Grab a cup of tea.......
With getting my dates mixed up with SRR and a holiday i wasn't going to make the rolling road day. It was a shame i missed it as iv been to the past few and had an great day, Was looking forward to it as well. The holiday was brilliant though. A couple of weekends before me and
@TimR26 went to SRR to see what our cars were putting down. Tim had just had his timing checked and corrected and i hadn't run mine since the Cams were installed. The car felt much faster than standard and i was confident. When we arrived some of the guys from 16Valver were there running a couple of there cars. We had only just seen them a few months before hand were my car ran 174.9 BHP. Tim was up first and ran very well. The timing correction had done wonders for the car, figures were very impressive and it wasn't even mapped yet...... Hopes for mine were high.
The first run the car was cold, i don't think Charlie didn't take it far over 6k. He sat it on the rollers for a bit warming up the engine and went for run number 2. This time it went all the way to the 7600k limit, 178.9. My heart sank a little i admit. Run 3 ran the same power then Charlie shut it off, the car was now too hot. He got it off and said the inlet temps were too high to run it again, then the AFR printout came through.
As you can see something wasn't right. Everyone's thoughts turned to the map on the car, Charlie said he felt the car could defiantly do a 185 once it was sorted and said it felt great. On a plus note the misfire had gone completely. Dan hadn't replaced anything as he said he couldn't find anything wrong with it anyway. It felt just as quick on the way home as it did the day i picked it up from Dan. Feeling confused i got it home and contacted Dan straight away. He said drop it off and he would look at it straight away. Only one problem, when to get it too him ? The weekend after was the track day at Bedford that i was going to go to but in the end didn't. And the next weekend id be flying out to Austria. I was planning to go to Bedford and drop the spare key off to Dan as he was attending as well and then somehow drop the car off some when 😊 Sadly
@Cub. couldn't make it and as i was going up with him i decided to not go either therefor giving me some time to get the car to Dans unit. The Friday before i dropped the keys off to Tim who was going in place of oli and could then give Dan the keys and on the Saturday me and my Dad drove down to drop the car off.
The day before i was flying out Dan gave me a ring. He had spent some time on the car and couldn't find anything what so ever wrong with the map ! AFR's were as they were when it left him last time, nothing was wrong. He said he would adjust it a tiny bit to help it out but there wasn't much he could do... After coming back from skiing i needed to pick it up but thankfully (not so much for Tim) he was dropping his R26 off at Dans and in turn picked mine up. I got it back today and the car feels amazing. It runs alot better from cold now and it really does get moving far better through the rev range now. Me and Tim feel it has to be well in the 180's power wise. Not too sure what to think about the fact the misfire has gone or the fact that the AFR's seemed to be off and then fine ?? It has me rather confused.
The cars got some new breaks coming soon thanks to Cub and also some extra engine parts i had lying around have been powder coated and are waiting to go on. Think i will get the paintwork sorted during the summer and also the nasty little dent near the rear light. A massive thanks to Tim for helping out with everything the past month, also to Cub for the breaks and Dan for sorting the car.
Bring on the Ring next month
