172 Race Car
As you may be aware me and Tony Hunter are racing this season in the Classic Sports Car Club's Tintops series.
Many, Many months of work have gone into building the car from a bare shell. Loads of unforseen problems have been overcome and yesterday the car hit the rollers at Tour-De-Force again for its final calibration session.
Paul at RSTuning had supplied us a set of AT Power direct to head throttle bodies and a carbon airbox.
After 2 previous attempts to finish the ecu mapping, lots of bad luck, things breaking, loom problems, throttle linkage problems (caused by using the rubbish stock cable) , It turned out to be 3rd time lucky, although the car did try its best to defeat us yet again.
We arrived just after lunch and got the car into the Tour-De-Force dyno cell.
Final figures of 198.5bhp and 168lbf of tourqe was a great result. 200bhp and 170lbf would of been nice but with a dead alternator and running on 95RON fuel we were not far off.
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Not bad for a totaly stock engine.
A HUGE thanks to Matt at Tour-De-Force Power Engineering for his hard work, late nights and massive patience.
Thanks also to Paul at RSTuning and John at AT Power.
Many, Many months of work have gone into building the car from a bare shell. Loads of unforseen problems have been overcome and yesterday the car hit the rollers at Tour-De-Force again for its final calibration session.
Paul at RSTuning had supplied us a set of AT Power direct to head throttle bodies and a carbon airbox.
After 2 previous attempts to finish the ecu mapping, lots of bad luck, things breaking, loom problems, throttle linkage problems (caused by using the rubbish stock cable) , It turned out to be 3rd time lucky, although the car did try its best to defeat us yet again.
We arrived just after lunch and got the car into the Tour-De-Force dyno cell.
Final figures of 198.5bhp and 168lbf of tourqe was a great result. 200bhp and 170lbf would of been nice but with a dead alternator and running on 95RON fuel we were not far off.
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Not bad for a totaly stock engine.
A HUGE thanks to Matt at Tour-De-Force Power Engineering for his hard work, late nights and massive patience.
Thanks also to Paul at RSTuning and John at AT Power.
