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Post by Merlin » Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:51 pm

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It was one of those days today :roll:

I picked the car up in the morning from Stainless Creations in Falkirk

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The exhaust is nice. It is more quiet than my old exhuast and much less raspy, which I like.


Knowing the A/F ratio may be out I pootled round the corner to Hypertech for my SLS power to weight testing session. When I got there we weighed the car with a third of tank in her.

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She came in at 1158kg which includes 60kg of cage (25 meters of pipe) and those moster front discs. What the corner weight machine highlighted to me was how much I need to set my suspension. I knew I needed to do it but was leaving it until next month.

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So it was dyno time :facepalm: Last November this car was on this dyno it recorded 223 bhp. First thing I did was to get the dyno operator to have a look at my A/F ratio. It showed that the car was running lean in the higher rpm :cry: There was noting else to do but take it off the dyno and call it a day.




I got on the phone to Henry Roy at Tiple H Performance in Irvine who said to bring the car down to him but I would probably have to leave the car with him. So with a 3rd of a tank of fuel I headed off with my phone satnav and pootled again.

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I did not see one single Shell garage the whole way there :evil: :lol:

I got there and his shed had some nice things

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His afternoon booking didnt turn up so my car was tuned :twisted:

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But! Now I had 3 bars of fuel and 15% on my phone :lol: The Shell app says there was a station in Kilmarnock which is on the way home, great :D Vtec here Vtec there, get there and they say they cant sell me and fuel as thier tills just broke :x Back to the app and it says there is one in Glasgow 18 miles away, load the address into the satnav, 2 bars of fuel left 9% battery on my phone :? The fooking battery ran out before Glasgow and I didnt know where to find the Shell station. In the end, with my fuel light on, managed to find a Tesco and put in some Momentum 99 to see me home.
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Re: Merlin's 4G Time Attack Lude

Post by Merlin » Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:52 pm

Thebusofwoe wrote:Where did you get them from? Or can the likes of a tyre outlet get them? Cheers
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Post by macky_6 » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:07 pm

What a nightmare!

Wish I had known you were in Irvine, I would have popped round. ( In Troon now :D) I was off today.

I did the exact same thing on Wednesday!!! Went to the Shell in Kilmarnock, tills were down so I had to limp to Glasgow to get VPower. Was on vapour :lol: at least I knew where the Shell in Glasgow was though :lol:
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Post by Donald » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:28 pm

I almost feel bad having 3 Shell garages within 5 mins drive :lol:

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Post by Drax » Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:31 pm

an nsx and a crx, niiiiiiiiish 8-) 8-)

this beaut is comin along reeeeeeal nicely :twisted: not long till race time ....... :scaredtoss:
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Post by 4thgenphil » Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:43 am

I really need to pull my finger out of my vagina and getting cracking with mine :(
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Re: Merlin's 4G Time Attack Lude- Dyno tune

Post by Merlin » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:08 am

I am going back on the Hypertech dyno tomorrow morning.
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Post by wurlycorner » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:21 am

Great dedication Merlin, well done.
Did you have any bodily fluids left after you arrived at the dyno tuner and saw the nsx and crx? :lol:

:think: so hypertech can weigh the car and stick it on their crap dyno, but they can't tune it? :?

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Post by bennyboy » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:22 am

Is that Henry 'the Cat' ?

Going back to my Honda Revs days again..
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Re: Merlin's 4G Time Attack Lude- Dyno tune

Post by Merlin » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:38 am

wurlycorner wrote:Great dedication Merlin, well done.
Yeah yesterday was a trying day but got there in the end. Stress levels though the roof :lol:

wurlycorner wrote::think: so hypertech can weigh the car and stick it on their crap dyno, but they can't tune it? :?
Yeah they don't do Hondata.


bennyboy wrote:Is that Henry 'the Cat' ?

Going back to my Honda Revs days again..
It sure was. We had a chat about it. He was the guy who originally built the engine for TaffyLude. He said he certianly never expected to see it again :lol:

He smoothed out a lot of the lumpiness in the rev range and the car pulls much smoother.
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