JohnnyDepp

18 hours ago, andyk134 said:

my piggyback was fitted and dyno'd by Jamsport. it gave 261bhp at 9 psi and about 280 torque. I have since had it remapped by Simon on the road and it feels better but no dyno. who did yours and what have you got now?

Well kit has been fitted and mapped by Simon, along with a lightweight flywheel. It did 266 whp/301bhp. Was dynod at Read Performance in New Milton. Was curious what figure you got at the wheels as well, but ideally if you've got a printout that would be awesome ! :D  

On a side note- I saw a "for sale" post for your car a while back. What happened in the end, did you sell or keep? Bit of a loce/hate relationships with these cars, a?  :)

On 27/04/2016 at 7:38 AM, andyk134 said:

I am no mechanic as I freely admit. Turbo/lightened flywheel conversion was supplied and fitted by Simon Souster at MJS in Ipswich. He has developed a kit for the car that gives 230-240bhp. Only criticism of his kit would be that the turbo is a little large for the engine so it doesn't really come on boost fully until about 4000rpm, but bangs for your buck, it is worth it. was £2700 supplied and fitted and set up.

Downside is that the standard ECU is non adjustable so not ideal. I then went to Jamsport in Northampton for a piggyback ECU that they have used on this conversion many times. The read out after set up was 261bhp and 280ft/lb torque at 9psi which it will run at all day with no problems on a standard engine and yes it does fly when you want it to. £680 fitted and rolling road set up.

Using it as a daily driver is no probs at all as driving it normally it behaves very well, it is quicker all the way across the rev range but you get the real kick in the back from around 3500 onwards and you have to be careful in 1st and second you don't hit the limiter which is all to easy to do.

If you are a mechanic and know what you are doing, then probably doing an engine swap to the 2jz 3 litre engine would be cheaper and will give you 210bhp and more tuneability later on. But for me having to have it all done by someone else, this was the way to go. I have also sorted the suspension as you will see from my profile and that does need to be done if you are looking at more power, I wouldn't want to drive mine on oem suspension that's for sure.

Andy I'm interested to see your dyno printout? I recently had mine dynod and got a wee bit different results at 9 psi. All Simon's kit with a lightweight flywheel and the piggyback:)

Did you use the metro tyto-01 harness or? I ordered one but it's missing the plugs so have to get a few days off when weather is nice so I can tinker ( garage is full of stuff ).

I saw someone post a facia earlier and I got the same one, was very poor quality and it eventually got binned. I'll check my emails for the order I placed for second facia, which is very easy to build and fit and surprisingly robust concidering the parts just clip together.