He got 289bhp out of it yesterday at Mtech Automotive
He took the graph away, so hopefully he'll put it up later.










Then Him, Rob and Gary made 0.2bhp pedaling the rollers

 

PS

Apologies for the slightly dodgy fisheye lens pics, was trying out a new toy, lol

 

i thought mike was selling this chip?

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Ignore him, he keeps saying he wants to sell it to fund a new project, but then he decides its too much fun and changes his mind

 

too right he can't get rid of that tranni! lol

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I think it`s mint...... apart from the soupcan there is absolutely nothing to identify it`s naughtiness

 

fair play



chip was that you clio in the first pic

 

Yes mate, I was meant to be on the rollers yesterday as well with my nova but as the block split I couldnt be, and Rob was meant to be there with his Astra Turbo, but Nortech fucked him around yet again with getting parts to him in time, so we stuck his astra convertable daily driver on the rollers (141bhp) and then the plan was to map the clio, but I ended up having to do a load of overtime for toyota and didnt get chance to finish wiring it in, so I just a-framed it up anywa and Rob spent some time with Matt wiring in the clio for an Mtech V4 ecu while me and Mike were playing with the van on the rollers as there wasnt really enough for us all to do with the van alone and we were all there for the day anyway so figured we may as well do something useful, lol.
Clio is nearly there now, so big thanks to Rob and Matt for that, once ive got it running on the V4 i'll be fitting some throttle bodies as well in the near future, had them sat on the shelf for ages but not had time.
The way we're doing it is with an adaptor loom that plugs into the existing loom, so for now I can simply unplug it and put it back on the original ECU so that I dont end up in a situation where ive got no trackday car while doing the ecu swap.

 

Eh?

Cool van, never seen this. Loose the ghey tail pipe though it'd be a 100% sleeper. What do they weigh?

 

Yep, PROPER sleeper, it really does surprise people

 

rough spec/boost?

 

Was in fast ford last month in the sleeper special.

Exhaust is pretty long, so needs to be a fairly big diameter, although 3" is probably overkill by half an inch still of course, couldnt really go much smaller though without it being restrictive

 

Standard engine, mild hybrid on the turbo, think it was at 1.6 bar on the 289, but normally used at 1.2, on Omex 600

 

is it on a std exhaust manifold do u know?

 

Saw the van a few days ago, see it quite often! sounds awesome.

 

not a bad result
lol at them making 0.2 bhp pedaling the rollers

 

Yes mate it is.

 

Proper sleeper, mint!. Photography is a bit dodgy tho

 

see this at southend passionford meets and essex rsoc.sounds flipping amazing.id love to see this up against something that looks fast to see the faces lol.

 

yeah thats where i see it b19 jub, at the december passionford southend meet when he started it up the rumble from the exhaust!! lmfao chasing that white escort! lmfao

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you changing pedals or brake pads

great news about the connect, shit news about the clio though, thought you'd only recently craned another engine into the bay?

 

Not so much of a sleeper nowdays seeing as its plastered over PF and its mag feature lol

Good result though

 

No mate, I was involved in development of some of the supporting IT systems for the recall operation.

Yeah its got a williams engine, nothing wrong with it, just havent had chance to fit the new management yet, did you misread the post?

 

Read the brief mentioning of LPG on this van and would love to know more on this subject. Great project and so VANTASTIC!!!!!

 

There isnt a lot to the LPG side of things on it mate, its just the standard ford kit that came with the van.

 

nova#s block?
misread, you've splut the v

which should have read:

i missread
you's split the nova's block?

 

Yeah, gutted about the nova's block, thats the sort of thing that happens though when pushing engines hard, so something I just have to chalk up to experience

 

not like the trusty old yb eh

will you be updating it in a renovation thread or will it die a death and be used to fabricate your vx?

 

Not doing a VX yet, thats just something I might do in future.

Nova will hopefully be out for bedford, I'm going to just piece an engine together from some old bits ive got lieing around for now, and put my proper engine to one side to either sell for parts (ive got about 4-5K in secondhand value of parts still for it that are in perfect condition) or rebuild.
Current line of thought is to maybe go Saab with the next engine for it, just looking into that at the moment.

 

Firstly, a MASSIVE thanks to chip! Who not only ognasied the day but then spent most of it instructing me how to map. Then when his clio wasn't ready, giving me his time on the dyno and instructing me more.

Sadly over the weekend i have decided now is the time to sell the van, Not becuase i want to but becuase i would like to take my business to the next level and for that i need to fine roughtly 30k from somewhere. I will be gutted when it does go as this really is the best fun i've had in a project ever!

Im really Impressed with the result, The van is so much smother and comes onto boost much "cleaner" and now goes like a rocket! Some people faces are priceless!!!!

heres the graph,

 

Very nice van Mike and good feature in Fast Ford last month

 

Saw this at National Day last year, awesome sleeper. As others have said, only give away is the exhaust!

I'm surprised at how narrow the power-band is though? 1000rpm?

 

I think it could do with a bigger turbo, This ones being strangled for everything its got at this sort of boost

 

Just looked at the one we did recently, we've not seen many FRS'. Although that was all done by 6000rpm, it looks to make full boost by 3500rpm.

 

It's a bit more than 1000rpm in reality. The exhaust manfolds on these are horrednous for back pressure, that would be my first mod if packaging allows. They run 10's as std to keep the EGT's down...

 

Actually, thinking about it, we run ours in Shoot_4, which is a slower ramp rate. We find Shoot_4F makes them lazy coming onto boost.

 

Nice to see comments from people that are properly technical, you are both totally correct with all your points there lads

Christian,
The turbo will come on song a little sooner than that graph shows, but the fast ramp rate we were working with essentially makes it more like its in a lower gear, so the turbo doesnt spool quite as well like that as it would in real life, but its good for when mapping further up to stop the engine being under load on successive roads quite as hard.

Rick,
Yes we run mikes Van rich too, low 11s and high 10s, for the same reason, the standard manifold is rubbish.
Could get away with a bit leaner in a lighter vehicle im sure, but Mike works the van hard and quite often has himself, another fat bloke like me, a couple of engines and various tools in the back, so it can see 2000kg plus quite reguarly, which means its under a lot more load so heat buildup is even more of an issue than it otherwise would be. the aerodynamics of a high top connect with a lighterbar arent exactly great either, so again loads more strain than it would see in a fiesta or normal focus.

 

saw this at ford fair last year battering it round the track!
love it

 

Proper sleeper.I love it.