The vr4 has hit 500 bhp

[kevin ap motors]

Had a e-mail from thor-racing today.
The car has been maped up to 1.2bar of boost and is making 500 bhp at the flywheel and 423 at the wheels.
That is reaaly good power at 1.2 bar of boost.
But as always there is bad news
The link g2 ecu has a fault and keeps shuting down and when it does you loose powersterring and servo not good if you are giving it some.
Know the ecu needs to be sent of to link which are in new zeland.

Will know more when i speak to thor tomorrow.
A new year and still full of bad luck f##king car.

Still planing to run down the strip in april .

kevin

[Nutter_John]

Thats looking nice 500@1.2 is a good . Well done for keeping going with it thru all your minor set backs .

Good luck and let us know when your going to the strip i'd love to see you run up and take the UK crown from Enigma/SGHOM (no offence guys but it's been static for a while )

[Wodjno]

Great news about the Power run Kev

Sorry to about issues with ECU

Hope you get it sorted soon

And a run down the Pod in April sounds good, as you don't need Power steering on there anyway

[BraindG]

Nice power at the wheels there Kevin nice one

Hopefully the other issues get sorted soon.. but seems like you are getting there!

Keep strong

[Nick VR4]

Well done Kev hope you get it sorted out ASAP

[Nick Mann]

Sounds fekkin good to me! And at least the issue is known, even if it will take a few weeks to sot it out. I am looking forward to seeing the car run!

[Paul Beazer]

Ooooh hubba hubba!
Glad to hear you're making some forward progress, shame about the ECU. Nearly there tho!
Its good to hear some good things about the car, i know you've been down about it because of all the problems. Hopefully you're spirits feel a bit lifted after the dyno run?
Good luck and keep at it Kev!

[Kieran]

Five Hundred Brake Horse Power.....



Bugger about the ECU, but at least the fault is known!

So... where's the limit then? Is 1.2 bar the top, or are you going to push it with all those components and stuff? What boost/bhp target do you have?

[Spirit]

Great news about the figures Kev, but what a bugger about the ECU !

Can't Link send a new one and you send back this one ? Can't it be sorted in the UK ?

Last I knew Kieran, they were talking about up to 2 bar

[Axeboy]

2 bar...


Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Kieran]

2 bar......

[bradc]

cool now hurry up and get it on the strip

[richy rich]

500 good news kev

[White Lightning]

Excellent news there Kev. 500bhp is a superb achievement. As has been said, shame about the ECU but at least you know what the problem is and hopefully you can get it sorted without too much trouble. Can't wait to see it used in anger on the strip ... that VR-4 was actually the first one I ever drove

[zentac]

Great news about the figures Kev, but what a bugger about the ECU !

Can't Link send a new one and you send back this one ? Can't it be sorted in the UK ?

Last I knew Kieran, they were talking about up to 2 bar

500bhp - nice... at the moment I can only dream of that.

Im a little sceptical about 2 bar though, isnt he running GTO turbo's the standard td-04-9b will only run about 17psi (1.2 bar) the uprated td-04-13t's run about 21psi which is (1.4 bar) so which turbo's is he running to be aiming for 2 bar.

[valmes]

Great numbers!
What's installed on the car at the moment?

[bradc]

Richard, I am a bit surprised too, if they can reach 500hp at 1.2bar then 2.0 bar would be something in the 650hp range correct? And there is no way that any small TD04 (whether from a Lancer GSR, GTO, or WRX) can flow much above 250hp per turbo.

[Axeboy]

I dont think it matters anyways.

2 bar may have been an old target, as it says, its mapped for 1.2 bar.

[valmes]

Richard, I am a bit surprised too, if they can reach 500hp at 1.2bar then 2.0 bar would be something in the 650hp range correct? And there is no way that any small TD04 (whether from a Lancer GSR, GTO, or WRX) can flow much above 250hp per turbo.

I would have to disagree with you on that one... Are we talking BHP or WHP?

550.94awhp @ 26psi w/544 Max Torque

That would be around 630-650bhp - 315-330bhp per turbo for 2xTD04HL-19T
13Ts were proved to be capable of 475awhp that would translate to at least 550bhp. (was done at 20 psi on 3L engine with an aborted pull at 5500 rpm...) - 275bhp per turbo for 2xTD04L13T

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/arch.../t-278517.html even going by this its 390cfm*2/1.45=538bhp for stock WRX(13T) turbo setup = or almost 270 bhp per turbo... that sounds just about right.

PS: Want to get into turbos... http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199534

[The Vee]

Missed this latest bit somehow. 500, most impressive. Had the pleasure of seeing this beast a few weeks ago - looks awesome, just want to see it go up the strip now