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I don't mean to sound rude or anything, but ditch the blow-off valve (unless it is a plumb back) and make sure that the pod has a "cold air partition" around it.
An atmo venting BOV on a 33 with a stock computer is just going to make it run rich as cr@p every time it goes PSSSSSHHH.
An unshielded pod will be sucking hot air and you will make less power than running a K&N panel in the stock airbox.
There is some good info to be had on this site, but there is some bad, even dangerous mis-info too.
As a rough rule, if Sydneykid wrote it... it's good.
One of the cheapest mods with the best return for a 33 is to bypass the boost solenoid so the car runs 10psi all the time rather than at +5000rpm. You won't believe the difference this free mod will make to your car.
Just get a small length of pipe and pull the two hoses off the solenoid valve behind the air filter and join them together. too easy.
Enjoy your car and welcome to SAU
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by the way, nice taste in cars. I had a '98 Series 2 R33 (40 Anniversary Special) about 3 cars ago... smooth
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see this fella here -->
That's a fairly strong clue that it is a joke post. Not really intended as catalyst for a "serious" discussion. Ya know?
No need to jump to the defence of the pushrod brigade.
Quinny, you at least seem to have your head screwed on straight, your sig' says it all. "Now driving a 'line... Crummydore for sale."
Unfortunatly, 90%+ of V8ers in fact have their heads up their ar$es and believe that the 185i "clubby" (or worse) that they are driving is actually fast. I mean, c'mon... My current ride (sub $10K VR4) has more power than that with just a boost controller and exhaust and it's 1/2 a tonne lighter than a dunny-door. It's faster than the XR6turbo I had, but its nothing special.
I have a box in the garage with Turb, inj's, ECU, 040 pump, AFM, intake pipe, etc. These bits are a proven receipe for a 320hp 4G63 engine (240kw).... then it will be fast (enough for me anyway).
"Turb's for V8ers" was/is just a bit of a giggle. If it upset you, dont read the Derift Bogan Magazine thread. that will REALLY spoil your day.
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Lol no worries mate, sorry If it sounded like I was having a go at ya, no offence intended
no worries, none taken
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oh ffs, get a sense of humour
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Funny, though... if the creator is bagging out V8 bogans, he could at least spell Knuckleheads properly
I gotta spell it so the target audience can read it.......
And I typed it really s-l-o-w because I know they can't read real fast like......
did ya ever see my Derift Bogan magazine thread? Derift Bogan It's a bit of a chuckle too.
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mmmmmmm bet it smells really nice too...........
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Speed limits are set for morons who can't drive in their "hasn't had a roadworthy inspection in the 15 years I've had it" $hitboxes to save themselves.
Case in point, I had to make a 15km detour to get to work yesterday morning because some fluxhead had crashed through the armco on a dead straight, dead flat piece of road and the cops had the highway closed while they picked up the bits.
With luck, that is one less d1ckhead on the road.
What p1$$e$ me off is the "safe drivers" who do 10-15kimh under the speed limit EVERYWHERE. Fine, (if you're so incompetant that you must do 90 in a 100 zone you shouldn't be on the road in my opinion) but WTF is with then doing 70 in a 80 etc???
You want to figure out how bad a driver the car in front of you contains? Just watch their brake lights. If they are constantly all over the brakes before every slight bend in the road, but don't actually seem to be slowing down, they have no confidence and are hopeless cases who should be riding a bus.
And anyone who actually thinks that slowing down will help with merging into the traffic flow on a motorway on-ramp should just be pulled out of the car and have someone "pop a cap" in their head.
Incompetant fools are the biggest killer on the road, not speed.
Also right up there is the crap quality of local cars coupled with the lack of a regular roadworthy inspection program. How many times do you see pictures of a car wrapped around a tree in the news along with the headline 6 Teens Die in Crash and it's a bl00dy old Commodore!! (If they'd been in an import they would have probably got round the corner).
Sure this post is inflamatory but it's all true.
I know it, you know it, all we need is the d1ckheads running the place to admit it.
Ban Low-Performance Drivers, NOT High-Performance Cars
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Available now where good books are sold.
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Hey all,
There seems to be a lot of people who seem to be using the 0-100km/h time as a bench mark for vehicle performance. However, in my experience the 0-100km/h time is not a great reflection. Why is that? Many of the real world traffic light grand prix events are from rest (0km/h) to the speed limit, or just over it (so about 100km/h), so surely this would be the definitive measure of a cars on street performance? Not really, no. I will use an example to illustrate my point.
Three cars line up at the traffic lights. All three cars have an identical 0-100km/h time. For simplicity, let's make it 10 seconds. The speed limit of this road is 100km/h, so it will be a race to the limit. Nothing illegal here
Car number one is a concept vehicle (why it's at the lights I don't know...). An electric vehicle. It doesn't make much power (in fact the top speed is only 100km/h), but it is ultra light, and has 4 in-wheel electric motors giving full torque from 0 rpm, meaning it can charge of the line hard. Car number two is a regular family car. The long geared automatic with big six cylinder power means that acceleration is fairly constant throughout the rev range. The final car has a big turbo, front wheel drive, and manual gearbox. This makes it tricky to get off the line, but once it's hooked up and the turbo spooled, the acceleration is very good.
