Dumb Question Thread!

[QRAF]

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=581459957&cc=91&pid=229312298&hbc=&ct=link

was looking at this

[gotasuby]

 evowrx said:

Theres a 2 pin hitachi I think and a 3 pin mitzi. Dont quote me on the makes its been a while but Im fairly sure. My V5 had 3 pin early -V2 or V4 was 2 pin I believe.

Dont think you can buy an adaptor as other pin does something demo can probably tell you I dont have access to the programs anymore.

You can rewire alternators. We have a 3 pin in rally car which used to have 2 pin got extra power demands

[Guest]

 gotasuby']

[quote name='evowrx said:

Theres a 2 pin hitachi I think and a 3 pin mitzi. Dont quote me on the makes its been a while but Im fairly sure. My V5 had 3 pin early -V2 or V4 was 2 pin I believe.

Dont think you can buy an adaptor as other pin does something demo can probably tell you I dont have access to the programs anymore.

/quote]

You can rewire alternators. We have a 3 pin in rally car which used to have 2 pin got extra power demands

There is quite a few plug and play harnesses available. You mean the 3pin is higher amp? Ones I used to sell i swear were same output but then were oex/jaylec/unipoint so not oe alternators.

[gotasuby]

We use the ez30 ones as we need 90 amp continues to run the lights and fuel pumps. We have over a 1000w of lighting on the front.

[B4 I was 250T]

 QRAF said:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=581459957&cc=91&pid=229312298&hbc=&ct=link

was looking at this

Nice alternator covers, still wish I could fit them on my BE Hope you win, it\'d be nice for them to go to a club sub member

[Guest]

They bigger again than v7- ones? Ive never touched one tbh. Makes sense what youre saying.

[QRAF]

i just like chrome ;D

[lachlan]

 gotasuby said:

We use the ez30 ones as we need 90 amp continues to run the lights and fuel pumps. We have over a 1000w of lighting on the front.

should get some hids or leds . thats 2 kw of engine power your using up there

[gotasuby]

Yes but hid ballasts don\'t like the vibration, and there is no way we can afford leds

[Guest]

Aint broke dont fix it when you need reliability. Whats the light set up? 1000w is some serious halogen

[gotasuby]

We have factory highs and lows on, 2 spots, 4 floods, 2 side floods and 2 side lights.

[94 Leone]

 gotasuby said:

We have factory highs and lows on, 2 spots, 4 floods, 2 side floods and 2 side lights.

You\'ve got a bright path a head of you; that\'s for sure.

[B4 I was 250T]

 QRAF said:

i just like chrome ;D

I love chrome too! Still wish my chrome parts would go on the B4 :\'(

[QRAF]

i want them but i think i\'ll have the same issues with it not fitting.

[B4 I was 250T]

From the pick they will fit mate. The radiator mounts look identical as do the alternator covers. I also have a chromed belt cover thing if you\'re interested. Let me know and I\'ll post extra pics up for you

[Andy_Mac]

got an issue thats kinda stumped me, was having a nosey around the engine bay the other day and noticed someone had moved a clamp from holding on a pipe going between the passenger side bov and turbo intake and had it just on the pipe squashing it quite a bit. so i decided to move it to where it should be, the pipe wasn\'t the whole way on so i pushed it down further and clamped it. The part i don\'t get is now the vod seems exponentially worse. The only thing i could think of was some air was escaping before the turbo which doesn\'t seem quite right as pressures were always slightly high rather than low. And the pipe was on enough that it was still fairly tight.

Cars a 2000 B4 RSK btw

[B4 I was 250T]

Weird! Hope it sorts out for you mate

[B4 I was 250T]

Dumb question. I\'ve been told all our performance imports are detuned when coming to NZ from Japan. Is there any truth to this? And if so how do we get them back to \'Jap spec\'? Cheers all

[gotasuby]

No they are not detuned as such. Our bad quality fuel causes the ecu to detune car at the onset of knock though. So always run highest octane available

[B4 I was 250T]

So going down the octane booster track would bring mine close to the 206kw factory?

[Guest]

NZ new detuned? Question not rhetoric. Oz new were detuned as opposed to policed jdm imports.

[Marky]

 B4 I was 250T said:

So going down the octane booster track would bring mine close to the 206kw factory?

go down the make more horseys track not dumping octane boost in, its based on the assumption that the cars pull timing a touch on 98 compared to 100 octane, to be fair id assume no real difference since nz is pretty low elevation & temperature to compensate for sliiiightly lower octane

with breathing mods youll make more like 230 kw @ flywheel pretty easily, plus the thing is 15 years old so all the octane boost in the world wont fix that wear on things

[Marky]

 Andy_Mac said:

got an issue thats kinda stumped me, was having a nosey around the engine bay the other day and noticed someone had moved a clamp from holding on a pipe going between the passenger side bov and turbo intake and had it just on the pipe squashing it quite a bit. so i decided to move it to where it should be, the pipe wasn\'t the whole way on so i pushed it down further and clamped it. The part i don\'t get is now the vod seems exponentially worse. The only thing i could think of was some air was escaping before the turbo which doesn\'t seem quite right as pressures were always slightly high rather than low. And the pipe was on enough that it was still fairly tight.

Cars a 2000 B4 RSK btw

thats the recirculating hose from the bov

has no impact on the switchover side of things so no idea why its made that worse

to be fair if all you did was just put the clamp back on... are you sure nothing else got touched at all?

[B4 I was 250T]

 Marky']

[quote name='B4 I was 250T said:

So going down the octane booster track would bring mine close to the 206kw factory?

/quote]

go down the make more horseys track not dumping octane boost in, its based on the assumption that the cars pull timing a touch on 98 compared to 100 octane, to be fair id assume no real difference since nz is pretty low elevation & temperature to compensate for sliiiightly lower octane

with breathing mods youll make more like 230 kw @ flywheel pretty easily, plus the thing is 15 years old so all the octane boost in the world wont fix that wear on things

Teehee! Thanks Marky

[Andy_Mac]

yea thats why it makes bugger all sense. And nothing else got knocked, checked everything after i took it for the first drive with it changed and it felt worse.

Oh well might just have to do a half arse tear down over the weekend, was keen to see if the primary had any shaft play as i think its been getting a bit louder lately.

Assuming the turbo intake can be moved aside enough without taking off the manifold.