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rich83 - Edition 30..... Breaking
pudding:
There's simply not enough substrate area, or heat under the car, for a 200 cell to be of any use. The materials used are woefully sub par as well. Not even close to OEM cat performance.
The only 2 options for an easy life are: sticking with the OEM DP, or fitting the biggest aftermarket cat possible in the space available.....but it's a catch 22 is a super big cat will need even more heat to work than the smaller one!
rich83:
--- Quote from: Pudding on January 28, 2019, 12:12:56 pm ---There's simply not enough substrate area, or heat under the car, for a 200 cell to be of any use. The materials used are woefully sub par as well. Not even close to OEM cat performance.
The only 2 options for an easy life are: sticking with the OEM DP, or fitting the biggest aftermarket cat possible in the space available.....but it's a catch 22 is a super big cat will need even more heat to work than the smaller one!
--- End quote ---
They do use biggish cats.... 5" if i remember. I dont really want to go back to OEM cat as that means loosing the stage 2 map and well.... wheres the fun in that :driver:
Shoduchi:
Mine has 3 years. Passed MOT tests this Monday. Oh well! It's the nature of this tuning game. Parts wear out... :/
rich83:
Took the car down to JKM rolling road a few days ago just to check the map and a general health check of the car. Its running fine, not making as much power as it could but its on the safe side as its done 130K now. It did make 316 last time, but I am pretty sure that was on higher settings.
I think it could make about another 10-15bhp by increasing the boost, it's only running a shade over 1.2bar, and it could be ~1.4bar on higher settings.
Diagnostic did bring up one issue. An intermittent fault on the Lambda probe which had not seen before. JKM cleared it and I thought it was fine until last night when I came up again throwing a EML, which needs sorting as MOT time soon.
A quick trip to ECP in Harrow and a cheeky deal resulted in getting an OEM Bosch sensor for £135 instead of £170. VW wanted £200
Old sensor
New sensor
I picked up on of those cheapo ELM wifi OBD2 dongles just for clearing codes and for 14 quid you cant go wrong. I did have a genuine VCDS cable but stupidly sold it a few years back.
Touch wood thats the last I am going to see of that error.
Stupid f*cking car!
:-)
rich83:
New flexi and cat....
Couple of pics of the fixed downpipe and flexi
MOT on wed..... fingers crossed.
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