mattyb

Some Slotted DBA's are on the cards, along with some gauges. Sheers guys. Any other idase fellas???

I can't believe it. I was $1200 short from getting the process west stage 2 kit fitted when I had my car done last week, so Dave hooked me up with a Plazmaman 500 wide cooler, and the stage 1 pipework that replaces the OEM stuff. Today I get a bonus for wait for it... $1800... GTFO! Told the missus to buy herself a new Staffy, and she said the rest is mine My bills are caught up, house payments down, all fines paid up... Even bought the kids a heap of new clothes last week so that covered too! I put it tou you fine Gents, if you had my car, what mods would you do with $1200. I've already got Injectors, intank fuel pump, 20 inch mags, all the stuff listed below in my signature. 330rwkw in a BF 1. The interior is standard cloth, single cd, no gauges. Hit me with your ideas.

Dave from CPV Tuning fitted mine last wednesday, 4 inch dump, 3.5 cat, and twin 2.5's... Sounds awesome. Anyway, he said it bolted straight in, no dramas. On that not I've got a few spare rubbers (new) if anyone gets stuck and needs em, try using the old rubbers as the extra play in them may allow for a looser fit. I do reccommend putting a little thread locker on the plugs that go where the sensors are supposed to, cos my top one fell out and sounded like sh*t, and pumped exhaust fumes all through my car. Good luck with the fit.

The Bung for the first sensor (the one for the dump Pipe) came out and the smell was exhaust gasses, and a lot of them. Unfortunately it was 12:00 midday here in the middle of whoop whoop (emerald qld) so everywhere was shut. I pulled the one from the Cat and put it in instead, with a bit of Loctite to make sure it's not going enywhere soon. Now to find that damn rattle from in the same area... I'm not gonna remove the heat sheild, but probably use a LOT of clamps/tiewire.

Dave checked them all on Wednesday when he did the tune. But I will still have a look. It's not all the time, moreso after I have given it a squirt. With the windows up, and the air con off, no smell, with the windows up and the aircon on, smelly.

As you've probably read I'm now tuned and running up at 330rwkw. Today I noticed a fuel smell coming through the air con. It seems to happen more when I flick the the gear lever over to manual shift, it's not an exhaust smell, but more like the aircon is sucking air from over a puddle of petrol. Has anyone else got this problem, or maybe a solution? Is the Air con pick-up anywhere near anything that can omit a fuel smell?

No news on the wastegate mods... haven't had a reply from the email I sent to the previous owner. Dave did the tune in 3rd. I was used to seeing cars done in 4th but had also previously read that 3rd is the go in the ZF 6er. I'm going to get the printout scanned tomorrow so I'll have the 'proof' then ,lol, not that it's needed, I can't help but smile when I look at it, the lines for the AFR's and Boost are almost dead straight, not fluctuation at all. Amazingly we have only had it back for a day and a half, and my wife (that's right) has already said in conversation to some mates, that at the end of the year we'll probably step it up... she awesome, but I'm I bet I know who's payin for it.

BF 1, ZF 6 speed, f6 CAI, K&N Filter... He is a busy man, did an awesome job though, I guess that's the difference between people who do it cos they love it compared to those who do it as a 'Job'.

Well I finally met Dave from CPV Tuning yesterday, and had the joy of him fitting my kit, and then today, tuning my car. Having bought my car 3rd hand 2 months ago, and the previous owner telling me he had not modded the car at all, I passed this information onto dave prior to having it tuned. Dave believes that my car must have an aftermarket actutor due to the boost being wound out to just over 15psi and it maintaining that boost level almost perfectly. With the fitting of the 500mm wide Plazmaman cooler, and the stage 1 underbonnet pipework kit, along with new injectors and an intank fuel pump, fitting my xforce exhaust, and a cooler thermostat, dave tuned the car to a very managable 330rwkw, and just over 1000Nm of torque. I'll add some pics when I get the chance, and a BIG shout out to Dave for an awesome job, and being extremely helpful with my choices, costing, and alround customer service. I will more than make the 4 hour drive if I need any more work done, Daves work was second to none, I'd recommend him to anyone.

Foundn this today... Pissed myself at the comments by the guy from Top Gear.

I don't want to destroy the car so it has to have reliability, and that's gonna limit the RWKW's that we can chase. My missus drives the car every day, and I want her to be able to enjoy it too (she's getting right into modding atm). Dave knows his sh*t, I just read the threads on his 9 second efforts, and f*ck me, I'm just gonna let him see what he can do and go with it. I would have loved the Process west stage 3 kit, but the budget didn't allow for it. I'll follow suit, and start here, in another 12 months I'll be looking to get the missus a Turbo Territory, and then I'll really let Dave loose on the girl (the car not my wife) I'll keep ya posted as to how things go on Wed.

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So the booking is made, the car goes in on Wednesday to Dave @ CPV Tuning in Mackay. Got a FANTASTIC deal on a Plazmaman Stage 1 with the 500mm Cooler, Piping, Injectors, Fuel Pump, Flash X3, Tune, gap plugs, check and tighten turbo and manifold bolts, and fitting of my full Exhaust System. My budget was adjusted somewhat, and Dave helped me out (more than he realy needed to) so I could squeeze all of my desires out of my budget. Can not thank Dave enough, and will be sure to post pics, and stats come thursday when I pick the car up.

