Well today's update.............. The last couple of days have been a bit of a pain to tell you the trust, topped off by missing out on today's track day at Knockhill! bit of a s**t@*r, but a time line below of the weekend events starting on Thursday night
Thursday:
Get back from Aberdeen to find the new filter has been delivered from Jenvey, so quick change and set to work fitting it, its kinda late & I should have just put the Trophy on the trailer and not bothered with the hassle, but when you get something new you just have to try at least............... So, bumper off, ITB extensions (Ph1 Toms elbow kit to put the filter into the grille) dismantled and the new backing plate fitted, re build everything and try to shut the bonnet and no joy, the Jenvey back plate lugs and the size of the filter over the k tec one mean that it isn't going to happen!! not wanting to cut the bonnet or butcher it to be fair to make this fit, I think lets remove the extensions, fit the back plate direct to the ITB's and get the filter on in a suitable lower position, simple you would think!!, not so, Jenvey had manufactured the back plate incorrectly (gap between the middle 2 is 4mm / 5mm too close together) and that means the holes are out and the plate cant go on! out by 5mm so no point in even trying to adjust them, of course I had the movement in the silicone elbows before but no such luck going direct!!
so after the best part of 3 hours p*ss*ng about in the drive, the car gets built back up as it was before we started, minus the trumpet extensions, and loaded onto the trailer at "23:30". Im sure the neighbours were loving me, but since we were leaving at 4:30am the next day, better that than loading up at that time 😞!
Friday:
Up at 4:00, showered and set of by 4:45, a little tired but still excited about the day ahead! arrive at RS tuning at about 10:30
Started off very poor at 182bhp.... Paul & Andy couldn't understand it, after analysis, which included a compression test (which was all good) only thing left to check was the timing, which was out........ Major thanks to them for taking the time to do this as it would have been a 12 hr round trip for nothing if they hadn't......
spent 2hrs resetting it and its on the rollers again and straight up to 190 & mapping starts again............... although things still things weren't going to plan... (beginning to feel like another
Life and Times of a Trophy at this point, sorry Andy, couldn't resist -
@SharkyUK )! The car seems to level out after 6300 rpm!! Paul couldn't understand it, every thing seems right, the spec means 200 comfortably and we are all scratching our heads! As a comparison they put a high compression build they are doing on the rollers with the a similar spec. it has cat cams of equivalent spec to my Piper 285 cams.... and the same spec ITB's from K tec, it just had the high comp internals.... anyway he ran that, overlayed the graphs and from from 0 to 6300 revs mine and it were almost identical bhp and mine actually had slightly better torque! then it just starts to flatten with the high comp going up to 198 bhp at the high revs.....!!
By this time between tiredness, sheer frustration and just generally getting pissed off I had just lost my enthusiasm.....😞 but Paul was sure it had more to give!
Any way he ran it quite a few more times and with no improvement, as hes starting to look as frustrated as me, he opens the drivers door to talk to me, as he let off the power, and when free wheeled down his rollers quickly stopped.... looking conused / concerned he got out and started feeling my wheels which were getting quite hot..... we found the found the brakes have been binding binding on!!
As this is now nearing 5pm, time is not on side at all, we give it a little while to cool down, stick a bar in to squeeze the drivers outer pad back and he gave it another run, 196.2 & the passengers are still binding slightly and no doubt the inner pad is doing the same...., also the car is roasting as its had a fairly long time on the rollers........... Any way a maybe something salvaged from the day, but I'm still a little hacked off, but 196 with binding brakes maybe means it has a little left....................??????
Saturday:
Nothing Major happening with the Trophy today as too many other things planned, but i managed to fit in a polish and detail after i had fitted its new silver sticker courtesy of RS tuning
Only bit of upset on Saturday was phoning Knockhill to get told that the track day for tomorrow was full, my fault for leaving it to the last minute....!! Ah well, there was no need to free the calipers off temporarily to basically kill the pads and get what was left out of the discs, although on inspection by myself and Fraser these are looking pretty f*ck@d now after the roasting on the rollers which has left them a very funny colour!
Sunday:
Morning of pottering with the Clio :smile:, as the ITB bend extensions wont work with the Jenvey filter, I trial fit everything, and enlarge the grille cut to let more air into the filter since its not sitting directly behind the grille any more....... you'll note the blue silicone breather to match the forge hoses and the new ram air breather filter too
also notice that the Trophy was also spotted by
@Stu- on its 600 mile journey on Friday............ cheers for the compliments on the car mate, it tries its best!!
Well that's about it for this weekend, I guess it wasn't too bad considering everything and the main trial / test for the upgrades will be the next track outing on the 30th August, booked that up early to make sure i actually get on (lets hope it doesn't rain)............ The only things to do in advance of this is free the brakes off and fit the new AST springs if they actually ever arrive........... Curtis told me they were being posted Wednesday last week, Thursday latest and surprise surprise they never arrived on Friday!! not bad now 3 weeks 3 days for an over nigth delivery!
Well a big thanks to Paul, Andy and Craig at RS tuning for their time, banter & hard work and look forward to catching up with some of you soon at the track :up:
Hopefully I'll be able to go halves on another with a friend at some point as a dedicated track car, I need the sound of ITBs back in my life lol.
