Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 13/7/12 at 08:00 PM |
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Rolling Road Experience @ MTech
Well, Friday the 13th and i half expected the engine to blow up before it even got to the dyno.
Trailered it down to Matt, arriving about 8.30, welcomed with an offer of tea/coffee by a friendly bunch of guys.
Matt went through a check list with me carefully looking over the engine to make sure there was nothing hanging off etc.
First thing first was balancing the throttle bodies, the chap balanced them so well that it idled at 400rpm.
Next was tuning the idle, but there was a worrying speed related noise coming from the rear hubs. I made sure all the bolts on the driveshafts were
nipped up etc. But it didnt make any difference. Matt had an idea it could be the wheel weights rubbing on the calipers, thankfully it was and we
cracked on with mapping.
Unfortunately the engine wouldnt cool down even with the cars fan and their cooling fan on. So Matt did his best and with experience of tuning
engines was able to get it very close first off. Couple of power runs pushed it up to 152bhp (first was 150bhp basic tune so its a solid engine)
Few things that need sorting out, Cooling system, leak on the sump gasket which has been resealed loads of times  and the step in the cut down
stock manifold.
Hopefully with these bits done i can catch up with Matt at a kit show and get it tweaked to perfect, but its already 99%.
Test drive was good and doesnt appear to have any flat spots etc.
All in all a good day at Mtech and would certainly recommend them to anyone else wanting a tune.
Only down side of the day was some idiot ran into the back of the trailer on the drive home when i had to brake hard to avoid another idiot.
 
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 13/7/12 at 08:20 PM |
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Cooling wise it appears i've done something the SBD http://www.sbdev.co.uk/Info_sheets/Cooling_systems/Cooling_system.htm website says not too.
Joined the back of the head to header tank
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 13/7/12 at 10:37 PM |
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I blanked off the back of the head Ben.
Could email you pics of whats what on mine if you want.
If it looks wrong it probably is wrong.
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myke pocock
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| posted on 13/7/12 at 10:54 PM |
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What do you pay for that kind of service then?
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 07:24 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by omega 24 v6
I blanked off the back of the head Ben.
Could email you pics of whats what on mine if you want.
Don't like the idea of blanking things off. Must cause hot spots
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 07:52 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by myke pocock
What do you pay for that kind of service then?
£250 for a full days tuning
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mtechmatt
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| posted on 14/7/12 at 10:30 AM |
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Brought the graph accross from the other thread for you 
Thanks for the feeback Ben, glad you're happy, really should try and organise a Locost Forum RR day or something, but I guess seeing we take the
dyno to the shows theres pretty much one there ready to go anyway!!
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FASTdan
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| posted on 16/7/12 at 09:38 AM |
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Good result Ben.
Matt -are you guys attending Donnington Kit Car show?
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puma931
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| posted on 16/7/12 at 09:47 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by FASTdan
Good result Ben.
Matt -are you guys attending Donnington Kit Car show?
When is the show?
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mtechmatt
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| posted on 16/7/12 at 10:09 AM |
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Chaps.,
Yes we are, and it is the 1/2nd of September
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