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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #825 on: March 16, 2012, 11:09:44 pm »

Awesome  :notworthy:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #826 on: March 16, 2012, 11:14:38 pm »
Clutter IZ unhappy.................... :sad1:

Glad all sorted Stevie   :happy2:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #827 on: March 17, 2012, 02:18:51 am »
How tractable is it with road tyres on? 
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #828 on: March 17, 2012, 02:24:03 am »
Quote from: SteveP on March 16, 2012, 10:40:55 pm
Well it's been a bit of a roller coaster day again with the car  :rolleye:

From collecting it from APR this morning, to seeing Greeners "off of" Detail My Ride transform the paintwork and then driving it after Keith from APR came up to DMR to reflash the car.

Initially the car was running like a bag of spanners to be honest and I was very much questioning the choice of the APR Stage 3 kit, a number of niggly running issues had been present since the kit was fitted that where detracting from the enjoyment of the extra power. So the car had been back to get these resolved, due to a number of factors and mainly a bit of a communication breakdown these where not resolved before I picked up the car.

After expressing my concerns to Keith he explained the situation and what they had done to put the running issues right in a revised file that needed to be flash onto the car. He offered to come out to me at Detail my Ride while the car was being sorted by Greeners.

Full pics of the end result of the detail to follow but here's a pic grabbed from DMR's Facebook



Leaving DMR I wasn't really sure what to expect with the revised file on the car, but immediately the car felt more normal / oem like and less on edge at low speed. After a bit more time in traffic all the previous niggles seemed to be gone and by the time I reach the nice quiet M45 I was a happy man once more. A quick blast down the M45 and a test run against Keith in his R showed the power was all there too  :driver:

Back to Milton Keynes for some final data logging and which confirms everything is looking good fine with car, and there was still so headroom on the turbo, fuelling and timing.

Before these final niggles where resolved APR took the car to the dyno as well, the rolling road used was at Marlin in Bletchley, I had the car run here a few days after the recent trip to JKM and it recorded 367bhp (vs. the 349bhp at JKM), the figure reached at Marlin this week with revised calibration was a very healthy 408bhp  :evilgrin:

Looking forward to the Ring now  :party: :party:

Good figure.  :happy2:
Would have thought the map should have been good right out of the bag since this kit has been for sale for a long time now.  Maybe APR should offer a custom map to all customers with this kit in future.
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #829 on: March 17, 2012, 07:24:56 am »
Great day in the end then fella, looked a bit dodge early on to say the least!!

Need another go in this car asap!!  :driver:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #830 on: March 17, 2012, 08:15:27 am »
Quote from: Janner_Sy on March 17, 2012, 02:18:51 am
How tractable is it with road tyres on? 

You can only data log in 4th as 3rd at FT overwhelms the front tyres, but the latest file has less of a torque spike so is surprisingly good  :driver:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #831 on: March 17, 2012, 08:22:55 am »
Quote from: SteveP on March 17, 2012, 08:15:27 am
Quote from: Janner_Sy on March 17, 2012, 02:18:51 am
How tractable is it with road tyres on? 

You can only data log in 4th as 3rd at FT overwhelms the front tyres, but the latest file has less of a torque spike so is surprisingly good  :driver:

 :indifferent: :indifferent: :indifferent:

Clio does that in reverse..................
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #832 on: March 17, 2012, 08:34:15 am »
 :congrats:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #833 on: March 17, 2012, 06:57:39 pm »
Keith arranged to get my car back on the dyno today to see what the final calibration was now making, so back to Marlin again and here's the final results: -

Before (done a week or so after JKM)



And Now

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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #834 on: March 17, 2012, 07:01:13 pm »
 :surprised: bloody hell 427hp
 :congrats:
Stock internals?
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #835 on: March 17, 2012, 07:05:30 pm »
holy cow, that's serious power Steve, if those are stock internals perhaps there is more room there than many previously thought  :congrats:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #836 on: March 17, 2012, 08:08:25 pm »
Yes still on stock internals, once it's back from the Ring it's going in for IE Rods and Calico coated race bearings  :smiley:

Then the extra boost, fuelling and timing that's available can be unleashed  :evilgrin:
« Last Edit: March 17, 2012, 08:10:29 pm by SteveP »
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #837 on: March 17, 2012, 08:10:58 pm »
Quote from: SteveP on March 17, 2012, 08:08:25 pm
Yes still on stock internals, once it's back from the Ring it's going in for IE Rods  :smiley:

Then the extra boost, fuelling and timing that's available can be unleashed  :evilgrin:

60 bhp more than me but 30 NM less, so internals can handle more Steve, no need for other rods yet.
What pistons are you considering for the IE rods?  :drinking:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #838 on: March 17, 2012, 08:14:26 pm »
^^^ Going for the drop in rods with the stock pistons  :happy2:
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Re: SteveP's New Project
« Reply #839 on: March 17, 2012, 08:20:55 pm »
Quote from: SteveP on March 17, 2012, 08:14:26 pm
^^^ Going for the drop in rods with the stock pistons  :happy2:

Make sure they are rifle drilled too.

Get the ks sputter bearings instead of the calico coated versions.  Much better imo.

You MUST fit arp head studs too.

If you want some prices on parts then let me know.
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