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Mods, I'm not sure of the rules regarding recommendations, so feel free to edit/delete as necessary.

The guy that runs the dyno behind Hardcore performance in Moss St. Still book through Hardcore.

He really knows his way around gtst's. My car was running like a dog, dynoed at 204hp (shootout), chewing huge amounts of fuel etc. Gave it to him for 2 hours and I now have 247hp@12ish psi(spike to about 13, settled at 11.8) with no pinging at all on BP ultimate, and brilliant fuel economy (11.6L/100k highway cycle towing a trailer, have not once seen over 12.5L/100k's, including flogging it over mount glorious), and generally much nicer to drive in general. It actually did a run at 260hp but I asked him to back it off a bit for the potential of crap fuel where I live.

He actually had the car for 2 1/2 hours but only charged me for 2, which was $250. To think, I thought I needed an aftermarket ecu to get these figures.

Mods are turbo back ex, dump pipe, pod filter and bleed valve.

So if your car is running like a bag of shite, this guy is well worth a look.

Jeremy

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I recon a good service and timing play around and setting the boost controller did the job but 260rwhp with no piggy back or proper ecu is weird

my car wont handle more than 10psi but i get 250rwhp at that tho

and i have fmic

good effort there on the tune/service

james

Using the stock ecu. by tuning I meant dicking around with timing etc. apparently the timing was retarded to buggery when I brought it in. he also pulled the mesh out of the afm (some one had removed the rear, not the front mesh), and did what ever else he could do. One of the secondary air inlet valves was stuck, tps was out, O2 sensor had a dead short, etc.

I didn't believe the 260 either, but there it was on the monitor. I hung around for most of the tune. I wouldn't be too comfortable running that with a stock intercooler anyway. He had also had the dyno calibrated a couple of weeks prior, so I'm led to believe it's pretty accurate.

250@ 10 psi is a nice figure, considering I need 2 more psi on mine for the same figure. No fmic on mine, but yeah, runs without a hitch.

In any case, I'm pretty happy that I have more power, better midrange and shitloads better fuel economy.

Jeremy

Edited by jezzerrr
is this guy in melbourne?

i need a damm good tune up.. can someone recommend some body..

had anyone tried chaser on dynon road?

Hi...both these places in melb know a lot about Skylines :

http://www.ntperformance.com.au/performanceproducts.htm (tulla)

and revzone in nunawadding...I have used Rezvone a lot...speak to craig he knows his stuff. As for NT Performance they have done a lot of performance work for skylines and really know their stuff also ... I spoke to them a bit before buying my R33.

I had my emange installed at Revzone...pretty stock R33...I have 175kwatw with a good tune on stock boost. They have also tuned my FTO up nice...

Ok. but it does do things for fuel economy hey. well he still did a good job. I didn't want this to be a who knows more than who thread, just thought I'd give credit where it was due. my bad.

Edited by jezzerrr

There's no way youre on that power unless you have some aftermarket comp you dont know about. The mesh being pulled out of the front is a bit silly. It's there to stop stray object going through AFM if they get through the filter or bits of the filter disintegrate.

Glad it worked out but sounds like he is a magician or something rather than a tuner hehehe

dunno mate, all I know is that he said the dyno was calibrated not more than a few weeks prior, and the dyno itself was only 6 months old. It doesn't seem unrealistic to me, considering Miller is getting the same with a fmic and less boost. and I would say 2 pounds of boost is worth more than a fmic at 10 psi, it's not like the inlet charge would be heated that much at 10. Note that my run was done in shootout, if that counts for anything (dyno reading higher than usual etc)

As for the mesh, I've never seen any debris on it, and I maintain my filter, so i'm not worried about anything coming through it, or it disintegrating. I'd say it's one of those things that are open for contention. dunno, makes sense to me that air could flow through an open hole more than it could through one with mesh in it. prolly makes dick all difference in this application, but yeah, not worried.

I'll get a power run done next time I'm near a another dyno.

Edited by jezzerrr

I have 250rwhp out an auto so 10hp more is belevable

i pushed 242rwhp in an auto with only a 3' turbo back exhaust pod and bleed at 10psi

it has been done on 2 different dynos and both times tuners have said the turbo must have been hiflowed but there are a few of us that have done it now

safc only gave me 8hp more but more drivable than before but blew up after a week so not ruuning any after market ecu

and fmic only made the power less jumpy and does not back off at high revs but gave no more power i thort

james

Edited by Miller the hoon

mine has the same thing with dying off at high rpm - looks like peak power is at about 5500 then peters off.

Looks like I have to back the boost off a bit now... it doesn't seem to like the fuel up here where I live - has a bit of a pop and splutter if the engine is fully up to temp and I give it WOT. Regardless i'll still be more than happy getting the extra fuel economy and better midrange. just have to leave the higher boost for brissie :(

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