scotty nm35

If it were me it would cost nothing to set it up mechanically. I just have no idea how to actuate it properly. VCT on the other hand is easy to actuate. You can set your cams up however you like, but you can never have response and power, just something in between. If you had driven my car with the cams actuating then not, you would realise the difference 40 degrees advance/retard makes to efficiency and spool. You could always put an RB25neo in there.

I am running the 1000's too, had them in for 4 years on my daily. They work fine, but they are not rated to run e85, and would most likely fail if you ran Methanol through them. The e85 at the servo has an anti corrosion additive hence why they don't fail regularly. If I was running a dedicated track car, I would either drain the fuel system after each track, or set it up properly using ethanol rated parts, such as teflon braided lines, poly tank, e85 Walbro's and Xspurt 1400's. Otherwise the standing fuel in the tank will absorb moisture between races, probably causing corrosion, injector damage or blockages. I have seen it many times...

All the cool kids are getting magnesium rims these days and setting fire to them as they do prinny laps...

The Bosch injectors are not stainless internals, only the ID 1300 and Xspurt 1400's have stainless internals suitable to Ethanol/Methanol use. I can beat his price on any of these injectors I imagine...

Once you get masses of power and torque there is no need for more gears. The torque will push it just fine, you just change less often.

Fair enough. Perhaps the business trader will give you some good advice then.

I have an overflow bottle you can buy. Otherwise keep looking. Perhaps a Clark rubber bung might get you by?

The 1400's are $120 each. If you had asked before buying the 1000's I would have told you, but the tuner should have been more forthcoming with previous results, surely he would know you are pushing it for the 1000's. (Unless he wanted to sell you larger injectors later?) Seems a lot of these performance mechanics have no real clue when it comes to e85, 5 years behind the 8 ball for some reason.

There are plenty of fuel rail kits out there, Plasmaman being on of the more expensive ones. I guess you are guaranteed it will fit under the plenum, although I usually recommend the Proflow ones since they modified them slightly to fit the RB25 better. What the hell is a 1150cc Bosch injector? Seems every supplier is bumping the flow numbers just to make their stock sound better. At what pressure does it flow 1150cc? I assume we are talking about 1000cc EV14's here? If you are running e85 have you looked at the injectors designed for that? (Xspurt 1400's and ID1300's)

Fark man, that's impressive. Get some decent wires to the pump quick smart. 30 amp fuse and a decent relay to suit. Use the old pump power wires to energise the relay. I would say it's the injectors more than the pump, the 1000's maxed out at 330kw on my last customers car, (auto 34 skyline.) They don't seem to like high pressure either, I would try dropping your base fuel pressure if you have an adjustable reg, and perhaps get some Xspurt 1400cc ethanol injectors. You can sell the 1000's easily.

What injectors are you running Nate?

I have seen plenty of e85 Walbro 460 results, and fitted over 10 myself. They are good for 400+wk easily, most of my results have been 430-450kw before running out of fuel. They draw 20 amps on full load, I really hope you have run decent cable to it, through a fuse and relay...

I don't know who you have been speaking with Nate, but unless you are running big numbers, that fuel system is overkill. Osirus, Aeromotive 340L pump in stock housing, stock fuel lines (or swap to Stagea return system) Xspurt 1000's and you are good for 350 odd kw. More than you would want to push the stock engine... Melbourne has about 60 servos selling e85, just look for the red flags.

It could almost be done for free if you had the tools. Tuning it may be a little harder. Not sure if you would need the cam position sensor for feedback... It has never even been looked at afaik.

The 6 speed is easy, but why would you want to get rid of VCT? You need every bit of response you can get in these heavy wagons. The RB25neo is a better engine overall.

Ahh... Torque would work I think... The 3.5 is obd2 compliant apparently, so any reader should work I guess.

There is also the flex fuel option, which can be retrofitted to almost any ecu for sfa these days. Adds a bit to your tuning costs though.

Sounds like a lot of work for very little gain. The head ports flow a fair amount of coolant from the back of the head. I have had to make coolant bypass pipes for a few of these Freddy kits now, as they restrict flow back to the radiator.

There are only two e85 compatible injectors on the market I could recommend, ID1300 and Xspurt 1400. Both are 14mm top feed. Other sizes seem to handle it, like the other Bosch sourced Xspurts, but they weren't designed for long term ethanol use. I can supply up to 550cc in sidefeed injectors, anything larger is generally a drilled highflow. (with the exception of Nismo 750's I think) You can generally buy a top feed conversion kit and the 14mm injectors cheaper than a set of sidefeeds too. Top feed is an easy conversion, there are plenty of kits available to swap to top feeds on the RB25, and the RB25 Neo engine comes with them stock so it doesn't look out of place. A few have used the Neo rail on the older engine to keep the stock look.

So... Your tank isn't large enough? That's a great reason...

Lol @ autocorrect. You just can't tell some people Birds... They need to go their own way, same as everyone else, as has been done for years. What they don't tell you at school is cars started life running on ethanol, and only converted to petrol due to it being virtually free to pump from the ground. Things have since changed obviously.

I am only trying to educate you Mo, you have an e85 pump on nearly every corner and still refuse to run it. Don't come whining here when your RB turns into a boat anchor...

Anti submarine rams... I have yet to see these. How many yellow wires were under there? All the cars I have worked on had only one pair of yellow wires, and these just go to the switch under the seat to tell the airbag module there is a person sitting in the seat.

Once you understand the way ethanol and petrol ignite, you will see why e85 is so much better for engine longevity. Petrol explodes quickly at the top of the piston's stroke, when the crank is at tdc. That explosion has nowhere to push the piston till the crank comes around a few more degrees. This is why the rods/bearings need to be strong, they take the entire force of the explosion. With e85 the explosion is slower and colder, meaning less force is exerted at the top of the stroke, more when the crank is at 90 degrees, which is the point of maximum torque, and least rod/crank/bearing stress. This is partly why you gain torque with a lower energy density fuel, and entirely why my stock engine handles 40psi up the straight at Sandown.

Constantly variable. The stock ecu also self learns as the PWM signal requirements change as the oil changes viscosity.