From China with Love

[nismodrifter]

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nice!!!

[Danaldson]

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looks great man! i strongly recommend picking up a set of white led peanut bulbs for the city light. It really brings the lights together imo. looking fresh!
http://store.concept1.ca/store/produ...ed-White-Each/

[kujiwara]

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Thanks guys, does anyone know where in Calgary have a wall and 30ft flat ground to aim my headlights...... Like seriously........Such as an underground parkade.

Here is the best ever info for adjusting ecode lights. http://www.angelfire.com/droid/reefvw/aim.html

[BolideVW]

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Looks great jerry. I think that headlights are my facorite mod on mkiv's, especially jetta's.

[kujiwara]

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Looks great jerry. I think that headlights are my facorite mod on mkiv's, especially jetta's.

Thanks! They're probably one of my favorites too, I loved them since the Bora R came out in 05. When I got my car I didn't know there were replicas so the OEM pricing held me back until you posted the part out thread lol.

[RobG]

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Did you rewire your HID's to stay on with your high beams?

[kujiwara]

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Did you rewire your HID's to stay on with your high beams?

Not sure what you mean but when I pull the lever(to flash the high beams) the low beams stay on, but when I push the lever(to stay on high beam) the low beams go out.

[RobG]

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The high beams are great for distance, but do not have a very wide spread. When these lights were installed from the factory, they were wired like a Golf where both lights stay on together.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1167457

[kujiwara]

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Played with unisettings with my buddy for two hours today, we mainly foucused on the ignition timing angle settings.
I already have a unitronic stage 1+ tune so I know the setting will work on my ecu if I don't pull too much timing, not sure if this will work on a stock ecu.
I first logged the timing values at 2000rpm at idle, the timing was 33.8BTDC.
Then I added 1.5 degrees of timing(which means advancing 1.5 degrees. We logged values after 5min of normal driving, the timing is 35.3BTDC which is spot on, but my buddy and I didn't feel much difference. So we increased to 3.75degrees and we repeated the logging procedure, the timing went to 37.5BTDC, I didn't feel much difference but my buddy said the car pulled harder. Then we added another 1.5 degrees of timing via unisettings with a total of +5.25 degrees, and wow the car pulled much harder, we are talking much harder even with a very hot engine after 30min of hard testing. I was able to reach 39.1BTDC with 94 octane, we tried to dial more timing but it wouldn't fo higher that 39.3BTDC so we dialed it back to +5.25 and called it a day. I wouldn't recommond you pulling this much timing if you are only running 91, you might be able to add 2-3 degrees before the ecu starts dialing it back.

[tirerub]

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^^^ how much was the ecu pulling at those advancements ? I'd be comfortable with it pulling 3 deg up top. Water meth would help out too

[kujiwara]

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^^^ how much was the ecu pulling at those advancements ? I'd be comfortable with it pulling 3 deg up top. Water meth would help out too

The ecu was pretty much pulling what i added to it(+5.25), 39.1degrees BTDC, any more than +6.00 got dialed back by the ecu.

[tirerub]

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The ecu was pretty much pulling what i added to it(+5.25), 39.1degrees BTDC, any more than +6.00 got dialed back by the ecu.

That's pretty good advancement for a N/a car. Happen to have the logs? Timing pull versus rpm?

[kujiwara]

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That's pretty good advancement for a N/a car. Happen to have the logs? Timing pull versus rpm?

I only logged the timing in neutral, I did from 1600-3200rpm with increments of 200rpm, didn't go any higher because I didn't want to blow my car up.. However when I hold the rev steady, the timing is always 39.1BTDC, it doesn't matter if I'm at 1600 or 3200. Before the advancement, the logged values were all 33.8BTDC at a steady rev.

[tirerub]

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To be most accurate you should be logging under load, hense why dyno tuning is done in gear.
I'd do a third gear from 2000 rpm to what's you're redline 7k? Wot the whole time

[kujiwara]

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To be most accurate you should be logging under load, hense why dyno tuning is done in gear.
I'd do a third gear from 2000 rpm to what's you're redline 7k? Wot the whole time

KK, I'll try that some time next week if I'm going on the highway.