yeah i get my fair share on other forums , thanks mate . well sat night went out on a cruise with the local jap car club and had a ball , awesome people , awesome behaviour , awesome time . finished...
hehe a few little tricks mate
now been thinking about it for awhile now and decieded to bite the bullet and i now have a lowline drag wing that i made up with some 1mm ally sheet and x5 brackets ,...
im aiming for 447fwkw @ 30psi on E85 , this is just a goal i'll be happy with anything over 400fwkw's which will send her into the low 11s high 10s ( if i can drive it there ) . i do have a back up...
well better do a update since its been awhile , went for a hiway drive up north this morning (140km give or take) and ran like a dream , such a great car to drive with no loud droning exhaust note...
yeah , im going to stud it when i get home and if that doesnt work than im going to have to pull the motor again and helicoil it . im fairly positive studing it will work fine .
success !!!!!!!!!!!!!! its alive and under its own puff ! everything is being controlled from the adaptronics and set triggering to a h22a dissy ( thanks ian for all your help on this ) locked timing...
went to start it just before and seems like its 180 out , going to put new plugs in her tomorrow and reset the timing as well as my valve clearences . see if i can get her to start under her own...
just picked this up , should keep me bussy for the next few days i recon . very very happy with the workmanship , 100 times better than the last person who i paid for machine work . as the wife has...
yeah mate they were dropped off couple days ago to engine builder , should have the bottom end back at home in a few weeks for complete assemably and install back in the lude and to to the tuner for...
some productive progress , noticed some pretty bad cracks at the back of the gearbox with the last pull and as i have a spare gearbox thought no better time to swap over rear housings and it gave me...
my new bar & plate intercooler arrived today and as ive almost run out of things to do to the lude while i wait for the internals , head gasket and oil pump to arrive i got stuck into mounting it and...
ok some more diturbing pic's , no:4 piston failure , its pretty bad ! actually disgusting ! , this is what makes me believe its a JE Pistons / SRP Pistons fault . the damage / failure is local to...
na no resleeve , im using the spare stock block i have for the new setup mate . the b20a6 has steel sleeves and is a closed deck block , no real need fo a set of dartons .
ok sign'd new loan contract and money should be in account tonight , yeah . just placed my order with race engineering just waiting on a reply so i can pay them . engine builder has decided to go...
na the oil and water pumps were never changed , the engine was at operating temp (83°) . should here back from the bank tomorrow and then i can start organising the rebuild of the new bottom end ,...
unsure as i havnt pulled it down yet but im thinking a big end bearing has spun , and i have a funny feeling that the oil pump had failed to provide enough oil for the rod bearing and spun it . i...
sorry fella's , been abit slack in reply'n . i spun a big end last wed and its dead again , im going all out this time as i have a spare block thats going into the engine builder for a over bore from...
yeah !!!!!!!!! im back in the game , started first try again this morning after a retime and change of battery . have slight tuning issues as the wideband is alot further away from the turbine then...
