Cya 13b

[Jasemas]

Oh man nice save with the build thread
Good job on getting that J's racing engine
Does it eel *better* than the last one

[collEGe_boy]

did u have the new engine tuned or dynoed to see how it was and wat it made???

Well I guess I left a few points out. Firstly I wanted to add to Jasemas's question of how hard I was pushing it (the previous motor), that the ECU for that motor had been chipped by ECU Man, and revved to about 9000 rpm lol. So for that motor I guess it was being pushed very very hard lol.

Anyway, with this J's motor I had no need for that ECU since it came with its own J's racing ECU! It has their official logo plate on it, so I already have a good tune for this motor. To run it I needed to get a conversion harness, so I got a Rywire. It turned out that I needed an obd1 to obd2a conversion, as opposed to the obd2b I expected. I guess this ECU was originally from a B18 or something, since B16Bs are only obd2b I believe?

And no I haven't had it dynoed. I wanted to take it to V&E's dyno day recently, but I busted a motor mount at the drag strip a couple of weeks before and didn't have the time to fix it yet! More on that in the next post.

Oh man nice save with the build thread
Good job on getting that J's racing engine
Does it eel *better* than the last one

Yes, it feels amazingly better! The power is substantially increased, and another contributor to the enhanced feel is the aftermarket LSD (previously I had no LSD at all). The traction is unbelievable. The power makes its way to the tyres so much better. When you're accelerating through or out of a turn it just pulls you right through it!

Also in that track day I wasn't running the J's racing headers since the flange was different to my old one, and didn't really have time to get it put on properly before Yonas' track day (which I really wanted to attend since it was only about 20 cars!) so I just ran my old X-force 4-2-1 headers. Hopefully we'll see an improvement with that as well in the next outing, now that the J's headers are on!

[collEGe_boy]

So as I alluded to, I did take the car to Eastern Creek drags a few Wednesdays ago. The commentators affectionately referred to my car as the red rocket haha. My car is not intended to be a race car, but I was just so excited with how it performed on the track that I had to do something with it, so I went to the drags a couple days later haha.

We had some issues with scrutineering because my passenger side window wouldn't go up (damn power windows), but we eventually got it up by powering the motor directly using jumper cables from the battery.

Here I am with my head mechanic JDM-derek in scrutineering once we had the window up


On my first run I passed the quarter mile in 13.731 seconds! Was pretty happy! My opponent was an R33 GTR who did it in 14.1. Bit of a surprise ay
I'll link to a video of this once it's done uploading.

Then I came up against a ford who did 11s haha (let's not talk about that)

Then I came up against an Evo 8. This time I got a better launch and did a 13.600! The evo did 14.1s haha . unfortunately the video of this race came out very blurry

But on the way back to the paddock I smelt a coolant smell. Worried, I opened the bonnet and found this brown fluid everywhere! I panicked, but then calmed down once I noticed it was just a blown mount haha.


Happy with my best time, I called it a night (although I would've done so regardless of my satisfaction with my time lol). Here is the car after the ordeal:


Here are some other pics from the night









I have acquired some Hasport mounts this time. I'll be installing them in a few days (maybe tomorrow), and I'll write about this and other work coming up soon. Also I want to write about my oil cooler installation, and maybe get some help on relocating it!

Adios!

[Super-DA9]

Dude, this is epic.

How much was the J's Racing engine??? I recall seeing that their B18C crate engines are $13k new!!

[EKVTIR-T]

jdm is always best

[collEGe_boy]

Here guys: video of my first run. Me vs R33 GTR. Bit of an upset!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hpuF6d01Y

Dude, this is epic.

How much was the J's Racing engine??? I recall seeing that their B18C crate engines are $13k new!!

Thanks I got the motor package with box and everything (ECU, wiring, etc) for a lot less than that haha (about half). Given that it's used and all.

[PHO]

Gtr must be a shitty driver. Stock 33r's capable of mid high 13's

[EKVTIR-T]

how fkn shameful for the r33 guy

I would have driven out the gate and left after that

[collEGe_boy]

well hey we were both virgins at that stage! I spoke to the guy after haha. He ended up getting a best of 13.8 that night

[JDM-derek]

thumbs up cause im a true blue AUSSIE =).

[collEGe_boy]

Good times, good times

[mocchi]

hahahah nice one bor
feel my bbc