Ben J
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I'd had some issues with the VXR over the last few weeks. Firstly a hole appeared in the manifold which I managed to get sorted on warrenty at my local Vauxhal Dealers. They fitted a new manifold AND turbo because they both come combined! Then after that was sorted it still wasn't right and seemed to be blowing from somewhere so I took it to MPG in Middlewich for Ian to look at. They have done all the work on my car and I trust them completley unlike Vauxhall Dealerships! Anyway, he discovered that the spanner monkeys had managed to split the boost pipe whlst fitting the turbo!!
So......Ian sorted that for me , then it was dyno'd on MPG's new rolling road. It was at this point that it became clear that the Vauxhall Dealership had also managed to wipe my EDS Stage 2 map too!!! (The car still ran 260bhp with no map and just the JP exhaust).
So....my map was flashed back on and it was dyno'd again...... it produced 280.8bhp and 367.8lbft torque!! I was very pleased with that as you can imagine!
The car goes better than it ever did, which is probably due to the nice new turbo!
And ignore the NM on the scale for torque. It actually reads in lbft.
[Edited on 01-09-2009 by Ben J]
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Pete_vxl
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Very good. i want a vxr next, dont like having the old version of an old car!!
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Nic Barnes
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shed loads of torque that. if not slightly too much tbh.
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Ben J
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
shed loads of torque that. if not slightly too much tbh.
Its huge torque. I was really suprised. Torque peaks at 3500rpm. When you drive it, you know it does too!
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Graham88
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Torque figure is amazing  Nice results 
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mwg
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Could you not tell when driving it that the stock map was back on?
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by Ben J
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
shed loads of torque that. if not slightly too much tbh.
Its huge torque. I was really suprised. Torque peaks at 3500rpm. When you drive it, you know it does too!
the one i drove was std map then press sport and was on the eds map. the difference was incredible for just another 30 ish bhp.
good stuff though. must be happy its all sorted now?
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Jambo
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crikey thats alot of torque!
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Nic Barnes
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crikey thats alot of torque!
about 50lb/ft too much if you ask me. but shh.
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Jambo
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my Gsi had much more torque than bhp, was an odd driving experience, huge shove when throttle applied but then felt like it ran out of power at 6k
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Ben J
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Originally posted by mwg
Could you not tell when driving it that the stock map was back on?
Map is turned on/off with Sport button. As I had a new turbo in that needed running in and as it was still blowing from the split boost pipe I was taking it easy and not using map at all, so never turned it on to find out it had gone!
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richc
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Originally posted by Jambo
my Gsi had much more torque than bhp, was an odd driving experience, huge shove when throttle applied but then felt like it ran out of power at 6k
Was it running eds software?
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Ben J
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by Ben J
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
shed loads of torque that. if not slightly too much tbh.
Its huge torque. I was really suprised. Torque peaks at 3500rpm. When you drive it, you know it does too!
the one i drove was std map then press sport and was on the eds map. the difference was incredible for just another 30 ish bhp.
good stuff though. must be happy its all sorted now?
Really happy its sorted. I was getting pretty hacked off with it tbh. Which probably explains why I was taking the bait in Sportday a bit too much!!!!
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Ben J
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Originally posted by richc
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Originally posted by Jambo
my Gsi had much more torque than bhp, was an odd driving experience, huge shove when throttle applied but then felt like it ran out of power at 6k
Was it running eds software?
Yep. EDS Stage 2.
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Ben J
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The best thing is that the dealership allowed a new manifold & turbo on warrenty, even though I was running Stage 2 etc!!!
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big eck
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Christ the power readings are like a mapped turbo diesel. MASSIVE torque.
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AK
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torque figure cant be right
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AK
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its NM not lbft !!!!!!!
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by AK
its NM not lbft !!!!!!!
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AK
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280.8bhp and 265lbft torque
Thats better
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Brett
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AK
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if you do a quick calc on your peak torque (if it was what you thought is was) you should have had 240bhp at 3500rpm
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AK
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which actually works out
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Ben J
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Originally posted by AK
its NM not lbft !!!!!!!
Its not......the graphs are carrying the wrong measurement. Its lbft as it says on the top of the sheet. The rolling road was originally giving readings in NM torque figures but its not any more its lbft. There were loads of astra vxrs run on it a few weeks back when it was reading in NM and they were getting figures of over mid 400's. For instance a Stage 2 car like mine ran 465NM which is 342lbft. Not far off my figure. My car was running 280lbft with no map on, a reading taken on a completley different rolling road. So mapped its going to be considerably higher. I agree its a big figure though.
[Edited on 01-09-2009 by Ben J]
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by big eck
Christ the power readings are like a mapped turbo diesel. MASSIVE torque.
Thats what I as thinking, sure they've not stuck a tuned diesel lump in instead!!
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