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I've tried to be as unbiased as I could. Sure I welcome competition but having 2 flash boxes in the market means 2 products tuners need to purchase. And with the pricing model for both products, it makes it harder for tuners, and the end user. The reflash of the cal area is not a problem, its a benefit to the sniper product. Quicker speed programming as it doesn't reprogram the entire rom There are another 2 products that will hit the scene soon... can u imaging that? 4 products workshops are going to have to support if they all had flash boxes?? Imaging being a highly reputable workshop, having a customer come to you because of your reputation and having to turn them away because they have a sniper box when you only have the capa software. Who misses out? The workshop or the customer? Realisticly going to a "passthru" programming cable system like the ls1 boys have had for years is the way the scene needs to go.. But this flash box has got many people addicted.. Multiple tunes, being able to fool ford warentee by flashing std tune back in etc etc.. The market for us is changing, from a tuner and a customer point of view.. And if your a reputable workshop you have to be careful Danny

As it stands, there is only a few advantages. 1) can read tunes. I know there is a certain influx of tuners who are going to buy the system due to their inability of using the current system. So there is going to a a lot of tunes ripped off. This will also expose a lot of poor tuners. I personally don't care if my IP I've used in the tune gets ripped off, because I know they still will need to understand how it works before transfering it to their customers vehicles. Its been like this with the ls1s for years. As I've had the ability to read tunes for quite some time know using another product, I've first hand already seen the poor tunes a lot of these "workshops" are putting out. Damn where do I start on what their doing wrong.. 2) competition in thr market is going to make the pricing come down more.. Or rather I expect will push tuners profit margins up. It is true that the sniper software reviels more tables than the capa software does, but coming from working with jerry in the development, it was decided the ford pcm is already complicated enough to pyt extra tables in which would confuse the tuner even more. Jerry put in every table he believes the tuner will need to do a excelant job of tuning. As I've seen various of the hidden tables I tend to agree. But if you think there is a table you require (shown in sniper but not in capa) and you think you need it to tune, request it on the sct forum. And chances are it will be available in the next update. 3) it is known in the us that the sniper software eerases the cal area only and reflashes that, resulting in approx a 40sec flash on the ba and slightly quicker on the bf. As it stands the bf already is quicker because its only 1mb instead of 1.4mb in the ba, and all is flash is internal n fast to the processor. You need to remember that the sniper box still recommends you flash in 2 steps, once to the box, then the box to the car. I believe you can program pass thru, but its not recommended (or supported yet??) The xcal2 is usb so transfering from the pc to xcal is greatly improved in speed to the xcal1 which is serial. At the end of the day, the end customers aint going to sell their capa box and jump on the sniper band wagon, it will mainly be new ford owners having to decide between both products, where most features are invisible to the end user, but moreso benefit the tuner. I can see when sniper release the bf 6speed support, a number of bf owners change however. So at the end of the day, capa owns the market. If your thinking of selling your capa software to use the sniper product your essentially having to turn away the existing market who already own boxes. So this benefit to the tuners has turned to a downside as they have to pay license fees for both products once sniper boxes start hitting thr streets. Danny

The pcm closes the throttle body when it senses boost and the vehicle is not moving, ie stalling it up. I believe iit gets to 2psi, then says no thanks and closes. I did think about disabling this with FSIX's tune when he ran his 11.44 but it would have been sheer neglegance on my part as there is no way in beefing up the line presures of the 6speed auto. And I would imagine you wouldn't want to have a credit account with your local auto builder shop at this point.. But with promises of 6speed pcm modifcation in the sniper product and the hptuners product, there might be a change in this, and a 10 second pass on the boards, especially FSIX's 126mph

You can see when the injectors start running out of puff when the afr's cruze upto 12.9ish AFR's I'd be getting the injectors sooner than later in my opinion Once you do that.. Bring on more power and boost

The part number quited before is a Denzo iridium plug. Ford use denzo iridiums in all ba's

Not unless a tuner unlocked his box, and reloaded the tunes do it.. In doing so, killing one of its four lifes.. But do you really care? If your honest and upfront with your service dealer about your modifications, he will respect that and wont give you warentee issues with items not assocated with the tune (ie, not engine/transmission/diff. you can kiss driveline warentee goodbye) danny

WRX Iridium plugs are already gapped to .8 bang them straight in.. NGK part number BKR6EIX

nice result

that's only 400x400x75, so its only 400 wide (not including the end tanks) ideally 500 wide core (not including the end tanks) and its got 3" inlet and outlet.. Too big if you were to use the standard hot pipe from the turbo.

Ahh yes.. a VSI (Vapour sequential injectorion) system installed.. Really simple just as a gas research carby.. except instead of 1 point of entry into the manifold, it has a seperate solenoid for each runner/cylinder.. Good to see results being made there... Unsure how far you could push the power up on such vapor injection system. I have seen APS Frankson say for "serious of boosted setups" Liquid injection would be ideal for testing.. I am highly interested to see a Liquid injection system being installed / developed in a highly tuned turbo vehicle. Injectoing LPG as a Liquid has one major property over a vapour system.. As its injected as a liquid, a smaller "dose" is injected, and it expands in the manifold prior to the inlet valve.. Big deal you ask? hell yes.. As it expands it "absorbs" the heat out of the incoming air.. Technically giving you the ability to do away with a intercooler... (but why would you??)

Dingah got some new wheels Looking good Although I still believe paying soo much for something that doesnt make your car go faster is a crime!!! One day soon I will be looking at a upgrade also. Possibly something similar to what Jacks running Danny.

I suspect this one will fit fine What I like here, is its 400mm Tall.. It has more cores, hense more core flow than a 300mm tall one 300mm chinese cores have too much presure drop and cause more turbo backpresure on the engine.

