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[Dave E]

Shite news mate, if your going to Le Mans for the social, you know your always welcome to my keys (for car not room )

[The Batman]

cheers guys its one hell of a long way to go without a car though i doubt i will go

[Dave E]

cheers guys

its one hell of a p!ss up, best go without a car though i doubt i will go

You know you want to

[Sticky]

cheers guys

its one hell of a p!ss up, best go without a car though i doubt i will go

You know you want to

[leevx2.2]

Take my car

[The Batman]

cheers buddy but i dont think i can

[JG]

Come on Joe pull your finger out to make it. You can't miss a whole year of TDs.

[The Batman]

its out of my hands to be honest, CMS are mentally busy at the moment so its when they can finish off nicks car and then get it on the dyno and map it so i can borrow this to run my engine in and then go for a final remap

[G-Bob]

Supercharge the Astra at the weekend and take that!!!

[The Batman]

tell ya what my vx better be reliable for a full year of trackdays next year if not it maybe getting stripped and sold on..

[NickB787]

now having the wideband lambda sensor fitted i can see that the car when revving on vxr and let injectors that it runs very lean and very rich in certain areas of the rev range up to about 3k havent gon higher than this.

After speaking to Jon at courtenays we both agreed that le mans is out the question as the mapping just isnt going to be ready and if it will be then i will then have to take it home run it in and then drive to get the final map which just isnt logistically possibly within the limited time frame to le mans. after dropping out the national due to tthe car not being ready it left me with no room for error which was alot to ask for a ecu that has never been put on a z22 before.

So we agreed that the best thing to do is wait until nicks car is ready and running perfect on the ecu to then put that map on my ecu and run it in and then go for the final remap which is the safest option we can both think off, this engine owes me alot of money and to be honest i cant afford for it to break!

so to be continued another day/month...

Don't blame you Joe, I am hoping Jon should be getting somewhere with mine this week, think I better dig my wideband out of the box, anyone got a gauge.. have you put it in the post cat hole?

Looks like I mis Lm also.

[chris_uk]

i thought you had 2 days booked mate lets have a chat on MSN and we shall sort something ..

[Muncher]

Joe I've just read this from the beginning, very interesting! Hopefully Jon can get the mapping sorted soon!

[The Batman]

thank you muncher means alot, when i spoke to Jon, he told me that mapping isnt an issue and i still believe and agree with him that i dont think mapping is an issue, its more the fact that no one has mapped a sc 2.2 on a z20 ecu before so neither of us know what base info it is to put on the ecu, plus the harrop isnt making things easy as nick's is the only one t run th harrop and he doesnt have the same setup as me etc etc i am more than confident in Jon at cms that he can do this but its that annoying thing called time that is the issue.. he is obviously very busy and doesnt help the problems that he has had with nicks cams! as soon as the cams are timed then it can go on the dyno and be mapped this will then allow Jon to give me the same map as nicks as basically me and nick have the same components all be it my engine will be more powerful so then i can run the engine in and take it to Jon and get him to map the car then all will be sorted and live happily ever after etc etc! (fingers crossed!) Nick, deinately fit the wideband as without it im sure i would have run the engine in and could have cost alot of money so its a peace at mind guage (i dont advise techie to fit one as he has enough guages to worry him to death ) i am annoyed i missed the national and le mans but hey thats what happens when you push the boundaries and eerything doesnt go as smoothly as the dream told me they should be! im still a happy chappy just means next year is the year (yes JJJ i know i say this every year ) just please no one bring out cheap bore liners

[techieboy]

(i dont advise techie to fit one as he has enough guages to worry him to death )

No interest in AFR's. It's either okay or it's not and either way, it's out of my control and down to the ECU to manage. I know it runs slightly on the rich side of stoich (on full or partial throttle) and that's as much as I need to know.

Plus, AFR (aka Chav) gauges are always really tacky looking and only belong in quadruple gauge pods down the A pillars of some turbo'd ricer, or another.

Oil pressure and temp gauges will be no more after this weekend as well, now I have total faith in 10w50 or 10w60 oil not vanishing before my very eyes and not being able to get the oil over 110°, no matter how I drive it. That and the fact the audible warning on them does my fecking head in when the engine isn't running but the ignition is on (stupid fcuking cars for not having a live position 1 on the ignition switch). Better chase up the bungs for the sensors, now you've reminded me.

[Sticky]

Oil pressure and temp gauges will be no more after this weekend as well, now I have total faith in 10w50 or 10w60 oil not vanishing before my very eyes and not being able to get the oil over 110°, no matter how I drive it.

Good news Matt Gone the same route now, Le Mans will be the first test.

(apologies for the mild hijack Joe)

[Muncher]

I was thinking I had thrown some money at my car, but having seen yours I'm feeling a lot better! I chatted to vocky about the electric water pump but I don't think the value for money argument stacked up for me, with my engine being more rev happy anyway as it's square I think that should offset retaining the standard pump. I'm particularly interested in how you deal with the heat and noise. Do you think the heat per se would be a problem? As long as it doesn't melt anything and doesn't cause too much of a problem with intake temperatures is that sufficient? That said, do you have a link to the mesh? If anyone wanted a pressed mesh I would be well up for arranging that, a decent hardwood jig I would have thought could do that.

[Muncher]

Techie, I also don't want any permanent gauges in mine, like you say it's either right or it isn't and I just think it would detract from the driving.

[techieboy]

Good news Matt Gone the same route now, Le Mans will be the first test.

I really shouldn't temp fate like that but it just seems to use negligible oil now. Maybe 200ml over two trackdays on the 10w50 and less than that on two trackdays on 10w60. Wish I'd done it two years ago and not carried on with ultra thin stuff. It doesn't stop the dipstick paranoia though.......

[Muncher]

Have you got a level sensor Matt?