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    Bucket Seat Pair - Autotechnica SSP67 ADR Approved

    in For Sale (Private Car Parts and Accessories)

    Posted

    Located in Canberra, can drop off to Sydney as I come down semi regularly 

    $350

    text me on 0488 778 353

    will need rails, I used them with crank Motorsport seat subframes on eBay.

    • Hard wearing cotton material with arm and shoulder protection pads
    • Outstanding driving comfort
    • Lateral and thigh support
    • Suitable for 2 and 4 door vehicle mounting application
    • Includes twin racing harness slots
    • Sold As a Pair
    • Quick Tilt Leaver

    Dimensions:

    Shoulder: 550mm
    Height: 890mm
    Depth: 550mm
    Width: 540mm

    ADR APPROVED

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    No one doing any dyno work?

    in Forced Induction Performance

    Posted

    I think car people have declined a bit and the people who are buying the skylines now arent as interested in power and more owning a car they like the look of. Otherwise it will be people who dont DIY, send it to a workshop to be built and then post the result on {Insert cool social media platform}. No need to come on here and ask any questions as its all being done by the shop.

    Also i dont think you can underestimate how many people also just go european now for easy, proven ways to modify cars. I recently replaced my skyline with a BMW, and I get the appeal of the european tuning method. i.e. everyone buys the same intercooler, downpipe and intake. the tunes are all made around this and for not much money you get a lot of power quickly, reliably and cheaply. Sure it is not unique in anyway, but its easy. Every knows Stage 1 is X power, Stage 2 is Y and Stage 2+ is Z. If you want to go beyond, everyone buys the same aftermarket turbos and the tune you already own can cater for it. Change the fuel pump? No issue, tune already can cater for the most common aftermarket solution. Everyone buys the same thing so things are cheaper too. NOONE USES A DYNO! its so odd.....

    The forums are boring though for the european cars as everyone has the exact same problem. You can almost time it, you know at 160,000kms the charge pipe and a coolant pipe will fail. If someone is having x issue, its always the same fix. Its not exciting, but its reliable (well more reliable than the skyline). The enjoyment is not as high, but its good enough.

    So ive gone a bit off topic, but i think thats why you are seeing a reduction in the dyno sheets. people just dont like to DIY anymore.

    And agree with mlr, its hard to use the skyline in anger anymore when you know replacement parts are going to send you broke!

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    R33 Gtr Prices -price Projections?

    in RB Series - R31, R32, R33, R34 (1986-2002)

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    On 02/11/2021 at 11:21 AM, GTSBoy said:

    Trouble is, it is an investment with no actual value. Objectively the cars are truly worthless when they are "priced" at those sorts of numbers, because you can't buy one with the intention to drive it, if you also want to be able to obtain a massive capital gain. People paying massive prices for these cars are buying something that is supercar money without supercar performance, and in order to preserve the "value", you can't even use what performance it does have. So the whole "I've always wanted one of these, I love the performance and the way they drive, and now I have the money to afford it" line you hear is a complete load of shit. It might have been believable at the $50-100k price region, but it just bullshit at multiples of that.

    Yep I totally agree with this!  Reason I bought the skyline to begin with was my belief that if anything ever went wrong I could pick up an NA shell and use panels off that to fix my car. BUT with the prices where they are at now, I have concerns that if I binned the car it would cost me a fortune to fix. That means I want to track it less and when I do track it I would need to baby it a bit to ensure I didn't write it off, so then slowly it would just become a static piece of art in my garage and it would have no real world use anymore.....

    Hence I sold it to someone who wants to daily drive it everyday, it needed to be released to be wild and free :)

    R34 Track/Street Car

    in Projects, Overhauls and Build-ups

    Posted

    So got the new wideband, turned on the "auto tune" on the ecu and it was all looking good. However, I did strip a knock sensor and then started looking through the ecu. Watched a few hp academy videos and realised my ecu had a few glaring issues (such as the flex fuel sensor being disabled)

    Anyway I lost a bit of faith in the tune after that as there were a lot of little issues (which may have been fine, but I didn't feel comfortable anymore).

    Went to a new workshop, Glen at ESP was amazing, really nice bloke and I feel actually cared about getting the right result.

    He did swap my knock sensors to the Bosch donut type sensors, I know it's not 100% needed, but it's cheap and adds a level of insurance. 

    Also got a clutch switch put in for flat foot, rev match, launch control etc.

    Car is running well and without ANY engine mods at all the car has gone from making 305kw atw at 25-20psi to now making 330kw are at 18psi... It's night and day different! Very very happy!

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    Knock sensors and Elite 2500

    in General Maintenance

    Posted

    That's interesting...  although meant nothing as the flex fuel sensor in my car was disabled... I did ask them a few times why my dash would always say 85% ethanol even when i had 98 in it.... and enquired why my AFR was 8:1 when on 98... was told not to worry and its all fine... seemed very odd to me though

    Knock sensors and Elite 2500

    in General Maintenance

    Posted

    On 22/09/2021 at 11:05 AM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

    Also I can nearly guarantee you 9 our of 10 workshops never bother to fully dial in the fuel density table. I got this data from interpolating BP 98 data and ethanol density from an EVO forum. Sure it might not be accurate but it's better than having the same fuel density across the board for ethanol percentage and temperature.

    Feel free to copy, however please note if your car as been tuned around a static fuel density, adding this in will affect your tune!

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    What was interesting is the car was setup to run the same timing for e85 and 98

    Knock sensors and Elite 2500

    in General Maintenance

    Posted

    I think if it was thing that was a bit... o that seems odd, i would be ok, but it was so many things.... just lost faith...

     

    On 22/09/2021 at 11:03 AM, Dose Pipe Sutututu said:

    Whoops sorry, totally missed this thread

    Thanks for this :) nothing was in place.. which i totally understand as from what i read they can be very finicky to setup

    Knock sensors and Elite 2500

    in General Maintenance

    Posted · Edited by Tobz

    So I had a look in the ECU, there was no knock protection in place. 

    I also watched a lot of youtube to get a base understanding of how the Haltech worked. Started to get concerned with how my car was setup and there was minimal engine protection. 

    Then I also realised some basic things were not setup correct, such as the flex fuel sensor not being enabled when i supposedly got a flex tune done.... 

    Also the IAT sensor was put wired into the SPI input and not the AVI, they then did an odd calibration based on this which made it look sort of correct on the dash, but was actually way off..  

    VCT was not being used.... 

    Self Learning Fuel Trims were setup to only activate if the coolant temp was above 90c.....

    God knows what else was wrong as i obviously have a very limited knowledge of the ECU.... literally based on a few HP Academy videos... 

    I mean if I could find these issues after what could be considered 2 hours of youtube...  how on earth can a "professional" who works at a well known shop here get it so wrong?

    To say I'm p!ssed is an understatement.... Anyway its at a more reputable place now getting rectified... Turns out this new place has seen a lot of issues from the old place... so its fairly common from them, unfortunately....

    Kozor33Gts4

    in Newbie Introductions

    Posted

    If it was me, i would just clean the rust off, treat it and then spray with fresh paint... its only surface rust, if you treat it now it should avoid any larger issues.

     

    Although usually when you see surface rust on the towers, check under the car as it may be rusting from the bottom and only just showing on the strut tops.

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