Troubleshooting Enrita powa

[enrita]

Opening this thread to gather ideas in how to troubleshoot my engine powa. Since the engine rebuild i could not get decent 100-200 kph Vbox times. I blaimed first injectors, occurring missfires, transmission, tune etc. but now the car runs very well with no codes, smooth etc but powa seems not there.
The car revs slow, feels like something is holding it back.
For comparison my best 100-200 kph was 7.86 sec on jb3 18 months ago with 2 persons in the car.
Big tom does it in 8.2 sec 1 person in the car (as far as i know) on stock turbos.

All the following runs are taken with just me in the car , full tank and around 30 kg in the boot.
this run was a 10 sec run, stage 3 alpha cobb with jb4 adding 2 psi.


Follows stage 2aggr with jb4 also adding around 2 psi on top, this run yield if i remember correnctly around 9.2 sec.


Than jb4 only (using a cobb 12afr stock map and upping pressure to 90, no biasing) map 7 and map 6. One of this runs was 9.4 sec.


and all vd together


so whats going on?

Possible causes:
- Engine rebuild just putting out low power
- Ported head messing up
- 100 Cell cats creating too much exhaust back pressure for the boost
- Turbos are crap
- Cams?

Trans is not slipping.
No codes and well running engine
Using 2xCM7 nozzles 70-30 mix
I noticed yesterday checking my AEM gauge that the EGT probe 1 was showing 500 F more than bank 2 . What could cause this? This happened another time but than it got back to normal so think is missreading.

[Autobahn335i]

I'm not an expert, but I can't imagine the cats creating a huge backpressure to induce such a huge loss. If any at all, that would cost a few hp. There are many people with upgraded turbos and some cats in place running whithout issues.

To check how much your performance is off, do you have the possibility to get 100-200km/h vbox times from a car with similar mods, on and off Meth? Marcel's car comes to mind (although MT)? As he's also running Cobb you could try the same map, and that would be helpful to take the tune and/or the Meth system out of the equation.

[R1000K3]

8.3 s for my car 100-200 km/h with stock turbos and meth 70/30. Need to look more into Enritas logs before start suggesting things.

[R1000K3]

Possible causes:
- Engine rebuild just putting out low power
- Ported head messing up
- 100 Cell cats creating too much exhaust back pressure for the boost
- Turbos are crap
- Cams?

Trans is not slipping.
No codes and well running engine
Using 2xCM7 nozzles 70-30 mix
I noticed yesterday checking my AEM gauge that the EGT probe 1 was showing 500 F more than bank 2 . What could cause this? This happened another time but than it got back to normal so think is missreading.

You can start to discard all items from the suspect list that were the same in the 7.86 second run. The idea of a check list journal is good. From what I can see the only difference is the porting, perhaps also the race-cats? But i don't suspect the cats since boost is fine.

The timing seems too low in logs.

[R1000K3]

The tune is different too? Or have you tested with JB4 only w/o the Cobb Tune?

[themyst]

Maybe the turbos are crap? Nothing in your logs indicate a hardware issue.

[R1000K3]

Maybe the turbos are crap? Nothing in your logs indicate a hardware issue.

They may not be in pair with RB's but they were used in the 7.86s run, which is quite good.

[Autobahn335i]

Maybe disconect the downpipes and give the turbos a visual check? IIR you said they didn't get damaged when the engine went. But possibly the damage wasn't detectable immediately?

[dzenno@PTF]

I remember when I was injtially looking at your logs and discussing with Shiv we were both surprised at the same boost level and timing (20psi and stock timing) your trims were at zero while mine with RBs were maxing out big time as well as Shiv's on ASR turbos back then. This is indicative of a car not hungry for fuel, in turn meaning that its not making the same power. If it was it would max those trims out.

I'd start with a compression and a leakdown test first.

[LostMarine]

its the cobb timing, it too conservative to be fast. run some racefuel/meth, jb4 onl6, 18 psi, and see what you get

[654]

Only the race cats and porting are different.
Drop the exhaust - cats included - and see if the cats are to be blamed. If not, something has gone wrong in porting.

