OCUK Rolling Road Day 9 - Its booked!

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 14:06

6 weeks!

Hopefully they have decent ventilation, my recent mods seem to have made my car a bit.... smoky

InvaderGIR · 15 Mar 2009 at 14:17

They do, decent extraction unit and also a decent fan for cooling too.

You can see the extraction flap at the back.

and if you have a scoob...

Nice little bit of cooling. There is also a blower to my right behind me (me being the camera

).

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 14:41

Good stuff, I can actually get cars behind me to dissapear at the moment.

Nearly ready, another 4 or 5 hours under the bonnet with a soldering iron, and 2 hours in the garage and I'm good

Muffin` · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:12

rover416i said:
I can actually get cars behind me to dissapear at the moment.

Are they parked?

DevilsAdvocate · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:16

Behind a cloud of smoke I assume

Lashout_UK · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:17

Right. May. Maybe I should make it a target to have something entertaining to run by that point

(as well as straightening other bits of my life out.... ho hum!).

TaKeN · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:13

6 weeks

I need to get my clutch done and remap :eek:

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:18

Muffin` said:
Are they parked?

No, it's with the smoke, sorry to kill your pointless and pedantic dig

TaKeN · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:20

Whats the rover suposed to be putting out then?

SoliD · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:00

InvaderGIR said:

What a handsome car!!

PeterNem · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:12

Solid, just noticed the ST220 badge in your sig pic

agw_01 · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:58

TaKeN said:
Whats the rover suposed to be putting out then?

Should be about 130bhp IIRC.

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 18:28

We think so yeah

Nice increase over the standard 103, and the fact it doesn't weigh that much means acceleration is now pretty rapid

Shame they never did a 400 with the 1.8L K series IMO.

agw_01 · 15 Mar 2009 at 18:33

19psi is bound to feel nice by any stretch of the imagination

On another note, I'm sooooo close to ordering a 418SD badge for mine. That way I get to keep the Turbo badge!

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:16

agw_01 said:
19psi is bound to feel nice by any stretch of the imagination

On another note, I'm sooooo close to ordering a 418SD badge for mine. That way I get to keep the Turbo badge!

Do it

20psi at the moment under full throttle @ 5k

It feels a hell of a lot quicker than stock, slow off the lights but once boost kicks in it's epic.

I have a turbo badge now too...

Rover one of course!

TaKeN · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:27

Jesus, you rev it to 5k?

I don't think my cars ever seen 5k :eek:

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:43

It's meant to be 4500ish, but for some reason mine doesn't agree - I can hit 5.5ish when running through the gears

Although my old K series always made me smile, ~7300rpm

TaKeN · 15 Mar 2009 at 20:46

..If on a thrash I range between 2k and 3k... lazy driving at the moment is a gear change just above 1k.

Shows how different are engines are I suppose

mattyprice4004 · 15 Mar 2009 at 21:20

TaKeN said:
..If on a thrash I range between 2k and 3k... lazy driving at the moment is a gear change just above 1k.

Shows how different are engines are I suppose

When mine was unmodded 2-3k was my powerband, now the fuel pump adjuster makes the higher revs much more petrol-like, power just seems to go up and up until Mr limiter kills my fun

If I'm chilling gear changes are about 1.5k, if I keep going to high revs I can get MPG down into the 30s

agw_01 · 15 Mar 2009 at 21:24

You'll have to come out in mine once I've got it set-up properly, Mat.

This turbo is awesome... it goes so well now! I'll show you what a real turbo feels like