All booked in! proper cant wait!!! what you think people?

[spencer_cammedvts]

For My Remap With The Spec As Below.

[williamsvts]

yes they set cam timing 1st, then start to map it.

takes about 2 hours to do cams + belt. pretty easy imo if you know what to do. its all unbolt stuff and bolt back in. from experiance i can get the to idle fine straight away but it shouldnt take longer than 1/2 hour of fannying on to get then idling if your not sure.
only hint i would say there is would be to spray some WD40 in the back of your cam cover bolts the night before as these can sometime be a pain to get out.
also use the cam and crank locking holes so that you dont bend your valves.

[spencer_cammedvts]

nice one mate. the cam covers have been off a couple of times in the last 5 months since i did the conversion bit ill still spray some WD40 on them the night before mate. thanx;)

[williamsvts]

no, not the cam covers. the camBELT cvoer. in teh back of the allen bots, sometimes the insert they screw into just spins in teh plastic cover.

[stiffler69]

I would get a vernier pulley as they can adjust cam timing when doing your remap and this will help increase bhp how much is chip wizards charging for the remap i got myn mapped for £290+vat and he gained me 30bhp after finding a few engine problems and fixing a few things im now running around 120bhp on a vtr i thought he done quite a good job and price was great

[williamsvts]

vts' have adjustable pullies as standard mate.

[stiffler69]

vts' have adjustable pullies as standard mate.

Thought they were adjustable only to a certain extent though

[spencer_cammedvts]

o right. get ya. lol. when i bought the vts engine it didnt come with a cam cover so its all open. :o bit dangerous i know but i cant find anyone that will sell me a camcover. even a scrappy! and i aint paying shitroen's prices.ill bet they want about £150 for a cambelt cover!!!

[spencer_cammedvts]

williams is your vts a mk2? i can remember a thread a while ago when you said how much power you made. was just wondering if yours was a mk2 as mines is a mk1.

i have raceland with a green filter,
port & polished throttlebody,
708's
supersprint 4-2-1
supersprint 2" straight thro'
scorpion backbox
port & polished head(in a couple of months.)

you think ill see 160?

[spencer_cammedvts]

thats what im hoping for anyway. 155 minimum.

[williamsvts]

mine is mk2.
with them cams you'll make between 150 - 160.

[spencer_cammedvts]

i thought the port & polished head was supposed to help the catcams more as they have a higher lift than their rivals- pipers & kents?

[Tobs]

i like people doing loads work on there cars, engine bits

im not going to brother just yet with my furio might aswell save the dosh for my next car hopefully civic then do work on that :D:

good luck with it all mate

[spencer_cammedvts]

just booked in at chipwizards for my remap. £475.60! friday 26th jan at 9.15

will have my headwork done then too so hoping to see 160! ;) cant wait! gonna sneak some expensive octane booster in on the day too. do you recon it will help?

[craig180]

Sounds like a plan! Give it a proper sevice as well and run it on 98 ron

[spencer_cammedvts]

Allready Am Givin It The Full Works. Wouldnt Run New Cams On Old Oil And Cambelt & Filters. ;)

[spencer_cammedvts]

what you think people?

[Dan]

Sounds pretty good mate, interested to see what figures you get though.

[bullit]

are you actually getting it done this time or is it more porkys ;p

[ets2k9]

£475? Has it gone up I though it was £350

[williamsvts]

DONT GET IT MAPPED ON HIGER RON FUEL THAN YOU WILL RUN IT ON!!!!!!

yes it will give you a higher figure to brag about. but your car will be mapped for really good fuel and ignition timing will be spot on, so if you then start running it on 95ron you wiill have a chance your engine might start pinking/detonating. if i was you i would get it mapped on 95, or if your going to run it on 98 all the time then 98. dont use octane booster though!!!!

[fuzzy_orange]

Why would you run it on octane booster while getting mapped?

Are you insane?

Then they will map it on that high octane fuel - and when you chuck normal unleaded in it will pink and blow a valve out

*sigh*

[fuzzy_orange]

Oopps might help if I notice a page 2 - but yeah monkey motorsport knows his stuff - he aint wrong!

[CampDavid]

Indeed. Get it mapped on a full tank of your prefered choice of fuel. Mapping on octane booster is a bit nuts. Mapped mine on Optimax, doesn't like 95RON now. Which isn't a problem as I only use optimax (or V-power or whatever it is now)

[spencer_cammedvts]

ill just fill the tank with super unleaded which i think is 97 ron. then if i get a bit skint towards the end of the month it wont make as much difference if i drop down to 95 for a tank. ;)

didnt realise about it detonating from using a higher octane fuel!

most people see between 155 & 160 without the port & polished head and i got a couple of other bits that people dont allways have. like my manifold is heatwrapped, i have litereally got a straight through. you look into the backbox and you can see right down the 2" bore centre pipe. also got a port & polished t/b.

its a vtr with a 99 vts engine in.which is another bonus with it being a mk1 engine. dont they usually produce more power? 5bhp on average?

[spencer_cammedvts]

as for the price he said its 405 + vat.

so i made it £475 / £476 round figures

[fredjudd]

475 is what they quoted me on a 16v aswell, IMO i wouldnt run the octane booster on the day because the ECU will be set to run with it in the tank all the time so you will have to put more octane boost in the tank everytime you fill up.

Just wack some 98 RON in it.

[ets2k9]

I couldn't be arsed to spend £475 on a remap anymore......maybe I've seen the light.

[VTS_16v_Boy]

Sounds good figure 150-160

Would people recommend a remap on a standard 16v Lump with Air Filter Manifold and Exhaust or is the standard map fine with these mods?

Sorry about the Hijack :-(

[ets2k9]

std map will be fine wait untill you have something major before remapping.

[spencer_cammedvts]

STEVE!!! dont be gay! you gotta persue ur cams & remap mate! especially with all the threads youv had about them and the amount of times you have driven us all mad changing your mind on what cams to get! lol.

there is a place in leicester as you know that does remaps for £350 and there are a couple of garages that iv been to now that say they are actuelly quite good with n/a cars! if i was on a budget id have deffinatly have gone there!

[ets2k9]

I dont want to do remaps on a budget it sounds like a false economy to me and I apologise for all the cam threads and mind changing but my current mind state is to leave it alone.

I dont plan on keeping the car that long so spending another grand on it makes little to no sense.

Enjoy it though :)

[Colin]

heat wrap wont make any difference to your power really, port and polish wont make much difference either without throttle bodies or wilder cams.

williamsvts

[spencer_cammedvts]

every little helps!

[jpsaxo]

As said before, get it mapped on the fuel your intending to fill it up with every week! I would highly recommend V-power personally :)

With your spec i would say you should get 155- 160 with the head - thats assuming the headwork is up to the high standard which it should be where your having it done.... :D

Also depends on the state of the engine, the oil its ran on in the past (before you had it) why it was written off etc etc! I could go on for ages.

Let us know the outcome buddy :D

[spencer_cammedvts]

it was owned by a lad off here called ben hoad in wales who is a mechanic at a jaguar factory and said he kept it well serviced!

it had had an oil change and a new head gasket just as i bought it. and i know that for sure as i checked the oil and it was clean as fook. its done 6000 miles since i dropped the s engine in and its having:

a new gates cambelt
castrol gtx magnitec oil in
champoin oil filter, and
a whole new headgasket set fitted including new cam oil seals new valve seals etc...

all is being done at the same time as i fit the 708's and get the head port & polished & skimmed :)