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Title: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: irmscher on 18 November 2011, 00:40
Just wanted to send a personal thanks to Craig from Carbon this week..

Some of you may know we are heavily involved in the Honda diesel tuning scene as the Honda iCTDI range is one of our signature cars.  I personally also co-own and run the largest Accord community dedicated to the 2004 onwards Accord's (typeaccord.co.uk)

One of our members had his car tuned by us last year, and this week took it to Carbon for a dyno run (unbeknown to me).

Now truthfully speaking, I've lost faith in a lot of dyno operators recently as we've seen everything from dyno operators deliberately tailing off early on runs or increasing load on the rollers to manipulate figures and try and make it look like the remap is poor.. and then surprise surprise, offer the customer a 'better' remap for oh.. say £250  :rolleyes:  I'm also seeing so many tuners slating each other... instead of focussing on improving their own work, tuners seem to be trying to discredit everyone else.

Anyways I was genuinely heartened to see a plot being posted by this member on our forum showing a perfect dyno run and figure of 179bhp (we quote 180bhp on our standard Stage 1 for the Accord).  The member didn't tell me it was done on Carbon's rollers.. but Craig then wrote to me himself to let me know, and compliment us on our work.

This to me speaks volumes about the sort of bloke he is, and the sort of people Carbon are; Honest, sincere and confident enough in their own work to be able to compliment another tuner when they see good work.

Anyways, just wanted to share that with you as afterall all the crap I've seen on various forums between tuners recently, this really struck a chord with me.  I would have no hesitation in recommending Craig and Carbon to anyone.

Cheers mate

Fahad.
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: The Doc on 18 November 2011, 11:42
Thanks mate, please pop up your graphs here so people can see the fruits of your labour  :wink:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: daz veedub on 18 November 2011, 14:16
 :cool:  :cool:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: irmscher on 18 November 2011, 15:43
Here you go guys.  These cars are 138bhp/251lbft stock.  And this is our standard Stage 1.

We also offer a Stage 2 @ 192bhp/330lbft

And finally this year we introduced our EGR OFF mod which is a genuine unique to us (many tuners have tried and failed to close the EGR loop on the honda ictdi range).

(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q308/irmschercoupe/HONDA_EN.gif)
(http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q308/irmschercoupe/HONDA_WH.gif)
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: Rhyso on 18 November 2011, 15:46
That's smoooooooooooooooooooooooth  :cool:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: Will@carbon on 20 November 2011, 10:08
Very nice map, what more could you ask for from a remap!
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: irmscher on 20 November 2011, 10:54
 :cool:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: Rhyso on 20 November 2011, 16:52
Very nice map, what more could you ask for from a remap!

To run on air and make a cuppa  :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: irmscher on 20 November 2011, 17:15
^^ we're working on it ;)  It's part of our bespoke Stage 4 offering.
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: dom on 20 November 2011, 18:08
That's a very impressive graph! :cool:
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: jfscooby86 on 21 November 2011, 12:56
i must say that graph is impressive far smoother than mine was on my 1.8t 20v
Title: Re: Thank you to Craig from Carbon
Post by: irmscher on 22 November 2011, 23:38
Bear in mind it's a Honda diesel engine, they're engineered quite differently but all our maps are developed in this way for all our vehicle applications i.e. smooth linear and progressive power.