A few recent changes. I have remove the Forge intake off of my car and........its made absolutely no difference to the output of the car at all. £185 of useless Forge Branded rubbish. Bring on the ITG Maxogen is what i say.
Currently ive been relegated to a 2.0TDI 140ps VW Passat and its CRAP. Nothing below 2000rpm, nothing after 4000rpm and power seems to notably drop off after 3000rpm. Hate the engine with a passion, but most of all, I absolutely hate having a manual. I dont actually think i would buy a manual again now, because everytime i drive one, it irratates me
Really not a fan of diesels at all. It only seems to be asbout 7-9mpg better than my Fabia on the same routes. Expected more tbh, although the passat does weigh about 500kg more
Had my Shark Stage 2 map removed from my car. Logging the car showed that the requested boost was over 2 bar from 1700-6000rpm which is obviously not achievable meaning my turbo is working at its absolute maximum everytime im on WOT trying to make this boost because it cannot possibly achieve that output. Max boost the turbo can run on is around 1.6Bar, which coincidently is what my car was running at with my waste gate at 100% the entire time because its still 0.5Bar below the requested:scared: That might go to explain the heat issues i had back along and the random plumes of white smoke i get periodically. Good job that i got the pace intercooler and radiator fitted a few k ago. Might well have saved something getting bent although i have it in my head that the turbo could already be damaged, so a turbo rebuild might be on the cards for peace of mind, so i might just throw in a 1.8T K04-001 compressor wheel whilst im doing that.
Car made 211hp/270lbft @ 1.6Bar with the shark Stage 2 map before Skoda reverted the car to stock with the latest ECU update. Figures are good, midrange is good and the delivery is good. Longevity might not be though..
Jabbasport now have my car (hence the Passat courtesy car
) and they are doing a full custom map on my car. The plan is to get about +10Hp output(more if safely possible) but with less boost and less chance of me spitting the turbo out the exhaust pipe.
Decided to go with Jabba for a full custom job over REVO and APR in the end. I was very near to getting REVO installed, i was offered a baragin price for changing to them, but they would not b offering anything further than stage 2 in the future. APR were a pain in the ass when it came to information or replying to messages. Jabba on the other hand were happy to write the map to exactly how i wanted it to be done, and are able to provide further work with software for a hybrid turbo in the future.
And they are changing my throttle map to a 1:1 ratio (like the REVO linear map) because at 3/4 depression on the accelerator pedal the throttle angle jumps from 75% to 100% which is really frustrating on trackdays on fast sweeping corners.
Roll on wednesday....
