QLD Whoretown...

[BelGarion]

amen from australia,

taxing the taxes

[MJ]

Tell me about it pred, it was bad enough me waiting today while it was at gav's.

I just killed a few hours at harbourtown, im so impatient though heh

[predator]

almost mj, almost!

so did u say that gavin will also do your camgear?

i am keen to pull off my timing belt cover and see the condition of hte belt (so i know how much longer i need to replace it.. like another 5000km could be fine, or like NOW.. stop driving it completely, etc). I am thinking maybe if i get that far, i will just install the camgear.. then take it to gavin to adjust and do a full dyno tune.

[predator]

then i am ready to hit the strip.. big time..

its probably about this point i get carried away, do something stupid and finally lose my licence.. agg

[MJ]

Nah i wont get gavin to do my cam gear as its too much of a pain in the ass. I goto APC to use the dyno. Im thinking does it really need a dyno tune, ive searched the forums and it seems everyone with a camgear puts -4 and gets good results. So maybe if we just put it on and set it to -4 it should be fine??

[predator]

yer, that is what i was going to put on.. but leave cover off for later tuning on dyno as required.

if you want to do it same time, could be a good little project i reckon.. there is a good thread in forced induction on how to do it.

[BelGarion]

i think im gonna go to bed guys

[MJ]

Id love to give it a go but unfortunately i dont have the tools or much knowledge, im just a cheque book racer hehe.

I try not to **** around too much with the car as its my only form of transport.

If i had someone to help me that knows more then me then id feel comfortable doing it

[MJ]

cya james

[BelGarion]

my car is gonna need a serious tune soon, im intending to take it to gavin

[predator]

bed? thats a little extreme jamez.. although i must say i don't feel much better..

yer, i understand .. and I am cautious myself. if i fried my engine i would be very up a creek.

But reading the thread, and all the comments from people (some of which don't sound too much experienced with doing mechanicals than me) who did it themselves, i think its doable. I have the tools, thats easy. It basically sounds like, remove fan and shroud (and x-over fmic pipe in my case).. mark CAS position relative to cover and remove.. remove cover.. behind should be the marks.. one at 10oclock inlet side, and 2oclock exhaust .. rotate crank to TDC, this should be where the built-in belt marks align with these marks.

unbolt stock gear.. pull off.. bolt on new gear, bolt on.

do all up..

i am confident now reading all that.

[predator]

..and if i can do that, its something learned and at least $100 saved.. which i can spend on something else.

[chaos]

hmm

[MJ]

Yeah i have read the jist of it and doesnt look too complicated, the most important part is remembering to mark the CAS heh

Well if u wanna do urs and help with mine, ill buy u some beer or something

[MJ]

When are you ordering it and u getting it from greenline or nengun?

[predator]

yup, i better go order mine too.. without a gear could be kinda hard to do. Wanting to do it about 2 weeks time. IF we get to a point where we go "hmm, looking too difficult" i guess we give up and put it all back together. Nothing lost, knowledge gained!

meant to make a nice difference.. better off peak power, and helps the turbo to spool quicker and harder

[predator]

nengun.. i heard greenline went down in terms of reliability a while back, shipping goods on time, etc.

[MJ]

off peak power would be nice, my car being auto it can feel slow when im accelerating at a moderate pace, but not enough for it to downshift.

Knowledge is always a good thing! I mean i know alot from reading these forums, but its all in theory. The best part is putting it to practise

[MJ]

Id order mine now but theres no point as we are just approaching the weekend. Ill order it from nengun on monday, ill race ya see who gets it first heh

[predator]

yer.. trust one is $168.. HKS is $153.. think i will go for the HKS.. think a few weeks back they were around the same price