Category : Automobile Performance
This past Saturday 3/11/17 had the engineers from the LSU FSAE team bring their kart back on the rollers to do some further testing with the vehicle. To their surprise the changes they made to the motor and some tweaking on the engine management system yielded in positive results.
Category : Automobile Performance
Got a client that just purchased this vehicle and was wanting to see what kind of power it makes before starting some further mods.
6.2L v8 with just a K&N intake, 6AT
Ambient conditions – 84F, 62F, 30.03 Baro, test performed in Smode on 4th gear
Category : Automobile Performance
Got this client a week ago to drop his Subaru WRX to get mapped out, but come to find out there were some issues that needed to be rectified before a single power pull could be administered.
A rear passanger side wheel bearing needed to be fixed, apart from that there were some vacuum lines that were not in the correct order. After those things were sorted out then we proceded to connect and tune the vehicle via RomRaider. Specs on the vehicle are as follows:
Fresh JDM ej205, 2004 sti 6 speed transmission, Kinugawa 20G turbo with all the necessary bolt ons.
Ambient conditions 82F, 66%, 30.03 baro
Category : Automobile Performance
Dyno jet simulated numbers are above
Ambient conditions – 82F, 66%, 30.03 baro
Category : Automobile Performance
An previous client came with a newly acquired car. His last one was lost in the recent floods so this was his new ride and it needed some remapping. A built motor swap from a Supra was done to this vehicle as well as fitted it with many aftermarket parts to boot.
Mod list included: Haltech Sprint500 / Bosch 1000cc / Precision T4 6262 / GSP modified T4 Exh. manifold / Tial 44mm WG / HKS BOV / CX Racing FMIC / JE pistons /stock rods / Ferrea valves 1mm intake & .5mm exhaust / HKS 264 camshafts / Crower Spring & retainers / HKS headgasket / Manual Transmission.
Shell Vpower 93 octane was used
Apart from remapping the Sprint500 we had to replace some tired Tbolt clamps in the chargepipes and swap out a faulty MBC for a Hallman MBC. Boost then was linear from 19psi to 18psi.
Special thanks to this client for trusting us with his vehicle. See ya soon
Category : Automobile Performance
Client getting a baseline done to this bone stock 2017 Subaru WRX before the mod parts start arriving.
Ambient temps 68F, 80% humidity, 30.03 baro
Test was made in 4th gear.
Category : Automobile Performance
Waking up early on Saturday morning we gathered the troops loaded up the 2 Nissan Titan trucks and headed to Las Mendozas in Chorrera where the track is located. Its a 4hr journey from Las Tablas to the race track. Needed to fuel up the trucks and our stomachs so we stopped in this very modern gas station. This style of new gas stations remind me of the petrol station that can be found Portugal.
Arriving at the entrance of the Circuito Internacional de Panama we are greeted with a nice day and cool breeze.
Category : Automobile Performance
Got started itn the morning with this 2008 Infiniti G37S M/T. Client drove from the capital to Las Tablas (4hrs) to get UpRev tuned at Taller NB on our Dyno Dynamics.
Mods on the vehicle:
Berk TP
Exhaust Stillen
Intake Gen3 Stillen
ARK exhaust
Managed to squeeze a little more power out of the vehicle and also made sure the limiters were in place. The motor let go a while back due to a over rev condition and he wanted to take no chances on this newer motor.
Before and after the tune chart. Ambient conditions during test 90F, 67% humidity, 29.93 baro
Its a G37S and I said the name of the wrong model. DUuHh. A.R.C. settings enabled on this vehicle, ready for some fun on the track.
Thanks once again to my associates from Taller NB in Las Tablas, Panama.
Category : Automobile Performance
Started the day with a baseline runs for a client that is interested in making his 2015 Ford Mustang ecoboost more responsive. At the moment the vehicle only has a Airaid intake. The future plans now is to get the exhaust mods and a #cobbaccessport for the vehicle. Final numbers were 195whp / 230wtq in a 3rd gear pull.
Next up on the day was a Acura RSX typeS turbo on #Haltech Platinum Pro it was tuned previously by the guys at TallerNB, but a set of #fuelinjectiondevelopment 1300cc were added and retuning was needed. We wanted to go higher than the 14psi it was tuned earlier but we wanted to do some valve adjustment and head work first and the time did not allow so we retuned it for the same PSI. Mods in this vehicle are #Holsett HX35, built bottom end, Tial WG/BOV, Skunk2 intake and TB with a BWR exhaust manifold, Precision FMIC and Walbro 255lph.
Once we installed the FID13000 we noticed that the car did not want to start and when it did it was missing pretty badly. Well we decided to have a look at the spark plugs and sure enough that was the culprit. In two cylinders those Denso IK24 showed signs of something sinister had happened before it was brought back to us. Did a compression test on the motor but fortunate enough there was no signs of damage in those cylinders. Threw away those plugs and installed a fresh set of NGK BKR8EIX and she came back to life.
Last up on the evening some local guys from Chitre brought in their tuner (Chapa) and rented the dyno to fine tune a EK B18c1 built bottom end, stock sleeves on Hondata s300 and a large t4 6667 precision turbo. First they fought off some fueling issues that were present and later had to contest against some ignition issues that plagued them as well. They got close to their expected goals.
Off to get some needed sleep as we stayed up to 1am with the mechanic Tayto as he tries to get a B13 SR20DE ready for the weekend’s race event.
Category : Automobile Performance
On Wednesday it was a little slower with having to take care of the Z33 from Tuesday since the 2step launch from UPREV was having some issues. Found out that the vehicle has a issue with reporting the vehicle speed. So that is going to have to be fixed before the A.R.C. system can be flashed.
Later that day I was helping Belisario “Tayto” with a 200sx sr20det fine tune a Haltech system on that vehicle. Good job Tayto on the good tune of this car.
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Also an old client came back to try to fix a VTEC issue on his ’02 RSX type S on Haltech Platinum Pro. Strange issue this car has as sometimes the engine will die when the coolant temps get past a predetermined temperature that tells the ECU that VTEC solenoid is ready to be activated. Played around with the hz setting on the #haltechplatinumpro and managed to find a frequency that the VTEC system liked.
