Most reliable tuning?

[jackyboy]

I keep umming and arring about going turbo.

Im not convinced its reliable atall enough for a genuine daily driver.

Im talking 110 miles a week commuting. 6am cold starts without fail. Normal running at idle. Good fuel economy. Sitting in stop start traffic for 40 minutes at a time on uphills for sometimes riding the clutch for 5 minutes here and there.

Bombing to wales every few months. Constant 3 hours fast road driving at 5am including a roads b roads and motorway. Traffic on the way back. Sometimes stop start on the motorway.

Driving to and from trackdays and actiondays every other month about 2 to 3 hours eachway.

Then on trackdays pounding around all day hard without a hint of a glitch.

Could anyone guarantee the same high level of reliability of an na engine with a turbo setup?

[atlex]

as long as your oil and water fittings are well done, and the tuning is done correctly.. :-)

if you commute I recommend not going paddle clutch, but you still need a "better than OEM" organic.

[FFS Corders]

If you get it done as a safe tune rather than trying to max out the potential of the components, you should be able to daily it without too much stress

[jackyboy]

Does skuzzle do a stop start traffic tune??

[jackyboy]

Supercharging seems like a safer bet. My mates cooling is perfect 🤔

[jackyboy]

My earth strap snapped which fried battery and alternator and various fuses.
Which led to bore wash when the ecu wasn't getting enough voltage to run the car properly.

Alt changed earth strap changed new battery.. fingers crossed it'll be reliable again.

BUT I'm putting the earth strap snapping down to the extra torque on the engine and old engine mounts??

Only after smaller pully and stage 2 competition clutch this has happened. Didn't have any problems at 169bhp but now it's 190bhp on a cold day.

I suppose you can do it reliably bit need to counter in ALL factors of extra wear and tear from the torque.

Even my exhaust system standard with decat and back box I keep blowing gaskets from down pipe to decat.

[moclan]

This makes me want (need ) a blink stage 1

[lowender]

Jul 30, 2019 11:11:38 GMT moclan said:

This makes me want (need ) a blink stage 1

I have a Blink stage 1, with lightweight flywheel, RB exhaust manifold and custom cat-back. Totally reliable so far (2 years). It's probably somewhere around 150bhp-160bhp at the fly, so not particularly powerful, but very responsive and a lot more torque. I can thrash it all day at the track, and the next day cruise down to Cornwall or wherever in a relatively civilised manner. The car weighs 950kg which helps. If I wanted more power, I'd probably stay n/a and go for a KL V6, more cost effective than stage 2 with throttle bodies, and more civilised to drive in traffic.

[atlex]

Jul 30, 2019 11:37:30 GMT lowender said:

Jul 30, 2019 11:11:38 GMT moclan said:

This makes me want (need ) a blink stage 1

I have a Blink stage 1, with lightweight flywheel, RB exhaust manifold and custom cat-back. Totally reliable so far (2 years). It's probably somewhere around 150bhp-160bhp at the fly, so not particularly powerful, but very responsive and a lot more torque. I can thrash it all day at the track, and the next day cruise down to Cornwall or wherever in a relatively civilised manner. The car weighs 950kg which helps. If I wanted more power, I'd probably stay n/a and go for a KL V6, more cost effective than stage 2 with throttle bodies, and more civilised to drive in traffic.

Probably the maximum fun tune you'll get :-)

[jackyboy]

Ohhhh I dunno. Supercharger torque gets me tingling it's like a power plate/shunt train. Pulls in any gear at any speed. Looking forward to driving it properly tomorrow now me and my mate have "seemingly" fixed the battery drain issues.
I think all the things that go wrong can be prevented with sc builds. Just takes alot of mistakes to learn this 😑

[scottydugg]

Realistically, going to an aftermarket ECU, how much of a bump will that give on a standard car?

Going any form of FI it'll be required, but if you add that as an additional stage maybe it'll assist deciding which way to go (ITB, FI, NA).

For me personally, perhaps it's the next logical step, considering all the minor mods I've sunk into it so far.

[swordspork]

I was told I'd see 5bhp or more by getting an ECU on my standard engine. Not sure it's worth it but it will improve engine response especially if you have an early car without the TPS.

[wannabe]

Might it also improve fuel consumption, given the 1.6s fire either all injectors at the same time or in banks of two??

(I may have that totally incorrect )

[jackyboy]

You won't notice anything with standalone ecu if you havent got boost etc..apart from an inferior start up and idle lol

[jon]

A good ECU well setup will start up and idle the same if not better than standard.