great post Jonny, good to see someone is looking at the bigger picture.

2: yes a modified version of the stock ecu (standard map of course) didnt do a dyno reading and didnt see the point. Developed a problem later on that through a process a of elimination later was found to be in the loom itself. Was unpredictable and it sucked

3: I am going to try something further with the cold air duct but yeah otherwise for the greater part your right its done.

4: Got the wolf V4 fitted. I am tottaly confused why you think it would have the same power seeing that 20V ECU's are known to have completely rich mixtures above either mid load or mid revs and also that everyone has gained significant power increases with a new tune. This also includes me. See the pic below:



5 + 6: I am unsure of having an engine that has long agresive duration camshafts and therefore have to get rid of my VVT. I respect you for going down that road but I think at most I will go to 270 degree cams to still keep the VVT. I do however have an adjustable T3 gear that I will fit to the exhuast gear and experiment with.

7: Later, I have some spool rods and some ARP main studs sitting here ready.

I do plan on still doing the following: better cold air intake, a new low mount intake airbox, coilpacks, more intake and exhaust tuning, putting my modded blacktop head on and some bottom end work.

The reason I am thinking about doing this now is I have the resources available right now, would be cheap for me to do and would work with any other modifications I would do in the future.

So your right about the flowbench, its something I thought about doing before but didnt get around to looking more into it. This is a good a project as ever for it.