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Originally Posted by nismostu
Great write up - thanks for sharing. Very informative.
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Thanks for the compliment Stu. Anyone with questions please fire away as there a few of us now that have the intakes and will be getting the exhausts as well.
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Originally Posted by gromano
Nice write up Mr BMW... looks great, makes the engine bay look a lot meaner i reckon.
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Hi gromano, also thanks for the compliment mate. It definitely makes the engine bay look better that's for sure. One point the Mech's made is that hopefully a clueless Cop dosnt pull us over as they might think it's a Turbo kit as you cant see the filters. My first ever write up so trying my best.
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Originally Posted by gromano
I got my car dyno'd the other day with some friends (they all own hondas) lol and got 265.1bhp completely stock... different dyno's/different days i guess!!
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Nice number for a base run mate. As we all know Dynos vary so much from place to place and brand to brand. The main thing to keep in mind is that it is just a tuning tool and that you can hopefully go back to the same place to get it re-done once you get some mods. I'm more than happy with what I got as it was a pretty damn hot day for this time of year.
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Originally Posted by gromano
They also mentioned to me that it was running very 'rich'. What exactly does that mean?? How do the intakes help with this u say?
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Now the other more mechanically minded guys will hopefully correct me if I'm wrong here (
]Wiki AFR[/COLOR]) is that Rich means more Fuel is going in. I think for our cars anything under 12.5:1 is a rich mixture. Also generally the AFR gets richer higher in the RPM range to make sure there is no pinging. There could be a sticky on here about that but havnt looked.
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Originally Posted by gromano
Cant wait till you boys get the other stuff on too, wanna go cruising and see/hear it all in action 
Let me know when it happens and we can go for a drive!
hey ps. keep a note of how much everything costs you will ya  Coz im thinking of doing the same eventually... |
Definitely up for the cruise mate. Just cant wait to get the exhausts done and put the foot down to HEAR what it's like. I reckon we will see some nice gains again without the Stock Cats being in place. We are getting the Resonated Test pipes and from F.I. testing they gained about 4-6hp more than the other combos. Although they were only running the stock intakes, so hopefully we might gain a bit more.
As for costs I do have all that down. As long as the other guys are ok with it, I have no problems letting people know what I paid. That way people can get an idea of what to expect. Also comes down to what the exchange rate is at the time.