chrissso

SO, I complied a table of what the price of petrol at the pump should be in QLD depending on the USD/AUD exchange rate and the price of crude per barrel. It takes into account that in QLD there is approx 40c per litre of tax. There is a magical constant number that I can explain how I got it, but don't know what it represents. Its seems about right by going on history of oil price vs pump fuel price. I derived it from taking the highest price I saw at the pump minus the tax and AUD cost per barrel at the time. So $150USD /.95exc rate / ($1.59 ppl -40c tax) =132, rounded down. I use this to calc the price at the pump - Cost per barrel USD / AUD USD exchange rate / magical number +tax SO at the moment, oil is $70 USD, exchange rate is .67 and I just saw the price of fuel at $1.47. WTF!!! Should be more like $1.20pl There are some things that I can't account for. These would be:- The delay for the oil that cost that much to hit the consumer. The cost of refining may have gone up. There's prolly other things that I haven't taken in account, and I might have fuct my maths, please by all means set me straight. BUT, oil has been coming down for some time now, I haven't really seen the fuel come down that much at all... If there is simply a delay, we should see the price at the pump reach $1.20 (ulp), at the expensive time of the week. I won't be holding my breath though. Seriously. WTF... petrol_price.pdf

It's about right. 180 to 220 kw is the spread for thise mods, depending on dyno, air temp, blah , etc Look at getting an ECU mod, whether it be a pigyback like safc or emanage, or full replacement like pfc or vipec, blah , etc. Generally, the more you spend the better.

Just had a quick look at the diagram and it looks like you have 1 and 2 mixed up.

Awesome build, particularly the intake runners. I can see this being adapted to a fabbed forward facing plenum for turbo use too. Will be watching.

Try running it without the thermostat. See what the temp is then.

Well, something is wrong. I suggest that you fit the old bov, and remove the ssqv and block the new opening, see if that fixes the issues. Then do one thing at a time to see where you are going wrong. E.G., remove the old bov and block off, then go for a drive. If this works, then you know that it's the new ssqv or fitting. If not, then you know you have a sealing problem with the thin piece of metal blocking the old bov hole. Etc. etc. Did you block off the rebreathing hole that feeds back to the turbo air feed? did you use some kind of gasket between the thin peice of metal and the old bov hole? etc etc.

Would be good to see a graph of this. I'm thinking .84 is too big too. RB25 gets decent boost at 3500 with a .63 Maybe a little more.

My 33 was sluggish below 4500, put it down to stock ECU didn't like the increased boost...

Pretty sure if you pay by paypal, you can contest the payment if there are issues. Don't pay by telegraphic transfer or western union, which is more for overseas payments anyway...

AFR of 9 is just too rich. That why when you drop the pressure, your ratios are getting closer to what they need to be. You mentioned that you fitted an ECU, but did you tune it? Sounds like the injectors are too big for the program. Retune should do it. The higher fuel pressure will atomize the fuel more, creating an even air/fuel mixture, therefore a cleaner,better fuel burn.

You have 2 GT40's? They're pretty big.. At whet rev's do you get 21psi? What's the AR of the exhaust housings? Overlapped cams are more for N/A applications. The the inlet cams open before the exhaust cams are shut, which is good for na cars, but you get exhaust manifold pressure flowing back into the intake manifold on a turbo car if both exahust and inlet valves are open at the same time. So unless I've got my terminology wrong, you maybe using naturally aspirated cams in a turbo car.

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starter motor might be rooted.

Sorry for hijack, but it's on topic. I thought the TD06 was a journal bearing, and the Garrett's are Ball Bearing. Would you get extra performance, durability, driveability, blah, blah from the ball bearing model?

here's one with the R2 unit. You can see it's 2 eyes looking out. Also, a closeup of the engine in the sectioned gtr.

Hey All, just thought I'd show some of my pics from the Tokyo car show, these are just the nissan ones for now... Checkout how deep the crowd was for the GTR on the main stand. Also, the car on the left of the GTR on the main stage features an R2 unit in the dash, which I guess would be handy for repairing damaged sheild generators when they break in battle. Also, there was a cut-away pic of the GTR which shows its driveline, looks great! Gearbox is in the back for better weight distribution. This car ticks all the boxes for supercar! Also, a couple of the skyline coupe. I think its new... Cheers.

In Osaka at the moment, seen 1 180sx, lots of kei class done up, a few s15's, a few modded vans but no skylines! I think I saw 1 v35, can't even be sure of that though! All the skylines must be Oz by now... Dnissan, what day are you going? I'm going on the 27th, which I think is the day after the press day. PFC.. pfc, now lemme see. Sorry mate, I think your going to have to let that one go.....

Thanks Adam. I did check google and even searched this site first! Thanks for your concern about flooding the internet with usless posts. (Right back at ya, smart arse!!) However, it appears you are right. You cannot use the jr rail pass on the subway. I did find google to be quite useless in finding a quick answer, and found that wikipedia was much more helpful. Also found out the that osaka loop line will take me where I want to go. Just went down to Umeda, very nice. Cheers for the info Chris

Hey, Just in Osaka atm, and we have a 7 day jr railpass, that we are going to use to get around to hiroshima, and tokyo, kyoto, etc. I need to know if I can use the rail pass on the Osaka subway lines. Can anyone help? Thanks

Just a quick bump as it was a while ago when I posted this.

^ yeah you can do that, but it's a fart. Any changes you make to the a/f signal effects the timing output from the ecu. Generally, if you drop the voltage at high revs to lean an enigine out, it increases timing, which can cause detonation. I haven't heard of any issues with remapping the stock ecu. Find a good tuner....

^ what he/she said, pretty sure you can remap r32 ecus to whatever you like. Not sure if you need the resistor pack.

I'm going to Japan in October and the show opens on the second last day that I'm there, so I'm going. Anyone else going? Anyone else been before? Any tips would also be appriciated. The new GTR is supposed to be on show, no concepts, the real deal. Very Excited Also, quick thanks to al the threads in here about Tokyo, was great help.

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