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Old 29-09-2007, 07:27 PM
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hi all , had my 4x4 saff set up 2 yrs ago by paul hills at engine advantages, had no problems touch wood. but at mot time my co is allways at 7% he did away with my lambda and used pectal for a more refined set up he said. he told me to wind down the ecu screw wich did bring it down and therefore passed , told to wind it back up again as cossies like to run rich. i asked if the screw would alter the fueling he said no the screw is just for emmissions and has nothing to do with the map, is this a common thing to do at mot time with tuned cossies without closed loop , its a stage 3 by the way. dont know what software he uses neither bayjoo, msd, ? thanks all.
Old 29-09-2007, 07:41 PM
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Pretty sure the screw affects the whole map m8
Old 29-09-2007, 09:39 PM
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thats what i thought m8 but i,m not a tuner, you just rely on youir tuner not to bullshit you.
Old 29-09-2007, 10:34 PM
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I had to turn mine down recently. It failed as it was running 5.5% CO and Paul said just turn it down about one and half turns which I did and it sailed through. As soon as i'd got the certificate in my grubby little hands I turned it back up again whilst still at the garage and burnt off home.
Old 30-09-2007, 06:55 AM
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If they are set up right they will sail through the mot test without any adjustment, even on a std ford/wm ecu, certainly on closed loop should be clean as a whistle at idle.
This is a bodge of the highest order, if running that much co normally you are losing power as well as wasting fuel cand causing excess wear.
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Old 30-09-2007, 07:12 AM
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7% CO, that is bore-wash heaven.

Why the hell did he do away with the Closed-loop?
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the original turbo was in need of replacing worn shaft, so paul got me another T3 with 360 thrust bearing, when i picked the car up i noticed the new turbo didn,t have the lambda screwed into where they are usually plumbed in infact this turbo didn,t have the place for it. when i asked about it paul said it wasn,t working right anyway.what i don,t understand is at 7% co the car runs and drives spot on and the sparkplugs are a perfect colour not black as coal as you would expect from running to rich, the oil smells of oil not fuel so i don,t think borewash is a factor here. with an incorrect set up car surely you would be having problems... other than the co at mot its not missed a beat in 2 yrs! cossies sent from hell to try us!!
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step into the 21st century man!

msd closed loop stage 3, 330 bhp and 0.9% CO @ idle

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Or LPG cossie, 550bhp+ 0.00013 CO!!!
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