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JS 500/1020*1000 = 490BHP/Tonne AG 600/1320*1000 = 455BHP/Tonne AF undisclosed/realy light*1000 = Hunners and Hunners ]" src="/emoticons/emotion-3.gif"> CW - My cars struts were missaligned and I was lifting the OSF at 6800rpm at dastek despite the car being strapped down like the Indian Chief in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest". The power run was inconclusive at 424bhp 414Lb/Ft But lets just run with that, no excuses. My car weighs 1060 atm , so your all still producing more per tonne than me, but I would love to run on the rollers with you or if you prefer the plural, youz. i dont have the advantage of a 2.5 or 2.33. [] Callum W

TFFT!!! Great new my friend..........................................................But what about the Jalopy? Did that stay with the ex garage or are you looking for one? Ill defo pop over. Callum W

Before I knew what I was doing Before I knew what handling mods were Dark days Things are looking up! Thats better From the rear Ready for action Yeehaa! Next.........

Great work Paul, Ill donate £50, give me a shout and Ill arrange to pass the money on. Callum W

Not content with touching up the paint job in the kitchen, (Quiet in the cheap seats) And with the Mothership and the Millemium Falcon away seeing a man about a dog, I decided to go for a spin in my hire car, a Golf GT TDI. I left Stirling at 2250hrs and headed for Balloch, the roads were dead and all the rivers that criss cross the route were just starting to mist over. The golf only has about 140bhp, but my god the torque is pretty ferocious even for an oil burner. Ive never been a fan of golfs, I find them nose heavy, but this little gem took me from home to balloch in about 20 min. It really is a delight to drive once you get used to using the low down torque and not revving the breasts off of it. I stopped for a coffee at the BP station on the outskirts of Dumbarton, up to Glasgow via the Erskine Bridge then to Kirkintilloch and over the Hill to Carron Bridge and back home. I am a big fan of this wee car now, anyone else driven one, they really are good! However I wish I hadnt drank the coffee. Callum W

Keeping up with the Jones's can be an expensive buisness. Thats why I went left of field and into an area where I can fettle, hum and haw, bugger about with my car and its never going to be compared to another like it cos its too damn unique. Folk say how quick? I say with the bigger tyres I can now do about 130 flat out and they laugh and say, thats not very good is it. What they fail to grasp is that Im there probabley before they have gripped third gear on thier way to 80mph. And then there are the ones who say, what about crail, prove your car there. Im rubbish at 1/4 miles, and I dont want to break anything else until Ive sorted the drive train reliability, but we all know this makes thier car better than mine. Im happy with my lot. I was just glad that someone got the power figure they were yearning for. certainly not wanting to start a peeing contest. Callum W

LOL, I acknowledge the correctness of your sign.

I know, Im not trying to start a "Who knows the most about this subject" p i s s i n g competition,I was saying that the car was very inconsistent until this problem was discovered, it would appear that when the car was ugraded,the intake pipe under the manifold wasnt fitted correctly onto the turbo intake, and the time it was inconsistent, the folded over lip of the intake was drawing unmetered air, Im quite sure that would bugger up all the Air flow metering to the ecu as you correctly stated.

That a certain blue STI was dynoed at the weekend by a dastek dyno, and made alot more power than another certain blue STI. Funny old game isnt it.

Chris, when your car was dynoed it was drawing unmetered air wasnt it? Im quite sure that would affect things as well.

I have a flat 6 mmmmmmmmmmmmmm work it up ye!![]

Superb, The RS200 was some machine. Yes the BDAs they could rev to 10 000 rpm couldnt they?

Very nice Fee. Hope it all goes well. Callum

I like cossies, I like the fact that pound for pound with the correct mods they are no frills, exactley what it says on the tin, go like feck. I like the history with them as well and the fact that they were developed with group B in mind. I also like the Lancia evos, but my favorite of all time has to be the audi quattro S1 and S2 Gp B cars. Brute force and ignorance, no sequential gearboxes, no trick diffs, just fully plated. Power on, power off 550bhp. That was 1984/5/6 lol.