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correct me if I'm wrong, but if you step the rim size up to 20 inch from 19 inch aren't you supposed to drop the sidewall height down to 30. My car runs a 245 30 20 on the front and clears everything. Same with a few ppl up here runnin 20's on foalcons. It sounds to me like your profile is too large. How's your speedo?

here is one from behind (no pun intended)

I've got a staggered fitment - 245 30 20's on the front and 275 30 20's on the rear. Looke Farkin awesome, have had the rear guards rolled up but still have the odd 'rub' over the sh*tty roads out here in emerald in qld (central QLD). The rims I have on the back should be running 285's but untill I can get the rear guards cut a bit I'mm gonna stick with the 275's. As for the speedo, by my GPS, dads GPS, and my mates new STI and my Fireblade, it's pretty bangon the money (no speeding tickets yet either).

My BF1 has almost 70000k's on it, and has cronic shudders... after the car is washed in a drive thru car wash (while the discs are wet/cold I guess) it brakes perfectly, once they get some heat in them (at any speed) they are worse than my VT commodore. I'm looking to upgrade to the 4000 series with new pads. I was told to just 'flog' the old ones with a hammer untill they came loose, does anyone else have a better idea so as not to bend, break, or f**k anything?

2004 - Had ( yeah had ) a Honda CBR292 fireblade... A woman in a 4wd pulled out in front of me and I hit her head on at 80Kph. One testicle the size of a small childs head, and a 1. dislocated wrist, the dislocation wasn't that bad, but because I had broken the other bone in my arm wright near my wrist, this meant that the broken bit of bone was on the outside. last year I had 12 weeks off work. I had a Duodenal ulcer (ulcer on the tube between your stomach and bowel) rupture at work. It felt like I swallowed a fishing hook and then tried to digest it. That hurt. what hurt more was it took them 2 days to figure out what the problem was, meanwhile my body was pumping sh*t (literally) in and around my internal organs so my body went septic. They operated and one organ at a time removed them, scrubed them down, drenched them in betadine and wacked them back in when I woke up my gut was still open, as my body had swelled up... needless to say I panicked and they put me back to sleep. will post pics of my arm when I get home

for someone who is learning about plenums as this thread develops, how hard are they to fit? Looking at Kev's process west ones as we speak, (will get cooler and kit first) but it's on the cards? how hard are the Plazmaman ones too ?

Okay guys so almost 2 months has passed since I got my car. I've aquired a full system, 4 inch dump, 3.5 inch hi flo cat, and twin 2.5's. I'm talking with dave (blueboost) about the tune and other things to get done at the same time. I'm definately going to go for the process west intercooler kit (2 or 3) , with the stage 3 throttlebody relocation & under battery cai. It will breathe better, flow better, and with daves help, I'll get a custom tune, along with some injectors. For the other starters, I was only going to get a tune, then a tune and injectors... then that plus a high flow cat... on and on and on and on it went... How I got to making this decision to be where I am now, is I broke it down into 4 steps. 1. How many KW did I want......................300rwkw min 2. How did I want to acheive it..................Reliably, my wife drives this car too... (this meant more money, and waiting a little to get everything) 3. Who was I going to use.........................I used this forum and found dave (Blueboost) from CVP Tuning in Mackay 4. Budget................................................Ask your tuner, he will know better than you how much it will cost. My budget has fluctuated somewhat, but is steady between $2750 and $3250 Fitted, always ask for fitted cost, a set of injectors for $500 is reasonable, but with $650 to fit them (as one tuner quoted me) can knock a hole the size of my ex girlfriends ass in a budget realy quick. Don't be afraid to ask questions............I have contacted dave no less than 5 times, and everytime he has been helpful. Before him I contacted 4 other tuners in my area, and was quoted upwards of $6000 in some cases to get the output I wanted, one shop telling me I 100% needed new rods before I could break 280rwkw. Your tuner should be able to understand what you want, offer advice, put up with your sh*tty requests, answer your dumb questions... Cheers dave seriously if you don't ask, and something fcuks up, or you get severely overcharged, it's your own fault. Just so you know I'm and am close to making a booking for fitment and tuning shortly. will keep y'all posted.

Cheers heaps for your input guys, I'm glad this place is here, I'll look at doing the fuel pump myself, and stick with Dave, Honestly, if it wasn't for this place I would have listened to the people here in my home town who have gone to those places and blown those excessive amounts of cash. I'll keep yas posted

Before anyone reads into this and assumes that Dave is charging me a little on the heavy side too.. I'd like to mention that his quote was under $3000 unlike the others, and included injectors, and a after market intercooler, gap plugs, tighten turbo and manifold, x3 flash tuner and tunes. So I really can't complain at all. As for the bulk buys at the moment, unfortunately I'm running on the lean side of the cash flow for the next 2 weeks, if they are still going when my wallet fills up, then I'll definately buy from here.

Not too sure. I called around and found that in the CQ area and that seems to be the norm, I can only find... Blueboost (Dave, who I'm using, as he comes highly recommended, and is a long standing member of theic forum) RDP Performance - Mackay Monster Performance - Mackay Dynamic Mechanix - Rockhampton Apart from Dave, the others keep telling me that $3000 wont get me much, and not to expect more than 280RWK My car is a BFI XR6T, F6 CAI, K&N Panel, I have an as yet unfitted 4" Dump Pipe, 3.5" Hi Flo cat, and twin 2.5" exhaust.