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ahhh john mate seen this beast come allong way...i member the day u droped the q45 in it...f**k it sounded good...good to see its all comin together well...ull have to take me for a spin once the blower and everything is on :) haha...cheers mate...top stuff!!

hahaha yeah for sure rob.

No updates for a while, sorta lost interest and drive for a little while as i had no idea when the computer was coming. But it left yesterday and should be here today. Hopefully fire it up for the first time tomorrow afternoon. Take it down the coast for a tune next week!! now im kinda of excited again.

Rob i got ur PM i will look into that, cheers.

UPDATE:

IT LIVES!! Fired it up last night, built up fuel pressure, turned it over and it idled like factory.. well it hunts a little with the blower and is a little rich... A test drive and some street tuning tonight.. Then a trip down the coast to be dyno'd.... It sounds unreal!!

Can forsee a few small problems with it... the rubber seals where the funny lookin manifold splits may leak.... Still have to put the engine damper on the calm it down... with the blower mounted so far to one side it ends up moving quite a bit, Fuel pump is farken noisy!! but i knew it would be.. mounted on the boot floor that now has no sound deadening..

All thats really left to do is pretty up the interior and do the cage... these are trivial though...

Well everything seemed to work out perfectly. It made 5psi from ~6k through to 7.2k where it just started to max the injectors out at 335hp@rears and stupid amounts of torque... car is very stupid to drive and overall im absolutely stoked... to take it any further id have to put bigger injectors and lower the compression, easy enough done... but it will do "for now"...

  • 2 weeks later...

it makes progressive boost all the way to redline.

Going out to willowbank tonight for some shake down passes. Getting excited..

First time out on slicks should make things interesting..

ok well all worked out ok... kind of... couldnt manage under a 13 to start with but then we pulled the air cleaner off and played with some tyre pressures and the car dropped almost a second...

it managed a 12.42@112mph with a 1.7 60ft time

It wont change from first to second with out completely back off so it is loosing heaps of time there.. it kept going faster all night but andra kicked it off once it ran under 12.5 cause i didnt have front runners...

So i sourced some front runners yesterday wheels and tyres and they should be here by the end of the week...

Now i just have to sort the gearbox,, we may take it out for some more testing after power cruise before deciding which way we will head with the gearbox...

Options are speak to the guys in the states and send the valve body from the current gearbox over there to be modified, have a custom auto computer built for it and buy a big power handling rebuild kit for it.

And the other option is to make a Fully manualised C4 or turbo 400 bolt up... Either option is going to be really expensive... Im leaning more towards a built turbo 400 as parts seem to be cheaper for them and they are fairly cheap to get a ahold of second hand.

But this still means i will need to modifiy the drive shaft again and get another custom stall convertor built...

And at the moment i have zero cash... just waiting for the GTR to sell and then we'll see where we go from there....

More research is being done into a methanol enrichment system as well.... I want more power.. but first we have to get it down the strip with no headaches..

ok well all worked out ok... kind of... couldnt manage under a 13 to start with but then we pulled the air cleaner off and played with some tyre pressures and the car dropped almost a second...

it managed a 12.42@112mph with a 1.7 60ft time

It wont change from first to second with out completely back off so it is loosing heaps of time there.. it kept going faster all night but andra kicked it off once it ran under 12.5 cause i didnt have front runners...

So i sourced some front runners yesterday wheels and tyres and they should be here by the end of the week...

Now i just have to sort the gearbox,, we may take it out for some more testing after power cruise before deciding which way we will head with the gearbox...

Options are speak to the guys in the states and send the valve body from the current gearbox over there to be modified, have a custom auto computer built for it and buy a big power handling rebuild kit for it.

And the other option is to make a Fully manualised C4 or turbo 400 bolt up... Either option is going to be really expensive... Im leaning more towards a built turbo 400 as parts seem to be cheaper for them and they are fairly cheap to get a ahold of second hand.

But this still means i will need to modifiy the drive shaft again and get another custom stall convertor built...

And at the moment i have zero cash... just waiting for the GTR to sell and then we'll see where we go from there....

More research is being done into a methanol enrichment system as well.... I want more power.. but first we have to get it down the strip with no headaches..

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