Mine smokes.

Racing nozzles

no EGR at all

No cat or anything

Plus it's running a very old map that needs updating. Soon she should be much better.

Mine looks just as quick as that and its standard except for green filter, PD160 intake and i run it on v-power, but cant imagine it will make that much of a difference.

Post fishing, mine responds about the same as yours - very well.

56reg standard yellow VRS on shell std derv and OE Conties at 32psi F and 30psi R.

I love the car and I love the colour.

Post fishing, mine responds about the same as yours - very well.

How does it go pre-fishing?

Pre fishing it is a lot faster - due to the special Shell 'Expectation' fuel, which contains a mixture of maggot juice and liquidised worms.

Really helps you get a wriggle on in the lanes.

All this gets used up at the river, hence the lesser performance on the retun trip.

This fishing is really scientific you know.

Mine does the same thing. pulls all way upto 4500rpm. blt engne! all standard.

Pre fishing it is a lot faster - due to the special Shell 'Expectation' fuel, which contains a mixture of maggot juice and liquidised worms.

Really helps you get a wriggle on in the lanes.

All this gets used up at the river, hence the lesser performance on the retun trip.

This fishing is really scientific you know.

Very scientific, indeed.

Makes total sense when you examine the facts.

Tell me, this maggot/worms smoothie, you're on it too, aintcha?

OK, folks, so the figures are in, and my car is...

... totally standard!

Two runs on a famously-accurate Dastek dynamometer at Wallace Performance in Aberdeen revealed:

Max Power: 136.1 bhp @ 4117 rpm

Max Torque 228 ft/lb @ 2085 rpm

I'm more than happy with the results as the torque is bang on the book figure, while the bhp is 6 over.

The tech also noted that the engine did not smoke and that there were no power flat spots.

So, all in all, the car is running about as well as it can.

With this in mind, the rev out videos could conceivably now be used as performance benchmarks for standard vRSes.

That is to say, if your car performs similarly, then it is running fine.

And if it doesn't, then something is amiss.

It is, perhaps, then interesting to note that several posters thought the videos were indicative of a remapped motor.

PS - After carefully pouring over the graphs, 4100 rpm (or just before it to allow for inherent reaction time and rev needle delays) has revealed itself to be the ideal point to change up --- power is at max and there's still a rather useful 177ft/lbs of torque available, which is not that far off the 190 ft/lbs at 3500 rpm and way more than the 140 ft/lbs at 4500 rpm.

Edited 1 November, 200817 yr by Mr Wobblytickle