The image below shows a representation of these three cars' acceleration curves. As you can see, all three will hit 100km/h at the exact same moment.
(for those who care, the electric car's speed was modelled by a quadratic equation speed=-(time-10)^2+100, the family car by a linear equation speed=10xtime, and the turbo by another quadratic equation speed=time^2)
So it's a race to 100km/h, and all three cars have an identical 0-100km/h time, so it should be a pretty close race, right?
WRONG!
The hard launching electric car gets the jump from the start, and wins by a full 45m over the family car, and a whopping 90m over the turbo car - that's about 18 car lengths!!!!
(For those who care, distances were obtained by integrating the speed equations stated earlier. If I made any errors then they were deliberate and hence I don't care - don't bother pointing them out, the electric car would still win
)This is obviously an extreme case, but I think it illustrates my point nicely. 0-100km/h times are stupid.
Dude, you need a girlfriend more than anyone else in the history of the world......
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If you think the EL is bad, wait until you try the BA. They hover at around 13-14 litres per 100km in normal driving.
Actually I had a BA MkII XR6t from brand new for 6 months, did 18000km in it and drove it like it should be driven (Use the boost Luke), NEVER reset the trip computer from new and when I stepped out of it the average fuel consumption was 13.3L/100km.
I am sure that a "normally" driven BA XT or non turbo XR6 would be a bit better than that.
on a lighter note, I did see instantaneous L/100km figures in the 90's with full throttle 2nd gear 5000+rpm
now THAT is crap fuel consumption
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google earth is shit..
untill i can see titties i will not participate
have a look at the centre of Las Vegas, you nearly can...
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XW FALCON
Engine: 3.1 Litre 88kw 6cyl
Length: 4689mm
Width: 1869mm
Height: 1417mm
Wheelbase: 2819mm
Front track: 1496mm
Rear track: 1486mm
Kerb weight: 1348kg
EL FALCON
Engine: 4 litre 6cy with 157kw (up 0.9 litres and 69kw)
Length: 4906mm (up 217mm)
Width: 1861mm (up 6mm)
Height: 1453mm (up 36mm)
Wheelbase: 2791mm (DOWN 28mm)
Front Track: 1566mm (up 70mm)
Rear Track: 1547mm (up 61mm)
Kerb Weight: 1536kg (up 188kg)
So the falcon has a considerably bigger engine, the car is bigger in every direction (although wheelbase is shorter) weighs in at nearly 200kg heavier, and the difference in kw's could power another car. Plus the XW Falcon had the advantage of higher octane leaded fuel. Plus the EL has numerous ancilliaries which would require fuel to operate - aircon, CD player, central locking, a catalytic converter (due to efficiency drop), electric windows etc.
The way I see it is over two decades of R&D between the 1970s and mid 1990s allows us to have a bigger, faster, safer, more luxurious vehicle with no penalty to fuel consumption, and pay less money for the privilage of ownership (after adjusting for inflation of course
).And in the 10 years of R&D since then, things have gotten REALLY good, I reckon. The Astra SRi Turbo for example. A 0-100 km/h time in the mid-low sevens - and yet the ability to gain open-road fuel economy in the high sixes. One hundred and forty seven kilowatts from a turbo 2-litre - and yet peak torque is available from 1950 - 5600 rpm. Plus the official government test figures show that the turbo 2-litre is actually more fuel-efficient than the naturally aspirated SRi around the city - 8.5 litres/100km for the turbo and 9 litres/100 for the naturally aspirated.
And no I don't work for Holden. Nor do I own an Astra.
Although I think I might have just convinced myself to take one for a test drive The XW that my brother had was a 3.6L not 3.1. In fact I had one myself about the same time and it was a 3.6 as well. I never saw one with the 3.1 "taxi pack" motor in it.
And anyway, the major factor in highway fuel economy is nothing to do with maximum power and very little to do with weight, it is how much power it takes to push the damn thing through the air at 100km/h.
Have a look at the shape of a XW. Big blunt front end, pi$$ poor Cd (Coefficient of drag) compared to the (slightly) more streamlined front on the later model and the much better underbody airflow treatment. Total drag should be much lower on the EL and the injected motor should be far more efficient than the old Solex carby equipped 221ci.
Both did about 30mpg. IT'S A CON I TELL YOU.
If you can't see that you are either blind or stupid.
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The manual is a laugh too...
In the following cases, the indications of this unit are different from the actual value:
- Speedometer, accelerometer and horse-power meter do not work properly when the vehicle is wheel-spinning.
- Tiltmeter does not work properly when the vehicle is accelerating with the wheel-spinning.
