Alistair

Fuck this is going to be lols powerful when it's finished. 

More common in Evo's etc launching but does happen more than you think with twin plate clutches, obviously a lot more bite so the friction material might have been stronger than the spline internal, coupled with some sort of shock on it (in speaking to the supplier not rev matching on downshift with twinplates can sometimes cause this too).

Carrying on from the above, tune was unlocked through...methods...

I bought a W58 getting ready to replace the W55 and glass bead blasted it while I was at a customers servicing the room

Drove it to work one day about a month ago and got nearly all the way home. Stopped on the motorway offramp and  couldn't get back into gear. Managed to smash into second so drove it home like that and parked it up to get the box out.

Clutch slave body and pin had seen better days

Then took all the bellhousing bolts off and found no matter what levering I did I couldn't get it to pop off and it seemed to always spring back into place which indicated something was catching the pressure plate. Had Chris/EURON8 around again tonight and decided to holesaw the bellhousing to be able to undo the pressure plate bolts. Got that off and suddenly the box popped off without even levering and found the clutch plates looking like so...

This disc was free but had pretty fucked splines

This disc however has twisted and locked onto the input shaft. Even some hefty hammering hasn't freed it to allow the pressure plate and this disc to come off.

Both clutch discs have cracks and the plates inbetween have some pretty good gouges so need discs and plates at a minimum. Hopefully the flywheel section and pressure plate are salvageable.

So likely a bit more money to be spent to get it mobile again!

Did buy this lush gearknob in the interim from http://www.nostalgic-grains.com/ Laser engraved Rosewood

Whats meet

Aston Martin Vulcan in Ep4 was lush. The remainder of the show was fucking rubbish. Awkward, forced cack.

Episode 3 was a bit better than the first two, thanks to the inimitable Chris Harris and of course Rory Reid whose gushing over the new Focus RS makes me wish I hadn't passed up the chance to order one brand new

 

Almost flagged the final segment with Ken Block, the guy irritates me slightly. Was watchable enough though. Still skipped the rallycross segment. That Mini's shocks are going to fail spectacularly soon with the amount of jumping it gets subjected to.

 

Wonder if this new series will find its feet before the last episode airs in less than a month's time.

Loled at people online pointing out that older gen bone stock evos were cutting 12's while the fandangled new Focus RS ran 13.4's.

Picture of you rolling in hunnidz please

Bloody slick that is

R0tangklang keen

If new gearbox turns up in time and I get time to fit it I'll rock along to this too.

Think I'll trundle along to this

Sorry forgot to post, front of the car is apart while I redo redo all the wastegate vac hoses and a near split intercooler joiner so I'm out for this one. Will see you others at Caffiene & Classics at the end of the month!

Again pretty subjective but could be like getting the previous owner to do anything you wanted to change that they did.

Getting it sorted with a combination of them unlocking & adding in the old bits from a previous unlocked tune & getting it checked by someone else. They can eat a bag of deteriorated chodes

Yeah probably a bit far but I will not recommend them to a single soul wanting any form of performance work/tuning done.

Unsure tbh would have to plug lappy into the car later.

Is this Andrew r100s old one? Where is that?

Nah they're protecting their vendors so their only suggestion is factory reset if a tuner won't agree to unlock.

I wont say in case I do have to go further with it. PM me if you want the details to avoid them tuning a vehicle if you are wanting someone who doesn't lock their tunes. Reading a few ECU forums it appears a lot of people will avoid tuners who do this for that reason alone.

Lol, posted at the same time

In hunting I found this on another forum, posted by Andre Simon, ex Speedtech NZ owner, who has tuned a car of mine and I think it one of the most respected tuners not only in NZ, but worldwide:

As a rule I don’t ever password protect a tune (with the noted exception of the NZV8 parity issue you noted).

I believe the customer has paid for the tune, hence locking it is not fair or reasonable. This being said, many tuners do this to supposedly protect their IP. Personally I feel this just adds fuel to the debate that tuning is some kind of ‘black art’, and doesn’t really help anyone. If two tuners who both know what they are doing tuned the same engine, the results should be very similar, as should the maps.

Unless someone wanted to tune exactly the same engine combination in another car, copying the map would be futile anyway so what is the tuner really protecting?

Have you politely asked the tuner to unlock the map?

Pfft.

 

It's the tuner's choice to do this, and as long as the customer knows and agrees' I think it's fine. If you are buying the service, and don't like the IP protection, then go somewhere else.

 

If the tuner goes out of business is there a way to factory-rest the Link?

For more information, previous owner never signed anything agreeing to it. I also said that I would sign a document waving them of all legal rights with regards to the motor blowing up if something happened and they weren't interested.

It's just the tune that is locked so yes you can reset and start the tune from scratch.

Also legal recourse has been suggested but without knowing where I stand legally I could spend more on that than just getting someone else to retune who isn't going to lock it and is local to me.

Calm down Ed   the whole point was to discuss whether people agreed with me or agreed with the tuner in keeping it locked.

No right or wrong really until a solution is reached.

That solution may be me crying into my soy latte, or getting my tune unlocked.

Gettaloadathisguy.pdf

A performance shop assuming someone is never going to change their setup again?

Inbefore your v8 remains unmodified for the next 10 years 

Also if a customer moves out of town with the vehicle, are they expected to ship the vehicle to Auckland every time something needs to be tweaked? Who's covering that cost?

Doesn't necessarily apply to me however they are still an hour away from me to get to for any changes.