Till now most of the small issues have been sorted out and the car was running good. The car was still running on its base map. The Polo was running well, but I just expected more of the setup. It didn’t feel as aggressive as I thought it would be. The Polo has also not […]
The car starts and runs really smooth. The more the car is driven the better it runs. It learns while you drive building up a lambda compensation map from the lambda readings. The bypass valve is standing open so there is no boost generated. After a few days of driving, I plugged in the laptop […]
The engine was now in the engine bay and all the boost pipes were done. There was one thing that I forgot about. It may be that it was lucky that I forgot about it as with the engine in the car and the drive shafts fitted if I could see what to do. The […]
The engine was almost at the point where it could be fitted into the car. With the build at this stage did not mean anything if I didn’t have a proper ECU for this engine. My old engine was still a distributor engine with plug leads. The new engine had individual coils, one per cylinder. […]
I was very excited about getting the supercharger system to work properly. The next step was to get the engine management sorted out. I have set up the car to run off the map sensor. As I was running the 272 deg cam with the throttle bodies the map signal was a bit unstable. It […]
Now that all the hardware was done in the car I had to work out a strategy. How am I going to control the clutch of the supercharger and also the electronic bypass valve? I have seen other setups with this charger that the guys just fit a switch on the dash. They can switch […]
One day I was on a dyno day at one of the performance shops not far from where I stay. I saw a BMW E36 M3 going onto the dyno. When they opened the bonnet that was the first time I saw individual throttle bodies in a car. Till now everything was Weber side drafts. […]