JLW's ( REV 3 GT spec Turbo, smg Tbar ) YVS Performance Built

[Odin_S]

Awesome results on map, the before and after map plot look crazy

[Madabout]

Nice work on the Honda and even better on the mapping session. Good work. Power can be an addictive mod.

[Red Devil]

But the best part of this story was discovering one of the best roads I've ever
driven ( B2089 ) and on the way back another ( B2067 ) if you live in the south
east I highly recommend, the "89" is like a race track for 10 miles and the
"67" is tight and technical. Looking forward to running them again soon.

Others are available: YHPM.

[JLW]

Small update over the weekend, Played around with some different tyre
pressures as Adrian at Fensport mentioned he felt the slow driving
dampening & rebound quite hard, but possibly linked to the AD08R's hard sidewalls.
Cant hurt to have a pal around, so tried 27psi front and 29psi rear.
At first I really liked it. It seemed to soak up undulations in the road really
well, but the more I drove I disliked the turn in. The tyres felt under inflated
even when up to temp. So I'm going to go up in PSI front and rear by 1psi
and see how that is. Also going to soften the front coil's and just fine tune the
handling, Its free and quite fun tweaking to my preferred spec.

Another small job was to clean the engine bay, after YVS's forged build
it had become a bit dusty in the bay and decided to give it a wash with
Autoglym engine and machine cleaner, then once agitated with my long reach
wheel brush, jet washed off and dried. Followed up by a engine silicone dresser
to smarten up and preserve the rubber hoses.




Finally a job that I wanted to do, but kept forgetting, its probably never been
cleaned in its life. Same process as the engine bay, bar the silicone.






Much better

[craig]

Nice work mate, looking good. It's the little things that make all the difference.

[JLW]

Nice work mate, looking good. It's the little things that make all the difference.

Thanks pal, got some nice plans for her this year.
Polybushing and ARB's are most probably next, that and some track time.
really want to start getting to really know the car like track can only provide !

[2barGee]

I run ad08r and you want them around 32 hot on track so on the road id run them at 32 as you'll never really give them much on the road compared to track.

Great tyres though i was very impressed with them so much so i run them on my mr2 and impreza

[JLW]

I run ad08r and you want them around 32 hot on track so on the road id run them at 32 as you'll never really give them much on the road compared to track.

Great tyres though i was very impressed with them so much so i run them on my mr2 and impreza

Hi Pal

Do you not run lower PSI on the fronts ?
I thought that was pretty much a MR2 standard,
I am going to slowly go up in PSI, and find a good balance
for road.

[Dale_V]

I do 32 rear, 30 front on my AD08R's

Bc coilovers with about 16 clicks hard on the rear and I think its the same on the front. Seems to work well

[2barGee]

I run ad08r and you want them around 32 hot on track so on the road id run them at 32 as you'll never really give them much on the road compared to track.

Great tyres though i was very impressed with them so much so i run them on my mr2 and impreza

Hi Pal

Do you not run lower PSI on the fronts ?
I thought that was pretty much a MR2 standard,
I am going to slowly go up in PSI, and find a good balance
for road.

I just play around with the pressures to be honest, as like you said if you go to low at the font it feels sluggish on turn in. After a lap or so i find that the ado8 really come alive once they are warmed up

[SonicSW20]

There's a relationship between tyre pressure, tyre load rating, and the cars weight distribution, generally on an MR2 you want a bit more pressure rear because of the rear weight bias.

As said above best thing to do is adjust til it feels about right. Another thing you can do is measure tyre temperatures. Higher temperature towards the middle suggests over inflation, higher temperature on the sides suggests under inflation.

[pistol pete]

on 16s on my sprint car.. i ran 24 back and 26 on fronts... although they were a soft tyre compound,.,.

