I've started a turbo build and I'm nearly done collecting parts. With all the parts, fitting and tuning it's costing me £2850 - £3100.
I asked Lou @ TDI what he thought of the race tech kit and he said they wouldn't touch it with a very long barge pole.
Just want to point out that you showed me pics of ebay parts, not a Race-Tech kit
i spoke to a chap at tdi north at a rolling road day couple of weeks ago a young ish lad bout the race tech kit and he said they are alright a few years ago when ricky started couple of mani's cracked but he sorted it now also he said they are a good weld so think they cant be that bad they probs said it so you would take your bisness their
That's more in line with what I always tell people, and for the record up until this past week, we have never offered any turbo conversion work to owners of pre - 2000 Honda owners, we recieve countless enquiries with regards to turbo work on B and D series cars, even the EP2's and they have pretty much all been directed towards Race-Tech.
With regards to TDI-North tuning, January 2010 saw the company change hands and along with that came a new tuner - Paul West.
Since Paul has been running the Dyno, we have secured tuning work for both
Honda UK and Mugen Europe, Time Attack champ Sean O'Niel, the Buddyclub DC5, the UK's fastest FWD Adam Buckley (on par with CPl @ 9.7 secs), Europes fastest and quickest Supercharged Honda - Dougie Gemmel plus a fair handfull of the UK FWD Outlaw race competetors, B, D and K series cars.
Paul also takes care of the FN2 Turbo and supercharger development programmes, along with Rotrex Ariel atoms, K20 converted Lotus exige/elises, variuos K20 powered race cars for Rally, Britcar, grass track etc and I would have to estimate around 200+ other Honda's per year both for everyday and race use all across the UK, Scotland, Ireland, Cypress, Netherlands and also a couple in South Africa
With regards to 'my mate had is car mapped then it blew up' comments, I'd sure like to see the evidence that shows it was down to poor tuning. It may well have suffered engine damage but how the hell can you blame that on the tuner when there could have been countless reasons for something to have gone wrong?
At least 70% of pre-2000 Honda's that turn up for a dyno tune are bugged with issues before we even get started, everything from low engine oil, poor wiring, bodged install of parts, cheap parts, copy parts, oil leaks, faulty sensors, faulty ECU's, etc etc etc Any one of those problems could lead to potential engine damage, but guess what? All of that seems to go largley ignored and instead, the 'oh well it must have been the tune' mentality seems to remain.
I know that all sounds negative but im afraid that is what we are seeing with alot of the pre 2000 cars and the owners.
It's a real shame that in this industry we can be plagued with comments like that on a public forum, hopefully Scott can give his own comments on the work that was carried out over the past week and on how the car is running, and if he wishes also give a break down of the costs involved. Hope you're still smiling Scott!
Sorry for the thread jack, I felt like i needed to throw my 2p's worth in there
Lou