Kinks

If was me, I'd stick with OEM providing I could find one in good condition

if that pic was taken with a timing light giving the illumination it looks way past the final mark which is wrong. the most important thing is use a spark plug lead to extend the #1 (front of motor) coil pack onto the plug, and clip the timing light on there. Don't use the loop at the back of the engine it will give you bad readings. Make sure your idle is close to 650RPM, as long as it's not above 1000RPM you should be close enough. Also, pull the bottom? plug off the throttle body and the ECU will go into fixed-timing mode so you can set the timing. If you skip this step the ECU actually varies the ignition timing to control the idle RPM which makes it impossible to set properly. The orange mark is 0 degrees. there may be one white marker at -5, I can't remember. But you will have a series of white marks for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 etc. 15 degrees will be the 3rd white mark to the right of the orange mark. the engine cover should have a mark on it at the 1 to 2 o'clock region looking from front of motor (ie "through" the radiator looking at the crank).

I tried a bleed valve on my stock GTT and it really didn't achieve anything to run more boost. exhaust is restrictive and I'm pretty sure I logged it pulling timing out using ecutalk. There was a noticeable dead spot in the midrange. That was only a small boost gain too. Gotta do the other breathing mods first (exhaust/FMIC). I will be going Adaptronic / hypergear high flow / ID1000 after that anyway. Wheeeeee!

Interested if you are willing to ship it. e-go.com.au reckons around $25 for shipping, I guestimated the size. How much do you want for it?

Can't find it on adaptronic forums, i think it was one of the discussions on flex fuel. Here's the actual paper though (see link down the bottom to PDF): http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/69496

wanted, plastic engine undertray. muppet suspension workshop didn't refit it after working on the car, so much for being a place that SAU worships they are useless. anyway, if anyone has a plastic undertray in sydney I'm interested. Cheers Geoff

I was reading a paper linked on the adaptronic forums that talked about ethanol content and knock resistance - peak ignition timing for port injected engines is at about 40% ethanol content and additional ethanol doesn't benefit knock resistance. it was interesting reading as it means your fuel map needs to vary from 0% to 85% ethanol (to get mixtures right) but the ignition map probably only needs to vary between 0% and 40% ethanol content. (I say probably - I'm not a tuner!). So even blending maps may not produce a perfect result, although it would be conservative with the ignition timing on a partial blend which is a safe option.

If you're not really fussed about the gauge, how does the LC-1 compare against MTX-L? Have heard reports about it being "hard to wire up" but I'm not sure if that's a legitimate complaint. Some people shouldn't be let loose near a soldering iron There is an LC-2 newly released but adaptronic not carrying it yet.

racing incident. they were both clumsy and turned into each other.

cor good reminder Terry, I was keen on the JEM day just put my name down

I'm keen! Questions: * Semi sequential (grouped injection) vs full sequential - effects on economy, emissions and transient engine response * Implementing "lean cruise" (ie cruising on lambda > 1) and its effects on cylinder temperature and detonation margin * Knock retard ability in various ECUs, also why some vendors (eg Honda) seem to let their engines rattle like crazy going up hills with no apparent ill-effects (have even heard that light load det can help 'shock' carbon off the pistons.. myth or fact??).

I don't know why you'd say that, I get asked for help all the time and it goes roughly like this: *phone rings* Me: "Hello"? Caller: "Hi I need your help with X, it's doing Y" Me: "I know what the problem is, you need to do Z" Caller: "I don't think so, I reckon it's.............." every. single. time. I think people are just f*cking useless at asking for help. To weigh in on the original conversation I fill between the H and the hump on an oil change (in an RB25 you can just dump 5L in if you have drained it on a level surface). I assume the hump is the danger zone much like there's a hump on the low side as well.

great pics guys, thanks for snapping away while we had our fun

good fun as always, thanks to the volunteers for running the day

The practice of winding back odometers is unacceptable - no exceptions. There is of couse more to the condition of the car than the number on the dash, but the dash reading is what most people take a first opinion on and in a reasonable majority of cases you'd expect it to be a decent yardstick. I walked into a certain parramatta road dealership and was shown an R32 GTR with "60,000km" on the clock. The salesman talked it up like it was a great car. My reply was, "I don't believe it because of..." and proceeded to point to several glaring issues with the car that indicated it was a gross misrepresentation of the car's condition. It looked like somebody's track beater, I've seen more subtle dogs' knackers than that car. I guess they make enough of a living sucking in people who don't know any better.

skiiiiiiiiiiids! it's been a while. Hope I can still remember how to do it

Seems to me the judgement is as much about maintaining the FIA's authority as anything else. If you have a faulty FIA sensor it's clear you have a choice between languishing in the midfield with a crippled car or not finishing at all due to DSQ. Even if the FIA's sensor is wrong, it's up to them to admit it you can't do your own thing without their permission. Will be interesting to see how often these sensor issues crop up across all teams during the season. If it's exclusively a RBR issue then they are playing silly buggers somehow.

from f1live.. LOL. these sensors are a bloody joke. or maybe RBR have figured out how to make them die

I do feel sorry for Massa. He's a victim of being nice, everyone expects him to play by the rules. But it's one thing to be asked to move over for a world champion (Alonso), it's quite another to be asked to move over for the newbie. You're all forgetting Multi21 from last year. Seb gave no farks for what the team said, and did his own thing. Nobody was surprised because we all know he's an anus-diddling bieber lookalike so the collective reaction was a non-event. You need this kind of "win at all costs" attitude to be a world champion, Massa and Weber both got close but they are not arseholes. When you need those last few points to get you ahead of the rest, being an arsehole will achieve it and your team will forgive you if you bring home the bacon. It's better to win while not being an arsehole but a lot harder.

So if you make one mistake you ruin 2 weekends.. nice. let's hope FIA are consistent in applying this penalty to other teams, not just the teams they don't like (ie RBR)

emphasis mine.. that's what got us into this mess in the first place, electronics! What's to say that one team's sensor is 29.998psi and another team's is 30.002psi? just put a restrictor in to limit airflow. At least machining tolerances are so straightforward to measure that there can't be any argument. this whole fuel sensor thing stinks, I hope RBR get vindicated but it will be interesting to see the transcript of the appeal.

you would be wise to check whether they actually replaced the cam seals or not. cam seals = front of motor, where the CAS bolts onto. mine leaked at 160k because they werent' changed at the 100k service. cam cover seals are easy to do yourself. cam seals are a lot more work, timing belt off etc.

f**king brilliant.