[JLW]

Tonight I'm going to inflate fronts to 28PSI and rears to 30PSI,
take it for a spin on some of the good local roads and see,
probably will end up with 29PSI front and 31PSI rear tbh,
Im also running 16 clicks rear and 20 clicks front ( from valve fully open )
So I think my hard front end has more to do with that,
Am going to try the tyre pressures first then go 18 clicks on the front.
Its all enjoyable anyway, finding out what you like best

Oh yeah, and the MOT is later !!

[Madabout]

Good work on the detailing done on the engine bay (I cannot help on the tyre pressures I am afraid). I need to clean the engine bay on mine a little as got dusty when the car was re-sprayed.

[JLW]

MOT passed without a single advisory
well except the rear tyres getting a little low , that cant be
helped though.



Decided to jump straight to 30PSI front and 32PSI rear from cold,
amazing. much better. TBH its what I run before, but its nice to get an idea
of different pressures. Going to try 18 clicks on the front also, see how that
affects the front end.

Was out for a bit of a Hoon yesterday, 2 hours worth of chasing bikers
Great weather for it, cant help but notice a little body roll in the corners
though, next mod is definitely aftermarket ARB's and Fully polybushing.

[craig]

MOT passed without a single advisory
well except the rear tyres getting a little low , that cant be
helped though.

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Decided to jump straight to 30PSI front and 32PSI rear from cold,
amazing. much better. TBH its what I run before, but its nice to get an idea
of different pressures. Going to try 18 clicks on the front also, see how that
affects the front end.

Was out for a bit of a Hoon yesterday, 2 hours worth of chasing bikers
Great weather for it, cant help but notice a little body roll in the corners
though, next mod is definitely aftermarket ARB's and Fully polybushing.

Snap mate, mine just passed MOT, no advisories! My rear tyres are a little low too. Sitting at 3mm at the mo.

Great pic

[JLW]

Been a bit slack on posting lately but have a few updates, not ideal updates
but hey issues occur right ?!

So of late I have been just having fun blasting around roof off, feeling like
I'm getting faster and more and more learning the chassis with every drive even after 2 years.
But since the Fensport map I have been experiencing what I believed to be boost cut issues.
On hard 1st gear launches or pulls, as you change into 2nd it would sometimes not boost properly
or even completely and violently cut, and be fine after. The final straw was when I had a 4th gear
roll on from out of boost into boost and up to about 5.2k up a hill and boom ( not literally lol )
the entire engine cut out ! had nothing on the gas pedal but brakes and steering unaffected,
coasted to a stop and into a drive. Turned the engine off, back on again and no issues !
Drove home cautiously but as I was close to the house I did another hard pull in 2nd. No problem !

Called Fensport and managed to get it booked in with them to check the map,
Drove the 2 and a 1/2 hours up to Chatteris and they plugged the mapping
gear onto the car. Nearly immediately Tom Hudson spotted what they believe
to be the culprit, Alternator ... the laptop was showing that the car on idle is
running 16v and should be sat somewhere around 10,11,12 at most.
Tom mentioned that the LINK G4 Storm has a 18v map cut and this would
explain the sudden cut outs, So I need to take the Alternator off, get it
reconditioned and then go back up for an hours re-map session to bring it
down to safe voltage.



Not ideal, but these things happen, although surely when they mapped the car
at 16v did they not think "This is high, could this be a problem" ?
At least there isnt any serious issues, However you wouldn't expect there to be
considering its a two month old forged build and fresh map. The drive train
is practically all new !

[SonicSW20]

Could be a recent fault with the alternator, I'd be surprised if they didn't notice voltage issues when mapping.

Could also go for a refurb / exchange alternator.

[androo007]

I got a brand new alternator from Mr2 ben for £155 delivered... i'd just do that

[JLW]

Could be a recent fault with the alternator, I'd be surprised if they didn't notice voltage issues when mapping.

Could also go for a refurb / exchange alternator.

I asked Adrian and he said it needs to come back for mapping as we mapped
it at 16v , so Tom and Him knew it was running high ?
Curd Bros is a local electrical specialist that will be able to re-condition
from between £50-100. Ill just have to whip it off and refit.