The Suitably Re-Engineered Chimaera Club

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C'mon Daz, you git, get the fecker fixed by Tuesday 6th and come along to Bedford. There's nothing to hit, so even you should be safe on track. Then we can give you a proper thrashing and a driving lesson.

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It will.....I had that done to mine, but when Mark Adams remapped it (at 300 bhp, loads of mods), the first thing he did was replace the higher pressure one with a standard one. Which suggests that you have sufficient fuel pressure.

I am not sure what mod corrected mine, but it went lean at about 4500 rpm, and I was advised to get bigger injectors and a bigger AFM. I run a standard fuel pump and standard regulator. Somewhere in all this, including the remap, my lean running issues were resolved and the car runs fine now.

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ChilliWhizz said:

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l6rth said:

Hi all, I will be carrying out some suitable re-engineering this weekend by fitting act trumpets, elbow and thermal gasket. At what point should I go to Surrey rolling road? As far as I know it has never been run and my thinking is it could do with a set up? Also I'd like to know the health of my engine/cam? Engineer1949 has offered to inspect the cam and bottom shells at next service but thats not til oct or should I leave rr until after that I know the health of engine/cam in case I need a new cam then set up. Do I need Rr at this point or just do timing etc? Should I get it remapped at the same time?Sorry for the newbie type questions.

Would appreciate answers to my newbie questions.

I RR'd mine shortly after purchase, simple power runs, to establish what she was pushing out. This gave me a base case for future modifications/health checks. I've repeated this after each engine mod

If you have the standard 14CUX ECU then mapping (I believe) is not an option. You can get a different chip put in but with the mods you are carrying out I don't think you'd gain anything, other than a hole in the bank account.

You need to pay a few quid and get an expert to listen to your engine, drive the car, tweak it as necessary and let you know if he thinks there are any issues.
Nothing you have listed shouts "needs a remap" to me. Remap is required for major changes.
The only 14CUX remapper I know of is Mark Adams, who lives in the Welsh Borders. Jools at Chesterfield as been working on this, but I don't know how far he as got.

Take it to Mat Smith. Downham Market. 01366 386004. Just off the A10. Top bloke, 20 years TVR experience. A good inspection and fettle will cost you less than £100. And if the car is trying to kill you, or just handlng badly, Mat can do a full geo for you for a similar price. Tell him I recommended you to him.
The best bang for buck with a newly acquired Chim is getting the car checked over and the suspension/handling sorted first.
Email me if you want a phone chat. happy to help.

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TV8 said:

Jools is able to remap the standard ECU, assuming the car need a remap:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

That's useful good news, thanks. Might well go see him myself to see if I can improve fuel consumption.

But I suspect the OP's issues may be simpler and cheaper to resolve with the application of TVR knowledge during an inspection.

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l6rth said:

Olevix, can you tell me more about the battery cable job? Where it is how you did it and where you got the right cable from.

Thanks

Rob

You planning a trip to Oslo Rob?

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Us guys in the middle need our own place to go........naff orf back to the MCC, where you just squeeze in at the bottom.....save your pennies and you too could be standing and admiring your turbo Chim, 450+ bhp, in its garage between runs at The Plod. Not much use for anything else of course.

How's the garage hunt going?

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macdeb said:

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...save your pennies and you too could be standing and admiring your turbo Chim, 450+ bhp, in its garage between runs at The Plod. Not much use for anything else of course.

Err, words fail me,
[no smilie for a green eyed monster]
To think, PH used to be a friendly place to be. Ho-hum
Think after 11 years, I'm off!

Edited by macdeb on Wednesday 28th May 20:42

WHAT...???

I am talking to my good friend Richard, on a thread I started, (on which you don't actually belong, if we're being picky). I answered his post about the thread for 290-350 bhp cars being boring. I enjoy his company on track days with his 360 bhp car (and still overtake him despite my lack of power), without him modifying it even further. Fi or LS are the only choices left to him, he has gone as far as he can NA RV8. I didn't want to lose him to accelerating in straight lines only. I was having a joke with him.

Should I have said "supercharged" or "LS" to have avoided you taking offence? It so happens that, of all the options, turbo-charging seems to me to be the option of choice, and that's partly thanks to the success you yourself have had with your recent installation.

Please stop thinking that I am having a go at you. I'm simply not like that. I never mentioned you, i wasn't even thinking of you, you have simply jumped to a wrong conclusion.