WazR32GTSt

good... its definatley do-able but lots not get this discussion going again PLEASE!

really chris? i thought you were on your L plates? being 17 and all...

c'mon people!! pull your finger out! if this doesn't go ahead due to poor numbers i'll be absolutely shattered i've been looking forward to getting onto the dyno again for a while now... even if you know how much power your'e making come down and support the club and chuck your car on anyway...

Ash, is this 'members only'? if you are lacking numbers my mate with a TX5 turbo might be very interested and would pay in advance also. i'm assuming 4WD dyno's can do FWD cars?

3 cheers for INARK! i can just feel the SAU love...

just heard an ad on triple m: "steel and mesh, steel and mesh, when you're looking for the best... there's one place to go that's wolters (with an O)" kinda sad, sorry. but that may help you out the autobarn mesh is pretty expensive for how much you get. would hardly cover the front bar. they also sell it at supercheap in 3 colours...

nice work jevan! do you stil have the R33 or did you get that mitsubishi vr4?

ash, i can transfer money as soon as you give details but my only issue is that i have cricket that afternoon so would prefer an early time (cricket starts at 12:30pm) if that is ok..? like 9:30-10:00 or so... if this can be arranged then i'm a definate... you can have my balls as insurance (my girlfriend has them at the moment just go see her) since the last dyno day i've fixed my pinging, added 3" exhaust and rechipped ECU so should be interesting... thanks again ash! Warren.

oops, my bad! sorry ash... and thanks for organising the event!

mine sits half way in all conditions i did a radiator flush, gutted the thermostat for better flow, and used coolant at 50:50 ratio, and it still read halfway even though i know it runs cooler (the heater isn't as hot as it used to be) cheers, Warren.

so... what's the go? ash - pro-tek? andrew - ice? cheers, Warren.

oh and i tend to think that the gearbox doresn't choose the 'best' gear, rather the gear it has been programmed to choose. its programming is usually for fuel economy rather than reliability and i find the auto box always chooses the highest gear it can according to the load of the engine. This means that the gearbox will stay under load if it means running lower rpm, rather than changing to a better gear that puts less stress on the engine/gearbox.

what i think a lot of people have said is that 'around town' or in areas of constant changing road conditions (this means traffic lights, hills, dips, braking and accelerating often which generally happens in 60km/h zones) if you have o/d ON, then yes the car will be sitting at 1600rpm. BUT as soon as you accelerate or hit an incline of any sort you will find that the car kicks down to 3rd and once you get up the hill it goes back into o/d. factor in this sort of event happenning 5 times in the space of 5 km and you will have changed gears 10 times. plus driving like this allows the car to run under load in o/d which cannot seem good to the greabox from a logic point of view. so if we decide to turn o/d OFF, then in the same instance as above there is ZERO gear changes with greabox wear reduced significantly. so, what is the best thing to do? some will say drive with o/d on, some with o/d off. and obviously the correct answer is that its up to you. I say driving with o/d OFF will cause the trannie to run a tiny bit hotter and also cause worse fuel economy although both will probably be an insignificant amount. Driving with o/d ON is really not for 'around town' conditions, thus why its a button-feature and not a automatic fourth gear. Just assess the road conditions ahead of you. if there's a flat road for a long stretch then put o/d ON even if you're doing 60km/h. if you're driving in the city/inner suburbs doing 60km/h then leave it OFF to save grearbox wear. in all instances if your speed exceeds 80km/h then i can't justify having the car revving above 3000rpm for an extended period when there's another gear there so always put o/d ON at high speeds. my 2c anyway cheers, Warren.

about time someone with sense jumped in here! it seems that too many people read something on these forums and then become armchair tuners... if you're not missing on a 1.1mm gap then don't re-gap to 0.8mm. If 0.8mm were better then i'm sure all plugs would be gapped to 0.8mm. if smaller gaps were better then wouldn't all plugs be running gaps in micrometres? its logical really...

what proof do you have of this? i find that very hard to believe... if it wasn't missing on stock boost with 1.1mm then don't change it! i now run 1.1mm gap with 12psi of boost on my rb20 and have no issues at all. maybe its an rb25 thing?

mine is a tube-and-fin intercooler and i have no issues with the cooling system of the car at all as for if it were a bar-and-plate design... not sure if its airflow blocking is significantly more (have read on the forums that it blocks more air than a tube-and-fin design)

hmmmm saturday is cricket day over the summer... will have to wait and see if i can get a week off or not

wtb: turbo timer looking for a CHEAP turbo timer if anyone has one preferrably one with hardly any features other than running down the engine as i won't use them an will probably have to pay more for one of these i believe the 'pivot super baby timer' ones are good. anyone have one of these? oh, and it has to be in english. its to go on an R32GTSt cheers, Warren.

do a search on how to adjust the timing, but according to the workshop manual its 15deg BTDC for manual and 20deg BTDC for auto... cheers, Waz.

it cost me $650 for a second hand FMIC and custom mandrel-bent piping all fitted and works a treat! is the costs of an R34GTT cooler that much cheaper to justify its small size over a FMIC?

sold! check your PM...

i'm very interested at around $100, also interested in timeframe as a move interstate might be hapening around Jan so i would want it on by then.. car = R32 GTSt would want black silicone too so that i could paint the pipe black to go with my sleeper theme cheers, Warren.

need SAU-vic medical staff? if all goes well after my interview tuesday i could well be studying medicine in brisvegas. i could be the SAU head doctor...!

sorry i also didn't make it... i was away in brisbane for an interview, also for a possible move there in january