The bought not built estate

[Frosty]

Been a while so a little pre FCS update. Decided i wasn't overly keen on the white nimrods on it for some reason so they have been put in storage and its back on silver nimrods.



I even decided to treat it to some new rubber on the front, very rare i buy new tyres and if i do they are usually cheap stuff but i decent to go 'mid range' and got some Kumho Ecsta so ill see how they go but so far seem decent enough



Ever since i got the car and when Jonny had it since he fitted the GT20 it has always needed mapping accordingly to the turbo so i got in contact with Pro Steve (HDi tuning). I went for him as he was most local and i wanted him to have the car in front of him as had a few issues. Anyway i explained that i was flat out at work and couldn't have time off due to being short staffed so Steve ended up popping over to me (just over an hour away) which was ideal and a massive help. He come out and did his thing. Got it running a lot sweeter and pulling well. I highly recommend Steve to anyone wanting HDi's mapping, really nice guy and knows his stuff.

Dove the car after he mapped it for a while and all going well. Obviously the next think was to find out what power it was producing. So a trip down to the rolling road at Tipton that a few of us use was in order. Ended up 3 of us going down with our cars, me Jimbo and Mark.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQbODWl3-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fpkzPejKCY

So about the video quality was taken on my phone and the video REALLY doesn't do the sound justice tbh

And the result



177.1 bhp at the flywheel, 144.8 bhp at the wheels and 279.1 lbf.ft. Pretty happy with the result though it would of been nice to hit the 180bhp mark to say its double stock power buy oh well. Just wish i had turned the boost up a tad and i reckon it could of hit it. Good news though the CG clutch seems to have settled it and is holding fine.

And just for anyone that is interested this is a graph with mine and jimbo's stage 2 on.



Thats pretty much it for now. Just a little bit of tidying up ready for FCS. Thanks for reading and maybe see you at FCS