The car hopefully gets welded up tomorrow morning, let’s hope for a good job.
I’ve had to remove the CDI ignition boxes and ECU to make sure I avoid another disaster of him accidentally melting these components. I need to also ensure that he has all of the right fire protective equipment to protect parts of the very new and expensive loom.
In other news I’ve spent more hours on with the tuner fine tuning various items. I didn’t really realise quite how complex this set up is, it’s truly next level to anything I’ve done before with electronics on cars.
What has impressed me the most is the sheer amount of safety measures and strategies that are in place as well as the ability to scale these in terms of warnings, alarms and full limp mode, even shutting down front or rear rotor or both.
They cover every conceivable sensor being read from fuel pressure, knock, ignition, lean/rich conditions via lamda, coolant pressure, oil pressure, oil temp, coolant temp, water/meth pressure & volume, EGTs and more.
Likely loads I’ve missed too but he’s programmed so many strategies that with my history of blowing up these engines this fills me with so much confidence.
Drive by way has bought a whole new raft of features and clever strategies too from launch control, ALS, flat shift, traction control but DBW can of course be used as part of safety features too by limiting throttle under certain conditions.
Once the car is up and running and im used to the dash I’ll do a comprehensive overview of how it all pieces together. It’s superb.
In terms of getting things moving. I’m waiting on the 02 sensor to arrive from Aus, I’m using the tuners specific sensors but should be here by Friday. I’ve had M10 nuts arrive today for the turbo to manifold flange so I can start putting all of that back together over the next few days.
Once funds allow I plan to add the Syvecs GPS module which starts to introduce even more snazzy features including onboard timing/lap times etc.
At our expected power level the gearbox is going to be a real issue. They start to chew through 3rd gear quite easily so until I can decide on a gearbox solution we will limit boost/torque in 3rd. The cheap option is an OS Giken gear set from Japan at a cost of around £1500 with a 3 month wait or the more elaborate HGT 6 speed sequential at a cost of around £13k. You know me
well enough by now to know which one I’d like
This weekend we need to confirm and set timing next but the engine builder accidentally fitted the timing wheel back to front meaning I cannot read any of the marks. It’s a simple removal of a few belts plus 4 bolts to pull the pulley off and remedy this. Once this is all done we can get to the driving and tuning.
I’ve also managed to find an MOT station local that can help with the emissions bit of the test
