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yeah the civic was out there, pritty good for a stockie!

there was this crazy little white old civic with a turbo integra engine. Now that was interesting. It was hunting down a worked wrx with cheater tyres.

My civic went well ... but we ran out of brakes at one stage, and of course didn't bring any spares for the day. So we ran around Goulburn looking for pads. Supercheap didn't have any, but they had ones that were roughly the right size. So we bought those, and an angle grinder, and "made" them fit. :alien: At least we got back out on the track. :thumbsup:

The old EB2 Civic has IIRC, a T28 running 13psi boost. In a car weighing about 700kg, that means fast!!!!! At its last 1/4mile run at WSID, it got a 12.8.

I was lucky enough to have a drive on the day, and oh my god ... that much power was never meant to be put through the front wheels. Especially since he had just blown up the gearbox, and had replaced it with another but without LSD. It was scarrryyyy!!! And because of the short wheelbase, it is twitchy as all hell when braking hard. Pedal placement was a nightmare ... all offset to the left, and for me to reach the pedals comfortably, I had to sit disturbingly close to the wheel ... I guess not a problem for others, but I didn't start off feeling comfortable.

Unfortunately, the old civic trashed its diff, so was still at the track when we locked up ... waiting for the tow truck.

On another topic, was the green S14 yours Carlo, or a mate of yours? What happened to it?

hey, at least you didn't blow your engine up first :thumbsup:

Now you know why I'm so worried about grenading my RB26 and won't track it until it's fully sorted for circuit work :)

hey, I had a big sump with baffles. maybe it cant work from the box in the boot tho?

You obviously forgot to connect it up to the fuel tank... DUH!!!!!

n00bs :thumbsup:

when a driver of a gtr gets excited they rev the engine to hard (8500-9000)

cause the engine is spinning so hard all the oild gets pumped to the top of the engine becasue the sump only holds 5 litre maybe 6 if you really top her up

constant over revving of the engine leeds to what we call the duncan syndrome (gtr engine go bye bye) due to a lack of oil in the sump which leads the pressure loss when the pic up starves

solutions are many

1 dont over rev the engine 100% of the time on the track

2 overfill your oil (not recomended)

3 oil cooler to increase capacity of oil in engine

4 instale sump baffels to stop the starvation

5 head restrictor

6 larger sump

we love you druncan

now that i have bagged him out something will probably happen o my engine (touch wood)

sbs is when you have a gtr owner that is too scared to go to the race trace and sights sump bafels as an excuse

merli

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Just you wait :) I need to reclaim the record back off Dundan at EC :D

What's it set at these days? :)

you big girl merli

you comming saturday

I'm going to try and make it out in the morning...

I have a wedding starting at 3pm in Waitara (somewhere up north woop woop) so it's gonna be a loooooooooong day.

but if there's no oil in the sump, how are baffles going to help.  I guess you mean there is still some, but without baffles it is distributed over the whole sump and hence the level is too low near the pickup?

It's a combination of not enough oil, and oil moving around the sump at high cornering loads. Nothing underneath the oil pickup left to squirt up into the head.

Baffles help keep some oil underneath the pickup, larger capacity sump helps overall oil reserves and cooling, oil cooler does the same thing, and most importantly, and oil gallery restrictor in the head restricts how much oil gets sent up into the head (too much in standard configuration) and leaves more oil in the sump.



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