FC-Tuning to make visits to Ireland (mapping)

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Originally Posted by Arnie

LOADS OF MONEY man, all for them engines is ridiculous expensive, that's why I gave up RB25 conversion which I had in possession some time ago.
VERY expensive and rare PowerFC (it's not economical to map std r33 ecu), expensive injectors, expensive turbo, very expensive coilpacks (splitfire's) as std are good only to 330bhp, z32, strong (expensive clutch).

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Sure if ya want the horses ya have to be prepared to pay for the hay.....................:D

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Originally Posted by Robbie Daly Ps13

Sure if ya want the horses ya have to be prepared to pay for the hay.....................:D

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New sig lol ha ha.

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Originally Posted by Robbie Daly Ps13

Sure if ya want the horses ya have to be prepared to pay for the hay.....................:D

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Sure I agree but there must be some amount of shit out of that amount of hay :D

Bit off topic, but IMO there's much cheaper ways to get silmiliar results up to sub-400hp than modding RB25, Polo's s14 is a proof of that. I don't think that you'd need more than 300hp on a road car realistically. Especially in Ireland.

My goal is great torque curve and response but not for 5k package which will eat pistons for breakfast.

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Originally Posted by EvojeepGal

As far as I know its just splitting the cost of the Dyno hire for the day, his travel, accomm etc & whatever his fee is between the 5-8cars booked in for the day, which in turn is actually quite reasonable ;)

I may be wrong on proper facts but its along them general lines!!

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Its approx 5 cars on each session. He's also now arranged dates for a trip to Northern Ireland in March ;)

yeah, it's 5 cars and then one or two on stand-by in case a slot opens up i think.

Also heard, no disrespect Steve! But he takes his time and many sessions go over so for whoevers not first in line, be expecting some extra tea & cake time!! :p

Actually looking forward to the after comments of this session, no harm in extra/fresh options in the mapping department, especially considering this lad travels all over Europe in particular to map cars, not many can accomplish European recognisation, let alone National ;)

seen him map a few cars when I have been over in smiths over the years and he does a great job and knows his stuff and gets great results

Yea, to be honest he's not done anything of mine yet, but its VERY rare you hear NO bad stories whatsoever from a mapper.

Ive heard and seen UK cars and owners more than happy with his work so wonder how us rough Irish will go!!!

TBH im very particular about who i let near my car (Evo) etc after putting lots of money into it and not wanting it to go bang, its taken a lot of research and views from people who have used Steve and people who have not, but recommended his work.
But in fairness regardless of how good anyone is it is VERY rare to get someone who has never had an engine go bang on them..... particularly with higher end figures.
And also to get a trade section on Driftworks alone speaks volumes!

At the end of the day, its the people from Driftworks (& some from on here) that have been onto Steve to do sessions over here that have made him get his ass in gear and take the plunge, as considering its on his pocket to invest coming here first time out to chance this country, it aint an easy thing to do, in no business sense, and still could go very wrong up until the last minute.

So for that alone i wish him all the very best of luck, especially seeing as within the last week he's already confirmed a 2nd Irish date & a 1st for Northern Ireland also.

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Originally Posted by EvojeepGal

Yea, to be honest he's not done anything of mine yet, but its VERY rare you hear NO bad stories whatsoever from a mapper.

Ive heard and seen UK cars and owners more than happy with his work so wonder how us rough Irish will go!!!

TBH im very particular about who i let near my car (Evo) etc after putting lots of money into it and not wanting it to go bang, its taken a lot of research and views from people who have used Steve and people who have not, but recommended his work.
But in fairness regardless of how good anyone is it is VERY rare to get someone who has never had an engine go bang on them..... particularly with higher end figures.
And also to get a trade section on Driftworks alone speaks volumes!

At the end of the day, its the people from Driftworks (& some from on here) that have been onto Steve to do sessions over here that have made him get his ass in gear and take the plunge, as considering its on his pocket to invest coming here first time out to chance this country, it aint an easy thing to do, in no business sense, and still could go very wrong up until the last minute.

So for that alone i wish him all the very best of luck, especially seeing as within the last week he's already confirmed a 2nd Irish date & a 1st for Northern Ireland also.

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Some lads paid for him to go maps some race cars in Jamaca:eek: Iv never heard of a tuner getting asked to go all round europ and further!! Most strugle to get local work in, that says some thing!! Lol, its not even his day job, this is his hobbie:D

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Originally Posted by Robbie Daly Ps13

Well at least ya see the funny side of it Robbie...... It dose seem a bit dogy the way he maps that many cars in a day...... Especially when he says he'l be finished by 7...... You'd imagine if something went wrong and took too long on one of the first cars the rest of them could end up being rushed.........

How long dose it take you to map a car robbie.........

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Mapping a car properly takes quite a while. The quickest car to map would be a NA on ITBS and that normally takes 3+ hours to do properly.

A turbo car on AFM's and Power FC would take us 3-4 hours on the dyno to be sure it right. Doing the part throttle and light load is very time consuming. Its very easy to tune the full throttle for power. But getting the afr and timing right at 30-60% throttle on a drift car when the trubo is surging is not easy at all.

If its a car that i have mapped before and it hasnt had major parts changed then probally 2 hours.

The main thing is that you need to keep the tempratures constant and to my knoweledge no one has better cooling for there dyno than we do. It still takes us a while on a turbo car to let it settle to the same tempratures for each and every run.

I personally would not like to try and map 5+ cars I have never seen before in a day.

In the end of the day its all down to personal preference.

I still think that the clain on the std evo is pure BS.

Robbie