I was absolutley petrified. I have seen a car being mapped on a dyno, and Ive seen an engine mapped on an engine dyno, on both ocassions the mapper said that the car would not perform as well once on the road, and that road mapping or indeed track mapping was the best way to finish the job off.

I know, I have only recently started to really understand it all. People explain things to me and I have to go away and read up on it. I tried mapping the falcon when I had the link ecu early last year, I got a base map from Jolly Green Monster to get the car started as I was all over the place when I tried to do it myself, then off I went popping and banging along the road, my best mate driving the car and me on the laptop trying to remain calm. The det cans I made were shat so I was working off a knocklink, not ideal. Didnt do to bad however...........................................................................mind you Andy does lock the hand controller on my PFC now, and ill be damned if I can unlock it...[]

Damn. Beaten to it. I need to learn to type quicker.

Hello mate, gearbox is fine, I thought T had stripped the step downs but its a clutch issue, I will probably be getting a twin plate but the jury is still out. I understand what you are saying mate, however here is how I see it. Imagine a standard flat 4 with a TD05 16g at 1.6 bar, with good mapping you would see about 330/340 bhp 330/340lb ft (On a 16g 1.6 bar is abit ambitious but this is hypothetical) 1.6 bar is baws to the wall as far as a standard bottom end goes, if you want a wee bit of life out of it. You take that turbo off and fit a TD05/06 20g and again map at 1.6 bar. You will not see much of an increase in torque because you cant really go higher than 1.6 bar, its a standard bottom end, MAP = torque in a laymans world. However hundreds of people with this upgrade around the UK, with standard bottom ends and at 1.6 bar see thier bhp increase after mapping to anywhere up to 380bhp, depending on how much ignition advance they can run. Why? Because a bigger compressor wheel and housing will run more efficiently an shift more air through the rev band than a smaller one, making it easier to make power and the charge temp slightly lower. Match this with the correct fuelling, means that you can run more ignition advance from TDS and thus make more power. With the same engine, drawing the same into each cylinder capacity, regardless. Callum W

It all depends on the ramp ratings etc as well. As has been mentioned to compare cars, its best to have all the cars on the same rollers under the same settings and conditions and weather. When a car is rollered independantly it is very easy for someone to say to the operator, "Please alter your dyno settings to allow my car to show as much horsepower as you can." If everyone is dynoed under the same conditions at the same time then debates like this normally dont develope, but instead turn into "He used the wrong gear..." "His settings are wrong.." "I had a bad batch of fuel.." etc etc. And the poor dyno guy gets slated. When your car really does have 400 large ones, normally indicated by having the torque to match it, then you and everyone else will be in no doubt about it. I rode in Gumballs car the evening after he had the TD06 installed and car mapped. I have no idea of the power it was putting out, however what I will commit to say is that he is correct to compare the preformance of the TD05/06 and the TD06 to standard STI and PPP. It was like night and day, with a bit of lag thrown in for good measures. I will not guess power figures but if the 05/06 wasnt over 400bhp, the TD06 was. The torque however, in my opinion was not over 360lbft, however we are talking about horses here and what you spend in torque you can cash in on bhp and ingnition advance. Thats my tuppence haepennys worth. Callum W

lol, you penis.

http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleD...articleID=11918 Stick that in yer lum and reek it!!

Finally found a peach. All the cars in this clip are driven by Walter Rohrl. easily one of the quickest men that graced the Rally Scene, if not the quickest. Colin McRae Im sad to say coudnt touch him. Colin races Porsche GT3s. Walter was Porsches test driver that developed it, lol. He held the ring record at 6m 13sec. In a porsche, only beaten by cars with active traction control. Uncle Volter had none. Richard Burns is my hero, but my Walter Rohrl was and still is a demigod of driving. Just look at his pace.

Peter, I will donate 25 liters of methanol as a prize. Callum

Stick that in yer ling and dong it![]