Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Who's car are you crashing this time?

Fixed that for ya Kez.

Ha ha. Yep! Long time coming.

Having a baby and doing an engine will delay things a bit....

Now to finish the oil cooler plumbing and do some testing before DECA. otherwise I'll be using the wife's mx5.

Deca is good for testing. If you can drive it around a car park you can drive it at deca haha. Sort of...

Fixed that for ya Kez.

Deca is good for testing. If you can drive it around a car park you can drive it at deca haha. Sort of...

Ahem... Yes... Testing around a car park.... Thats what I was gonna do ?

Wayne I'm bringing a few friends down but not sure how many, I will make them do some work, how many do we need for the day to go ahead?

As many as I can. It's mainly the morning I need a hand with.

Cheers..

Then I'll bring the cousins

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

  • Like 1

OK, did the oil cooler plumbing. all good.

Found a piece of cast aluminium that had broken off the engine somewhere - WTF? Discover the screaming fan belt is actually the water pump broken and lost a piece (but no leaks!)! New part ordered and on the way. SO, cutting things fine for DECA with the barge.

Can I just swap cars over at the last minute? I might need to use either the MX5 or new Focus ST...

OK, did the oil cooler plumbing. all good.

Found a piece of cast aluminium that had broken off the engine somewhere - WTF? Discover the screaming fan belt is actually the water pump broken and lost a piece (but no leaks!)! New part ordered and on the way. SO, cutting things fine for DECA with the barge.

Can I just swap cars over at the last minute? I might need to use either the MX5 or new Focus ST...

Yeah can swap cars but don't haha.

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

Awesome, they'll love it, its closer to the action than just standing around doing nothing while you drive :D If you can give Wayne a head count in the Volunteers thread, then he can assign them a spot :)

I really can't confirm numbers now but I'll make sure and let u guys know!

Also how many tyres should I bring (na r33)

skidpan is smooth concrete, doesn't chew tyres up unless you sit on the limiter in 2nd or 3rd for 3 minutes lol

sprint runs are like road surface, no burnouts/drifting you'll be right, but if you bake your tyres and they'll chew out quick haha

if you wanna be super super safe bring 2 spare

I normally bring a second set up for the rears, just in case I get a bit too happy on the day, I'll still have something safe to drive home to melbourne on :)

Saturday 31 August

Patchy fog early in the morning. Sunny day. Light winds becoming northerly 15 to 20 km/h in the morning then tending northeasterly in the evening. Overnight temperatures falling to around 7 with daytime temperatures reaching the low 20s.

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/northerncountry.shtml

Lovely :)

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.



  • Latest Posts

    • Just a thought, was that car and auto at any point of its life? If so, maybe whoever bridged the inhibitor switch/circuit did a not so good job.
    • Wife wanted basket things in the wardrobe in our temporary house. Thought about ripping our the wardrobe and fitting the entire IKEA set, but it's a temporary house and we want to move in a few years. So IKEA advertises this as a 50cm unit, however the actually basket and rails measure 46cm wide. Only issue was depth, IKEA stuff is quite deep, where as the builder special junk is super shallow at less than 40cm. Send it, chopped the rails, then offset the mounting holes, job done, happy wife, less shit scattered all over the bedroom. Did the same to the other side too. Also drove the Skyline shit box today, dropped off oil at Supercheap Auto. I didn't realise they only now take max 2x bottles per visit. I visited 2x Supercheap Autos.  
    • I've seen similar actually in my situation. You never know what tables are attempted to be used when the car thinks it's -99C or +200C. The fail state is not usually that extreme but you know what I mean - it was in my case though! This is where being able to read all the sensors is useful cause you see this stuff really quickly.
    • The above is very important. However as long as you keep timing relatively low, it's plausible to make your own knock ears and plausible to learn to tune with a modern ECU that can do wideband O2 correction like a boost controller. I mean if you only have one viable road to even drive the car on, learning to tinker to this level may be worth doing given you can't do much else with the car...?
    • I find the fact that the rear plate has to be bent inwards at the rear not so bad: but the front is just awful: It's like come on. (these are my very old, now retired/turned in plates) TBH it is a lot of money to fix a minor issue, the fact I said "I'll never really spend the money on doing this" is why people ended up buying them as a gift for a 'car guy' who can be hard to shop for.. for car guy things.
×
×
  • Create New...