ARTech Tuning Ltd :: Engine tuning specialists in Guildford, Surrey. Custom tuning on Honda with eCtune, S300, Kpro, K100, etc.

Our CRX featured in Banzai magazine! Dec 2009 edition!

Anouar Bannouri — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:28:00 +0000

The Banzai team came to the garage early in November to take amazing pictures (thanks to Phil Steinhardt, dude, you rock...) and to discuss the specs of our little track rocket.

The feature is here ...

ARTech Tuning CRX at Lydden Hill - Video of a session on Youtube

Anouar Bannouri — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:00 +0100

First time we got the CRX on track since the engine build. The power seem to be here, the soundtrack is definitely a good one. We need to sort out a few cooling issues, and we should be good for hours of fun :)

BHP Performance - Saturday 19/09/2009

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:18:00 +0100

Saturday we went to Lydden Hill race track in Kent, with the INVO Auto team.

It was the first outing on track of the CRX since we rebuilt it, and the first real stress test on the engine. We were happy to see that the chassis now very well balanced, and the car behaves in a very neutral/predictable way when pushed. The engine felt stronger as we were racking up the mileage, and the sounds it was giving was a real crowd pleaser! The new custom exhaust keeps the dB down whilst still allowing for plenty of flow. As it was the first track test, we've been able to see that cooling is still an area where we need to work, as after 5/6 laps the temperature where rising too much. The fan decided to have a mind of its own, which didn't help either!

We are going to work on the cooling over the next few days, and will try to get the car back on track as soon as possible.

Thanks again to INVO Auto for introducing us to this new track (to us anyway).

Here are a few pics of the day, until I put the videos online.

ARTech S2000 widebody APR Performance - TMac shoot

Anouar Bannouri — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

TMac (aka Guillaume) came down with some friends to get a few cars remapped last weekend.

These are the shots he got from our s2000.

More picture on Tmac's website : Tmac photography

TRAX 2009 in Silverstone. ARTech widebody s2000 to promote the release of Fast and Furious on Blu Ray

Anouar Bannouri — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:49:00 +0100

More pictures soon!

Thanks to Richard Pardon for the pictures...

T1R Evo X exhaust 76S available from ARTech Tuning in Europe

Anouar Bannouri — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:21:00 +0100

T1R Evo X exhaust 76S available!

These have been very popular in the US and therefore were out of stock for a while. A New shipment will be at the main warehouse next weekend. Price delivered in the UK inc VAT/duty/etc and with WARRANTY is £865.

Click on the picture for the link to our shop.

Email us at sales@artech-tuning.co.uk for a shipping quote anywhere else.

ARTech Tuning S2000 demo car out of the paint room

Anouar Bannouri — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:47:00 +0100

no need to say more...

But actually yes we should say some more, and quite a lot to be honest !

As you know we sponsor Dixon Motorsport race DC2 in the Nippon challenge, so we have very good ties with the guys there. DMS works with DM Carbon, which is located on the same estate in the adjacent unit.

I first saw their work when they resprayed the bumpers of an RX300 Lexus, but I've had good contact with the main man Robert over our few encounters.

So when I told him I had a wide body APR Performance bodykit seating in our workshop, waiting to be fitted, he made it clear that I HAD to use him and he would take very good care of the car. This kit is the only one in Europe (as far as I know) and APR really went out of their way to get it shipped to us in 1 piece last summer.

I spoke to Robert a couple more time about it, agreed on a paint, and there it was. The APR Performance wide body was going to go on!

So one Saturday about a 3 weeks ago he turned up with a platform truck at our unit in Guildford. He charged the kit and the car, and of he went. I never like to see my personal car being driven away from me but the excitement or finally getting that kit sorted was too intense to think about it.

Robert kept me informed at every step, and Dixon made sure to document the build on numerous forums. I had the job to now find a set of wheels, and for that I spoke to Julian at Rarerims. He recommended me a few sets, and I decided to go for the most conservative one. Once on the car (we realised that it just didn't suit it properly, so we have now ordered a replacement set which will for sure be impressive.

anyway, this is only a blog post so I wont add all the pics in here. In a few days we will have a new section on the website with the full build, so make sure you come back to check it out.

In the meantime, drive safe and enjoythis few more shots. Anouar

Odd cars... Post your pictures

Anouar Bannouri — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:10:00 +0100

Seen on someone's facebook account:

Super Street Online - Understanding tubocharging article now live!

Anouar Bannouri — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:21:00 +0100

At ARTech we receive Super Street magazine from the USA. It's a cool mag, and their online tech articles are even better.

They now have an article on understanding turbocharging. It's fairly accessible, and has a lot of nice pictures, so feel free to spend 10 minutes and learn a bit about the technology behind your boost!

the article on Super Street Online

1st remap of Mazda RX-8 Turbo - 365 bhp at 10 psi

Anouar Bannouri — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:24:00 +0100

Today Romain remapped a Mazda RX-8 Turbo. The customer came because his car was juddering, and just not as smooth as it could be.

