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by **GT4 20** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:09 pm

Just driving out of the garage on the way to work this morning when a courier van pulls up the driveway. Perfect timing! My Power FC had arrived from Japan

Dyno session has been booked for next Tuesday so I can get some mapping to match the new engine. Will be very interesting to see how much power the car will be making with this installed and the rev limit increased :twisted:

Gary

by **IH8TEC** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:14 pm

nice, is that a straight plug in is it? you run the car in much?

by **GT4 20** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:17 pm

Yep. Pull out OE ECU and plug this one in. So far, just on 2k on new engine. Want another 3k at least before I start cranking the boost up.
Gary

by **IH8TEC** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:19 pm

nice, be interesting to see the results, what dyno you going on?

by **GT4 20** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:20 pm

Torque Performance in Avondale.
Gary

by **Adydas** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:39 pm

dam dam dam dam dam it.. Why cant they make a flipping ecu for my car. Anyone know a suggestion for a easy to use ( plug and play

) ecu for the ST185..

im sure theres more st185s than 205s there for more market behind making a powerfc for them.. penioxuises

by **CozmoNz** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:14 pm

Hydra Nemesis?

no grip · by **Akane** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:03 am

I told you Adydas, I was gonna sell you the PowerFC, but you thought I was ripping you off.

by **Ako** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:06 am

Adydas wrote:dam dam dam dam dam it.. Why cant they make a flipping ecu for my car. Anyone know a suggestion for a easy to use ( plug and play ) ecu for the ST185..

im sure theres more st185s than 205s there for more market behind making a powerfc for them.. penioxuises

Cough*microtech*cough

No such thing as plug and play - even the power FC still HAS to be tuned professionally before you drive it, despite being a replacement for the factory ECU. Wiring in an ECU is a couple hours work at most - "green wire to pin 5... Red wire to pin 6... Repeat X heaps"

by **99gtt** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:52 pm

Can they modify the power fc to suit a caldina.

by **atmosports** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:53 pm

Ap enginering do a modified power FC to fit an ST185 they are like $1700 new if you can get hold of one as Apexi have stopped making a lot of the power-FC models as they are no longer in that much demand in japan & the cars are no longer current or semi-current model cars.

As for a Caldina, I haven't seen one listed the hassle being if you found one it's probably only work on a manual & not a tiptronic due to the gearbox being electronically controlled. best bet is probably just to piggyback in a Motec,Autronic etc to control the fuel/spark/boost & leave the factory ecu for everything else if you've got a tiptronic.

by **CozmoNz** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:22 pm

99gtt wrote:Can they modify the power fc to suit a caldina.

Motec.... and if you disagree, fivebob is going to whomp on this thread soon...

by **Ako** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:25 am

Remember that some people have "real life" budgets and can't just go for the top of the pile bud :wink:

by **vvega** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:24 am

Ako wrote:Remember that some people have "real life" budgets and can't just go for the top of the pile bud

IMO you look into the modiforcation path before you buy a car
if you have picked a triptronic gt-t then you have also picked a very expensive upgrade path indeed

so yes agreed people have budgets ,but that is why you look at a project this way
no point buying somethign if you cannt afford to modify it to what you
want

and IMO thats is what there is to much of on this forum

i have 50 bucks and i wanna get another 500 hp from my 3sgte/4age/anyother motor

just IMO

godd to see its comming togeathier for you gary

v

by **GT4 20** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:23 pm

vvega wrote:godd to see its comming togeathier for you gary

Thanks. Big day at the dyno tomorrow

Gary

Website · by Al » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:22 pm

Ako wrote:No such thing as plug and play - even the power FC still HAS to be tuned professionally before you drive it

Better tell KiwiMR2 and turbo tezza, they both ran their cars on base tune for a period of time.

The Hydra Nemesis is PNP for the turbo mr2, gives you a good enough base tune to get around on until you get the car tuned.

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:26 pm

Yeah, even a mate of mine ran his FD on the base maps of his Power FC for ages...they seem to be fairly conservative.

by **Ako** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:24 am

Hrmm, don't believe everything you hear then. I've seen an R33 go on the dyno on the base map and knock its head off till it got sorted properly, but if those cars survived then guess I'm wrong.

Didn't the turbo tezza die from detonation fairly soon after being boosted though?

by **~SlideWays~** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:42 am

vvega wrote:
i have 50 bucks and i wanna get another 500 hp from my 3sgte/4age/anyother motor

*bubble bursts* - can't I?!

haha classic!

GT4 20: btw ive got that t28, I bought from you ages ago, running on my wee 4ag now

by **RomanV** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:53 am

Ako wrote:Didn't the turbo tezza die from detonation fairly soon after being boosted though?

IIRC, yes.

Not really surprising, on 11.5:1 compression.

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