Club Alfa RomeoNederland

October has passed, any progress?  ;)

Nearly There... As with everything there are always delays... Finally got the wiring loom last week..







Its all installed now as far as I can, engine is in the car and I have just fitted an elbow in place of the turbo so that we can get a decent N/A map first, without having to worry about the turbo control etc.



Today I will be checking out the sensors on the engine, then I am away for a week on a course, after that my tuner will be doing a final check & terminating the last of the sensors & we will be starting it up....

OK - Fired up the engine yesterday, all looking good.

http://vid1086.photobucket.com/albums/j446/turbonutter_neil/AEM%20INFINITY%20TUNING/first%20start.mp4

Tuning should be in a couple of weeks time :)

 :c029: looking good!

http://vid1086.photobucket.com/albums/j446/turbonutter_neil/AEM%20INFINITY%20TUNING/first%20start.mp4

I thought i posted this video - will try again...

Fantastic! Awesome

OK So finally got the Car on the Rolling road this week.. apart from the fuel pump fuse blowing when we first started the car, the session went pretty well...

Everything worked fine  and we ended up with 197 WHP , so probably 220BHP, which isnt too bad for an 8.3:1 CR engine with a far from ideal exhaust & one that is sucking through the intercooler.

Video Here http://vid1086.photobucket.com/albums/j446/turbonutter_neil/VIDEOS/GEDV0077.mp4

Wooooooow nice, flames vorming out of the exhaust that's cool

Citaat van: M.van.MaarenGTA op  7 januari 2015, 11:06:36
Wooooooow nice, flames vorming out of the exhaust that's cool

The Flames in that Video were wuite mild, compared to one of the runs made giving it everything up and down the gears :)

Unfortunately I am away at work again until April, but the turbo will be going back on then :)

Nice, hope to see them in real world than.

Ok so I was home in May & June, but for various reasons didnt manage to get the turbo on the car until the beginning of June & finally on the Rolling road on the 15th 2 days before  I was due on track.
The new ECU worked well, there was hardly any changes needed to teh fuel/ignition maps after adding the turbo, the ECU internal corrections for boost sorted it all out.
I had changed the Waste Gate spring to a 0.4 bar spring (it was 1bar before) so that I could get a bigger range of boost control. Th etarget for the session was a max of 1 bar & minimu 0.5 bar, but we struggled to get over 0.9 bar and also with consistency, So I need to look at a different boost control set up before the next session. Anyway on the rollers it  made 475BHP with 0.9bar, which was near enough & would have been fine for the track session I had planned.

So happy with the Tune, once back home, I took the car out on the road, It drove well & the first acceleration run it felt like the 500BHP I was used to :)

But after that it started cutting on boost, not every time, but there was the occasional cut :(

Anyway did a few runs out, collecting data, with various engine protection functions disabled to try & find the fault - the last run when I got home & tried to park the car in the Garage, there was no clutch.....!!!! and a track session in 2 days !!!
A quick check when things had cooled down the next morning & I found one of the clutch plates was no longer attached to the gearbox input shaft :(:(:( So that was the track session cancelled as there was no time to get a new clutch & pull th eengine to change it... So that is how the car was left when I came back to work.

bad news, hope you get the clutch installed soon.
Good to see the engine is running again. Keep the news coming, nice reading!

Found the problem with the Clutch - I had fitted the plate closest to the engine the wrong way round, which meant that the spline was only engaged on the tapered part at the end of the shaft & that couldnt take the forces....

Shitscheisse! That'll do it... Flywheel ok?