[R1000K3]

I remember when I was injtially looking at your logs and discussing with Shiv we were both surprised at the same boost level and timing (20psi and stock timing) your trims were at zero while mine with RBs were maxing out big time as well as Shiv's on ASR turbos back then. This is indicative of a car not hungry for fuel, in turn meaning that its not making the same power. If it was it would max those trims out.

I'd start with a compression and a leakdown test first.

That would be a good starting point. But 20 PSI is a lot and if the air is dense the engine should ask for a lot of fuel not to run lean. Perhaps the turbos are very effective at low RPM's but not at high RPM's where real power is made.

Strange though they supported a 7.86s run earlier if the design is bad, and this may indicate there is something else as you say and a leak down test is needed.

[654]

Actually, you should first see what happens if you go back to the JB3 that got you the quick 100-200 time. Then drop the exhaust still with JB3 in. that should get you to the same status you were back then, except the porting. If you still are not performing, its the porting.

[R1000K3]

Actually, you should first see what happens if you go back to the JB3 that got you the quick 100-200 time. Then drop the exhaust still with JB3 in. that should get you to the same status you were back then, except the porting. If you still are not performing, its the porting.

JB3 is not recommended at these levels and the status can be different by other reasons like if something has failed or the cams are offset.

[dzenno@PTF]

Cams not being timed properly when they were installed back on the car could very well be the issue here...especially given enrita's had some strange misfires that were hard to explain and troubleshoot

In any case, its not the tuning..I'm running the same map as @enrita and the car is a beast

[Big Tom]

For comparison my best 100-200 kph was 7.86 sec on jb3 18 months ago with 2 persons in the car.
Big tom does it in 8.2 sec 1 person in the car (as far as i know) on stock turbos.

8.0 s to be precise.

I really hope you'll find the cause for all this, because you really earn it by now...
Don't give up!

[Autobahn335i]

Actually, you should first see what happens if you go back to the JB3 that got you the quick 100-200 time. Then drop the exhaust still with JB3 in. that should get you to the same status you were back then, except the porting. If you still are not performing, its the porting.

His engine blew when he was running the JB3 so that's really not an option. Still can't believe the cats are to blame, unless they're clogged for some reason? 100cell cats should create next to no backpressure.

[Tzu]

When was your last compression test?

[themyst]

its the cobb timing, it too conservative to be fast. run some racefuel/meth, jb4 onl6, 18 psi, and see what you get

Thats not true at all.

[themyst]

They may not be in pair with RB's but they were used in the 7.86s run, which is quite good.

I don't know how to measure 100-200 km times in regard to good and bad, but I'd guess a .5 second difference is conclusive that the car is not making near the same power as RBs.

[LostMarine]

Thats not true at all.

im betting it is

[dzenno@PTF]

LM he's run JB4 only as well with similar results..as well as procede

[R1000K3]

I don't know how to measure 100-200 km times in regard to good and bad, but I'd guess a .5 second difference is conclusive that the car is not making near the same power as RBs.

The time difference to Enritas 7.86 run 100-200 km/h vs. dzenno's time 6.53 is far more than one second, which is huge. I agree RB's are phenomenal vs. TD's comparing these figures. The time difference can also have other roots, e.g. that dzenno's concept is much more optimized and he is using a monster IC with large core and fittings.

[themyst]

The time difference to Enritas 7.86 run 100-200 km/h vs. dzenno's time 6.53 is far more than one second, which is huge. I agree RB's are phenomenal vs. TD's comparing these figures. The time difference can also have other roots, e.g. that dzenno's concept is much more optimized and he is using a monster IC with large core and fittings.

I think it's too much speculation on something that could be so simple. The difference between LM and dzennos car and enrita is the turbos.

[R1000K3]

I think it's too much speculation on something that could be so simple. The difference between LM and dzennos car and enrita is the turbos.

We don't even know if the cams are correctly set in Enritas car so it is a bit early to trash his turbos IMHO. And if he could return to well below 8 seconds as before it would save a lot of money compared to ditch the turbos. Personally I would go for a single turbo if I needed to change the concept. But the play-money is right now spent on providing the moped with a decent turbo.