Some thank yous from me

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Some thank yous from me

Postby tbrm » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:04 pm

At the recent October event in Norfolk, Nick "Admin Bloke" Tomlinson and Mike Ward re-tuned my car's engine and ran a fuel pressure test respectively (and the former of these turned out to be really hard work because of some, ahem, "amendments" carried out by a PO). The improvements to the car are deeply impressive - it now accelerates more smoothly and swiftly, especially between 50 and 70mph and moreover it no longer smells like an oil refinery. The mpg is also vastly improved. On the way to Norfolk, with very little traffic and strict adherence to the speed limit it managed 22mpg but on the way home despite much heavier traffic and the very enthusiastic application of my right foot on the M25 it managed 28mpg.

Nick and Mike, I am deeply, deeply grateful to you for your help on Sunday and in the past. Without your kindness I would almost certainly have had to sell the car in frustration and despair by now and would have missed out on so much. I shall look forward to buying you many beers at the next event in March. :kiss: :kiss:

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Re: Some thank yous from me

Postby mec » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:44 pm

One of the many benifits :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :dmcdoors:
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Re: Some thank yous from me

Postby Admin-bloke » Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:45 pm

It's alright Richard, no problem.

Glad it was a fairly straightforward tune up in the end. Mike did the hard work :)
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Some thank yous from me

Postby A Van » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:02 pm

Great post Richard, the Eurotec tuning team is something we are all extremely lucky to benefit from.
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Re: Some thank yous from me

Postby mec » Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:07 pm

think you may have to cast your eye on my car next time ;-)
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Re: Some thank yous from me

Postby MikeWard » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:31 am

You're welcome Richard, it's no problem :thumbsup:

tbrm wrote:The improvements to the car are deeply impressive - it now accelerates more smoothly and swiftly, especially between 50 and 70mph and moreover it no longer smells like an oil refinery. The mpg is also vastly improved. On the way to Norfolk, with very little traffic and strict adherence to the speed limit it managed 22mpg but on the way home despite much heavier traffic and the very enthusiastic application of my right foot on the M25 it managed 28mpg.

Nick is the man, we are really lucky to have him in the club!

I pulled into the Ffolkes last October on the back of a low loader (fuel pump failure), with a new pump fitted the following morning Nick very kindly took a look at my fuelling, and quickly diagnosed a faulty control pressure regulator (CPR), as well as the primary pressure being out of spec (4.7 bar vs the book value of 5.2 to 5.3 bar). With my CPR fixed, the primary pressure shimmed up, and the fuel mixture adjusted it totally transformed my car.

Before the adjustments, on first start up my car used to send so much crap out of the exhausts for the first 5 minutes that it would literally burn the eyes, and when driving it, it used to hesitate/judder under acceleration. Worse, on a run it would only return a measly 23mpg.

After Nicks adjustments the car starts and idles fine, no longer stinks of fuel, acceleration is instant, and on a run she returns 34mpg, pretty impressive for a 'gas guzzling' V6.
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Re: Some thank yous from me

Postby Biff » Tue Oct 20, 2015 12:32 pm

Just like to third that.
Mike and Nick spent Saturday morning with me looking at my fuelling issues.
Although we didn't get it totally sorted. however Mike shimmed to get pressure correct and Nick diagnosed a faulty CPR.
Big thanks to both of you for your expertise. I have a much clearer idea of the dark art that is the Delorean fuelling system now.
Could you PM your address Nick, so I could get the CPR off and up to you?
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