MASE'd

Mase of Mase Engineering has a reputation as one of the best tuners in the World. As such, the demand for his services is so high that he makes overseas trips across the globe a few times a year.

It so happened that he was in the UK for a couple weeks so I jumped at the chance to get my car mapped by him. The custom intake pipe that Tom had made up had arrived this week so onwards and upwards he sorted all my bits out ready for Mase to map my car

Custom induction pipe - Loving the red finish!

I unfortunately don't have the graph of the final power run (yet) but it made approximately 216 bhp at the wheels!
To put that into perspective, when my car was dyno'd at Surrey Rolling Road in December it made 181.3 bhp at the wheels and 216.6 bhp at the flywheel.

If we take the same drivetrain loss (I know this is not a terribly accurate way to calculate..), my car is now pushing out just over 258 bhp at the fly with stock internals!

I also believe the car can push out a tiny bit more power when the J's front bumper is fitted.
Reason being that the J's air intake utilises a scoop behind the font grill/bumper to collect air like so.

The J's front bumper has a much larger front grill that the induction kit was designed to utilise and fit exactly.
You can see the difference below.

The eagle eyed of you might have spotted that the oem bumper would cover up part of the scoop as its grill is smaller and not quite the right shape.