What have you done to your car today?

[Timmah]

 

1 hour ago, Kiwiflyboy said:

500CC injectors and just installed Link ECU which is what it was on the dyno for

 

Damn your Forester is getting some love! Any reason why you chose a Forester over a Impreza? Just thinking the Impreza would be the more ideal chassis for track work.. but you are quick in your Forester too..

 

 

2 hours ago, evowrx said:

Falls over before redline last check...cheeky C***

 

Do you have any reading on how the EJ motors fall over at high RPM? I'm genuinely curious.

[Guest]

@Timmah Subarus were always designed for early onset of power/torque. Small plenum/long runners, geometry, cams and turbos designed for low end power. As for reading nope its a common knowledge thing talked about everywhere. Most of the dyno sheets i have i got on the proviso they werent mine to share so no help there. Sure to be a few in the dyno threads that show boost dropping from 4.5-5k. Generally tapers from 20 odd to 15-16psi. Pretty obvious on tmic where the iat starts to rise rapidly and the snail becomes less efficent. Adding a fmic helps to keep boost up. 

 

Engines in stock form arent much good for making power/torque over 6-6.5k.

 

Of course every cars different so theres always a margin of error.

[loner]

Dropped it off at macbilt so they can tune and hopefully stop it from using just as much oil as it did before I rebuilt the whole F***ing motor.

 

[Kiwiflyboy]

1 hour ago, Timmah said:

 

 

Damn your Forester is getting some love! Any reason why you chose a Forester over a Impreza? Just thinking the Impreza would be the more ideal chassis for track work.. but you are quick in your Forester too..

 

 

Forester was my brothers that he had since 60000km and looked after bloody well, so knew the history of how it had been looked after. Offered it to me cheap to use on the track and thought it good fun and different to have out around the tracks. Most of my work has been on getting the car to stop and turn like a impreza. next steep after turbo is sorted and tuned will be coil overs.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

Forester is impreza chassis with subframe spacers anyways, all the wrx stuff bolts up so happy days :-)

[pedro]

10 hours ago, loner said:

Dropped it off at macbilt so they can tune and hopefully stop it from using just as much oil as it did before I rebuilt the whole F***ing motor.

 

Ehhh..It's not residual oil in the exhaust burning off or are you having to add oil to top up?

Or crankcase venting not right..

[loner]

1 hour ago, pedro said:

Ehhh..It's not residual oil in the exhaust burning off or are you having to add oil to top up?

Or crankcase venting not right..

 

Having to add a lot of oil... a litre every 300 kms... that's a big improvement though, it was a litre every 70km before the rebuild.

This has been going on for a year... I have replaced the valve stem seals, turbo, full short block rebuild, breather system has been

sorted, no leaks. I have suspected that it's over fuelling for a long time but been told by two tuners that it's not rich. The thing is

though that  the oil rings were rooted both times the tune was checked,  so I think that the amount of oil in the mix corrupted the

readings.

 

Third time is a charm... I just hope I haven't screwed the rings and/or bores already.

 

[Munkvy]

2 hours ago, loner said:

 

Having to add a lot of oil... a litre every 300 kms... that's a big improvement though, it was a litre every 70km before the rebuild.

This has been going on for a year... I have replaced the valve stem seals, turbo, full short block rebuild, breather system has been

sorted, no leaks. I have suspected that it's over fuelling for a long time but been told by two tuners that it's not rich. The thing is

though that  the oil rings were rooted both times the tune was checked,  so I think that the amount of oil in the mix corrupted the

readings.

 

Third time is a charm... I just hope I haven't screwed the rings and/or bores already.

 

 

Who is tuning it this time?

Edited September 15, 2016 by Munkvy

[loner]

9 minutes ago, Munkvy said:

Who is tuning it this time?

 

Al Maclennan has it this time... he'll be using Shreds old dyno.

[Munkvy]

Ahh, didn't know he tuned himself, thought Josh did it? But I haven't spoken to him in a while.

