What have you done to your car today?

[boon]

 Percy said:

Not sure if the seals have failed or not, just interested to find a source for them, so I can rebuild them myself when the time comes.

They probably need it, as they've done 240k... which probably means the bushings are shot.

And I was planning on messing with the damping in the track hacks shocks, when its going.

Also I like playing with things, like changing the damping and stuffs, can't be that different from my mountain bikes or dirt bikes dampers!

There's only so many ways to control oil flowing through ports.

The piston arrangement in mine was identical to a decent motorbike damper. Just a directional-flow-ported piston with a shim stack on each side.

They are remarkably simple internally, a lot of mechanics I talk to (and people on here, probably by flow-down effect) treat them like they're some sort of incredibly complex black art and having had one completely disassembled in front of me I can't really understand it.

[scooby-wrx]

 hijacka said:

Finally got another mig welder and fixed up a leak in the flange on a 3' turbo back exhaust thats been sitting around for a while cut the noisy arse muffler off it and hung a genome sti muffler right on the end, Looks good side ways mount aye!

Look really good mate! Nice work!

[Percy]

 boon said:

The piston arrangement in mine was identical to a decent motorbike damper. Just a directional-flow-ported piston with a shim stack on each side.

They are remarkably simple internally, a lot of mechanics I talk to (and people on here, probably by flow-down effect) treat them like they're some sort of incredibly complex black art and having had one completely disassembled in front of me I can't really understand it.

Good to know they're simpler than most MTB dampers these days!

Means they might be easy to royally fubar up the damping, but easy to un-fubar as well, which is the fun part.

[94 Leone]

Got her a wof, was advised to get new tyres, camber wear down to second rubber layer on the inside- whoops, forgot to rotate tyres :')

THey've still got 2mm on the fronts, so that'll be xmas pressie for her after cambelt. That or it's a bloody good excuse for new wheels...

[Koom]

 Marky said:

Wait whaaaaat your car moves now?

This is excite

Yeah, all sorted and fully road legal.

Drove it again today. I must say that feels weird to be able to just go downstairs, jump into it and drive it wherever I want. Doesn't seem right, haha.

Also came home and wrote up a page long list of things to do. First is replace the sunvisor that broke off in my hand the other day. Stupid old plastic!

[Joker]

kinkies welcome back!

[Koom]

 Joker said:

kinkies welcome back!

I never left. Could only sit in it in the garage making brmm brmm noises for 5 years though!

Welcome to the bc club too

[Joker]

heh I started in a BC

[hijacka]

 scooby-wrx said:

Look really good mate! Nice work!

Thanks mate, yeah i think cutting it up really paid off:) Has a nice note to it

[94 Leone]

Paid her off And paid for new shifter bushes.

I love pay day.

[Andy_Mac]

Rocker cover fun...

[Marky]

Got new 2.5" downpipes installed yesterday, found they don't quite mate to my old exhaust (it's close enough to work tho), drove to work with an exhaust 3 feet long

Somewhat noisy

[McDoof]

Installed a new 265lph fuel pump, filter and strainer. Took the car for a good fang out to Huna Falls. Now to get a steady supply of Ethanol.

[AdamOst]

 McDoof said:

Installed a new 265lph fuel pump, filter and strainer. Took the car for a good fang out to Huna Falls. Now to get a steady supply of Ethanol.

Ha, I was out there on Saturday in my mx5.

[Andy_Mac]

Solid. Thats the way to get real gains out of the 3.0r's

[McDoof]

Matt has done a flex fuel map for me so I can run any blend of ethanol to 98. The guy is a legend really. Time for a track day. Fill up on E85 at Hampton Downs

[Andy_Mac]

Just impossible to get hold of. Still need a tweak for my one but haven't heard back from him yet.

You have a flex fuel sensor or have to fill completely up each time. Think he was talking about some ecu's actually being able to work out the percentage just from the AFR's or something these days but can't remember if he was talking about subaru's or something else.

[Marky]

 Andy_Mac said:

Solid. Thats the way to get real gains out of the 3.0r's

I beg to differ

[sobanoodle]

 Andy_Mac said:

Just impossible to get hold of. Still need a tweak for my one but haven't heard back from him yet.

Yep +1 for that. Not entirely happy how this tuning saga is unfolding. Sounds like he's looking well after a few of his favorite "promoters" but not that much after his customers.

At this stage I would NOT recommended his services, no matter how awesome he is.

PS: yes we know how busy he is, but then why would you take so many new customers on board if you cannot look after your existing clientele?..

[McDoof]

No sensor required on most BL/BP legacies. The ECU had enough space and sensors to work out what is in the tank.

Sorry to hear that he's been slack on communications. I try to push him a bit to get back to people. But at the end of the day it's up to him to actually reply.

I'll give him a nudge and see if you get some action.

[Andy_Mac]

Interesting. Would love to give it a try myself but there's no viable source of e85 in TGA.

Would be awesome if you get hold of him and nudge him along.

[Guest]

Lol@marky #soright

Offering free retunes for life doesnt work well as a business plan...

[throttlehappy]

 sobanoodle']Yep +1 for that. Not entirely happy how this tuning saga is unfolding. Sounds like he's looking well after a few of his favorite "promoters" but not that much after his customers.

At this stage I would NOT recommended his services, no matter how awesome he is.

PS: yes we know how busy he is, but then why would you take so many new customers on board if you cannot look after your existing clientele?..

That was why I said to load the new tune in The rocker cover breather vacuum hose leak you had was of course an issue and diagnosing issues is 90% of my follow up work in majority of cases etc. Other than defining the rest of the software for your ECU but the safety factory compared to the rattley factory tune which was on your car that was pulling 15 degrees out... now it does not pull timing at all(just needs the final .7 degrees added in now IAM can be set)

[quote name='Andy_Mac said:

Just impossible to get hold of. Still need a tweak for my one but haven't heard back from him yet.

You have a flex fuel sensor or have to fill completely up each time. Think he was talking about some ecu's actually being able to work out the percentage just from the AFR's or something these days but can't remember if he was talking about subaru's or something else.

You should of had email already No Tactrix means my wife/secretary interprets that as can wait 3 or 4 days. I pumped out 411 emails in the last week

1Mb ECU's have flex fuel available in them no issues. Unsure of your ECU just yet since it needed so much extra for a full definition since the listed definition is wrong etc That said, your injectors would be out of flow

If it is urgent... put STAR in the email address. Usually 24 hrs min turn around

[McDoof]

 Marky said:

I beg to differ

One day it will happen :-)

Maybe not 22 pounds worth but about half that

[Steviep168]

Flattened the battery through lack of use......... :(