It wasn't the first time he came down to see us, but we had to get some special hardware from Australia to be able to reuse his ECU.

On the power front, it was running 255whp at 7psi, and 275 whp at 10 psi. This was checked before our remap.

After remapping it , the power was up by quite a lot. The car now runs 281 whp at 7 psi, and a meaty 310 whp at 10 psi. That 365 bhp !

Luckily our customer wasn't too busy grinning for telling Romain that the drive was way smoother than when he first came down.

Graphs should be up soon !

ARTech Tuning's B20 CRX ITB on the dyno - 231bhp

Anouar Bannouri — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:49:00 +0100

Watch out for the small flame at the end of the video :)

ARTech Tuning's Honda CRX B20 ITB RM24x is starting up!

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:46:00 +0100

The engine started today. This is one of the 1st time we were firing it up. It's quite an exciting moment and we are looking forward to getting the car on the road. Hopefully very soon :)

Hondata FlashPro remap on FD2 by ARTech Tuning

Anouar Bannouri — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:55:00 +0100

HERE THEY ARE ! After month of wait the boys at Hondata have done it again. They have released an OBD-2 based tool which allows us to remap the latest Honda Civic Type-R JDM FD2 and EUDM FN2.

One of our customer came down with his FD2 and asked us to remap it, seeing if we could extract a bit more out of his already very potent FD2.

The number weren't too bad despite the high temperature on that day. But what made a real difference was in the part throttle mapping, which dictates how smooth can the car be driven.

He is very happy with the FlashPro, and was glad to have gone to it after having tried the Tracy Sport ECU and the Hondata Reflash ECU. Furthermore the FlashPro now opens the door to further mapping, whilst keeping the original drive by wire and the dash, which other full remap solution cannot support.

Stay tuned for more interesting development with this car!

For any information on FlashPro remap, please contact us on sales@artech-tuning.co.uk

Prices

FlashPro Unit £545 inc VAT
custom remap (include dyno time) £300 inc VAT

Nippon Challenge - Round 3 - Silverstone - DMS Racing car 1st in category

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:58:00 +0100

Few pictures of a very successful day for the DMS Racing car, driven superbly by Dixon Cheng, remapped by ARTech Tuning.

Dixon likes the rain. And Silverstone stays very wet. The team had tuned the car to take the weather into account. It paid off as we were 3s faster than the next car of our category in Qualifying.

Race 1 and 2 were both victories.

Another very good day for Dixon.

If you too want to enjoy the same care that we give to the tuning of this race winning car, you can contact us at sales@artech-tuning.co.uk.

The ARTech Team.

New T1R Products - Exhaust for the Nissan Skyline R35, the Honda S2000 and the Integra DC5

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:56:00 +0100

T1R R35 90R Exhaust MSRP £1450

T1R R35 Y-Pipe MSRP £ 450

T1R R35 Turbo outlet pipe MSRP £ 600 T1R AP2 70R Dolphin MSRP £ 690

T1R DC5 Dolphin MSRP £ 690

** All prices are in GBP. They include VAT and import Taxes. These prices are indicative, and are subject to modification depending on currency fluctuations. email us to sales@artech-tuning.co.uk for a quote.

ARTech Tuning ad in Japanese Performance

Anouar Bannouri — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:07:00 +0100

Our first ad in a Jap car magazine... Emotional times :)

DMS Racing in Japanese Performance

Anouar Bannouri — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:57:00 +0100

Japanese Performance went to meet Dixon and his team at the garage in Erith. They spoke at length of his race DC2, remapped by ARTech Tuning.

Honda Accord CE9 turbo remap on eCtune

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:44:00 +0100

We remapped this Accord AFTER it got into Banzai magazine for a feature.

Prior to our remap the magazine was raving on how smooth the car was to drive. After we got to work on the map, the owner was very impressed by what Romain achieved with the remap.

This is the feature* from Banzai mag.

race DC5 in for a remap on k-pro

Anouar Bannouri — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:04:00 +0100

One of the cars we had at the garage last week...

Few more pictures ...

Honda Integra SiR - B18c swap - New Garrett turbo - 322.7 BHP

Anouar Bannouri — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:50:00 +0100

You remember Andrew's car from February? He came to us for a remap after having installed his turbo kit. Now he has ditched his XS Power turbo and changed it for a real Garrett T3/T4... he's up 37bhp :)

The turbo that was fitted to the car was an XS Power, which lasted ... well, not long at all. To cut a long story short, Andrew had a real Garrett T3/T4 just rebuilt and the XS Power was there only to fill the gap.

After a new remap, again on eCtune, the car made impressive numbers. But what really matters is how smooth the car is to drive. It's smoother than a standard DC2 in town, and when you need the power the Turbo responds pretty quickly. I drove it and I loved it!