Mod options ?

[TTM]

ORIGINAL: sawood12
The Vitesse MAF [...] is 100% [...] plug and play.

Cough cough... [8|]
"Plug & play" in the American sense of the term, i.e. you still have to butcher your wiring loom and do lots of fiddling with the soldering gun.

 

[sawood12]

OK, so it's solder and play!

 

[Hilux]

Also as am unlikely to end up at any track days am not sure whether I will get much benefit from an extra say 40bhp other than in willy-waving at a dyno day.

So am thinking maybe the money would be better spent on KW suspension, big black brakes and maybe a MAF to make her that much more enjoyable/capable in "real life" day to day driving. What do my fellow modders reckon ?

I think you`ve summed it up yourself []

On the road you dont really need better brakes. Better pads (and although not necessary) better fluid will transform them. Try PF pads but paint your wheels black as the dust is aggresive (read HOT) and burns into wheel lacquer however the improvement is absolutely awesome - honestly.

KW suspension will also transform the car along with slightly lowering it and bring its dynamics bang up to date. It also adds (as if it needs it) cornering confidence and ability on the road and copes with bumps and potholes unlike other types. However people forget the suspension dynamics are a package and dont include the ARB`s in their equation so in order to benefit fully you`ll need to think about uprating those for a truly flat cornering experience although for primarily road use not absolutely necessary.

Together with a mild chip from Promax for example (270 ish bhp) you`ll have a quicker, better running, more controlled, dynamic car for reasonable money and will realise that you dont need much more power on the road.

Mine is standard power with KW, standard pads on the road (feel way soft compared to PF but are perfectly adequate), stays with most things and if chased up the chuff by others they invariably bottle it on the bends []

 

[edh]

ORIGINAL: TTM

ORIGINAL: sawood12
The Vitesse MAF [...] is 100% [...] plug and play.

Cough cough... [8|]
"Plug & play" in the American sense of the term, i.e. you still have to butcher your wiring loom and do lots of fiddling with the soldering gun.

not exactly "butchery" Thom - There's a small extra connector that's worth having to avoid cutting the AFM cabling, you need a 12V supply for the MAF, and you put a resistor into each of the 2 DME-injector circuits. Not much harder than fitting a radio []

- oh yes, PF brake dust doesn't just eat into your wheels - it also turns your shiny bodywork to a nice matt finish []

 

[Hilux]

it also turns your shiny bodywork to a nice matt finish

I kept quiet about that one [8|][8|] only the front wings mind or was yours worse [&o]

 

[edh]

doors & front part of the rear wings as well [] - It's not just PF pads that will do that - DS 3000 has quite a reputation as well

 

[Flick]

ORIGINAL: edh

doors & front part of the rear wings as well [] - It's not just PF pads that will do that - DS 3000 has quite a reputation as well

What does PF stand for? Porterfield?

 

[Peter Empson]

PF = Performance Friction.

Porterfield will do the same too, but with regular cleaning each week and immediate cleaning after trackdays the worst you should see if some ingrained dirt on the difficult bits of the wheels after a few years.

 

[TTM]

ORIGINAL: edh
not exactly "butchery" Thom - There's a small extra connector that's worth having to avoid cutting the AFM cabling, you need a 12V supply for the MAF, and you put a resistor into each of the 2 DME-injector circuits.

Well, to me this still isn't quite "plug & play" and anyway I was slightly exagerating as in my mind I was also including wiring the Piggyback which is even less "plug & play", as you can see []

 

[edh]

That's put me right off buying the piggyback! []

 

[Diver944]

The MAF itself is incredibly simple to fit (I did it and anything to do with wiring scares me silly) and for a small extra cost John will sell you a seperate connector so there is no wire cutting required at all.

If you need the Piggyback as well then that is a bit more involved so I let JMG do mine []

 

[TTM]

I would be interested to see what this "separate connector" looks like as there doesn't seem to be any of it in the kit I received.

 

[Diver944]

It's not part of the kit it's an extra option.

Basically it's a short wire with a plug to fit into the Porsche AFM connector on one end and a plug to fit onto the Vitesse MAF at the other

I think it was $50 which is why I was more than happy to simply cut my AFM plug off and solder a couple of wires to fit the MAF plug

 

[TTM]

Thanks, this is what I thought.

I find slightly pathetic that such a part that is probably worth €0.1 and significantly improve user-friendlyness is not included in the base kit. This is the sort of detail that would make the MAF a truly "plug & play" unit.