LG John

Doh, I keep forgetting that Incidently, why is this? Why is the 98 tekable?

Even when you're looking behind you to see where that M3/Porka/Ferrari/F1 car is?

matty01

Cheers mate.
I get the impression you run a business tuning scoobs. At the risk of bieng accused of advertising .....any details...

john banks

I remap MY99/00 ECUs with Ecutek software. I might go on to do the 01/02 WRX/STi also. See my profile. I do have products in the Scoobyshop, but I don't pay for a banner ad as I am such low volume it would push me into a loss in some months - I've not done any cars for several weeks now. Has been quite a welcome rest to be honest as it was getting a bit much being a GP as well and doing lots of cars.

The 98 is not flash reprogrammable in the same way as the 99 onwards. www.scoobyecu.co.uk have sorted the 92-96 very cheaply, and some of them are working on 97/98 models.

BTW I don't sell or wish to sell or fit ANY of the monitoring equipment I am pushing in this and other threads. So consider it genuinely unbiased advice.

And even though I sell 99/00 remaps, if someone doesn't want to spend that much, a properly set up and monitored Dawes setup is ideal and I would and do recommend it even though it doesn't make me a penny and probably loses me business.

[Edited by john banks - 12/29/2002 3:23:10 PM]

matty01

Thanks again mate cu's

beanchimp

I would prefer a remap from the good doctor, than rely on dawes, etc

if only money would allow, but New York comes first, at least till end of Feb

Steve

BOB.T

good lad Mikey

Leslie

Hi JB

I hope Mikey will have the bottle to tell us when his engine eventually gives up, as is certainly likely.

Wappy New Year everyone

Les

And my typing is rubbish!

[Edited by Leslie - 1/1/2003 11:06:15 AM]

Airwolf

I wish I was a guru too!

Happy New Year!

Gridlock Mikey

Still working

Happy new whatsits everyone and I certainly will let you know if it all goes pete tong

Is it fair to say that ALL engines give up the ghost eventually?

Also, pistons aside, how can a UK engine that has had it's boost raised to 14.5 - 15 PSI giving 237 bhp be under more strain (Highly strung i think was the term used) than a STI/WRX import engine giving 276 or 280 bhp?

Just wondered

Mikey

Katana

Bzzzt! Wrong.

Why do you think that supersonic airplanes requires further movement in the tail and rudder when you compare it to normal airplanes?

care3

"my DAWES has been on countless cars without boost gauges (Using fuel cut as the pointer)"

nuff said

john banks

Mikey, I thought you didn't know what boost you are running because you fitted boost control without using a gauge?

Turbo_Steve

Er....yeah: Surely fitting a dawes is not really a big deal as long as you don't mess with the fuel cut?

As I understood it, fitting a dawes and some breathing simply lets the car make maximum boost immediately, and then if it all gets to much the ecu cuts the fuel, and the driver meets the windscreen very quickly?

I thought the problem was only trying to defeat the fuel cut...

(Said steve, who meets the fuel cut on cold days and is now worried as hell about det )

john banks

You have more faith in the ECU's ability to hold it together than I do then.

Jeff Wiltshire

Katana

Airflow changes dramatically at supersonic speeds....that's why those aircraft need large movements in wing surfaces. Unless someone knows different, I don't know of a supersonic Scooby


Jeff

Turbo_Steve

Well....if the car would actually stay fully functional for more than a few hundred miles at a time, I would care. At the moment, I kind of half-hope the damn thing catches fire and explodes. At least I'd get a nice insurance pay out then.

ECU can't be doing a bad job: cuts fuel before 1.2Bar everytime, almost inevitably at 4500rpm. Have spent the past week messing with restrictors and have just managed to induce more and more fuel cut (BUNNYHOPS! HOORAY!).

I am going to get the ScoobyECU boys to remap it.

Bl00dy car.

Gez

Deepest condolances to the pistons, rods and crank [:-)]

Gez

Turbo_Steve

I hope they melt. Am in a car-hating mood ATM.

Floyd

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Mikey

I think you're lucky not to have had det, enough to melt a piston (it's probably lightly singed by now though)but I also think you're lucky to have not had a poor oil change up to now, which could cause bearing wipe and IMHO is the main cause for big end probs after high speed runs.

Just don't give up your day job and become a GP, OK?

F

Gridlock Mikey

Careful Floyd,

Seem's you are not allowed to have an opinion on scoobynet unless you cover yourself by putting IMHO or AFAIK all over the post

Just an update also, did 110 miles this morning Nottingham, Doncaster and back. Avoided M1 and went on A614 until East Retford, bunged a right and did b-roads until coming into Doncaster from the SE. I'd say a spirited run (See, I remember why I bought the bleedin' thing ) No high speed stuff (Over 80mph) but plenty of slow in fast out malarchy
Ran like a dream As far as how much "damage" I have caused to my engine is concerned.........who REALLY knows? Probably bugger all and I don't need electronic stuff to tell me. I don't need comforting or piece of mind, it's a car! Use it
Sure you can have a guess and also state the obvious, but really, Who knows. All I know is that none of my warning lights came on, the car did not overheat, when i pressed the accelerator the car got quicker (In the usual way) and when I had finished my journey, i let it cool (Doesn't cost anything ) switched it off and it was an absolute blast. Remember that thing that you had when you first got the scoob? Fun, Grin Factor, Laugh etc instead of "better ease up a bit, i might be breaking something"

I wasn't going to go all the way to Doncaster, I "might" have had an accident

Mikey

Turbo_Steve

Cool, Mikey. Just don't cry about the price if it DOES blow.

Katana

Mine of course. I overtook the thrust ss II ages ago..

GREEN SCOOBY

How do you tell if the engine is detting??

What sort of noise does it make??

My car is a standard 97 turbo with a p1 back box,forge re-circ dump valve,blitz boost guage(runs at 0.95-1.0 bar in 5th) and is always run on sul or optimax.I had a K&N 57i kit on aswell but it has been taking off due to all the big end failure with maf debate lately.

What does any one think? am I taking any sort of risk or is this ok?

John Banks are you there?

GREEN SCOOBY

bttt

STi wanna Subaru

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link to thread with recording of det

john banks

Sorry Green lost patience with this thread

You sound like you are running standard ECU boost control and plenty of octane without stupidly setup mods, so I can't see you having a high risk of issues.

P1 Enthusiast

Haha got to love those boundary layer comments!!

As a pilot they are pretty amusing, i am not even sure they can be correctly applied to cars due to the low speeds cars move at, but in general a boundary layer is the air stuck to the surface of a curve and becomes stickier the close to Vmax the vehicle gets.

However, i can say with impunity the faster you go the harder it is for your intercooler to pull the air into it due the high velocity and viscousity of the air on the bonnet, it wants to go round the intercooler and not into it at higher speeds

To be perfectly fair its all tosh in relation to cars, what do i know though? i just fly the bloody things :P

GREEN SCOOBY

Thanks for the reply John, Its hard not to lose your blob at times on this BBS but its a good job for the majority of us that there are people like you to listen to.

Cheers

Gridlock Mikey

...and a wind up for the minority of us to listen to!!!!

Mikey

john banks

Well Mikey, you are quite welcome to ignore my advice when it suits you , but when you go advising others to follow you doing something I consider unsafe I will continue to disagree with you. You will note that the vast majority of my posts are of a technical nature. If that bores you then fine. Meanwhile I will continue to improve my car in a calculated way learning from others and helping a few along the way. It is no wonder people retreat to 22b to get some good technical debate