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Seeing how I'm a P-Plater, I find it quite offensive from what some people have said about "us" P-platers. Most of my friends, whom drive, are hopeless shits, they randomly run into things, EVERYWHERE! No matter what car. Now, I've owned a 5speed commo, own my R33 GTS-t, and also own a MK3 GA70 Twin turbo Supra, and not once have I been fined for stupid or dangerous driving, not once have I had an accident. Not ONE incident on my record. Now it's not to say I haven't been over the limit, hell, I'll tell you now that I have, but I've NEVER done it with other people around like this moron. I know of a 30year old who does those sorts of speeds. It's not just P-platers. Do NOT ban high performance cars, Ban low performance drivers. Now, I agree, this guy should loose his car, out and out right now for his actions. But, unfortunately, the legal system sees it differently. Also, as for getting "A 4 cylinder" Have a look at the WRX, Silvias, etc, even some of the 4cylinder hondas can get moving bloody fast. The newer celicas can run a 15second 1/4 FFS. Now that's bloody quick, quicker then my old 5speed commo! So you can't just say, "Let them drive X car" Cause hey, a P-plater can modify a car, as long as it's not an engine performance mod. Hell, change diffs, you'll be screaming around then! Don't jump to conclusions. Seems alot of people are getting very hyped by the media, who are VERY one sided. Hell, maybe he was in a rush to take his G/F to the hospital for something life threatening, and he "didn't realise/know" he was going so fast (Not making excuses up for him, but hell, you only hear part of the story, the side to make him sound bad!) And for the record, I'd probably push my car pretty damn hard if someone was in a life threatening situation (Needing medical help etc)

My idea: Find a good mechanic. Internet diagnosing is extremely hard.

Shouldn't be anything majorly hard about swapping turbos. I just had to change the twins on my new car. Nothing overly hard, the most annoying part for me is going tobe putting the exhaust back on!

I've seen flame go through a cat. Mine did it once. Do it too much and the cat WILL collapse/burn out. Most likely, you've got an air leak somewhere, and under boost you're letting air escape (Meaning rich AFR) This will be AFTER the turbo, before throttle body most likely.

My powersteer reservoir overflowed on the skid pan. I'm going to take Evil_Wevils advice and add a sweat band on there.

I just took mine on a 1600KM round trip. Wasn't too bad except for my mining lacking power issue (Slightly leaking pipe I think) and I had to back timing out a touch, so sitting at 100KM/H it wasn't in its perfect torque range. But hell, it's fun sitting on 120km/h and when someone speeds up to stop you overtaking them, cracking the throttle slightly further and not even giving them a second chance to block you! I love my car, long trips, short trips, it's a blitz to drive. I just did about 100km in my Dads commo on the highway and I was SCREAMING! What a bucket of shit to drive. Sloppy susp, no torque, dodgy auto box. Give me the skyline anyday with the button clutch. Only issue I had was getting the seat right for comfort, I had it setup to "drive" the car...

Guys, if you can't make it, ring your friends, your aunt, your cousin, get them out there. These spots NEED to be filled to allow Autosports to keep doing these days!

My skylines snaps sideways and generally wants to sit out there, quite "scary" at times. And I'm only pushing 250RWHP... Plan: Reshim diff. If that doesn't work. 1.5Way LSD

Heya all Just wondering, does anyone have any dyno graphs of a car with stock ECU, stock injectors, stock fuel reg, and basically just boost controller, exhaust whilst it's at partial load. Say one at 25%, 50%, 75% and another at 100% throttle? I need them all from one car for some research reasons.

Defected for pod, no points, nor a fine. I was lucky. If the cop so decides, he can fine you and wack on points for each defectable item. (So don't be a smart ass, if you have one, you know it's illegal, so don't argue.)

You could be running out of brake pads and it's the metal tab warning you. Pull the wheel off and have a look at them. Also have a look to see how much gap between the warning tab and the rotor there is. Most likely, you could be wanting new brakes.

If you release the steering wheel, it's following the camber of the road. If you have to drive up the street with opposite lock on, then you have a problem. a) A heavy right foot b) suspension issues. Mine pulls to the left and it's my HICAS. Did you get your wheel alignment done with the engine running?

