damuscat

I've never been to a track day before so I didn't know about the helmet requirement. Are there helmets available for hire on the day or will I need to purchase one of my own?

A resonator after you cat will help a lot. I've got a decent sized resonator (not the hot dog style) and an oval muffler on the end with 3" stainless piping all the way. Although it's never been checked I was told by the exhaust shop that the setup is under the 90dB limit (they said it should be about 88dB). Apparently a cannon muffler would put it just over. I personally would like it to be a little louder than it is but the whole point of getting it done that way was to avoid attracting any attention to it. I still got a noticeable performance gain and I guess that's the main point of doing the exhaust in the first place

Hi Adam... put me down for this. I think it's about bloody time I went to my first track day!

Hi Richard, put me on the list too please. Cheers mate.

The hose going to the control unit in the cabin is simply tee'd off one of the hoses coming from the inlet plenum. For the soleniod, one hose goes straight to the turbo actuator and the other is connected to a hose which goes directly to the inlet plenum. If I turn the controller off everything runs as if it were stock. The boost gauge hits 7psi and stays at 7psi. The boost reading on the control unit also indicates around 7psi. I've adjusted some of the settings this afternoon as per the suggestions from Richard and Adrian. However until I either get the car on a dyno or this rain holds off I won't be able to test it out properly. I'll post up results when I have them.

Thanks guys. Those suggestions make sense so I'll give them a try and see how it goes. Richard, I've seen what you've described with the slight spiking at high RPM. When I manage to get rid of the surging I see this brief spike too. But I'm always thinking that it's bad and hence continue to fiddle around with the settings.

Having the solenoid take it's pressure source from the pipe between the turbo and the intercooler (I presume this is what you meant above) seems more like the right way to do it for some reason. This is where the stock solenoid takes its reading from after all. The problem I have is that I have an aftermarket intercooler that doesn't have the nipple on the piping to attach the hose to. This is why mine is connected straight to the inlet manifold.

Carbon canister that's one combination I haven't heard of before! Sometimes I think I've just about got mine right. For example I'll be going along at 80km/h then accelerate to 100km/h in 3rd and get it to work fine. Then when I give it a test in the lower gears the limiter keeps on kicking in and I get a boost surge effect. The opposite will happen when I finally get it right in the lower gears I had suspected that I set my start boost too high but right now it's only set to 4psi. From what I've been reading this should be quite a conservative setting. Here are my settings.... Set = 29% (combined with the gain setting below this is producing around 10psi max) Gain = 8% Set Gain = 40 (4psi) Warn = 120 (12psi) Limiter = 25% Can anyone else share their settings and results? I know varying levels of mods will produce different results with the same settings but I'm just curious.

I've had a Profec B Spec-II boost controller installed for a few months now and I've been determined to get it to run right myself.... no such luck unfortunately. I got the workshop to install it at the same time I had the front mount intercooler installed. The Problem... It seems that no matter what I do (with the settings) I either get boost spike or surging, both of which are extremely annoying. After reading many threads on this forum I've tried all sorts of things. The surging really baffles me. I have the warn limit set to 12psi and then I have the boost level for the limiter set to 4% less than what it's set to for maximum boost. The strange thing is that when the limiter does cut in (i.e. screen goes red and the unit beeps) the maximum boost achieved as shown on the controller is only say 9 to 10 psi. This is below the 12psi warn limit I set so I don't understand why the limiter is kicking in. I know the right thing to do is to get the car to a tuner... and I will eventually but as most people on these forums could relate to I'm just waiting on a couple of other things to make the most out of the tune. In the meantime can anyone offer some tuning suggestions for the profec? My mods for now are just a 3" high flow exhaust, front mount IC and a pod filter. My desired max boost is 10-11psi. A couple of other points. - The control unit for the profec is taking the pressure reading from the inlet plenum (i.e. post throttle) - The soleniod also has it's pressure line coming from the inlet plenum. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. It's annoyed me so much that I've considered re-installing the trusty manual bleed valve. It took me all of 5 mins to get that thing going right and I never ever saw any boost spikes or surging.

Very very nice car mate! If I had the $$$ I would snap it up myself. It's very hard to find one that clean these days, especially the series 3.

hahaha.. filthy filthy people! Stop driving in the gutter!

At the risk of starting a mass debate... doesn't an R33 GTS-T weigh less than 1400kg? In which case you'd get 34 R33's on. Answer is right for a GT-R though.

Awesome cruise and an excellent day out! I missed the last years so this was the first and didn't really know what to expect. First look at the clue sheet and I thought.. "oh shit.. we're screwed". Somehow though we only managed to make a mess of the Castle Hill bit and the rest was sweet from there. BIG THANKS to Duncan, Kel, Adam and anyone else involved in organising the event. Jen and I had a great time and we can't wait for next years! We'll even try not to come in last!!

Count me in! ... I just hope nothing comes up to spoil my plans. I missed out last year My other half will be coming along as my navigator.

PM sent re the headlights

That's a nice simple way to do it. Can you confirm if it still beeps when you've left the lights on and key is out of ignition?

Unless something comes up I'm in.

Free bump cause you have the same b'day as me!!! Good luck with the sale

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I have to agree AlexCim. The show just wouldn't be the same without him. I really hope he pulls through and makes a full recovery.

Definately IN +1 PM me the details and I'll send the deposit

It was owned by Matt.. he just called me about it. It was pretty quick when he had it back then and it had nowhere near as much done to it.

Hi braadz. I PM'd you again re the rear windscreen but never got a reply.. could be 'cause the site was down for a while. Check your PM's

PM sent for the rear window/windscreen