Hi All
I meant to update this last night after I got back from TDI but exhausted wasnt the word so I thought better of it and decided to update the thread tonight when there is less chance of me falling sleep
It was another early start yesterday 5am get up, arrived at the TDI North workshop just after 830am and Paul finally managed to get rid of us at 630pm part of me wasnt looking forward to the journey home because it suddenly hit me how tired I was but that lasted for about 5 seconds when Paul got me to take the car around the block at 20 past 6.
Neil and Ben did an absolute fantastic job of getting everything done on the car in the one day, due to the wet weather last weekend I didnt get the oppourtunity to remove the Japspeed strut brace ready for the Tegiwa install but Neil soon dispatched it in about 90 seconds haha, then it was onto the lift, wheels off and a nice new set of OEM discs and pads all around, the pads that came off were definitely in need of changing the back especially being very low, I am currently bedding them in but I noticed the difference straight away it feels like I could stop the car on a pinhead.
Whilst up on the lift Neil and Ben also changed the transmission oil and how much of this is placebo or not I dont know but the gear changes feel so smooth now and is another service item to cross off the list, Neil then started tackling the removal of the Injen CAI great piece of kit but I have given in to the fear of hydrolock after hearing about a couple of recent cases.
Then off came the cam cover ready for the TDI drop in cam install, I was surprised to find that the Tegiwa cam cover washers and dome nuts o-rings have perished badly despite only being on the car for a matter of months and because they do not have the plug bit like the OEM parts have Neil said that the cam cover was actually moving around ever so slightly so a set of OEM washers were fitted when the cover went back on.
The lads made fitting the new cams sound like changing a headlight bulb but to me who has a basic mechanical knowledge I could never imagine being able to do anything that complicated, the cams dropped in like a dream everything went back together and the cam cover went back on.
Next thing to be done was the Tegiwa intake install, Ben attacked the scuttle panel and fitted the scoop whilst Neil installed the heat shield airbox and hoses, I went for a blue Tegiwa intake hose and also took the left over universal JS performance hoses I had so that everything matches rather than going with the standard black hoses.
Last but not least from the workshop side of things the car went back up on the lift for an oil and filter change using a Hamp oil filter and Millers oil.
Paul got the car strapped down to the dyno just before 5pm and before the mapping started him and Neil predicted the car would make 245bhp even with retaining the OEM manifold and cat, unfortunatley due to my camera playing up I didnt manage to get a video of the mapping and by this time my samsung galaxy had also died which would of been better quality (gutted)
The car posted figures of 246.3bhp and 168.7lbft and the behaviour of the car has been totally transformed, low down torque and power are much better which makes town driving a lot more bearable pulling away from lights and junctions is much stronger, VTEC has been set to come in later and once the car hits 6000rpm it pulls like an absolute demon up to 8500rpm and the sound of the Tegiwa is just evil haha.
Overall a hugely successful day and massive thanks go out to the lads at TDI, I believe my car is the first fully road legal EP3 to be running TDI's drop in cams and to make 246bhp is amazing, I am going to run and enjoy this set up for a few months and next spring will add an exhaust manifold and 400CEL cat and look to map up to around 255bhp
a few photos of the day below... (sorry about the poor quality)