- Lateral accelerometer does not work properly while the vehicle is donut-turning or power-sliding.
no good in a drift car then, eh?...
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When I had my 33 it was a DailyDriver. I had a 70km each way commute and I wanted to enjoy it.
XR6t was a daily too and now that's gone and I'm back in the VR4 it goes everywhere I need to go too.
I mean why have a nice/fun car but drive a $hitebox to save a few bux that you probably end up spending (and more) to keep the heap on the road?
DRIVE THE GOOD CAR life's too short
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i was reading the paper today and looking at some new whiz bang 2006 2.4l turbo with 190kw (at flywheel) getting a 11.2l/100k's as stated by manufacturer and 11.9l/100k's proven on road. i put that against my 1994 190kw (at wheels) 2.5l turbo getting a proven 11.2l/100k's on road(even better if i could control my right foot). why bother with gizzmos that do crap and cost the earth to fit.
my 2 bob's worth anyway
I know what you mean
new whiz bang 2006 2.4l turbo with 190kw (at flywheel) getting a 11.2l/100k's as stated by manufacturer and 11.9l/100k's proven on road
My 1989 2.0L Turbo with 180something KW (at Flywheel) gets 10.8-11.2km/100km proven on the road and that's "normal" driving not economy run sh1te, It's got a turb for a reason... to run boost. 1bar in my case.
So why bother with all the gadgets indeed?
My bro had a EL falcon that did about 20mpg round town and 30mpg on the highway, EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE 1970 model XW falcon he had nearly 20 years before.
Are we being conned or what? over two decades of R&D work and the same size car uses the same amount of fuel to drive the same distance??? Bu||$hit.
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hey not bad
Now.. what am I wearing?
Like I said, angle too high, can't see in window....
Amazing what you can do with just a person's name from the copyright tag on their website, www.whitepages.com.au and google earth isn't it?
scary technology..............
Hope this is all taken in fun, and if I got it right and you don't like the info being "out there" I will edit/delete any incriminating evidence.
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you have too much time on your hands methinks..
Hey, send us a satellite of where I am typing this right now looking out the window
No problemo... just CLICK and all will be revealed.
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fine if your engine is designed for it, look at how many race cars run Methanol... but more is worse in a "petrol" engine
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the USA style ones should fit I reckon? anyone know for sure?
Yeah, I had USA rear and USA Slimline front on my R33.
The USA fits really well where a Jap plate has come out of.
I got the slimline on the front so it didn't hang down in front of the intercooler. Still same width as std slim, but no "dot" between letters and numbers, same as USA full size.
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$300 for a dump pipe, max
Unfortunatly the dump for a VR4 is like a dump and front pipe in one with a flex section in the middle, a decent, split dump that doesn't obstruct the oil filter is not easy to get and not cheap. Almost got me looking at making my own if I can co-ordinate the borrowing of a machine shop and TIG.
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settle down mate, it was just a joke, hence the ->
man...
as the guy said above, it was just a hint to "time on your hands" - hence, uni student...
sorry, no offence taken dude.
Looking at some other pics on geoff's site, you can see that bridge in the background of a photo of a "Car Auction holding yard". bridge in background
I am guessing that this buyer (my money is on Mark Hocking) buys the cars, drives them a couple of k's down the road, "snap'snap" and then stashes them in a rented corner of lock-up yard to wait for one of us to buy them.
not that there's anything wrong with that...
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So far for the Galant I have TD05-16G Turbo, Chipped ECU, 055 AFM and Intake Pipe, 720cc injectors, and a Bosch 040 pump all sitting in a box waiting to be fitted. about $1270.00 so far...
17x7's and 215-45's went on a couple of weeks ago $1080.00 from wheels-online off eBay...
My suspension was already done when the car arrived but a whiteline rear swaybar would help turn-in, $370ish...
Boost controller on the way from Nengun as I type, $417.15...
Exhaust also done, but intercooler piping needs to be upgraded to 2 1/2" $450.00
Need a Dump pipe (about) $650 clutch $400ish and a LSD for the rear diff $????
By my calcs that comes to just about $5k without the diff.
Put together and driven right that's a recipe for a mid-low 12sec VR4 (ok, maybe not with my stiff suspension)
Damn I need that last grand.......
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Ran the VR4 down until the fuel light came on and filled up with Ultimate so there could only be abour 1/2 a litre of ethanol left in there...
Starting problem fixed...
From now on I drink the ethanol courtesy of the Bundy Bear and my car gets straight petrol.
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Brisbane: 1989 Mx83 Toyota Cressida Glx $1500 Ono
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G'day.
Have you thought of putting this ad on jxz100.com? Lots of the Chaser boys like these old girls.
And yes with a 1JZ or 2JZ you have possibly the ultimate sleeper.
Tell you what, I will throw a link in the for sale forum over there for you.
I used to drive a R33, but now I have gone over to the dark side...
cheers