Karma_hunden said:
Okay, so It's been 4 months now and no Dynos.....Where are they?
forgot about this thread on this forum, sorry about that. we updated over on a different forum so i'll recap here.
alot of factors contributed to what amounts to a scrapping of and starting from the ground up on this intercooler kit. firstly, the fabricator and i did not see entirely eye to eye on the direction this kit was taking designwise and during testing. there were quite a few criticisms fielded about the kit that we felt obligated to answer not only from the standpoint of public knowledge but from a sales standpoint as well. there were a number of positives about the kit that have been discussed throughout the thread, however in the end the kit was not where we wanted it to be and not where it would satisfy demand or make a break even return in my mind.
secondly, we demanded a variety of tests and dyno runs for the vehicle under a variety of conditions and were largely ignored. the subsequent tests, though inadequete, showed that the car actually LOST power with the addition of the FMIC kit and hit fuel cut. we feel these were due to design issues with the housing of the vehicles highly sensitive mass air flow sensor
. these MAF sensors as most people know are very sensitive to any kind of change in the intake system and will dramatically affect vehicle operation. we argued for a redesign and provided specific and simple examples how to repair the problem for the fabricator, and were instead presented with the following options;
1) redesign the kit to utilize the stock airbox
2) provide engine management to tune around the problem (it should be noted this would likely NOT work)
neither of those options were remotely palatable to us for reasons easily seen. this project as well as the TMIC have forced us to re-evaluate all custom projects. we are now doing all future fabrication either in house or locally to retain creative integrity and quality control as well as distribution control.