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  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

hehehee.. yeah.... took me a while to find that problem... its funny that 4 mechanics just did not see it??? i could hear something is not right on that side of the car.. so i got someone else to do a power run while i watched from outside and thats what i saw :) i was laughing for hours after that.

well... the news is that i quit my job, now i am tuning here and there doing my own thing and I have alot of work at one workshop about 180km away in another city which i drive to about 5 times a week, but i also have some huge legal problems with my visa and what not... i guess someone was not too happy that i wanted to leave to hit me with the ban stick....??

My sponsor has some huge plans but i cannot really talk much about it until i get a new residence visa etc etc.

I am still tuning every day but now I am not stuck in one place. I created a new facebook page, so LIKE my page, and share it with your friends... I will be posting everything up on there when i can, and will also keep this thread up to date once everything is finished.

should not be too long to go! i could not come back home for chrissy because of these issues.. but i hope its all good soon.

my facebook page is

www.facebook.com/tunedbyanthony

and my youtube is

www.youtube.com/upyas

I am finding that alot of skyline / RB guys are interested in my services, we are doing a nissan infinity g37 RB30DET conversion, 26 head and 25 box... I am doing a adaptronic basic ecu install in the car and tune. I just finished a really nice american 280zx with rb25det neo with a adaptronic and there are some other old school Z cars who are going to start a install also.

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i have sorted out the 350z, she is flying now... 385hp at wheels, there is a video on my facebook, and also the 32 has a gt35r again, and that car is just crazy fast there is no traction in all 4 gears with 285 rubber on the rear on only 21psi boost!!! the 32 cannot handle the power as well as the 33 did i suppose.

thanks for your continued support! I am still battling it away in the land of sand... its not easy here I tell you this, but in the long run it will pay off I am sure!

thanks mate :)

i am still working though, going to tune a 2010 camaro today.

this is a video from the dubai autodrome a few weeks ago.

there is some videos of the skyline and z33 on my facebook page.

http://facebook.com/tunedbyanthony

  • 4 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

took my mates R35 GTR for sale, what a beast of thing it is...

this is the car we were doing the twin turbo GTX30 kit on last year, i think i posted some pics in this thread back when we were building it.

running only .8 bar boost in this video, and a max of 1.1 bar because the transmission and engine is still standard, but the turbo kit is capable of pushing some serious power once everything is upgraded.

this car is for sale for $71,000 USD

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=418912851538547&set=vb.369080323188467&type=2&theater

  • 3 weeks later...

been a busy week, Red R Racing, the Dirt man has come to visit! and what an eventful day we had today....

on the way to the dyno i am renting we both nearly got arrested and sent to jail, me for racing and he for taking a picture of the police who pulled us over, they even chucked him in the back of the paddy wagon until he agreed to delete all the pictures he took, I got let off because the customer / friend who i was racing is a vip, and the car i was driving is owned by a vip from another country and it would be a massive headache for them to impound the car, the copper made it clear that he could arrest me and not impound the car but i think my friend egged the police on to give me a scare because the look on both their faces kinda gave it away when they were walking towards me....

anyway we tuned both cars, one made 470hp at 4 wheels and the other 330hp at 4 wheels. both were nissan 5.6 litre v8's, one with a supercharger and one with a turbo running vipec v88's

it was good having the dirt man around when tuning, he helped out quite a bit! good help on the dyno is hard to find here....

got my 350z back from a new paint job and engine rebuild with forgies, but i think the valve stem seals are a bit buggered :( i did not have any to replace them this time because i replaced them 2 months ago...

here is a pic of the Dirt man in my 350z, he drove it home for me while i drove the r32 home.

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and here is the z now, its lookin pretty nice.. the whole paint job only cost $500

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last week we finished off stage one of the twin turbo Jeep SRT8 that we been working on, and i tuned the stock ecu with Diablosport

its a 6.4 litre v8 running twin gt35r's and we just tuned it on low boost, 10 psi... it made 630hp at 4 wheels and ran 11.3 on normal street tyres with a slipping transmission which is not bad, we need to turn the boost up to 25psi for the next season and do alot of work on the drive train / bushing / suspension for the car to handle big mph without bunnyhopping around.

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  • 2 weeks later...

been a busy week, Red R Racing, the Dirt man has come to visit! and what an eventful day we had today....

on the way to the dyno i am renting we both nearly got arrested and sent to jail, me for racing and he for taking a picture of the police who pulled us over, they even chucked him in the back of the paddy wagon until he agreed to delete all the pictures he took, I got let off because the customer / friend who i was racing is a vip, and the car i was driving is owned by a vip from another country and it would be a massive headache for them to impound the car, the copper made it clear that he could arrest me and not impound the car but i think my friend egged the police on to give me a scare because the look on both their faces kinda gave it away when they were walking towards me....

anyway we tuned both cars, one made 470hp at 4 wheels and the other 330hp at 4 wheels. both were nissan 5.6 litre v8's, one with a supercharger and one with a turbo running vipec v88's

it was good having the dirt man around when tuning, he helped out quite a bit! good help on the dyno is hard to find here....

got my 350z back from a new paint job and engine rebuild with forgies, but i think the valve stem seals are a bit buggered :( i did not have any to replace them this time because i replaced them 2 months ago...

here is a pic of the Dirt man in my 350z, he drove it home for me while i drove the r32 home.

