TDP Wicklow - Mapping

[s13-ste]

it was porb printed because the two other cars(wez, jonny P) were mapped by robbie and was bad wording to explain why it was sent to ECC.

chucks car was mapped on the friday of rnd 2 tho

[mick-skyline]

to right peter,back on topic
in this months mij issue 15 the diary of a drifter,Nigel Colfers jz brift build,on page 65 nigel said 'with TDP not willing to complete the car before round 2 east coast customs took on the job with very short notice'

now before anyone says anything in not having a dig at TDP im just wondering why this came about,was it he didnt have the time etc
it seems to me thought this was added as a sly remark,
but maybe im wrong,what way would yous interput this?

my take on it is any good tuner wont take a job on umnless they know they have time with the car to get it 100% right, especially on a track car, and as TDP are competeing in TOTB and time attack amongst other things then time is obviously an issue with some jobs. having said that i cant see why it would have been printed, but thats writers for you, although i think it was written bu Colfer was it not??


anyway back on topic as jailbait lost me after i said about an owner exaggerating thier figures then he backed me up on it when tryin to prove me wrong but anywho...... to find the best tuner MHO is to try out who you have heard to be the most succesful in the buisness and make your own mind up from there.

[Davie]

my take on it is any good tuner wont take a job on umnless they know they have time with the car to get it 100% right, especially on a track car, and as TDP are competeing in TOTB and time attack amongst other things then time is obviously an issue with some jobs. having said that i cant see why it would have been printed, but thats writers for you, although i think it was written bu Colfer was it not??


anyway back on topic as jailbait lost me after i said about an owner exaggerating thier figures then he backed me up on it when tryin to prove me wrong but anywho...... to find the best tuner MHO is to try out who you have heard to be the most succesful in the buisness and make your own mind up from there.

it was writting by colfer
i didnt realize i was off topic,

your dead right mick,to find the best its always a chance,as you said you've been through 4 tuners and only prefer one,its trial and error and im sure people recommended the other 3 tuners to you but they werent to your liking,
one mans rubbish is another mans gold as they say in blaney hey

[ste]

i have only had 1 car mapped but had it with both westward and tdp... origionally left it down with westward got phonecall following day sayin car couldn be mapped as he could not increase boost so he charged me 150 to fit plugs that i suppplied and to do some minor tweaks to fuelling so he said... he told me to buy new external wastegate and retuen to him...

i took it to tdp for second opinion, robbie ran car on dyno and found it runnin dangerously lean(wez tested car when i bought it and it showed car was runnnin slightly rich) so was lean after leaving westward... robbie also discovered the car was still runnin a rb25de fuel pump somethin martin failed to notice.. robbie also found the boost increase problem was somthin to do with bov there was no vacuum line runnin to it so once that was sorted he could increse boost and map car.... in my opinion he is very good at wat he does and ill continue to take cars to him

[Cooldrft]

i have only had 1 car mapped but had it with both westward and tdp... origionally left it down with westward got phonecall following day sayin car couldn be mapped as he could not increase boost so he charged me 150 to fit plugs that i suppplied and to do some minor tweaks to fuelling so he said... he told me to buy new external wastegate and retuen to him...

i took it to tdp for second opinion, robbie ran car on dyno and found it runnin dangerously lean(wez tested car when i bought it and it showed car was runnnin slightly rich) so was lean after leaving westward... robbie also discovered the car was still runnin a rb25de fuel pump somethin martin failed to notice.. robbie also found the boost increase problem was somthin to do with bov there was no vacuum line runnin to it so once that was sorted he could increse boost and map car.... in my opinion he is very good at wat he does and ill continue to take cars to him

There was almost 2months between westward and tdp looking at the car/ You took off the wastegate + found a rip in a hose before you went to tdp.
Once you go altering parts that can affect the boost you could run rich or lean. the fuel pump could have deteriorated over the 2months aswell.
I think €150 was fair considering the time spend fitting the spark plugs,setting the car up on the rolling road + trying to map it.

Back to original poster : Tdp have probably mapped more drift cars than any other tuner in the country, most of them sr20's running pfc's ,so have no douth that robbie is competent enough + experienced enough to map your sr20.

[ste]

but that hose still didnt sort boost issue and surely the rb25de pump wouldn be able to run car at the higher boos level

[podge]

quote tdp

'A better ecu would be the answer to getting good gains safely. The Power FC is very limited in what it can do how fast it can do it.


A MoTeC M4 ecu would make that car fly and drive so much bette also. We will be announcing specials on MoTeC M4 ecus for DTD members this week'

when i was talking to robbie 6-7months ago he was pushing power fc's,now he says there very limited in what it can do and how fast it can do it,
iv never had much dealings with him and most people on this site seem to like his work

when i got my car mapped the last time about xmas robbie was not pushing the power fc,s when i got my car first mapped about a yr ago robbie was not pushing the power fcs always either the motec or the hks

ive had my silvia mapped by robbie and all i can say is it hasnt missed a beat since in over a yr wit near 340 brake horsepower and torque he,s the best in ireland end of ive also send other cars there tat have had a bit of work done and mapping done there and they r spot on

[Davie]

who else have you been to podge?

[mick-skyline]

it was writting by colfer
i didnt realize i was off topic,

your dead right mick,to find the best its always a chance,as you said you've been through 4 tuners and only prefer one,its trial and error and im sure people recommended the other 3 tuners to you but they werent to your liking,
one mans rubbish is another mans gold as they say in blaney hey

im not 100% sure on who wrote it but i think thats the way it was done.

i didnt mean you were off topic either i was

yes the 3 others came highly recommended too but im not going naming names due to the face that its better to try someone and make your own decission

[podge]

who else have you been to podge?

stiv in mod docs fo mine

i also brought another car to robbie after cda couldn map it and robbie mapped it ok and is running well since