Duncan

this start??? I smashed em! 8th to 1st before turn 1. wish it was a race not a warm up lap

all turbo cars run a valve in the BOV pressure side. If manifold pressure exceeds the allowed pressure the valve closes, causes the BOVs to blow open and drop all boost. Painfully effective. In fact it really doesn't work well with the stock system because it spikes and then returns, I had to add a boost controller to keep the spikes under control. max boost I saw today was 11.3 psi dammit. mate the car was a shitbox in the wet (don't believe what you read on the internet abotu 4wd in the wet....it does SFA for mid corner speed). But in the dry it went f**king great, I was holding down 4th place with an emo X, emo 9 and sti only in front of me. pretty good for a 20yo car with a hack driver. And I had the wrong damn tyres on again. bring on wakie! What went wrong was....the fuel sender was borken, we chucked in all the fuel we had in jerries to be safe. 25min race, 3 warm up laps after the trouble on the grid....I just ran out of fuel on the second last lap. I could hold say 2000rpm without running out of fuel but anything above that it broke down Won't happen again.

Indeed I was...in response to the ad on my105 claimining only 270kw out of a showroom evo.....

well it rained for the race and qualifying yesterday, and the forecast for today is: Metropolitan area Cloudy. Heavy showers, easing to scattered showers later in the evening. The main issue with that is.....my car is rubbish in the wet!

exactly correct. I understand it is as low as 1bar at redline but production cars only cares about maximum boost. presumably a death or 2. I have no idea why the regs are making faster cars over years. bigger tyres, larger exhaust, free injectors etc etc are just making the crashes harder when they happen. what is the top speed on stage of the lambo?

Cloudy. Isolated showers. Hopefully none of that!!!

ahh crossed wires sorry!

i said 290 not 270. only engine freedoms are ecu, cam gears and fuel. turbos must run standard boost which in an evo X is 1.6 bar.

hmm looks like a little pinging at some stage, obviously not too bad though. I have finally sorted the cooling problems in my race car, no problems running indefiantely at race speed these days (1hr +). I am not sure what fixed the issues but here are the things I did for cooling: standard fan and shroud n1 water pump greddy overdriven water pump pulley new viscous coupling for fan china 40mm radiator 1.3 bar radiator cap nismo thermostat with all of those things, water temps were just acceptable. when it last ran in that spec it was overheating badly but that turned out to be a water leak (so farking annoyed I checked everything except a simple pressure check) since then i changed to: pwr twin pass radiator moved oil cooler from in front of the radiator to the ps guard. shrounding the radiator to the chassis and front bar entry now it is absolutely fine. in fact i changed back to a standard thermostat because it was running too cool for my liking. they are the facts. my guess is the most important of all of the changes was proper ducting from the front bar entrance to the radiator. if i was air, i would find any way to go around the radiator instead of through it. no reason to think the pwr radiator was any better than the china one, especially not for $800 and 2 mistakes between the order and what I received

really? even in production cars the emo X are quicker in a straight line than the 290RWKW v8s....

the 4 spot wilwoods I've seen were pretty poor....too much caliper flex. But like all manufacturers I'm sure htey have different models, hopefully the group buy ones are more solid

3 years sounds like the edge of acceptable to me. I would be very unhappy if they are track tyres, roadies are probably ok for 3-5 years. in practice, the amount of light and heat where they are stored are more important than time, but you obviously don't know how they were stored. and with track tyres, the number of heat cycles (times you have raced on them) is more important than time or storage

jiffo....of all the posts in here.....yours needs pics the most!

OK...I trust you are sure the valves were not impacting a piston. depends on where the motor and cam were when assembled of course.

sort of...but it is rubbish! http://www.eastern-creek-raceway.com/events.htm jeeus, no pressure there! the field is going to be damn competitive including those pesky emo Xs. Luckily they are down to 1.2bar this year instead of 1.6+

did you trying turning the cam with the head on the motor, including timing belt, or was the head off the motor? I have had to tunnel bore the cam tunnels before. When you say the head is straight do you just mean the surface that bolts to the block of have you checked the cam tunnels

lol that should be spectacular, if not quick

Round 1 of the NSW State Champs are on this weekend at Eastern Creek. Categories include Sports Sedans, Improved Production, HQs, Production sports, and of course the mighty production touring category....and for the first time in about 5 years there are 2 GTRs on the grid. Each category has qualifying and 1 race on sat, and 2 races on sunday If you do make it drop by, I will be set up on the skidpan somewhere wishing I could afford a garage The good news is, ARDC have finally worked out it is more expensive to pay for a gatekeeper than to just throw the gates open.....so entry is free both days.

perfect commuter car I spotted Charlie's red stealth ute this morning

yeah it is 100% on the cards ben...just sorting out a date. the conditions are still bullshit (ie we take the financial risk if it's not full, they make all the profit if it is full or overfull)

and I thought we were traveling Ninja style and would never get spotted in that! jeebus! I thought they only existed in GT5

oh ouch! you should never let your children leave unless you are ready for anything to happen to them. I still don't know what happened to zerasa (ne huge1), it came to 1 track day then disappeared

I would put ksport on the front and leave the standard rears (they are already pretty good). I run the ksport style brakes on my race car when I am allowed to, and the stagea and z road cars all the time. they are excellent for the price and are as good as brand brakes 3x the price.

didn't we do that last week? here are the top 10 (ignore the evo, it was on cheater slicks and ran a 20b rotary) 1 130 Michael Hiscoe RENEW EVO 9 O S6 1:04.9860* 2 72 Trent Kennedy SAU TK-80 C S4 1:06.4820 0:01.4960 3 68 Duncan Handley SAU R32 GTR F S6 1:06.9740 0:01.9880 4 37 Ben Kirker SAU S15 C S6 1:07.4400 0:02.4540 5 32 Dennis Resi SAU R32GTR F S5 1:08.2120 0:03.2260 6 79 Malcolm Schmid RENEW FD RX7 C S6 1:09.2200 0:04.2340 7 84 David Parkes RENEW Ser2 RX7 O S4 1:09.4000 0:04.4140 8 39 Peter Carruthers SAU R32 GTR F S6 1:10.1080 0:05.1220 9 21 Dean Buczynski SAU R32 GTR F S5 1:10.1740 0:05.1880 10 90 Richard Huer SAU 300ZX F S5 1:10.1770 0:05.1910

yeah you can buy flaring tools, they are cheap. but you need to flush the lines well after cutting the old end off. everything uses a standard flare, it is 30o or something.