Just got off the phone with a mate of mine, i'm sure you all remember the driver of the smart that fell onto its side (ow!). Anyhoo, he is as mad about modding that thing as we are with centos - and it has just had a lot of engine work done (wild cam, ported head to go with the hybrid turbo and exhaust bypass system it has) because it's so far from standard, it needed a customised map - not just a generic off the shelf kind of map that it was running before.
He got in touch with Powertune in Widnes, Chesire who said they could custom map it for him. So he took it down there, expecting a similar setup to where gaz's Seicento was mapped. Instead, they just downloaded generic maps from red dot, and then just kept trying different maps from there. They seemed to have no idea how to actual customise the maps that they were just getting from red dot.
I'm not saying me or viv are an expert on mapping cars, but the guys there seemed to know even less - failing to spot the car had tripped into limp home mode was just one of the things they did.
They kept telling him it couldn't run above 1.6bar of boost. Rubbish. That engine had run more than that in the past, and his previous one was run at 2bar.
Once it was 'finished' he drove it home. He noticed it wasn't holding boost like it should, it was just trailing off. 6th gear became unesable and by the time the car get home it was very under powered.
He rang powertune this morning to speak about sorting this mess out, they said it was 'custom' mapped because they tried at least 5 different maps on it (not my defintion of custom that!), then they told him to get f**k*d and hung up.
http://www.powertunemotorsport.co.uk/index.htm <-- avoid these cowboys.
He got in touch with Powertune in Widnes, Chesire who said they could custom map it for him. So he took it down there, expecting a similar setup to where gaz's Seicento was mapped. Instead, they just downloaded generic maps from red dot, and then just kept trying different maps from there. They seemed to have no idea how to actual customise the maps that they were just getting from red dot.
I'm not saying me or viv are an expert on mapping cars, but the guys there seemed to know even less - failing to spot the car had tripped into limp home mode was just one of the things they did.
They kept telling him it couldn't run above 1.6bar of boost. Rubbish. That engine had run more than that in the past, and his previous one was run at 2bar.
Once it was 'finished' he drove it home. He noticed it wasn't holding boost like it should, it was just trailing off. 6th gear became unesable and by the time the car get home it was very under powered.
He rang powertune this morning to speak about sorting this mess out, they said it was 'custom' mapped because they tried at least 5 different maps on it (not my defintion of custom that!), then they told him to get f**k*d and hung up.
http://www.powertunemotorsport.co.uk/index.htm <-- avoid these cowboys.