My FMIC + other small things

[pdtaylor18]

Furbs mate reckons he was running close to 350bhp on a stock ECU ?  been running that for a long time and never missed a beat yet, he drives hard too. Is there a limit on the stock ECU as long as you have the boost controller, FCD etc.  Be interesting to see some dyno results, they run very rich anyway.
I am going down the HKS route as a piggy back but with GCC.  I can also get a chip for this to allow for a T04 and bigger injectors. maybe a cheaper alternative but better than stock with fairly good mods.

[L18M]

fantastic read.
think i will finally listen to what ben has been saying since day one n get standalone ecu:Thumbs-up

now my contract has ended i can spend more time researching into the engine. finally got some block off plates from banzai racing in the us and the twin alt pulley should arrive some time nxt week.
the other bit i\'ll mod now is walbro fuel pump to allow for the fmic mod.
anyone got ideas for price of walbro pump?
i saw for 80ukp from drift works.fitting the blanking plates n removing the air valve thingie should keep me occupied for a while plus fitting the pulley.

not sure if i have mentioned b4 but plan for my fc is.. in some form of order-
remove crap from engine bay as above
walbro fuel pump
exedy clutch fitted
Low resistant HT leads
apexi pfc
get rid of the afm on the induction
bigger rad
bigger turbo (maybe twin setup like speedline imports ad)
larger injectors
mid / large street ported engine (tho will do this much later on unless someone out there wanna take me on as an apprentice foc n help me get this done )

think thats roughly it for now i can think of. would like about 400bhp +-30bhp:3gears-rh:3gears-rh:3gears-rh

[L18M]

You\'d probably get away with AFC / AVC-R, but it\'s less than ideal - be patient and get a PFC - or you might end up in my club :Nono!

when did u start ur club? i didnt realise u\'d blown ur engine.

[L18M]

finally.. it has arrived.. got the twin alt pulley from the webite mentioned earlier.. thin it was on this link. and also the blanking plates.
so gonna go try take out the air flow thingie.

tho realised that i still got a cat lol. but not for long i hope.

i read in some threads that you need an impact gun to take off the bolf ot the alt pulley.. is that true or can some monkey power undo it.?

gonna giv it a go now. gingers cross all goes well lol

[L18M]

i had a look at sadgoths enginebay n that was very simplistic.. nice.. all that space!!
the sotck rad n fan shroud takes up so much space!
nice to see other ppls fc to get inspiration from =)

You should have had a good hard look at Furbs engine bay at the RS5. His is about as simplicistic as you can really hope for.  I have taken some close up pics, when i can i\'ll send them to you. If you look at my project thread then that too has almost gone similar routes but i have kept the rats nest as a just in case.  However I may well change my mind and get rid of it completely. If you are running decat then get rid of the airpump and associated crap that goes with of it.  I think you need to be very careful with what you do, do the research and get to know the engine, what all the bits do and when and truely understand how they all relate to one another.  When you understand then you will know what you can do and what you cant do.  Its all been tried and tested so many time and the pitfulls are there in very big bold stories of rebuilds and blown engines etc.  Research and not wasting money is the whole key. You need to map out how far you want to go and how much your engine will reliably take, its not a fresh engine rebuild so you must factor this in at all times.