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You will up your power, then a week later your clutch will be cactus, you will replace that, then a mont later your gearbox will die. You will be better off to start saving for a 6 speed and a decent clutch before you break it, that way you will be able to sell off the 5 speed and get some money back. Talk to Mal Woods for a complete package

He has a flash 2, he can make some basic changes and make it safe

Glad you got it quickly. as we discussed and sure others will agree, the best thing to do is get it on a local dyno and check the air fuel ratio to make sure it rich enough. Air fuel ratio is not the only thing which can lead to safety of your motor, you need to make sure the motor does not ping at all whilst driving and on the dyno. You could use the experience of the dyno guy to get his opinion on whether it pings. You also now have the ability to data log your car. You can data log knock sensor activity and then adjust timing as needed. The knock sensor on BA's are very sensitive and pick up too much back ground noise, but with out custom tuning, you do not have the ability to change them. But if you pulled enough timing to stop them from pulling timing themselves, you should be resonably safe. Also fit a colder thermostat and adjust your fans to come on earlier to try to eliminate some of the power robbing heat. The only real safe way is to custom tune, so be prepared to make a trip somewhere in the near future to get it done.

Valve springs wil not give you a noise, just losses power and then idles roughly for a few seconds. It sounds like your car is pinging, what fuel are you running in it?, if it is ping, do not drive under boost or risk damaging your motor.

Not the liquid at this stage although fitters are being trained all the time. This is brand new technology for australia and is still in it's infancy so a time period will pass before there are installers through out australia

Any workshop working on late model cars should have at least a scan toll. They may have unintentionally broken a wire in the harness by letting the brakes hang or pulling them to far. You can check the sensors with a multimeter, but if the harness is damaged you need to back probe the wiring to look for the signal, or the easiest way, but doesn't help you is to use a scan tool to check the sensor operation is getting to the ECU

Did they scan the ECU to see what codes are occuring

When the tunes are loaded into it, the tuner can leave adjustability turned on or off. If they leave it turned on, the owner can then make some adjustments as they go, some of the adjustments are boost, spark and WOT fuel, these are just some basic adjustments, not like the proper tuning stuff but enough for owners to have a play. But I would suspect that a tuner would not leave adjustability turned on,on a tune that is allready customised as the owner could make it go bad pretty quickly. Another option would be the tuner only allow adjustability one way, for example add fuel but not remove it, or pull timing rather than add it. The unit can aslo check and clear some OBD2 codes And with this unit and the free software from SCT you can data log your car, like a tuner can. Tune wise, there is no benefit because the same result can be acheived with either unit. Also the tunes are actually shown on the screen, so no trying to remember which tune is in which slot.

There's a strong possibility that I may be doing it in the near future

Yes it is possible to use the same tune, in fact they both are tuned exactly the same way down to the file code/extension. You will need your tuner to load the tune into the new unit, so make sure they are happy to do this and if so if they will charge you. Also don't expect the tuner to leave the adjustability features turned on with their custom tune. I had an add on ebay a while ago offereing trade ups from flash1 to flash 2's.

Liquid gas injection is here now. It is a JTG system and only available from Australian LPG Warehouse and it's accredited installers. It's new so there is only a limited number of fitters and parts. They fitted it to a XR6T several weeks back, it made an extra 18 rwkw with no other changes made to the car. It only uses approx 5% more gas than petrol to do the same distance

Direct injection gas?? never heard of it what is it? Do you mean liquid gas injection?

Forged pistons have quite a bit of growth with different temperatures, so a lot of older forged piston motors used to have large piston to bore clearances which made them quite noisey when cold. I'm sure things have changed these days, but you will need to match specs up with who evers gear you run

If the owner wanted to set it up for racing, it could run high 11 to low 12. What's been done to this clubby to get 260 rwkw, would normally need a cam change to get this sort of figure

With the group buy happeneing for the injectors, it leaves a few cheaper options to get a flash2, you could also get on in the group buy for the actuators and only be out of pocket an extra $20,

It will work, but results may be good or bad, you will need to monitor it to check boost levels, A/F ratio etc to make sure it is safe. Not many tuners will recommend generic tunes even on a Stock car because results can vary so much on 2 similar cars, you will have better luck with a custom tune

replace brake fluid

I'm not surprised

Spotted YPURV4 on tues or wednesday morning, on nepean hway near brighton. Was driving like a girl, infact looked like a girl, was following my missus in her T

a faster ramp rate will also help eliminate wheel spin, but I don't beleive it is adjustable in shoot out mode.

The Conditions are capa are able to reset a box that has not returned the car back to stock tune, but they will only do it if the original car was stolen or written off, but a police report or insurance paper work must be produced.

Last time I spoke to Capa, they will not unlock/reset a box that has not returned the car to stock. If you purchased a box 2nd hand and it had not flashed the previous car back to the stock tune, the box is worthless.

there can be a huge difference between looking like it is good and actually being good

You learn by asking

You know this because??? A tuner may have your car acceptable in 3 hours, but if you want a true custom tune for your car, getting the best power from it, it may take more than 6 hours or so to do. You have to remember that these cars get tuned by flashing the ecu not live tuning. The tuner may spend an hour on the tune in the software adjusting the paremeters before even putting the car on the dyno. After the tuner does the dyno run to see what is what, he then has to make changes to the tune in the soft ware, then transfer the tune to the flash box which tales approx 2 minutes and then transfer it to the ECU which on a BA takes approx 4 minutes, so you are talking possibly 10 minutes between dyno runs to see what has affected what. That means approx 6 changes and hour, you could quite easily make more than 50 changes to get boost and fuel and power levels to the optimum for the car, and then if it is an auto driving the car to get the auto working as the customer would like it. There was talk a while back about some tuners just cuting and pasting an old tune into another car, but hey that's not custom tuning is it, but it is quick so it would be cheaper.