Zakie@TIC

Hi Rupesh, Thanks mate, just got home this morning after being away for almost a month, my tour to S.E. Asia was mainly to support Dinesh Jayawardena with his EK9 which he took part in the Super 1600 event, a support event during the A1 GP in Sepang last month. As I had all my equipment with me and seeing the immense potential for such jobs in the region I just went ahead and explored the market with some success. To cut a long story short, hopefully you'll see a few TIC branches in that region soon. Atleast for the past six months the word has been out that we have the equipment and the backing to carry out tuning jobs for almost any euro car and now 90% of the new Jap models too. I'm yet to see the enthusiasm about it except a handful, it could be bcos of the economic situ we're faced with. Now with fuel prices coming down hope things take a turn for the better for the performance industry. I have no plans to Dubai at the moment as I have trip to Bombay next month for a organised motor show and also the guys in MY & SG wants me back there in Jan. Cheers

The P11 should be possible, need to have look at the ECU to confirm. If you're referring to Toyota, no hope except going aftermarket stand-alone or piggyback. You get some other OBD1's which are very much tuner friendly like the Honda and Nissans.

Only a few of them are tuner friendly at the moment, the ones with Bosch ECU's. RnD is currently going on to crack the Denso ECU that come on the Toyotas. We have a piggyback solution thou.

Kris, its a custom tuned reflash. No Piggy-Backs or any external devices. Support for your car should be there but need to have look at the ECU to confirm. For most cars the reflash is just off the OBD port. You're always free to drop in, all new models from Mazda are possible but as for the older ones need to check the ECU out.

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Carb Honda's do come with a EACV (Mounted somewhere on the IM) try cleaning it, should be just fine.

He is just celebrating his 2nd anniversary of being 29

Yes,

A Beemer or a VAG will be a lot safer than a civic or any of those Jap rides u mention, but a civic is real bang for the buck for mods. Any way now you can even get your euro ride sorted in Colombo without much of a hassle n $$$$

yes...first check the basics like the sensor itself or a lose wire connecting the sensor could give such intermittent issues. If it is the case when the engine is hot, then your in trouble as it could be that you're losing oil pressure.

FYI the 300Z comes with a tuner friendly ecu, if you haven't heard the old chinese saying "Good things no cheap, Cheap things no good"

Hey Rupesh, Congrats bro! Thanks for the kind words, I'm really glad that all our time and effort came good. My apologies for showing up a lil late in this forum as been somewhat busy running around. Now lets get a few more things right and aim for that top spot. Cheers Zakie

That car hasn't come back for tuning since the turbo was mounted, wonder if its still in the paint/bodykit shop. Except for the turbo kit n ecu everything else is pretty much stock.

The right setup yes you can, you'll need a good tune, injectors, map sensor, In/Ex manifolds but I wouldn't risk it. For reliability you would need to build up the bottom.

A properly done (Turbo) D series would throw s'ting like 300hp....

Thats fine, ideally it should go to zero on WOT (atmosphere) and approx. 40 immediately on off throttle, before its settles at idle.

Dude, Entry Level: a'ting slower than that you're better off back of a lawn mover, well... its a good thing even in stage of your life that you want to get on to an open wheeler, nothing like it. Former owner of colombo prokarts probably has them dumped somewhere which he wouldn't mind parting for some cash I guess. You will have do some repair work before driving any of it. Pilawoos: FYI, that was not a pro kart my friend, was the real thing with a Yamaha 2 stroke motor, sold it few years back after quiting Go Karting.

Dude, Entry Level: a'ting slower than you're better off on back of a lawn mover,

Being in main stream motor sports for this long, competing and helping out at official race meets. I would rather be involved in a properly organised drag event. Alls not over yet, lets see how we could pull it off in the near future. I must admit that I do enjoy a occasional night drag.

Its sad alright that we couldn't pull this off and all thanks to the governing body of motorsports in Sri Lanka, boys just stick to the illegal sat/sun night drags. As far as I know, nowhere in the world that they (governing bodies) insist on roll cages for standard cars running a drag event. We don't have to go too far, just look at India how they run the off. drags. FROM WHAT I GATHER AND PLS CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. ITS VERY INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT SLAS (the local motor-sports governing body) HAS ISSUED THE PERMIT TO SLARDER TO CONDUCT THE "SLARDAR 1000 RALLY" OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT, WHICH IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN A FEW WEEKS FROM NOW WITH ROLL CAGES NOT BEING MADE MANDATORY ON THE COMPETING D'CABS EXCEPT THE SOFT TOPS. Here we're running 2 cars on a devided 400 metre straight line on a controlled environment and they insist roll cages. A rally run over 100's of miles with special stages do not require a roll cage. Very often on rallies drivers do go way beyond legal speed limits even in densely populated areas trying to catch lost time. Well people this is how it works in our land, now you can see why motor-sports is on a such high in our country. PS: To get around all this, the clubs have a an event and call it a members day... at this point, all the rules are out the window

Madz, great idea lets make it happen n since ur call this afternoon I have been working on some classes and regs which I will let you know soon. I would luv to see a one make all motor class for the sohc Honda Sedan's (EF, EG & Ek), which would help to even out comp, hope most of you would agree.

The min requirement for the conversion would be: EFI fuel tank with pump, SOHC VTEC head with dizzy, intake / exhaust manifolds, wire harness and a chipped ecu. This combo would give you the great mini swap assuming the present block is in good shape.

Why haven't you looked at the option of converting your Grand Civic with a EFI-VTEC motor, if you're happy with every thing else with this car I think you should look at this option cos in the least you'll have a better power to weight ratio than any EG/EK sedan can offer.

If you are up for the game, I got a half prepared GTiR if you like. It doesn't have to be like that when there's s'ting called team work and team orders Lol.

Pilawoos: Its one better than Hondata's S200, similar to their S300. Yes, I'm moving on to most other makes as well for ecu's, mitsu's and subaru's next. Mazda and Toyota's hopefully within this year. Optimization/Diagnostics available for all make even now. Cheers