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and here is the z now, its lookin pretty nice.. the whole paint job only cost $500

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last week we finished off stage one of the twin turbo Jeep SRT8 that we been working on, and i tuned the stock ecu with Diablosport

its a 6.4 litre v8 running twin gt35r's and we just tuned it on low boost, 10 psi... it made 630hp at 4 wheels and ran 11.3 on normal street tyres with a slipping transmission which is not bad, we need to turn the boost up to 25psi for the next season and do alot of work on the drive train / bushing / suspension for the car to handle big mph without bunnyhopping around.

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Is he sneaking you back for tunes?

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 4 months later...

Time for some updates!!!

So basically the isssues started when I quit my job.

The workshop where I was working at had 2 partners, and they had a major falling out, and as you can understand when the shit hits the fan there, it happens in a extreme way... (just watch the news)

The guy who hired me and brought me into the country had nothing to do with the shop anymore and things started going down hill, so i decided i did not want anything to do with the place anymore and wrote my letter and resigned.

So since then and now I have been around a bit in the whole UAE, i looked at tuning at one of the biggest workshops in the country and spent some time there but I found that the grass is NOT greener on the other side. I was warned by many people not to trust them and be careful, but the advice i was given from my original sponsor really stuck in my head...

But I did stray a little and I did go to other shops, one of them... this shop is just something, it has 2 Dyno's, one motorbike dyno and tuner who tunes bikes, and a Dyno Dynamics 4wd dyno where an Aussie tuner from QLD was tuning before. but he left and they were looking for someone to take his place.

The showroom was something, they would have had a million $ + worth of stock just sitting around in this shop, I remember the look on the Dirt mans face when i took him there to have a look, he said he has never seen anything like it in his life.

We are talking hundreds of forge pistons sets in stock, hundreds of rods, oil pumps, ecu's, fittings and cams and blocks and heads and valve springs and gaskets and oil pumps and fuel pumps and manifolds.... everything that you can imagine.... Money is no problem for these guys...

They have a big engine room / machine shop in house and 2 Dyno cells, and fully functioning body repair shop and full mechanical workshop / fabrication shop. Everything you need to do and could want to do with cars could be done in the one stop.

I tuned quite a few cars in this place, and well it was quite an experience. The shop was in Dubai which is about 50 minutes drive from my house down the Dubai express way which was not too bad at all.

A couple of cars that I tuned there that i will share with you, R35 GTR, with a Haltech ecu...

This was a stockish R35, nothing special.... but it was my first 35 that I have tuned with a haltech.

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Tuning this GTR was not hard to be honest, they are just like any other car with an aftermarket ecu and was easy to get power out of.

The previous tuner at the shop came in for a visit and we became friends, the guy is like my hero, sure the tunes he has done that I have seen are not something to be desired but the whole point of it being is that he had the good reputation and even if he pumped out a SHIT HOUSE tune because he is having a bad day or he is just robbing everyone for a quick tune (whatever the reason) everyone would still come back to him for more, and this put money in his pocket. at the end of the day when you look past the "he can tune he cannot tune" side of things and you see this........ (Yes he could pump out good tunes and good work and spend some time on the cars but why do you have to do that when you don't have to ??? so who cares if you can tune better then someone else in this country, its all about being the best bullshit artist and telling customers what they want to hear and this was a new way of thinking for me which has been very very hard for me adapt / accept.

The next car il post up was another Nissan patrol, this one was not tooo much different from the other Nissans i have done in the past, Motec ecu and CDI but this one had a gt55 turbocharger.

it was pushing about 1200+ hp at wheels on race gas. the setup did need some work and i could have got it to over 1400hp but whats the point ? the customer was happy with what we got from it.

Tuning this car was nothing new to me as i been doing these patrols / land cruisers for quite a while.... it did run a shitload of boost (close to 40psi from what i can remember) and it was setup quite good except for some boost control issues which could have been easily fixed.

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Watching this car drive up the road was something, it was one of the rare cars that had a transmission upgrade and that meant that it did not smash the gearbox to pieces on the first test run... sounds funny but there would have been 20 + cars that I have tuned that have blown the gearbox on the first run outside the front of the workshop but this one lived because it had a PPG gear set from back home installed :)

I guess they leave the gearbox to the last modification because they do not usually blow on the dyno !

So that will do for now..... Will have some more for you guys very soon i promise!

Anthony

www.facebook.com/tunedbyanthony

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