Steve

I hope it will be in the next month, but more realistically in the next two, cos Evan is always so bloody busy and he is a one man show. After pulling my hair out waiting for him to finish the turbo install, I have decided that it is more than worth it - he is an artist. Hopefully I will get some pics soon, and a preliminary dyno tomorrow - preliminary cos I still have cams and gasket in the garage waiting patiently. Looks like they may have to wait a bit longer, as I dont want to fit them and start the real tuning until I have this plenum sorted:D I'll definately let every one know when its done. Should be interesting if the old 'aftermarket plenum makes no difference' theory could be disproven.

I went down and had a look at how the car was going last night - Evan is an artist! Hope to put some pics up tonight:D Worth the wait. I hope all goes well for the tune tomorrow.

After having a chat to Evan (PSI Fabrication) last night, he is interested in testing the difference between the stock plenum and one of his custom plenums. So looks like I will be upgrading the hills thing sooner rather than later:D The hills one would probably be ok for someone with stock turbo that isnt chasing much more than 200ish rwkw, but I really doubt it will provide the goods once bigger turbo and extra boost is wound in. Will be doing before and after dyno runs to compare so he has concrete evidance of any gains to be had with his plenum design. I will probably try and get a comparison run between the hills one as well. Should be interesting.

Hippy, I am definately not the only govt worker, perhaps the other guys just dont know how to work the system:D

Hippy, car 'should' be out tomorrow - so your dump pipe 'should' be good to go - you also got to get the other wheel. Have you had a wheel alignment yet? Nizmo, so why are you moving over here?

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Hey, I can post quicker than one every 180 secs, must be a peak period thing?

Now I must be getting bored:) I want 11k+ posts too goddamit:p

Nizmo, how bloody lucky are you? How did it happen, do you know?

Hippy, I think I have worked it out, the no posts closer than 180 seconds is probably to stop people getting ridiculously huge numbers of post (eg11k)

Dean will have to organise something once all is up and running properly.

Wish I had the tools/know how - otherwise I would take it off myself:) Cheers.

Are these the guys on main north road? cant remember their name/address now:(

Hippy, looks like I will be picking the car up today fingers crossed. So dump will be good to go:) Getting a tune done by John Keen at turbo tune on friday at 10am, just an intermediate tune until I can find the $ to fit cams, head gasket and exhaust cam gear:) Hi Nizmo, I was originally from the west, you should like it over here. Weather is a bit cooler, but the people are really friendly - more than makes up for it:)

BOOSTD, just looking at getting the head tidied up and maybe matchporting intake runners. I dont have all the tools necessary to get the head off though:( Its just sort of seems a shame as I gotta get the head removed, but to go the next step of complete disasemble and mild port is going to double the cost - have to stay on the wagon a bit longer:)

BOOSTD, want a customer?

Problems with plenum. 1. what was described was not delivered, no bell mouthed runner, throttle body didnt fit, plenum sits too high to do a 3L conversion which I also asked if it would allow clearance to the bonnet for this. 2. welds were actually quite poor, some places looked like it was close to burning through, and I had it re welded to be safe. 3. i was originally told they would fit their plenum for $895 and do a ford throttle body for an extra $200 fitted. When I asked for a price for plenum and throttle body ready to bolt on (i am in a different state) the throttle body delivered was a second hand ford explorer one, it didnt fit on to the plenum (it was made to fit stock TB) and the TPS was the stock ford on/off affair. Didnt really appear to be good value for money IMHO PLUS They did not deliver what was promised. Bottom line, cut the top off your stock plenum chamber, weld up a new one with holes at the front for a new tb and radius the runners - $895. I wanted a good plenum, I was expecting to pay up to $1500 new, so when mark told me how good his are I thought great, but bottom line is it would have been cheaper, quicker and easier and just as effective to have the throttle pos moved to the front and bored out the top of the runners myself - same difference.

Not yet, just positive thinking so far:D

Farken car still isnt out farken. Better be out before friday, I have booked in for a service at turbo tune.

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When the BOV vents some of the blowby from the cam cover breathers will be vented along with this, as it has been fed from the cam cover into the inlet pipework.

RS500, I have a 0.73 lined up for a swap if the housing is too small (fortuneately). Freebaggin, attached is a side view - dont laugh its farking tiny:) I hope you are right about the size, seems a bit strange that HKS would sell it if its no good, will know soon enough.

$3000 for a set of rods - fark, Thats about 30 RB30 short motors:D

Well if that be the case, QLD doesnt comply with ADRs, which state that ALL crank case gasses MUST go through the exhaust system - its pollution control, and has been a law for a long time. With an atmo BOV, the crank case gasses get vented to atmosphere. Its all well and good to say 'if you know your laws', but reality is that what gets passed depends on who does the inpspecting, not on the laws.

Brody, my advice would be pull the pump out and have a look. Mine does not make that sort of noise, even when my tank is almost empty - I would be a bit worried sorry to say.