I'm back and completely shattered! Rob and I got up there just before 10am and the guys at JBS got to work. After about an hour or so James appeared with Rob's keys, said they'd uploaded the latest version of the map and to go try it out.
Rob and I jumped in his car and I was immediately impressed with the feeling of accelleration from Rob's car; it was noticeably more powerful than mine. He wasn't convinced it was any better though so we headed back. James advised Rob that the log files showed that the car was running to spec, but suggested fitting a new set of spark plugs and advancing the timing slightly at the same time, which Rob agreed to.
Then it was my turn. James started off strangely by asking if the car had been anywhere for any work since having the car mapped. I advised it had been to 2 places..one to get the clutch & flywheel replaced, and a couple fo other places to try and diagnose the loss of power. James then dropped the bombshell that the map on my car was NOT a CC map! He said he wasn't quite sure where it had come from but it was a complete mess, with chunks of code missing!!
Apparently CC have a security feature on their maps whereby if anyone tries to read the map off the ECU it kills it..the car won't start or anything. James suspects that somebody has tried to steal the CC code, failed, and then had to remap my car with another map to get it running again! I can't name names or prove anything of course so will have to leave it there.
Anyway James kindly agreed to reflash the ECU with the latest code then Rob and I took it for a spin. To be honest it didn't feel any different. It still struggled to impress me and was certainly not performing as well as Rob's, or as well as it had when the map was insitially installed. James then took me out in the car and actually agreed that it wasn't running right. He suspects there's a blockage in the exhaust somewhere. When booting it at low revs in second aparently the emergency map was kicking in, probably due to excessive backpressure in the exhaust. Leigh then assisted with some further road tests and had to knock the timing back a few degress for now until I get the exhaust sorted. It's certainly holding the power a lot better now but it's struggling to hold 1bar of boost at the top end when it should be making around 1.1
Saying that though, Rob and I had a few blasts against each other on the way back home and he reckons that my car is just as powerful as his. Unfortunately CC's dyno was tied up all day today with an R32 turbo build so we weren't able to get any graphs, but I think we'll get ourselves booked into Regal soon to get an idea of the magic numbers.
All in all it was a fun day..not 100% sucessful I need to spend more money to get my problems solved but CC didn't charge us any labour for the diagnostics which was good of them :thumbsup: