Ooooooooh!! S**t!!

Ricco_04 · November 12, 2006, 11:08:52 PM

He was totally fine with it - he didn\'t really say anything. Having said that, someone did make a good point of saying see if you can do a deal with your tuners - buy the PFC from them and ask if they can take that into account when they map your car!

Have been very pleased with the man\'s work!

R1Dude · November 12, 2006, 11:11:40 PM

Quote from: RobbieRX-7Sounds like porting time then R1dude. Hey Ric, you bought a pfc didn\'t you? How did pip react when you asked him to map it? Did he have any issues being as he didn\'t supply it or was he cool about it?

Ive already got a street port, in a way I can`t wait till its stripped so I know how much work was done to it.

D1 WTF · November 13, 2006, 12:47:57 AM

i would vouch for pips work any day, i have just spent a silly amount of money on my engine with him. over the past 3 months, and i have traveled for it(220miles), i picked WGT over all the other more local specialists. they might be more expensive than some of the others but i will stay with them thats for sure, and put it this way if you ever visit them and see the rows of rex\'s they have outside the workshop (which they incidently have to push out every morning from inside and then back in every evening) then i think other people are happy to wait for pips time aswell.

if he builds your engine he maps it in the price (so free) (well saying that, that is what he did for me, and i supplied the pfc. so i would assume that is the norm) where as i know other engine builders etc then charge for the mapping session on top of the Â£4500 you have just spent, once the car is run in.

TwistedHumour · November 13, 2006, 09:44:38 AM

Oooh... I\'ll have to check that with Pip :O

Thought I was going to have to wait til after x-mas to get it done! Will certainly phone him later

probedb · November 13, 2006, 01:12:55 PM

Oooh sorry to hear that, but it\'s an excuse for spending more money

Sorry to butt in as well but what\'s the best time to call Pip...says on the website after 4 but never sure about actually asking for Pip? Need to ask a few questions about rebuilds

D1 WTF · November 13, 2006, 01:21:14 PM

pip is generally there until about 6.30pm which is when he call people etc so the later the better normally or leave a message with the secutary and get pip to call you back when a time is convinent for him

probedb · November 13, 2006, 03:17:25 PM

Quote from: D1 WTFpip is generally there until about 6.30pm which is when he call people etc so the later the better normally or leave a message with the secutary and get pip to call you back when a time is convinent for him

Ta very much :Thumbs-up

TwistedHumour · November 13, 2006, 04:06:29 PM

Just had my call returned - remap wasnt included in the cost of the rebuild. Â£300+VAT if its straight forward.

Chris

JP825 · November 13, 2006, 07:34:28 PM

Quote from: R1DudeThe good news is though my Bro`s car is running superbly (he did do a couple of things wrong when installing his boost controller and needed some plugs but Pip sorted all that out) hes running 315bhp at the fly, 293hp at the wheels, anyway just wanted to say I`m so happy his car is running sweet although mine isn`t!! .........Honest!.......:evillaugh

293 bhp at the wheels is much more than 315bhp at the fly, probably looking at 350 more like:Thumbs-up

R1Dude · November 13, 2006, 10:05:40 PM

Quote from: JP825293 bhp at the wheels is much more than 315bhp at the fly, probably looking at 350 more like:Thumbs-up

Hmmm really! Ile ave to ave another look at his printout, probably me looking at the wrong figures!! if u r right I`m not telling him! he won`t stop smiling for a week:)

D1 WTF · November 14, 2006, 12:22:36 AM

i believe this is what you are after, originally posted by rotaryimports.com

"Formula for calculating Flywheel Horsepower:

Drivetrain loss on an FD RX-7 is about 18%. Therefore take 18 from 100, and you get 82. Then take the rear wheel horsepower figure and divide it by 0.82.

e.g. 217rwhp / 0.82 = 265fwhp"

so 293rwhp / 0.82 = 357fwhp

gsb876 · November 14, 2006, 12:24:00 AM

If my calculations are correct 293 wheels is 342.8 @ 17% loss.

So you can quote your car as 343bhp matey :Thumbs-up

D1 WTF · November 14, 2006, 12:27:30 AM

Quote from: D1 WTFi believe this is what you are after, originally posted by rotaryimports.com

"Formula for calculating Flywheel Horsepower:

Drivetrain loss on an FD RX-7 is about 18%. Therefore take 18 from 100, and you get 82. Then take the rear wheel horsepower figure and divide it by 0.82.

e.g. 217rwhp / 0.82 = 265fwhp"

so 293rwhp / 0.82 = 357fwhp

saying this, it doesnt seem right though. i think this is incorrect

gsb876 · November 14, 2006, 12:56:35 AM

Quote from: D1 WTFsaying this, it doesnt seem right though. i think this is incorrect

My figure of 342.8 @ flywheel comes from info gathered from Thor Racing, had a good chat with the chap in charge and we worked out for a rotary we make it about 17%.

So if you do 293 x 1.17 = 342.8hp @ fly.

Hope thats clearer ? :Thumbs-up

D1 WTF · November 14, 2006, 01:04:37 AM

i copied that out of the dyno results thread, but in looking at it i dont under stand where and why you take the 18%/17% from 100 giving you the 0.82 figure

293/0.82=357
this just dont seem correct in anway, below would be the true figure surely (all be it with 17%)
293/100=2.93 2.93x18=52.7 293+52.7=345.7

Ooooooooh!! S**t!!

probedb

probedb

JP825