Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

[Niall]

Well a long update (like most of mine really!)
Thursday was mapping and i must of been mad because the plan was to map the car then drive straight to Foobys house ready to sort of FCS on the friday.
Me and Grant arrived at Track and Road on Thursday for 9 and went to the worlds worst cafe, had a fry up then after lots and lots of swearing, whinging and bitching, Steve at T&R got the car on the rollers. They spent half hour or so working on the idle and low speed things and occasionally the car suffered what at the time i thought was a misfire which also happened a few times on the way there. Didn't think anything of it. Anyway, after a cup of tea and starting to work on the more mid range stuff, the car suddenly died from about 2.5k on the rollers to be told by Steve that my fuel pump had died. Its a brand new pump so my first suspicion was fuse seeing as the fuse that supplies the pump and engine fans is 0.2a over spec'd and that doesn't include any volt drop. Fuse fine, plug it back in and the fucker works! Carried on with the mapping, got to the first power run and....197hp

http://youtu.be/y6mvG6gZCOo
Two things. Firstly, why the fan on the exhaust? Well I'm sure Grant will upload the video for me but when my exhaust got hot, it melted my bumper to the point it was smoking so that was a last ditched attempt to keep it in tact lol. Secondly, why only 197hp? Well some dick who built this shit heap decided that Aralditing a plate onto the front of the throttle body to blank off the TB heater hole would be ok. Wrong. I can only assume that when it got hot, it re melted the Araldite and to our amazement, it was several feet across the work shop. The guys kindly modified the plate and bolted it on this time, sealed it up and away we go again. Few changes and another power run. 204hp. I was happy with anything over 200 but the two Steves weren't happy with that. Bit more fettling and 3rd power run. 211hp. Again, I'm happy but the Steves aren't. Repeat and....

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The Steves are adamant that they could squeeze more out but at the risk of compromising reliability. We all know Peugeots (especially this one!) aren't that reliable so i put a stop to it there and walked away with two graphs

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This one is a comparison of the first mapping session and this one

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And this one is my final dyno graph. Im over the moon with it. Although its not as powerful as other mods such as bodies or a lynx kit, its cheaper (if you don't f*ck things up like me anyway!), the power delivery is bloody fantastic and more to the point, i proved a point to my self and built the entire thing my self except for the mapping.
Big thanks to Grant for comforting me when i was getting very worried about it on the dyno lol.
Anyway, from there we drove straight to Chippingham to see Adam and it did the 140 miles journey on just over 1/4 of a tank and that included a few small blats including destroying a 330i who decided to act like a dick.

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Took it to FCS and got a fair bit of attention and a fair few questions which was nice. Drove home and...issues arise. Normally it wouldn't move from 87 degrees but i was seeing almost 100 at times. Had to drive home with the interior fan on full blast just to keep it cool and when i got home, found a pin in a plug not contacting properly so the fans weren't working

Now just needs a coolant change, bigger recirc valve and enjoy it!