<p>So a busy week as far as new developments go. This week we trialled another first. We had a GTi-R come in with all the right parts to make some good power, and it did. 399bhp on the dyno to be exact. The only reason it didn't do any more was due to the wastegate opening at 1.4 bar boost. However after we mapped this we then trialled our Launch control system which we program onto the stock ECU. Initial results seemed very impressive and it really really did shift of the line quite like nothing else we had experienced for a while. A video will be uploaded shortly.</p>
<p>Another interesting development was with the GA16DE engine. The UK Almeras with the GA16DE engines come fitted with a very very similar system to the Nissan Micra 1.3/1.0 as far as ECU goes. Now these ECUs pose some irritating limitations when it comes to re-mapping them for turbo applications. However they run a different crank angle sensor system compared to the normal 4cyl Nissan engines so its not possible directly to change the ecu for something better.<br />However we discovered that other parts of the world had the more traditional crank angle setup on their GA16DE engines which then made us think.. Hmm lets give this a go and convert the European GA16 to run on a RNN14 SR20DET ecu. And today that's exactly what we did. This enabled us to map the car to precisely the engines needs and removed all of the problems we had before.<br />The only thing is that we do not know exactly what the gains will be since it was road mapped today. Hopefully it will be back in the not to distant future for a power run. But nevertheless it was a massive improvement to the way the car drove and responded.</p>
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<p>Another interesting development was with the GA16DE engine. The UK Almeras with the GA16DE engines come fitted with a very very similar system to the Nissan Micra 1.3/1.0 as far as ECU goes. Now these ECUs pose some irritating limitations when it comes to re-mapping them for turbo applications. However they run a different crank angle sensor system compared to the normal 4cyl Nissan engines so its not possible directly to change the ecu for something better.<br />However we discovered that other parts of the world had the more traditional crank angle setup on their GA16DE engines which then made us think.. Hmm lets give this a go and convert the European GA16 to run on a RNN14 SR20DET ecu. And today that's exactly what we did. This enabled us to map the car to precisely the engines needs and removed all of the problems we had before.<br />The only thing is that we do not know exactly what the gains will be since it was road mapped today. Hopefully it will be back in the not to distant future for a power run. But nevertheless it was a massive improvement to the way the car drove and responded.</p>
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and it stripped third gear. Oops :laugh:
