meister@steeda.ca,Aug 11 2005, 04:31 AM Wrote:This car made 182/169 with the PW tune and was retuned by me. Also, this dyno run was stopped at 5900RPM because of a pegged MAF and the car was going lean.
When I am back in 2 weeks, the car will have proper MAF and should pickup some better numbers once we can spin it to 6500-7000.
My car's may make lower numbers than other people but they last long, drive perfect and are reliable....anyone can lean out a car and add timing to make power.
All I am worried about is it made way more power than it did with the PW tune on it....we will see what he gets with the new MAF and some more RPM.
They will be sending me a copy of the dyno sheet as well as some pics.
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i dunno what to say, i almost want to call BS on that because this car would be the ONLY car on the planet with a PW kit that did not make around the advertized 220fwhp and 180lb/ft right out of the box.
my car is doing it just fine on the PW tuning and is actually running fat, as is justins car on the stock PW tuning!
the FS car is also running the stock PW tuning, not a custom tune.
12psi is what the kit produces on a stock focus because of the bottleneck produced by the factory cat and collector. going with a race header, flex and exhaust will drop PSI because of increased eff.
my car only makes 10.5psi with the PW kit on a full 2.5" ehxuat with my big tube race header and race cat and i'm still pushing 218fwhp and 186lb/ft on that same 10.5psi on the stock tuning... after a retune we will probably be looking at 240+fwhp and 200+lb/ft and be running perfectly safe.
how are you tuning these cars to be "Safe"? :huh:
there is no real trick in setting the AFR and timing based of octane. making a roots-blown car drive perfect is probably easier than making a NA car drive perfect. roots blowers have a near perfectly linear powerband.... there is not much you can do with tuning under the curve.
as for pegging the MAF, again, how?
it's the factory MAF in a larger tube with propperly adjusted MAF tables. even at 247fwhp on justins car we are no where near pegging the MAF on his car, still have about 10% of play before we need to even think about upgrades.
i'm confused how this car is such a lemon.
making 182/169 on stock PW tuning and a pegging MAF...?
this math does not add up, there are serious holes to this story.
is he running his own intake tubing?
what were the AFRs before the retune?
what was the timing set at?
i've datalogged over 20 runs on these kits and am very familiar with how the tuning is from powerworks and your story is REALLY fishy.
please PM me the customers name, i have a list off all the kits currently in Canada and who they were sold to, i'd like to double check some things.