Tuning Options for Wellington

[loner]

Chris Wall ex DTech and STM has come back to Wellington and started a new company. https://www.facebook.com/prestigetuningnz/

And of course there is macbilt where my car currently is... they haven't tuned it yet because it still has some significant problems, 

but I have high hopes for them fixing it and then doing a great tune. https://www.facebook.com/macbilt.

 

 

[chulozumo]

I thought that was you're car down there haha. 

 

Macbilt just tuned my old RA, has a g4 wire in now. Havnt seen dyno sheets but managed to pull 211kw and apparently it's very impressive. 

 

I forget who their tuner is (might still be Josh?) But can only do Link ecu last I checked, could be wrong

 

I want the tune checked on the ra-r so at some stage I'll go see Chris, possibly the only person for reflashing in Welly now 

[loner]

Silver R with a white bonnet?

 

All ECUs are pretty much the same to be honest... you have a fuel table, a timing table, boost table and then all the compensation tables and settings etc etc.

 

If my car was mechanically okay I would have just gone to Chris as well.

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, loner said:

All ECUs are pretty much the same to be honest... you have a fuel table, a timing table, boost table and then all the compensation tables and settings etc etc.

 

Reflashing doesnt happen in real time  tuning an ecu like link does thats the pretty big difference. Also most tuners dont have any idea on reflashing stock ecus.

[boon]

4 hours ago, loner said:

All ECUs are pretty much the same to be honest... you have a fuel table, a timing table, boost table and then all the compensation tables and settings etc etc.

 

If my car was mechanically okay I would have just gone to Chris as well.

 

I understand it's having the requisite software and interfacing components that is important, especially when it comes to Factory ECU reflashes.

 

Also I believe Chris' company is working alongside a new outfit called Llama Engineering (same building?) which may or may not be a former STM mechanic who is very, very good with Subarus. Might be a while to get in there though, when I made some enquiries they said they had a bit of a waiting list.

[GC8E2DD]

Is that the Shred folk?

[boon]

17 hours ago, GC8E2DD said:

Is that the Shred folk?

Again, only my understanding, but I believe that a bunch of old Shred staff are now working at STM, including Aaron Lawson doing their tunes. Read into that whatever you want.

 

Llama Engineering (former STM mechanic), and I think Prestige Tuning, are operating out of what was once Shred's building.

[KwS]

Havent heard a single good thing about STM in a long time, especially with its current range of staff.

[GC8E2DD]

44 minutes ago, boon said:

Llama Engineering (former STM mechanic), and I think Prestige Tuning, are operating out of what was once Shred's building.

 

Ok, just went and saw them. Talked to Rob about a tiny bit of fabrication I need and he was pretty helpful. They are currently booked solid for the next twelve weeks. They also have some pretty serious looking kit in there.

 

There might be someone who used to work at STM there in the workshop, but the two guys I met certainly didn't seem like they would have worked there.

[loner]

According to FB Chris is away for a couple or three weeks so the dyno should be available for others to use. At least I hope so.

[Munkvy]

Still having issues with that engine Loren?

[loner]

On 9/21/2016 at 0:46 PM, evowrx said:

 

Reflashing doesnt happen in real time  tuning an ecu like link does thats the pretty big difference. Also most tuners dont have any idea on reflashing stock ecus.

 

yes... apparently the cam timing has been off since I bought the car. macbilt are installing some adjustable cams gears now.

looks like maybe the timing being off was causing one side of the engine to run rich and the other lean... hence the symptoms of over fuelling without the

AFRs looking overly rich. might have det damage and glazed bores already. fingers crossed that everything will be okay once the timing is fixed.

[boon]

On ‎22‎/‎09‎/‎2016 at 10:18 AM, GC8E2DD said:

 

Ok, just went and saw them. Talked to Rob about a tiny bit of fabrication I need and he was pretty helpful. They are currently booked solid for the next twelve weeks. They also have some pretty serious looking kit in there.

 

There might be someone who used to work at STM there in the workshop, but the two guys I met certainly didn't seem like they would have worked there.

 

Interesting, wonder if it's something to do with how it's been machined? Aggressive decking/head skimming would result in the timing being wonky I believe.

 

As for the AFR, yup, downfall of running a single wideband a long way from the exhaust ports, you will see net AFR only so if you have 2 cylinders rich and 2 lean you might get a nice overall reading... only solution is to run a wideband or EGT sensor in each exhaust runner which is complicated and expensive.

[loner]

Al said a few years back there were some cheapish cams around that had the locator dowels in the wrong place and suspects these are some of them.

The cam wheel on the left exhaust had been modified to allow adjustment, but it wasn't clear if more or less timing should have been applied when

that cam wheel was fitted as the modification allowed for adjustment in both directions. I also don't know if it allowed for enough correction to be applied.

[Munkvy]

S*** you can't catch a break with this car! Maybe you should light it on fire and be done with it?

[boon]

Well, this is a new development:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/jobs/automotive/automotive-technician/listing-1168247928.htm

 

 

[loner]

15 minutes ago, boon said:

Well, this is a new development:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/jobs/automotive/automotive-technician/listing-1168247928.htm

 

 

 

Entirely predicable once the new owner realised that their current tuner has a terrible reputation.