What have you done to your car today?

[Stoffa]

 Enervated said:

Motor's probs f***ed ... eats oil, but can't see any leaks & no smoke?

Possibly the rings or valves so worst case is either engine rebuild or new engine. Why is this happening!! only 138400km on the clock. :'(

I've got a brand new engine that theres nothing wrong with and it eats oil, just about to put an air oil seperator as mines leaving the engine as oil vapour from the head breathers and crank case. check inside the intake/intercooler, check to see how much is making it in there

[Guest]

 Swindog']

[quote name='Swindog said:

Wondered why it hasnt sold.

/quote]

I feel sad for you. I would eat it in a heartbeat if insurance wouldn't dig me an early grave.

Insurance for it is cheaper than you think. It has no mods that Southsure and AMI and the like wouldnt insure. Ive never had a prob with it...in fact its cheaper to insure than my old hiace and my current legacy.

I'd say its the colour too its a nice car but very personal colour choice. You can wrap the car for 500 dollars if you do it yourself. I can send link on where to buy the wrap from. plus the present economy doesn't help.

[funkytown]

 sultan said:

But at what rpm is the question

been following some of the comments surrounding abduls torque figures. on a factory head and the GT3071 at 20psi i was making 270kw odd and about 440nM of torque, on a dyna pack (but a different dyno) to abdul.

I think you're most on the right track re whats going on. Here's my thoughts.

Yes his torque figures are low, and kw for the boost required. In my own opinion the 272 cams are oversized for the application and by nature they will shift the power curve a lot to the right over factory configuration. He's also said there is a boost leak and that will significantly reduce its torque delivery if you cant get the turbo to come on. Thus the power will also shift to the right.

Given power is a derivative of torque, i bet you its making torque along way to the right, and therefore the corresponding power figures are also quite low.

Imo it should be making something in the 460-480 and 280-300kw's at 25psi given the extensive headwork in his car. all be it still further to the right than the other two gt30 curves i have as reference.

my 2c.

[scooby-wrx]

Bought my first GDB part for my GC8 EJ207 conversion.

Just a pity the engine conversion will be a while... :

[funkytown]

its still a race, my shortblocks been bored / honed and decked according to required compression ratio now

cool part looks cool dude

[Guest]

 funkytown']

[quote name='sultan said:

But at what rpm is the question

/quote]

been following some of the comments surrounding abduls torque figures. on a factory head and the GT3071 at 20psi i was making 270kw odd and about 440nM of torque, on a dyna pack (but a different dyno) to abdul.

I think you're most on the right track re whats going on. Here's my thoughts.

Yes his torque figures are low, and kw for the boost required. In my own opinion the 272 cams are oversized for the application and by nature they will shift the power curve a lot to the right over factory configuration. He's also said there is a boost leak and that will significantly reduce its torque delivery if you cant get the turbo to come on. Thus the power will also shift to the right.

Given power is a derivative of torque, i bet you its making torque along way to the right, and therefore the corresponding power figures are also quite low.

Imo it should be making something in the 460-480 and 280-300kw's at 25psi given the extensive headwork in his car. all be it still further to the right than the other two gt30 curves i have as reference.

my 2c.

Be interesting to see what mine does then as my cams are 277 pretty much IN and EX. If it doesn't suit I guess I will change them for close to the original spec Brian Crower 256.

[funkytown]

luke has a kelford 256 replacement cam, almost no noticeable difference except about 4000, brings his turbo on like a shower of shit.. they are grous.

I would only ever aim for a 264 IN EX tops for track work. and perhaps a 1mm oversize exhaust valve. 27x shift the power to far up the curve for my liking, the bigger turbo will already send it to the right enough.

[madmike]

Needs moar cams!!!!!

Bigger cams bigger valves!!

[funkytown]

 madmike said:

Needs moar cams!!!!!

Bigger cams bigger valves!!

you're not very helpful now are you barry, go back to the hole you came from

[madmike]

Lol...

What do the drag guys do... Bigger cams bigger valves... Hello 1000hp

[sultan]

and a power band from 7000rpm to 8000rpm

street car = don't mess with the cams, you'll ruin it

race car = spec the cams for the turbo and application

mention of a one off rpm position peak torque and power means nothing. RMS makes a car fast. haven't seen the dyno plot yet so there's nothing to judge* how it is actually performing

*for interests sake only. i'm sure you're just happy to have it going and going well, especially with more gusto than 95% of all other cars on the road

[B4 2000]

Max power at 6500rpm

Max torque at 6000rpm

I did expect that because of what funky mentioned earlier and 2L engine!

But even now with bigger turbo, car is more drivable than before!

There would be few tweaks but probably by the start of next year, now I just wanna enjoy having the car

[funkytown]

zing.. i was right on the money !! get thqt boost leak fixed and watch the peak torque figure plumet

[sultan]

a massively high peak torque rpm can be a result of cams and exhaust housing. whether or not it's a problem for power delivery is only relevant when considered against torque throught the entire range. with a 400nm peak it could very well be (unlikely) 380nm at 2000rpm, or on the flipside 150nm at 5000rpm

i think funky means the peak torque rpm (as opposed to peak torque itself) will plummet once you sort wastegate out. i would agree. i imagine the torque at 6000rpm won't change, but it should increase beyond that at 4500 (unless cams are a bigger factor for high rpm)

[funkytown]

yessir thats basically what i meant

[DacerX]

drove new car out to see clubsub mums new place and have some dinner and a beer with them, dam its nice out there

[Jambun]

 Swindog']

[quote name='Swindog said:

Wondered why it hasnt sold.

/quote]

I feel sad for you. I would eat it in a heartbeat if insurance wouldn't dig me an early grave.

Insurance for it is cheaper than you think. It has no mods that Southsure and AMI and the like wouldnt insure. Ive never had a prob with it...in fact its cheaper to insure than my old hiace and my current legacy.

21. 5 demerits left for being a retard.

If its still there in 4 years I'll come knocking

[chappell943]

Last night, bleed my brakes and changed the

trailing arm front bushes, what a PITA, getting the old bush/the metal sleeve out.

Now just need to sort some new front pads for the brembos and I'll be ready to go to the coast in a week!

[dotdog]

Finally had a good chase to look over the new car and figure out what needs to be done, so far fixed the loose clutch pedal, put all the firewall bungs back in, changed the steering wheel back to the oringal sparco wheel and lowered the back 25mm so it sits level, next mission is to fix the exhaust leak, clean the air filter and then figure out why the block breather is leaking

[clintondane]

Ryan (RYN), and I changed rear brake pads on both of our Blitzens this arvo. The only way to describe the fiasco that unfolded would be comapring it to 2 chimpanzes trying to solve a rubiks cube, with broken fingers. Lol.

Thanks though for the help and opportunity to learn though mate, much appreciated. As for the tosser on Youtube that says it's a quick and easy job etc, I'm gonna hunt you down and club you like a baby seal.

[94 Leone]

It'll be easier next time the more you do, the better you get.

[clintondane]

Yea we certainly learnt what to do and what not to do, definitely cool doing the work yourself though. I'd be confident enough to try it myself next time so that says alot.

[bailin]

Restored the headlights and "tried" to debadge the boot..... Anyone got any tips to remove that crap the letters leave behind?

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Same way you'd get rid of tar imho... Bit of gentle thinners use and some elbow grease

[bailin]

 kwi_fozze said:

Same way you'd get rid of tar imho... Bit of gentle thinners use and some elbow grease

Yep tried that for 2 hours......