First outting - eastern creek - BUILD PICTURES NOW INCL'D

[Odie]

Well its been a while. Progress has been made on latest project... Taking longer than expected but hey it's just waiting for the final tune now. Will post pics and dyno sheet, along with final specs soon.

[Guest]

dam jealous of your build mate, very nice to see a coupe getting built to this extent!

[ADIKT]

So hows it coming along? pics pics pics

[Odie]

Process west are finishing the radiator header tank today and then pushing it into our tuners shop for the dyno

The end is so close!!!

[Odie]

Car spend 8 hours on the dyno today... Going back on tomorrow.

Have had to make a few fundamental changes :-/ so really unsure on the outcome, especially since we have had to revert to pump gas

[Odie]

Picked up the car... Now taking car back :-/ faulty thermostat has stuffed the mapping.

Due to the size of injectors and manifold (and going back to pump gas) we have had to do away with the ICV and compensate with enrichment till it runs at temp... Operational temp is only between 70 and 90 degrees... Not much esp when the thermostat is poked.

More on this once we fix it.

[kamineko]

Thanks for the updates Dane, sounds like a right mission. Best of luck getting it sorted

[Odie]

Eastern creek was the place to be last Thursday the long time coming coupe made its debut back on the track and by all accounts it is extremely well designed.

The day was in question up until 11pm the night before... Where we had found an oil leak coming from the sump the week before but due to time and work I couldn't look at it any sooner. So since the sump was coming off... It was decided to quickly buy in a tomei sump baffle and stiffening plate. Thanks to a lazy arse courier somewhere between QLD and Sydney it arrived late wednesday afternoon.

Off came the sump (till now we have not touched the sump) off came the oil plates and we were greeted by a very new and very shiny razor edged crank now that we know what is at the bottom of the engine I am much more at ease about running higher pressures, and tweaking the ecu a bit more.

The new baffle and plate are incredible and as you would expect from tomei they are precise beyond belief!!!

Thursday rolled around and saw the drivers brief start at 830, laptop in hand I clambered into the car and turned it over... Watching the beast warm up and come to life slowly shaking the limiters off at 50, 55, 60 degrees 61 degrees appeared and the laptop lit up with green lights and my right foot hit the gas to the floor... To say she roared is a massive understatement lol... The whole workshop shook and we suddenly had heads popping around corners of the pit garage.

The chart read some close to 3000rpm begin spool 3500 18psi (full spool) 7500rpm 17.8psi all I could do was laugh!! I hopped out yelled at my brother "she's ready" the rest of the day was pretty much spend getting used to the new power delivery... It comes on fast and steady but then holds it perfectly.

All in all very happy!!! Now to start on the 2.7 for when we blow this engine.

Final power figures are not set yet as we are still tuning and probably going to swap a few things around but it is very close to what we wanted out of this original engine

Some pics from the day...

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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.888180,151.157096

[Odie]

Eastern creek was the place to be last Thursday the long time coming coupe made its debut back on the track and by all accounts it is extremely well designed.

The day was in question up until 11pm the night before... Where we had found an oil leak coming from the sump the week before but due to time and work I couldn't look at it any sooner. So since the sump was coming off... It was decided to quickly buy in a tomei sump baffle and stiffening plate. Thanks to a lazy arse courier somewhere between QLD and Sydney it arrived late wednesday afternoon.

Off came the sump (till now we have not touched the sump) off came the oil plates and we were greeted by a very new and very shiny razor edged crank now that we know what is at the bottom of the engine I am much more at ease about running higher pressures, and tweaking the ecu a bit more.

The new baffle and plate are incredible and as you would expect from tomei they are precise beyond belief!!!

Thursday rolled around and saw the drivers brief start at 830, laptop in hand I clambered into the car and turned it over... Watching the beast warm up and come to life slowly shaking the limiters off at 50, 55, 60 degrees 61 degrees appeared and the laptop lit up with green lights and my right foot hit the gas to the floor... To say she roared is a massive understatement lol... The whole workshop shook and we suddenly had heads popping around corners of the pit garage.

The chart read some close to 3000rpm begin spool 3500 18psi (full spool) 7500rpm 17.8psi all I could do was laugh!! I hopped out yelled at my brother "she's ready" the rest of the day was pretty much spend getting used to the new power delivery... It comes on fast and steady but then holds it perfectly.

All in all very happy!!! Now to start on the 2.7 for when we blow this engine.

Final power figures are not set yet as we are still tuning and probably going to swap a few things around but it is very close to what we wanted out of this original engine

Some pics from the day...

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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.888180,151.157096

[Odie]

Oh btw the faulty thermostat was actually a loose vacuum hose :-/ lol

[Stoffa]

nice, what turbo are you running? how much power?

p.s my car still isn't finished!!

[Odie]

Still just a vf22...

We don't have an actual figure as the dyno tuner refuses to do a power run on the current motor not knowing the internals, like the crank... Which we now do know is fully forged so a power run is in order in the not to distant future.

My pick though is around low 200's anything else is in achievable on a 22 I think.

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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.879950,151.186494

[slystiguy]

I like your writing its exciting. keep the updates coming!

pics an videos are a thousand words

[subieboy]

Good to see you are having fun in Aus

The 5 years we spent there was a blast - never did get to Eastern Creek

[Odie]

Here it is finally... just on warm up and the screaming fuel pump!

[rex-leggy]

holy shit what fuel pump is that .

sounds mean!

[Odie]

Ah that would be a Weldon D2025A fuel pump...