Recent content by Hatchback Michael

If the car feels better to drive, what does a few peak figures matter?

How do you know it lost power? Unless the car was RRed on the same day without the Hondata, you dont know. For all we know Michael's car may be producing a very healthy figure.

Time to get rid of the shopping trolley and get a proper car mate :lol: The mods you have are fine Mike. The problem is - the Hondata is not specifically tuned to your particular car :( But that wont matter soon :wink: *cough* 179 BHP at the wheels *cough* :wink:

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Still not right :shock: :lol: :wink:

Open air filters can make lots of power (but not always) on a RR because of many reasons: Bonnet is open, allowing lots of cold air to get to it (which wouldnt happen in normal driving). The run is only short and doesnt reflect a real world situation full of stop-starts, crawling through...

Better to be safe than sorry! Have you seen the times for the RR day?

Mark, When you go to the RR in March you will have another DC5 to compare to. The data recieved from this will be far more useful than grabbing 200/210/220 figures from the air by running on your own. Remember - peak figures arent the be all and end all. In fact, many of these sport/race ECUs...

As said before, let me know when you plan to sell the wheels and tyres.

DC5? I'll give you £20 for the alloys and tyres :lol: :wink:

THe main prob with induction kits: Even if you have a heatshield, cold air feed etc, once in slow moving traffic or stopped, the intake will draw in warm air and cause the ECU to retard which will lose power. Honda ECU is very sensitive to this.

You can actually create the same effect by cleaning and regreasing the battery terminals :lol: Might show a slight improvement on a 20 year old car...

Nope, waste of time I'm afraid.

Probably a cost/time/effort issue.

Which will uneccesarily put load on the gearbox, like I told you before :P :roll: :wink: