Long & Winding Road Part II
Discussion
After having probs with the car post modifications, it is finally sorted. I won't bore people with the details of the troubles, but a series of minor probs and one fairly major one upset the apple cart meaning the car was not producing its quota of wash and go.
Yesterday I went out for my first serious squirt since getting it back, with my good friend Ruxpin (in his Elise). I cannot begin to explain the ferocity and lethal intent the car now possesses thanks to the combined efforts of Tech 9 and RS Tuning.
Once on full chat post 3.5k revs, the rear squats and continues to get gradually lower as the revs race for the limiter, where upon changing up drops the engine back into the zone. One nice attribute of the new exhaust is that the occasional crack and bang can be heard upon full bore up shift, accompanied by the manic wail of the engine, and 'Zanussi on crack' whiz of the turbos.
The cross country abilities of the car in the dry is awesome, you have to be careful booting it out of corners as the back end starts to wiggle a bit when exiting in 2nd & 3rd when the torque rush comes in. The GT2 front anti roll bar has really helped to communicate more to what is going on at the front end. I have found you have to be very careful in the wet, since the hit of peak torque and subsequently savage rev nature under full throttle render 2nd and 3rd largely redundant - even in a straight line :change underpants:
All that said, if you wish just to take it steady, the motor is more refined than the stock car, and the LW fly wheel and beefier clutch set up work fine in traffic.
The anorak in me required an aux boost gauge to be fitted so enabling me to follow the behaviour of the boost once past the 0.8 bar limit of the stock gauge. RS imbue their maps with an overboost feature to push the engine that little bit further for a few seconds when you floor it, my best reading so far is 1.45 bar in 5th
So all in all, am overjoyed with the end result. I just now have to grow into the car, and try to explore its new found lust for life and develop my wheel twirling abilities.
Fizzle my nizzle indeed.
Martyn.
Yesterday I went out for my first serious squirt since getting it back, with my good friend Ruxpin (in his Elise). I cannot begin to explain the ferocity and lethal intent the car now possesses thanks to the combined efforts of Tech 9 and RS Tuning.
Once on full chat post 3.5k revs, the rear squats and continues to get gradually lower as the revs race for the limiter, where upon changing up drops the engine back into the zone. One nice attribute of the new exhaust is that the occasional crack and bang can be heard upon full bore up shift, accompanied by the manic wail of the engine, and 'Zanussi on crack' whiz of the turbos.
The cross country abilities of the car in the dry is awesome, you have to be careful booting it out of corners as the back end starts to wiggle a bit when exiting in 2nd & 3rd when the torque rush comes in. The GT2 front anti roll bar has really helped to communicate more to what is going on at the front end. I have found you have to be very careful in the wet, since the hit of peak torque and subsequently savage rev nature under full throttle render 2nd and 3rd largely redundant - even in a straight line :change underpants:
All that said, if you wish just to take it steady, the motor is more refined than the stock car, and the LW fly wheel and beefier clutch set up work fine in traffic.
The anorak in me required an aux boost gauge to be fitted so enabling me to follow the behaviour of the boost once past the 0.8 bar limit of the stock gauge. RS imbue their maps with an overboost feature to push the engine that little bit further for a few seconds when you floor it, my best reading so far is 1.45 bar in 5th
So all in all, am overjoyed with the end result. I just now have to grow into the car, and try to explore its new found lust for life and develop my wheel twirling abilities.
Fizzle my nizzle indeed.
Martyn.
stub said:
Still busy Sunday Martyn?
Second what he says fella ... we've missed you the last couple of runs and there are no lunatics escaped from the asylumm this time as far as we know
C'mon, you know you want to only marginally more than we want you to
Now then .. this fine northun air ... anyone know how much to bolt a supercharger on to mine?
burriana said:
Now then .. this fine northun air ... anyone know how much to bolt a supercharger on to mine?
Saw one advertised for sale in the back of 911&PW - I think it was Autofarm selling it for about £800. Give them a call, they my still have it!
Sure looks like a cheap way to get a few extra ponies
jacob-911 said:
Now then .. this fine northun air ... anyone know how much to bolt a supercharger on to mine?
Saw one advertised for sale in the back of 911&PW - I think it was Autofarm selling it for about £800. Give them a call, they my still have it!
Sure looks like a cheap way to get a few extra ponies
Bit too cheap I'm afraid Jacob. I wouldn't expect to pay much less than £5k to get the job done properly with new injectors and all the other gubbins that goes with getting it set up properly. Mind you, it seems to go pretty damn well as it is ... Kenny was saying this morning that he had his 993 C4 right on the peak of the vario-wotsit (pardon the lack of technical finesse!) and he still couldn't unstick mine from sitting merrily 40 yards off his rear bumper
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