The 1RWKW is an exxageration. And read up on how much energy it takes to raise 1ml of oil 1degree celsius. In the region of around 2.6J from memory (Or that might be per 100mls, can't remember, haven't played with fluids in a while) And think how much J is in your 60kw. And how does it dissipate this heat? Through the gearbox? I've never felt a gearbox get THAT hot. Metal doesn't dissipate heat as quickly as people think it does. I'll attempt to dig out the article that I was reading on slip issues with roller dynos. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have much luck, as I can't even remember the people who did it. And the hub dyno, you will notice still looses energy, but not as much. Why? Well the factor that there isn't slip. But there are still the fans being turnt etc inside of the dyno.

The boost sensor is for the factory boost guage in the R33.

If you're loosing power in your drivetrain, where is going? Energy MUST be conserved. So, where does it? Sound? Heat? Is your drivetrain that noisy? I know mine isn't Do you boil your gearbox oil within a minute or so? I sure as hell don't. So then, where'd the energy go? To the back wheels. There's a nice little article out there, that you don't actually loose the power in your drivetrain, the issue is known as SLIP. Which occurs between the rollers and your tyre. And then the energy that is also required to spin up the fans on certain types of dynos. The energy isn't lost in your driveline, it's lost at the actual dyno. Just remember, conservation of energy, you don't just "loose" power, it turns into an "unuseable" energy, so sound or heat in our case, problem, the drivetrain ain't that noisy, nor do you boil your gearbox oil. So therefore, it isn't disappearing, we just can't physically measure it.

If a car makes 250RWKW legitimately at the back wheels, you're looking at probably 251RWKW at the engine. Drivetrains don't soak up much power at all.

Check the engine temp sensor resistance when cold, check it again when hot. Sounds like a dud sensor.

Edited: Removed some stuff. And as for what I'll be running, I WILL be running the Adaptronic, quite a strong unit, and I much prefer the customer service, and the way I know most of its background. Beautiful little computer. And when using the hand controller on the PFC, setting up idle, now that's a bitch. It's all jap writing, and then on the last two lines has A/C in english. How're you meant to know what each line does. Running a map trace to find bad load points via the hand controller (And this is the way MANY people tune PFC) and then going back twenty billion menus, and forward another one thousand. That gets frustrating. And the AFM has benefits over the MAP, but the MAP also has many benefits over the AFM, and personally, I'd rather throw a MAP sensor on at like 1/2 the price of a AFM. As for dual maps, it can be very handy. Have your proper tune on one map, and have a very lazy tune on another map. Go away somewhere on holidays, I don't take my laptop, but if I get stuck with a bad batch of fuel, flick a switch, and there's alot more protection on the motor then. Also, why would wanting anti lag constitute that I can't drive a turbo? Have you ever actually tried driving with anti lag on? Now that makes for alot more of a handful off the mark. And the other fact is, if you READ my other post again, you'll see I wasn't saying the PFC was a heap of crap, but most of your points, (Emmisions, driveability etc) are ALL able to be had in other ECUs, it's how well you tune them. So for an advanced user, they would all meet those requirements for you, and for a basic user, all that you need to do is find a decent tuner. So go read again, and you'll see that I wasn't attacking the PFC, nor did I actually put it down, I just stood up for your inaccurate attack on other ECUs.

Take it to a proper authorised Microtech tuner. Have fun though, last time I checked there wasn't many Microtech authorised tuners around. Microtechs can be an absolute pain in the rear end to tune, so I HOPE your tuner knows what he's doing with it. That, and your injectors seem insanely big for high-flows.

Try a higher dampening and rebound rate on the SAME spring rate. Alot of axle tramp is caused by the spring being too stiff, or the shock not having a high enough dampening rate.

1: You need to pay more to get rid of the AFM (Which is a restriction) Considering prices I've seen for AFM to upgrade, it's around 1/3 of the price to run a larger map sensor which ISN'T a restriction 2: There are ALOT of features that are not in the PFC that I like. Dual maps Anti lag The english language 3: Driveability all comes down to your tuner, any computer will become tunable, when the right tuner is on that computer 4: Emmisions are easy to pass, any ECU can make a car pass emmisions, again, it's all in the tune. The only thing PFC have over other ECUs is Tetris.

Just phone an engineer and ask, much easier then having them go "No, I won't engineer this car because" They're more then happy to answer a question or two if you ring them.

Don't the skylines run a flexible fuel hose through the cabin standard?

I'm already running splitfires And 1st gear "normally" seems fine for me, except one day I punched it and it must have hit a boost cut/fuel cut and I nearly smacked my head on the steering wheel except for the seat belt lock, then it came back to life took off up the road, then 2nd gear played it's usual tantrum Might have a good search of the IC piping soon. Could you hear your leak?

how many litres?