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Offline devilscaff

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16v tuning
« on: 04 October 2012, 20:51 »
Hi all,just had my 16v mot'd and it passed with much relief.The co was only 0.18% and the hc was only 214 which for an old car I was surprised but was told this was because it was running lean and was advised to get it tuned.To cut a long story short,does anybody know of any good people in the north essex or south sufolk area?

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #1 on: 05 October 2012, 12:36 »
you need to find and old skool tuner as most mechanics these days are just fitters, you can alter the mixture if you can use the exhaust gas anylyser at the mot station (or elsewhere) there is a small screw between the elbow on the airbox and the metering head, if you look from above it you will either see the tiny rubber bung that should be there but usually isn't or a little 6mm hole, in that hole is an allen key/torx key (can't remember which) screw that you turn to adjust the mixture, that's pretty much all they would do on a tuneup, or you could go for a rolling road tune, but ask them if they know how to alter the mixture first just incase you pay for the tuneup but they don't really do much to the car

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #2 on: 05 October 2012, 12:45 »
Look in the yellow pages, or whatever you kids use these days, and look for mobile diagnostic tuning. Make sure he's an old guy, and ask on the phone if he's done Mk2 Golf's before.

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #3 on: 05 October 2012, 18:26 »
just do it yourself using the guide for setting up 16v's in the tech section

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #4 on: 07 October 2012, 18:36 »
T and M auto electrical on whitehall industrial estate. The only place to take your golf. You should know this already. Rolling road tuning, very reasonable prices. Dyno printout to prove performance increase

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #5 on: 07 October 2012, 20:20 »
Cheers mk2bal, I've heard from one other sauce they were only good with carburettors but if you know different could you let's us know. By the way are you local to Colchester?

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #6 on: 08 October 2012, 08:08 »
usually if they can set up a carb they will be able to do the K-Jet system, it's all old skool stuff and takes a good (old) mechanic to do it right

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #7 on: 08 October 2012, 08:26 »
co should be 2% on those but to get best power most go for around 6%.


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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #8 on: 08 October 2012, 12:15 »
6%?!?! never heard of anyone running a 16v that rich. where you getting that info from?

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Re: 16v tuning
« Reply #9 on: 08 October 2012, 16:10 »
Wouldn't 6% make it an mot failure?