Downgearing engages the overrun clutch(engine braking).. Which is only 2 friction plates in this auto, They wear out VERY quick. It was a mistake ford putting the sequential shifter in this car with this auto as it gives the impression its fine to do so.

at least the GT still has the b onnet bulge

get this my passinger side front one creeks !!!! but then again, watching the beating it cops when someone sits in .. and my driving, I dont blame it.. lol. apparently its in the welding is starting to crack..

Ahh explains the good 60foot time Does your convertor have lockup? I'm assuming not as I would imagine you have a smaller diameter convertor, but I thought I'd ask the question anyways. What kinda power / boost levels you running, assuming its standard xr6t bottom end still. Danny

good job What mods you got done to yur car? You running a Stall Convertor?

Yours won't wear out the clutches nor damage the band based on the way I've done the shift presures in ther box, rather than reling on shift ramp alone I've found when your car axle tramps during wheelspin is when the plantrys cop a beating the most. That's the only thing you have to avoid.

PWR make a excelant core. which is infact what is in the nizpro cooler however, I still have gripes about that return pipe that goes under the battery.. But I think you mentioned you've replaced that with more appropriate plumbing ?? danny.

The stage 2 is a bottom bottom cooler.. so its even looking.

Sure its better than the std one, and so is the fpv one. But the process west one isn't much more expensive and it looks better centered as well. And the stg2 kit removes the restrictive pipework under the batter.. The idea is free up the flow of the motor remove as much restrictions as possible. That will result with cooler air charges as well as the turbos not working as hard with the restrictive pipework. Then make it cool, the process west stg2 does just that.

I've got datalogs of dyno runs with YPURV4's car on the dyno with his wog cooler.. Tempretures rose over 135F during the run (wetting / fanning the cooler prior to starting the run at 85F). The same night Fat-Tony's car with his F6 cooler rose to approx the same tempreture. To give some kinda indication, Spark corrections come into play after 100F, and at 135, with factory valves can pull out from memory 5 degree's of timing.. Sure, Make the correction less, and it pings.. But on the same night, my Nizpro cooler (part of my cobra kit as a comparison), started with 75F, and at the end of the run, had 80F... and almost instantly cooled back down again One particular night I done some comparisons between coolers 1) cole trickles process west kit 2) darrens rajab garret core bolt in (like monza/wog) 3) forcedxr6's 550x300 "chinese ebay type" 4) my nizpro initially each car was driving for approx 20minutes with low loads but higher RPM.. (getting airflow at light loads to cool down the heatsoak out of the plenum) the values were recorded what the absolute coldest was 1) process west got down to 65F, quite easily, with light acceleration bringing it to 70F 2) darrens rajab one had trouble keeping in the 60's, and averaged 72F 3) forcedxr6's one was high 70's low 80's 4) mine got down to 58F. but it was happy at 63F when crusing (without the higher rpm, this could be due to the nizpro plenum not heat soaking as much as the std plenum) next part of each test was standing start to the speed limit. cole + forced were running 13psi, and mine and darrens's running 16psi 1) cole's reached 80F, and quickly dropped back down to mid 70F's, and then a little later 66F 2) darrens, starting higher already at 72, after a WOT run to speed limit, brought it upto approx 95F, which rather surprised me to say the least 3) forcedxr6's also starting higher in the 80's, rose to 110F (laptop battery cut out at this point) 4) I found mind standard had approx 63F, went to 68F (kinda surprised at this, we done repeated standard WOT runs, and the highest we got it was to 72F !!) Keeping in mind, More boost = more heat Although there was no wog cooler in those tests, I did log FatTony's doing the similar kinda tests with his F6 cooler. lowest we could get was similar to forcedxr6, in the high 80's, and after a WOT run, it was 120F+ In conclusion These aint science lab accredited results. Just the same test done on 4 different coolers on the same cold winter nigth we have had the last few months.. (the best time to test a cooler.. when the air is as cold as possible.. sure the results would be different during the daytime, but would make the results worse) Forcedxr6 now has a process west cooler, and as well as it cooling better, it also flows better than what he had as I had to lower the boost's duty cycle at 3500rpm, rest of the RPM was fine as close loop was controlling it down from the duty cycle forward feed table. Fat Tony also has a process west stg2 cooler, and is still awaiting a good time to see me for a retune as it also boost spikes higher when boost comes in indicating it also flows better than the F6 cooler. However, in saying all this. If you are on a tight budget, a wog cooler is a cheap upgrade from the standard cooler. but dont expect miracles from it. danny

Get a Process West cooler.. sure. costs more than a wog cooler by 2 fold.. but who wants a "cooler that doesnt cool"

Coming from someone who has used a dyno, in this particular case, a Dyno Dynamics You accelerate to WOT under "Ramp Hold" conditions. it doesnt matter if you do it slow or fast, the engine will only load upto say approx 2400rpm and stay there.. the dyno will hold the current wheel speed. this is the point where you start to hear the xr6t turbos start to spool up.. because its almost like going WOT with the brake and handbrake on holding it at like 70km/h after the RPM stablises, you select "ramp up", in which the dyno will allow the speed to increase (in which, the RPM increases) once you reach RPM limit, or power drops of, or whatever, you then put it back to "ramp hold", and miliseconds afterwards, you get off the gas pedal.. (if you get off the pedal before you engage ramp hold, the graph draws back over itself) danny

This is repairable by a good diff joint if warentee doesnt cover it.. This is how they weld tubes to 9" centres when doing 9" converstions.. They have a bar same diameter of your axles, straight thru the centre of the diff one side to the other with fake bearings to make it all true, and then Mig it all up..