Just got back from spending the morning at PCS, with Ollie and Jack, albeit I expected to be there all day, to have a new AMG 80mm throttle body fitted, along with associated AMG parts, to replace my OEM one. Its been money well spent.
The fittment entails quite alot of dismantling of the engine, IC, and supercharger both have to come out, as does the fuel rail and numerous other parts, this made me very nervous of this treatment to my pride and joy. Ollie had not done this particular tb modification before, so I had done lots of research primarily on the US forums, where this had been done many times, mainly to reassure myself it was a mod worth doing and also to make sure I had dotted the I,s and crossed the t,s, if anything of unexpected nature arised during this operation.
Ollie and Jack just got on with it, with the odd look at my notes, by 12.15 the car was being refueled with coolant and being started, thrid pull (bear in mind the fuel rail had been out), it fired up, initially a little lumpy on tickover, Jack reved it up a little, and it settled down and ticked over as it use too. It was then put on Star, to check for problems, nothing found, 12.40PM Ollie had the car out on the road to test drive, car back together, no leaks, no error codes. Great job by the lads at PCS.
I then got to drive the car back home, aprox 50 miles, and whilst I have not driven it hard, as the ECU needs to got through a learning curve re the extra air intake, I did give it a few prolonged blips to see if there was any changes, the car is reving much more freely and definetly much more responsive, and whilst at the moment I did not appreciate any noticable diffence from intial take off, there is a big big difference from the 2K area, the car pulls a lot harder (and keeps going) than it did, albeit I only went to 5K today, I will give it 100 miles plus then see what it can do, wished I,d had this fitted for the Goodwood trackday we,ve just had, would have been very intresting to see how it faired.
This fittment has cost me about £1100, (one new part sourced from Ebay half price), fitted, general consenus in the US with this mod is around a 20BHP gain, and additional torque gains, and unless you knew the car well, the whole package is an AMG fittment parts wise, so looks totally OEM. There are other makers of this mod kit out there, but this I thought was good value for money.
The down side, one I forgot to take my camera with me, and two, am expecting the MPG to drop slightly.
Thanks again to PCS, Ollie and Jack, my hands are nice and soft now, spent most of the morning washing up the T cups LOL!
The fittment entails quite alot of dismantling of the engine, IC, and supercharger both have to come out, as does the fuel rail and numerous other parts, this made me very nervous of this treatment to my pride and joy. Ollie had not done this particular tb modification before, so I had done lots of research primarily on the US forums, where this had been done many times, mainly to reassure myself it was a mod worth doing and also to make sure I had dotted the I,s and crossed the t,s, if anything of unexpected nature arised during this operation.
Ollie and Jack just got on with it, with the odd look at my notes, by 12.15 the car was being refueled with coolant and being started, thrid pull (bear in mind the fuel rail had been out), it fired up, initially a little lumpy on tickover, Jack reved it up a little, and it settled down and ticked over as it use too. It was then put on Star, to check for problems, nothing found, 12.40PM Ollie had the car out on the road to test drive, car back together, no leaks, no error codes. Great job by the lads at PCS.
I then got to drive the car back home, aprox 50 miles, and whilst I have not driven it hard, as the ECU needs to got through a learning curve re the extra air intake, I did give it a few prolonged blips to see if there was any changes, the car is reving much more freely and definetly much more responsive, and whilst at the moment I did not appreciate any noticable diffence from intial take off, there is a big big difference from the 2K area, the car pulls a lot harder (and keeps going) than it did, albeit I only went to 5K today, I will give it 100 miles plus then see what it can do, wished I,d had this fitted for the Goodwood trackday we,ve just had, would have been very intresting to see how it faired.
This fittment has cost me about £1100, (one new part sourced from Ebay half price), fitted, general consenus in the US with this mod is around a 20BHP gain, and additional torque gains, and unless you knew the car well, the whole package is an AMG fittment parts wise, so looks totally OEM. There are other makers of this mod kit out there, but this I thought was good value for money.
The down side, one I forgot to take my camera with me, and two, am expecting the MPG to drop slightly.
Thanks again to PCS, Ollie and Jack, my hands are nice and soft now, spent most of the morning washing up the T cups LOL!