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PRICE DROPPED - £36.5k **Having assessed what would be needed to make the car mint i'm prepared to accept £36.5k for the car. At that price there is zero room for haggling, everything has been priced in, but i'll buy lunch for the buyer** After 3 incredibly fun years it's time to let my GR...

Yeah absolutely. The only pattern seems to be cylinder 1 is the one that seems to let go first and I’m only speculating why

The Rode car was a marketing gimmick for them. Seemingly unlimited funds and an opportunity to blow up an engine and go viral. They posted about being open and transparent about their findings, when I asked for context about their claim about the limits of the stock internals Ryan called me an...

I think it’s important to isolate LSPI as a specific issue. Of course knock has been known about for decades and higher ethanol content, retarding timing etc all helps to mitigate it LSPI seems to have come from OEMs making small capacity high boost pressure econobox engines and finding the...

G30?

Yeah, a hive mind of logs and feedback is good assuming the data is being stored centrally and not just at Lichfield but even if kept locally it’ll help develop their own maps. Would imagine it’s being fed back to Ecutek too though. Ongoing development is the big one for me. Litchfield are...

Which is why it was baffling that so many Toyota dealers were servicing using the wrong oil back in the day. Under part throttle casual driving it’ll be fine but under load it’s a recipe for disaster. Same with people running 95RON and saying “it drives just the same”.. it doesn’t at all. As...

Sorry I’ve completely missed what even the target of the map was. I’m just accustomed to the term “race” map being up at 1.8-1.9bar

I have a custom carbon intake I made that’s basically just a 6” opening with a massive filter that tapers down to 3” behind the engine. Looks cool but even with massive bonnet vents it sucks up lots of lovely warm air When you’re doing logs the WOT pulls are fine as you’ll have someone...

Yes. On dyno sheets at car shows 😂

281kpa is 2.8bar and as the value is absolute, an ambient value of 0.9-1.1bar would give about 1.8-1.9bar boost. Which seems about right. When I say a 2bar MAP I mean relative, so inc ambient pressure that’s a max of 3bar. 1.5bar is low for their “race” map, I’d expect that above 6krpm but for...

It’s not even as extreme as endurance racing, even 20 minutes on a track will heatsoak and then issues will appear if there are any. I’m yet to see anyone running one of these big power claimed tunes actually pushing their cars. I could say my car is 500hp, it might only make it once 😂 I...

Agreed on all the above. However. It begs the question of “what’s the point?” What good is a 380hp car if you detune it whenever you want to drive the car hard? At that point it becomes a marketing tool to say yes the engine CAN do it, we just never drive it like that. Take it to a track, get...

I don’t do anything for Litchfield, I don’t think they like me for asking questions 😂

That is good. They’re probably swamped with enquiries too as it seems a lot of people have been waiting for this

You could set up an external gauge pretty easily, just drill and tap the downpipe and install a probe. Obviously a few degrees cooler than in the manifold but at least gives you an idea what’s going on

It still revs to the same rev limit from what I can see but yeah the cams will improve the efficiency of the top end, the 267-A cams are worth a good 20-30hp. The cat is still a massive restriction though. Personally I’d be watching EGT’s like a hawk because the standard car doesn’t have a...

The OEM MAP sensor is only 2bar so in theory no more than 2bar. With the cams it’ll flow way better at the top end and being on a dyno means they can time the shit out of it too. I wouldn’t expect remote tuning to go as far as that though as they can’t afford to time to the absolute limits with...

So that's interesting, the new graph has lower drivetrain losses than the stage 1 graph. Just goes to show you can't just scale up losses when you add power as - as a % - the new car has lower losses despite more engine power. See a lot of places just add a blanket 20% but that clearly can't be...

Their figures seem optimistic, 250whp as mentioned on the previous page for their stage 1 means this would be about 290-300whp with similar drivetrain losses. Annoys me a bit when companies crop the whp figures out. The tunes themselves are probably great to drive with but i'm not sure about...