Here is my update for January. As some will have read I had the car re-remapped at CC Tuning before Christmas as I wasn't happy with the Shark software. I have now had chance to drive it properly and I must say I am very impressed. It goes like stink. Its smooth and progressive and really puts you back in your seat. It gains speed so quickly. I am seeing better fuel economy on motorway runs and overtaking is just effortless. Another big plus is the rear of the car is staying much cleaner apart from normal road grime. I would go as far as saying there isn't a hint of black on the boot lid and I last washed it the day it was mapped which was 21st Dec. Overall I am very pleased.
So, January didn't start too great. The biggest issue I had was when I came to reset the timing as Chris at CC had been playing with it whilst mapping. He had mapped a few PD170's in the previous weeks to mine and they were making very good figures and thought this was down to the cam timing. I went in with a torsion value of 1.89 degrees advanced on the inlet cam. From doing some research, the ideal figure for this was around 0.5 degrees advanced. During the mapping we got it down to 0.74 which was as close as we could get as the movements on the cam are so small. We found that the timing only made a difference of around 3-4bhp. The biggest difference was in the smoothness of the graph and 0.74 was the figure we settled with. Due the the front cam being moved I wanted to now sync the exhaust cam to the inlet cam, something I have done previously and took around half an hour. Well this time I was sh1t out of luck. Somehow both camshaft locking pins had got jammed in and I mean properly jammed in. I finally managed to get them out after around 6 hrs of swearing and trying everything I knew. Unfortunately by this time it was too late to carry on and finish it so had to refit the cam pulleys, belt and time it up correctly two days later due to the weather.
Now I know some would say to have left it but since it had been mapped I was getting cold start issues and thought it had to be down to either mapping or timing as those were the only 2 things that had changed. Now with everything timed up to factory set I get a torsion value of 2.29 which is a lot higher than what is 'recommended' but I no longer have the cold start issue plus that is the position where all 3 locking pins can be fitted.
Anyway enough rambling as I know people only want to see pictures
So a few more photos of what I have been up to lately. Firstly I got hold of the full interior LED kit that is advertised on here.
Front and rear interior LED's installed:
Front and rear footwell LED's installed:
The kit also come with LED's for the glovebox, vanity mirrors, boot and number plate lights. Light output is good and all are error free
There are also LED's for the sidelights available too.
Next on the list was a little mod I had seen Torque777 do to his which was change the battery bag to the proper battery box. It just neatens the engine bay up.
Before:
After:
And most recently I have added the MK6 climate panel.
And one last photo which I haven't posted before is I finally got hold of some drivers side chrome window switches.
Thanks for looking
