Friday, August 24, 2007

Rolling Road

Spent the last month getting my car ready for the 10 CR, one of the main jobs has been to switch from my existing ECU to an Emerald K3. After making a new harness, trigger sensor bracket etc etc, finally got it up and running two weeks ago.

Spent the last couple of weeks mapping but couldn't get rid of an issue around 6000 Rpm, decided to get it booked in for a rolling road session. It was always the plan to optimise it on a rolling road, my only concern being that if the engine let go, I would be out of the 10 CR.

I'm glad to say all went well, the guys at Thor Racing managed to squeeze a bit more power and torque out of it. As with all figures these will vary from day to day, rolling road to rolling road however they do give an indication.


107 lb/ft @ 5580 Rpm

123 Bhp @ 6194 Rpm

Didn't manage to fix the 6000 Rpm issue but did a bit of investigation, basically its looking like a distributor cap issue, off to buy a new one in the morning.

A bit unfortunate as it was looking like there was a bit more power to come, I'm planning on setting the limiter at 7200 Rpm.

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