Honda conversion.

[captain]

I know but it's 360 miles each way for 2 hours of mapping.

My weekends are pretty full for the next couple of months and two days off work on top of the £1000-odd for ECU and mapping gets expensive (not as expensive as it used to be mind you - with the state of the oil industry and the rate cuts we've seen )

[ironside]

I don't really want to take time off work for a trip down to TDI North for mapping if I can avoid it - I'm a scumbag contractor so days off to do simple jobs get expensive taking into account lost earnings.

See if they do weekend days.

In the meantime, fit a 2bular and you'll have exactly the same spec as my engine iirc. You can just use my map.

[DDtB]

TDI don't normally work weekends mainly due to racing commitments.

Next date they have for mapping is already into August so don't hang around if you do want to use them!

[tut]

Hamish bought Craig's S1 S/C Honda many years ago, it then had an accident and has never been on the road since. It has a K-Pro in it, I have borrowed parts over the years, so that could be worth looking at. You could get it mapped locally on a RR with Honda experience, then that map could be transferred later to your own K-Pro if you go that way, or sent away to one of the companies that can put it on to your standard ECU and convert it into a Hondata.

That way you avoid the travelling and time away from work, and Hamish would get his K-Pro back when he had a need for it.

tut

[captain]

I don't really want to take time off work for a trip down to TDI North for mapping if I can avoid it - I'm a scumbag contractor so days off to do simple jobs get expensive taking into account lost earnings.

See if they do weekend days.

In the meantime, fit a 2bular and you'll have exactly the same spec as my engine iirc. You can just use my map.

Now there's a kind offer and a good plan!

Happily get a 2bular but I might need to put a cat on too - would need it for MOT time anyway I guess...

Cheers!

[ironside]

Oh yes, cat too to match mine.

[foz01]

Sounds like the iacv, directly under the throttle body, why is the history of the engine, they often fill up with crap and make the idle when cold all over the place.

[captain]

Unless I could absolutely prove the history of the engine I wouldn't buy used, too many "65k" milers with full history that when opened up have been to the moon and back, on the same oil based on what I have seen & bitter experience....

When was the last time anyone saw a CTR being driven sensibly, they all seem to be bouncing off the limiter by absolute neds

3.5k for an as new rebuild, no brainer IMO.

An as-new rebuild is quite possibly more than £3500.

For anyone considering it I'd definitely recommend oil pump, timing chain, guides & tensioner as well as all the usual oils, filters, seals etc.

Very hard to find good 2nd hand engines - it's a bit of a lottery as to how well anything at this age has been maintained. I would imagine that most cars that are broken for spares (and there are lots of them now) are done so because they're not economical to MOT or have been written off after an accident - again as uneconomic to repair.

[graeme]

With all the EP3 engines around 100k now, is it time for somebody to do a kit for a FN2 donor? What are the differences?

[captain]

FBW throttle I think?

[captain]

http://www.k20a.org/forum/showthread.php?t=81303

[captain]

I'm going down to PerformanceTek in Glasgow next week for mapping, they're the only Hondata dealer in Scotland, he's apparently done quite a few k20 Elise's and certainly seems to know what he's talking about.

[Sanjøy]

Good luck. Ddtb has set the benchmark.

[captain]

Ddtb?

To be honest, I'm not really chasing power, I just want to be sure the AFR's are good and maybe drop the vtec engagement point.

[tut]

Dodgy Dave The barsteward.

tut