Following my previous post, "Pre- SVA Trials", sadly time has run out and I have had to postpone my SVA for the time being.

The problems were noise and emissions. The ECU needed upgrading before it could be re-mapped and although GEMS did a fantastic turn-round on my unit, the programme bore no resemblance to the original and the engine hardly ran with the upgrade so this means a total re-map on the rolling road. The exhaust people had promised a two day tun round but this stretched into more than a week and because the engine did not run properly, they were unable to carry out a meaningful noise test. They are confident that their mods will have done the trick but we shall have to wait and see. Currently, the car is in a queue at the rolling road awaiting attention so all in all, quite disappointing. It is also disappointing to see the car picking up superficial damage while it has been in the two workshops all before it has actually been on the road.

I am sure many of you have been down this road where all your work is done and everything ready but with hold ups outside your control which is all very frustrating.

I keep telling myself that it doesn't matter and that there is no deadline but being so close, I just want to get SVA over with.

Right, that's got it off my chest, thank you for listening.

atb

John

What a pain. Look on the bright side with the updated ECU you will get better control of spark and fueling so it will go faster, the exhaust will sound a treat and when you finally get to drive it in January/February/March/April (delete as appropriate ) you will enjoy it all the more. er, no right first time, what a pain!

Yes, you are quite right, I'm just being impatient. There really is no hurry and I hadn't intended registering it until the New Year so that it would be a 2008 rather than 2007.

Cheers

John

You could just sit the test and fail it.

Then you know what else you've gotta sort ready for the re-test when the engine/exhaust is sorted.

Cheers,
James

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Xmas pressie maybe?

[Edited on 11/12/07 by James]

quote: You could just sit the test and fail it.

I could if I had the car!

No, I thought it better get everything as right as possible to reduce the list that I'm sure to get from the Tester.

John