HKS FTO
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:05 pm
This is where I'm going to keep the updates for HKS FTO now.
So we took it to Envy Dyno yesterday and got it up on the hoist to take a look underneath. First thing we noticed was that the piping at the front is pretty narrow and there is room to enlarge that. Plus the welding wasn't the best and there was at least 1 small leak in one of the joins. The rest of the exhaust is 2.5 inch so doesn't look like it'll need a whole new system so might just look into redoing the parts nearer the engine. (Ben, please feel free to jump in and get a bit more technical here
There was a shredded belt (see pics below) so we replaced that (thanks to Ben!) and also a small oil leak but we can't tell where from at the moment so Ben degreased that and we'll have another look again soon and see if we can tell where it's coming from.
It has 1 half sized inter cooler and 2 radiators. We're thinking for transmission and oil. See pics below.
Ben and Steve took it for a spin while we waited for Envy to open and both agreed that it handeled well. I'm not sure what suspension it has but here's a picture anyway.
It does have a strut bar on the front but not the back.
Next up was to put it on the dyno for a power run but as you may have read in the other section it was running super lean so thankfully Herman (dyno guy) didn't push it (like he did with Bens once upon a time) and blow anything up. He doesn't know how to tune the HKS computers scattered all over the cockpit so we elected not to try and touch them. Pictures of them to come soon. They are old stock now so the advice is to go with a new Haltec piece but we'll see what we can do with what it's got once the fuel filter is replaced on Tuesday or Wednesday.
One thing Herman asked me was "Have you red-lined it yet?" When I said that I had, a few times in fact he looked amazed and said that it must have strengthened internals because it should have blown up by now I am not taking it over 3k from now on until fuel filter change and a proper dyno tune has been done.
With the sale of the car I got all the HKS manuals so I'll hand them over to Envy when I take the car to them, hopefully on Thursday so it's ready for the weekend.
Here are the dyno clips anyway. Not very exciting and i didn't bother getting the graphs.
The set up...
The half power run...
So we took it to Envy Dyno yesterday and got it up on the hoist to take a look underneath. First thing we noticed was that the piping at the front is pretty narrow and there is room to enlarge that. Plus the welding wasn't the best and there was at least 1 small leak in one of the joins. The rest of the exhaust is 2.5 inch so doesn't look like it'll need a whole new system so might just look into redoing the parts nearer the engine. (Ben, please feel free to jump in and get a bit more technical here
There was a shredded belt (see pics below) so we replaced that (thanks to Ben!) and also a small oil leak but we can't tell where from at the moment so Ben degreased that and we'll have another look again soon and see if we can tell where it's coming from.
It has 1 half sized inter cooler and 2 radiators. We're thinking for transmission and oil. See pics below.
Ben and Steve took it for a spin while we waited for Envy to open and both agreed that it handeled well. I'm not sure what suspension it has but here's a picture anyway.
It does have a strut bar on the front but not the back.
Next up was to put it on the dyno for a power run but as you may have read in the other section it was running super lean so thankfully Herman (dyno guy) didn't push it (like he did with Bens once upon a time) and blow anything up. He doesn't know how to tune the HKS computers scattered all over the cockpit so we elected not to try and touch them. Pictures of them to come soon. They are old stock now so the advice is to go with a new Haltec piece but we'll see what we can do with what it's got once the fuel filter is replaced on Tuesday or Wednesday.
One thing Herman asked me was "Have you red-lined it yet?" When I said that I had, a few times in fact he looked amazed and said that it must have strengthened internals because it should have blown up by now I am not taking it over 3k from now on until fuel filter change and a proper dyno tune has been done.
With the sale of the car I got all the HKS manuals so I'll hand them over to Envy when I take the car to them, hopefully on Thursday so it's ready for the weekend.
Here are the dyno clips anyway. Not very exciting and i didn't bother getting the graphs.
The set up...
The half power run...