OK so time for another update! You may have seen a couple of images on the DSUK Facebook page but here’s a bit more info and pics
Without going into detail, I finished hooking up the engine ancillaries, filled up with fluids etc etc and had her towed to Performance Autoworks to look over and tune her up!
Well they came across a few issues
– two of the brake line flares were weeping a bit so they redid those, and my fuel pressure regulator decided to crap out so they managed to fix that too as well as making a different bracket for my throttle cable because they didn't like how much the cable was being bent by my method - fair enough! I didn’t have time to fit my Integra rear calipers so gave them to PAW to do, which they duly did and then took her for tuning and MOT.
Well, they tuned the car on the hottest day of the year (they said it was 50deg inside the cabin during tuning!!) and the tyres were apparently struggling for grip on the dyno (due to the brand new tyres and heat – not because the rolling road couldn’t handle the power haha, I wish). But after tuning, she made a tad under 275bhp but still the same level of torque (180lbft). I was really hoping for 280-290 but as explained by Rich @ PAW a larger throttle body and inlet manifold alone won’t increase numbers that much, and the main fact is that the engine is very healthy and the graph is really smooth with nice power and torque curves. So I’m very happy with that and she still scares me a bit on the roads having been used to driving the Jazz for so long
So, drove her back and stopped into my Mum’s place to break the journey up a little and check for leaks/peace of mind etc. but all was good. A few photo’s of her in all her glory;
Bear in mind I still need to finish installing all the roof seals properly, windscreen trim and the entire interior apart from dash! So no where near complete just yet.
Apparently I can go lower by about 10mm without upsetting the ‘fast road’ alignment setup they carried out but I scrape a little going up my own driveway so don’t think I’ll be lowering her anymore…