We’ve had Charlie’s AstraVan 1.9cdti in with us for a good while now.

The last time it was in, it left with 251bhp 583nm

Now after hours and hours of software alterations, diagnostics and hardware issues, its leaving us this time with pretty much 285bhp 600nm

Dialling in the 1.9 R80 high pressure fuel pump and 2200 fuel pressure regulator, we found issues with fuel delivery. Whether this is down to a different flow rate from the 1.9 R80 compared to the 2.4 Alfa R80 or a faulty 1.9 R80, we will have to wait until its pressure tested.

After switching over to the 2.4 Alfa R80 Fuel pump, we found a lot more fuel available.

We have seen an increase of 5bhp from the water meth on its lowest setting, but most importantly, a huge drop of 200 deg in EGT temps.

This isnt the final figures just yet, as we have a couple of hardware changes to account for and then run up on the dyno to check the effects.

This isnt about chasing figures on this vehicle, the task was to make it safer, which with EGT’s of around 600deg at WOT, we have achieved that ?

Spec:

✅ Milltek Sport Turbo Back Exhaust With Sports Cat
✅ AIRTEC Motorsport Front Mount Intercooler
✅ 80mm MAF
✅ 4bar MAP Sensor
✅ ‘327’ Injectors
✅ Turbo Dynamics 1756 Spec Hybrid Turbo
✅ 2.4 R80 Fuel Pump
✅ 2200 Fuel Pressure Regulator
✅ Devilsown Water/methanol Injection

❇️ VXR brakes all round
❇️ Quaife LSD is already fitted to the uprated bearing M32 box
❇️ Uprated Clutch

Another big thankyou to Charlie for allowing us to work on his van, and not to mention leaving it with us for even longer than planned ?

This time round wasnt straight forward in the slightest, but unknown time scale and custom software development come hand in hand. Which is what sets us apart from the rest offering mapping ??

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2019 Spec

Remember Charlie’s 1.9cdti AstraVan we mentioned waaaaaay back in February?

Well, after 100+ dyno runs...over 120 hours of datalogging + map tweaks, 33 individual software versions, we have a final figure ?

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