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Offline reevio

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clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« on: April 17, 2011, 09:19:17 pm »

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 10:30:16 pm »
Good to see some progress, it sounds very rich, how is the timing looking?
What injector setup and triggering are you using?

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 09:03:21 am »
its running a map that gunni wrote for a 2.0 on throttle bodies with 380cc injectors mines running 300cc and im yet to get it paired with my laptop

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 11:00:08 am »
Fantastic I had a volvo 480 1.7 turbo which I got up to 300 bhp running megasquirt and whooping great big turbo and custom cams

I miss it!

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 01:23:54 pm »
300bhp on standard internals good going that though they were only good for about 250bhp

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 01:31:19 pm »
Like anything the limit is how far you want to push the boundary  ;D  head was ported the works

one guy has a supercharged and turbo charged 1.7 volvo engine, now that was an animal

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2011, 03:03:59 pm »
yeah richard pruen was running about 350 bhp he did my original stock ecu before i insalled the vems

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Re: clio 1.7 volvo turbo
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2011, 11:13:33 am »
had gunni come over yesterday as hes not far from me got the car running abit better and sorted out why it wouldnt connect to my laptop was due to a broken wire in the port that plugs into my lead on the ecu side resoldered on and is now fine couple of niggles to sort then should be good to get it moted