Chargers on :-)

[tandino 1]

Got it all fitted up yesterday despite the pulley tensioner stud being too short due to my car having a/c - due to the larger A/C pulley this makes everything a tighter fit belt wise and therefore the tensioner stud which you use to tension the ribbed belt wasnt long enough to allow me to feed and seat the belt on all the pulley then tension the whole lot up.

I had to get the belt on all the pulley except the power steering one and then prise it over before trying to tension the whole affair up.

This itself proved problematical as the tensioner bolt being at the end of its thread/travel refused to co-operate a number of times due to the thread slipping....

Other pain in the arse is that my ecu has the soldered in eprom chip as opposed to the chip carrier - luckily ive found a local chap who will hopefully solder it in tonight 8)

Fingers crossed eh

Ill put some pics up tomorrow when the bleeding things out of my garage

Pete.

[Moon 0]

What kind of preasure do you run with chargers ?

And do you have to start using higher octane fuel or change to a lower compression ?

Its something I'm tempted with myself

[tandino 1]

The ZR2 that ive got (same as Minty's) runs around 6.5psi - this gives approx 260bhp and 230lb/ft torque,

As for fuel - you should use either Super or Optimax - anything other than 95 ron unleaded really 8) - not a problem for me as i always do anyhow.....

Compression ratio stays the same at this boost level so its a bolt on affair 8)

I paid £1100 for the charger (s/h), £100 for a chip, £25 for a 4 bar fuel pressure regulator and its going to cost me approx £30 to get the chip soldered - Total =£1250 :! - pretty good value when you look at the small gains you get with a Schrick dont you think

Pete.

[Moon 0]

mmm sounds good

I gues at that preasure charge temperatures stay quite low and thats a good increase in power I think .

Hows the transmision for that kind of power ?

[tandino 1]

Its torque that kills boxes not bhp so i dont think itll be a problem if you look after it 8)

Pete.

[mark@vagworx 0]

Nice one Pete........ Hopefully the chip will be ok and then welcome to the world of Forced Induction....again all whistles and whines

[ Edited Tue Nov 02 2004, 02:28PM ]

[Eat this 2]

id have soldered ur chip for a fiver m8

[tandino 1]

Im not too bad with a soldering iron myself except a: - it was a long time ago i did my Btec b: i havent got a fine point soldering iron and c: its surface mount technology which makes a shaky hand a bit of a problem :-)

[VR6Rich 3]

Told you so Pete. :-)

Nice one m8. Will have to take me for a spin but that could be dangerous as my credit card hasnt recovered yet! :-)

[tandino 1]

Hmmm - should have listened to you Rich (out of interest where did you read it??),

Chap who's got my ecu has managed to remove the old chip - unfortunately the new chip carrier is impossible to mount and solder to the board due to the close proximity of other components.

He's ordered a new chip carrier from RS so ill hopefully get it all up and running by the end of the week

Bloody cars

Pete.

[MarkGolf 6]

Wow!!

Bargin!!

I was buying a second hand ZR2 for £800, but it requires a full rebuild as its been round the world.. But I've pulled out of buying that and a mate bought it. Did you get yours from Vortex??

I'm desperate for a charger, gotta get the engine going first though! lol

Report back when its going!

[VR6Rich 3]

Cant remember where I read it m8, I think it was on a forum but which one I dont know.

[Nerih 0]

tandino, m8 u are 1 lucky mofo!