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Was it the earth strap in the engine bay ?

I think the attessa system has more earths under the back of the car in the boot?

Glad it's sorted mate go hard !!

yeah. The earth that holds the car battery as well as an other earthing wire.

It goes alright lol

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Rightyo its been a while since I did anything with this thread

Heres a few pics of the car at Lakeside Raceway back in October

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lol @ that wrxy handycam

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#DATE85LYF

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Cars cooling off after the session

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the brakes were fecking hot - need to fabricate some brake cooling / air ducting next also that brake dust is nasty, predominantly because I think my rotors are not facing correctly :dry:

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cleaned her up once I got home

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enjoyed a well deserved beer :cheers:

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Been experiencing voltage drop at idle after driving the car and think it could be the battery

Over the years I have been going through wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooo many batteries

And after some research I am thinking my alternator is one its way out.

So I procured this

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RH9 Alternator 130amps - hope this fixes the voltage drop issue (fyi it drops from 13.5 to 12.8 or lower at idle)

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Came with this sticker - so cool - not that am worthy of putting that sticker on lol

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Nice shots antsy pants

thanks dude

Nice work. Was that a general fun day @Lakeside?

btw looks like one of those rear pods is sticking out a bit?

Yep, was SAU QLD happy laps at Lakeside has to be my favorite track

Yeah, I have since fixed that rear pod but may have to sikaflex it

Been experiencing voltage drop at idle after driving the car and think it could be the battery

Over the years I have been going through wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooo many batteries

And after some research I am thinking my alternator is one its way out.

So I procured this

IMG_0051_zps39778878.jpg

RH9 Alternator 130amps - hope this fixes the voltage drop issue (fyi it drops from 13.5 to 12.8 or lower at idle)

Came with this sticker - so cool - not that am worthy of putting that sticker on lol

and not only do they work really well they look blingy too :thumbsup:

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Next issue.

Miss firing whoes.

I had my plugs fouled at the drag day so I thought I would replace them.

I took the coil packs out and they looked like this

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they needed some serious TLC

While I was at it thought it would be good to source a new coil pack harness as the other one looked rather brittle and stiff

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also got some brand new NGK platinum spark plugs BCPR7ES and I gapped them to 0.7mm

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I cleaned up them coil packs and also go hold of some dielectric compound and applied it to the coil packs where required and also around the spark plugs

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Plugs, coil packs and new coil pack harness all reinstalled

Went for a drive and car felt more responsive but more importantly goodbye missfire, happy Frenchmen I was

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