecu to see if we can get some bhp out of it etc.
Cheers
Rick
Originally Posted by RickB
Val,
Yeah - but as above - that first run was actually the 4th consecutive on the dyno.
I've spoken to Peter about getting the car back on the dyno in a few weeks - more than welcome to come along and try resetting your ecu to see if we can get some bhp out of it etc.
Cheers
Rick
Yeah - but as above - that first run was actually the 4th consecutive on the dyno.
I've spoken to Peter about getting the car back on the dyno in a few weeks - more than welcome to come along and try resetting your ecu to see if we can get some bhp out of it etc.
Cheers
Rick
Last edited by TheMinel; May 2, 2005 at 04:16 AM.
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Originally Posted by TheMinel
oh I'm happy with my resusts, you resetting your ecu?
Its worth resetting the ECU as it should provide an increase in HP as it hasnt had chance to relearn your mods etc.
I havent reset my ECU as the car is standard - I would just like to run it again once its losened up a bit !!
Cheers
RickB