[loner]

5 minutes ago, Munkvy said:

Ahh, didn't know he tuned himself, thought Josh did it? But I haven't spoken to him in a while.

I don't know if he's tuning it personally... Just meant that he has the car and Ive only spoken to him about the problems and other stuff I want done. 

Edited September 15, 2016 by loner

[Nachoooo]

Fitted and wired in my light bar yesterday, super impressed considering the cost!
 

 

[loner]

I have an update from macbilt... engine is detonating like crazy at 4k rpm, so I may have F***ed it already. I'm so happy I bought a modified WRX. 

[GC8E2DD]

Oh man. That is suck.

[Technikhaus]

Ouch, that sucks to find out

[Kiwiflyboy]

34 minutes ago, loner said:

I have an update from macbilt... engine is detonating like crazy at 4k rpm, so I may have F***ed it already. I'm so happy I bought a modified WRX. 

 

Gutted! whats your plans now then?

[Guest]

@loner why wut how? S*** tune or mechanical?

[loner]

19 minutes ago, evowrx said:

@loner why wut how? S*** tune or mechanical?

I don't know yet, but am guessing the higher CR meant the tune was no good... I should have just taken it directly to get tuned rather than

thinking I could run it in first. I am basically a giant retard. I thought the moderate driving I was doing would be fine... Al said the det was really

loud... I couldn't hear a thing

29 minutes ago, Kiwiflyboy said:

 

Gutted! whats your plans now then?

 

Don't know yet... wait for more info... probably just start again and fix it. I don't have much choice... I can't sell it or use it.

Edited September 16, 2016 by loner

[Guest]

Ouch i thought it was tuned by stm after the rebuild. Lost track.

[loner]

Fingers crossed I haven't done much damage... I opened the oil filter that was on the engine for the first 500km

and there are only really small pieces of metal through it. Rick reckons from my description it's a normal amount

for a fresh motor.

[thewabbit1]

Took my grill off to sand off the flaky chrome parts and repaint it. Ended up having to take the ENTIRE bonnet off to get the grill off as on of the bolts wouldn't come out. Ended up being a oscillating multitool, grinder, drill job... fml...

Got the grill off, gave it a real good sand, put the first lot of primer on, will put another cost on this arvo, then hopefully sand and paint tomorrow.

I was also very surprised at just how light my bonnet was. I knew it was light, but not that light

[Kiwiflyboy]

Took the BR9 Legacy to the track day since the SF5 forester is out of action, Forgot what it's like to drive on shitty (Goodride) tyres. Also cooked the pads on it and they failed after 2 goes. time for some new tyres and better pads i think!

[Subru]

7 minutes ago, Kiwiflyboy said:

Took the BR9 Legacy to the track day since the SF5 forester is out of action, Forgot what it's like to drive on shitty (Goodride) tyres. Also cooked the pads on it and they failed after 2 goes. time for some new tyres and better pads i think!

sounds like you had fun while it lasted... . That forester looks legit tho... the forester is one of the only mainstream suv or whatever you call them that can actually be made to look awesome and also drive nice. One day I want to own one...

[Passtheacid]

Bought some V7/8 Sti wheels, definately look the part on a lowered GC8, moreso than the stock 16's.

 

Also the wheel nuts I assumed were shanks are not, and have a tiny contact patch, they had even started unwinding themselves after some good drives this weekend

 

Off to pick up some proper wheel nuts at lunch today.

 

Are subaru shank nuts significantly smaller than nissan? Tried some of my mates wheel nuts and while the thread pitch matched they were way too wide to fit the wheels

[loner]

The left side of the motor runs lean and the right runs rich... so possibly when an O2 sensor says it's not rich it's just the overall reading isn't rich... but I'm not sure if that's how those sensors work exactly. 

 

Al suspects the cams are not dialled in correctly so is going to pull the motor to degree them. So that's the motor pulled 3 times in a year and I've only used it once!

Edited September 18, 2016 by loner