I thought I would do a little update on my car, since I haven't posted for a while. Main reason being ongoing problems with the car and just damn bad luck. Anyway as it stands she is still only running around 190 - 200 BHP and is still overfueling massively. I have checked the codes and is running rich on bank 1 and 2. Had some bad luck over the past few months. Car was parked up and somebody hit it in the front while I was away. Cheeky git left a fake number in the wiper! Also had somebody reverse into the side of me a month later!

Damn that's seriously bad luck mate, hopefully it turns soon enough.

Why leave a number if it's fake?

aah mate sorry to see you still having problems with the engine,
and some bad luck with other drivers too

that way passersby think he is being an honest John and don't take his number........

had someone do this to me in a Sainsburys Car Park a few years back

That's shocking can't believe someone would do that

After that I found that one of my 02 sensors had melted. I had the katana manifold fitted and never heat shielded it. This was the result.

Also had a coil pack go on cylinder 5 and all my spark plugs were fouled. So these were all changed, used the bahamotors website manual.

Sorry to hear you still having problems with your car fella. Some people just dont give a F K anymore. Someone hit my back bumper whilst I was parked up but away from the car and the next day someone else opened their door into the drivers door and put a scratch and dent in the door!


I hope you get it sorted soon.

Now for the nice stuff. Got the damage to the side of my car repaired as it was not my fault, front bumper is still damaged. Anybody no someone that is good at repairing FRP fibreglass? Thought I would do a few mods to the interior. First came the handbrake.

Next came the pedal, I had the clutch and brake ones on pretty easy with the use of a drill for one extra whole, the accelerator pedal was a b*tch though.

Finally after a bit of help from Mat I finally managed to find an altezza boss kit so I could get my new steering wheel on.

I'm guessing somebody must have seen them do it.

loving the mods except for the steering wheel mate (sorry)

Shocking about the manifold sensor tho

Also asked Weston Performance if they could now finish mapping my car but they have refused to help, as they think I may have tampered with there map and hence why the car is over fuelling, however if you look back at my previous thread you will see that this was always the case. My first choice of course was Abbey but they said they would not take on any more is200's with Fcons fitted by TDi until they sort out Adies. Apparently the way they have been wired needs to be deciphered before they can be correctly mapped.

Why not? I have to say the boss is a bit to long which makes the steering wheel stick out a bit too much for my liking.

I think I need some seats to set it off properly?

I just don't think replacement steering wheels suit the IS200/IS300 IMO.
I ain't gotta like it nor has anyone else as it isn't my car

If you like it bud that's the only important thing

Sorry to hear about your bad luck!

I agree with Wozza on the steering wheel. Not many aftermarket steering wheels (especially without airbags) looks good. The TRD wheel is an exception but its a discontinued product now.

Yeah I know, just interested in you opinion though

Cho...thats BS by Weston as you need special HKS dongles and codes to do that. Only HKS Powerwriters can access the maps.........

i know a good place i nottingham that will sort your bodywork out mate..

hes very good and just did my trd kit with a colour match so good people think its been on for ages!!

PM me if your interested and will get you the details..

hey man sorry to hear about the damage. where did you get the boss from for the steering wheel. and also what do you do with the airbag? take it out?? any warning lights up?? and also can a car with airbag removed pass mot?
have been meaning to ask someone about this for a while.

cheers

I got the boss from RHD Japan, its an Altezza HKB boss. When you remove the steering wheel the first thing you take off is the front pad, airbag is inside there. You disconnect this and their is a little module that comes with a boss kit which you plug in the airbag wiring to. The airbag light then stays off. However I must say that mine has stopped working, so airbag light back on. On the MOT side of things I dont know. One other thing, the boss kit is a bit long so I found that the position of the steering wheel was different (sticks out more) not quite to my liking. May get a custom one in future.

Yeah I know, he just started spouting off and got really defensive.

Thanks for the help redz

Hope you get it all sorted soon Cho

Be carful driving with the fueling mate, as this can foook your engine again its not good driving with so much fuel going into the cylinders, the fuel that dont get burned goes down the side of your pistons, making the oil very thin, and will damage the cylinder bores and everything else in your engine, you payed for the mapping once, take it back and tell them to finish the job this time

Some nice bucket seats would look great in there m8, but you should just get the other bits sorted out first unless you have pennys to burn then get them right now an put some pics up
Good luck!!!

Its getting a massive saga for you isnt it mate,

got to chuckle at Abbey not taking on/finishing any more of TDi's jobs. Speaks volumes in my opinion cause Abbey are so highly thought of by nearly everyone i know in the tuning world.

Hope you get it sorted soon though fella. Personally i'd rip the Fcon out and give it back to TDi demanding the money back and start again with something simple like an emanage.

Look at Sam's Turbo IS, thats runs brilliantly with just an emanage ultimate piggyback ecu, doesnt need a standalone like the Fcon.

Stav

Thanks guys

@Gord I know mate looks like most of it is coming out the exhaust though and probably burning up my cat!

@stav I am very close to going down this route mate, will have to see what happens.

Cho, just make sure you are changing your oil more than you should, coz the petrol will be making it very thin and usless to your engine.

As Stav says rip the F-con out, you never needed it in the 1st place, total waste of your money, as im sure ive said many times before

If you do get an emanage give me a shout fella i'll sort you out with wiring diagrams, basic setups, etc for it

Alternatively pay petrol and a goodwill fee and i'll come fit the thing for you lol.

Its not that hard when you know how.

Nice one Stav, thats very good of you, and thats what some of us think this club is all about

Thanks for the offer stav, totally agree with Gord I think in the end all these experiences will only benefit the club and improve everybodies knowledge. Will have to see how things go over the next couple of weeks. Might be giving you a shout soon stav.

I would hope some one would do that for me with my V8 lol


Hope you get it back running the way it should be soon mate......

Not a problem fella, bust at work for the next month or so but i'll help you if you need it , not a problem.

What setup you running now anyway? just the standard TTE setup or do you have bigger injectors, etc?




LOL i can have a look into it for you mate you never know there may be something i can help with.

Yeah larger injectors and stonger bottom end. Its begging to be pushed.

So basically all you need now is a larger pulley and a decent ECU with some decent mapping?

Thats all he needed in the 1st place

lol didnt want to say that

Larger pulley is on, it's running about 0.7/0.8 bar of boost but the map is useless

Im guessing the spark timing must be wrong but dont know much about the mapping side of things, a/f readings are deffo rich, no boost leaks, good compression. So has to be the map right?

if youre free next week i can take you somewhere where they will be able to take a proper look at your motor for free.

0.7/0.8? how bigs the pulley?





Free!! can you take mine?

@ Rsarin, hell yeah I would deffo be free, please let me know or pm me and I will give you my number. THANKS!

@ Stav it is the stage 1 TDI pulley cant remember the diameter but bigger than the standard one.

standard is 130mm thought the tdi one was 150mm

That sounds about right, I think I put the measurement in my old thread

Hmm, have to measure how big my new one is, that was running 0.5bar on Gords. didnt think you could get much more bigger one in!

I think its 150mm, and you might get 155mm in, but not much more with out doing other work to make fit

thats no problem mate,ill PM you in a bit with a mobile number.I have a friend that owns a race company/team and he supercharged my M3.he'll be happy to give you two hours of his time,he normally only maps M3s/csls and gt3s but he is an ex ascari engineer and he knows an awful lot about mapping.They dont run a road car mapping service(just to put things into perspective)

Wow, that would be awesome, really appreciate it.