BNR stage 3's (470whp 400tq)

[RICE RACING]

Originally Posted by ball joint

Rice, what is your opinion on the VBOX mini? Not looking to break the bank here but I definitely need to buy one of these for future tuning purposes.

Also Rice, what is your opinion on my wastegate mod? It seems to work great at holding the boost but I just wanted your opinion in case I overlooked something.

I started out with a vbox mini, it is a great unit, I combine it with a mim01 (mini input module) to log variables on various test cars.

I just bought the same set up for the institute where I teach, it was around $3250 or so (will take a photo next week of the set up @ work) the only real difference to the performance box drift box option and micro input module, is you can input in EGT probes, more channels and the use of VBOX tools software (if you seriously test etc) and the mim01 is a quality unit that you can use with any other VBOX product later on if you upgrade.

Race logic make a tonne of stuff, but the beauty of the vbox mini and lower spec derivatives is they are self contained, robust designs, they can be transferred between cars, and see the results instantly etc, great for impromptu highway drags or track tests etc etc.

We use ours for brake testing, power testing, data logging, circuit testing predictive lap timing etc.... it is real handy and real easy to use.




Your WG mods look good to me

[RICE RACING]

http://www.velocitybox.co.uk/index.p...vbox-mini.html

^ No more need for a drag track
No more need for a dyno either

hell do not even need integrated logging! (this is how I tuned the ND4SPD Capella on my web site with this instrument and my Autronic B Model AFR meter, on garbage ghetto microwreck ECU lol. Note how flat the AFR curve is on the dyno at Summernats dyno competition when it went there to this day no one has ever made so much power consistently on a true street car that runs on proper common fuel *and it was never tuned for 'power' on a dyno just road tuning on the VBOX*
All with the power of VBOX mini. You will see stacks of info on my web page on the water injection page with a VBOX min data log of that car.


It's a top little unit.... highly recommend it.
For tuning I have a quick simple harness where you can back probe certain signals, fit up your own map sensor or various sensors and away you go, it is very simple and quite quick once you get your set up sorted.. I've done hundreds of cars this way and the beauty of the VBOX Tools system is I have them ALL on file and ALL are comparable to each other, so endless reports and analysis can be done across set ups..... and this is half the battle when you are doing allot of this.

What I love about my VBOX system more than any dyno is I have the dyno part (arguable more realistic than any dyno system in terms of figures it gives!) but I also have the performance figures, which customers love to see! as I say in my web page, its no good having one which does not correlate to the other!!! you always hear the excuse of 'dyno is just a tuning tool' when the reality does not match the theory....... with a VBOX both match! it is the best system around.

At the end of the day its just a good simple modern electronic version of what I was doing 20 years ago when my eng lecturer told me how to test cars using physics, and is exactly the same as what Author Hugh McInnes talks about in the famous iconic book called "How to select and Install TURBOCHARGERS" from the 1970's (the original and still the best text). I used to do all of this shit by hand, now with the VBOX It's automated and superbly accurate and repeatable and fully automated.