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Yeh they bed nicely, give it some time!

A lot simpler and less to go wrong just running the accumulator minus the solenoid.

You're not wrong. If not for webber I would have muted it and relied on the f1 app. The cars sound shite anyway.

If it has run before the pump will be good to go. But to be sure you can pull the plugs and turn it over with the turbo oil feed off to make sure there's oil circulating. I'm enjoying the build by the way, keep the updates coming

The adds are an Aus GP thing. Apparently it's part of the agreement with 10.

Thanks Yep, plugging away at it in my spare time! After a bit of back and forth with PWR and lots of measuring a radiator arrived. Looks pretty good and fits well. I've also collected most of the materials for the header tank and swirl pot, so a few trips to the fabricator and it should be going again. Hoping to give it a shake down in the next couple of weeks.

Sounds like the spigot bush in the back of the crank has flogged out.

Love the videos, good sport!

Wow is that how you're lifting it!!?

Yep it's tapped 1/4" so I'll stick a bolt and washer in there, thanks for the tip

I mustn't have used loctite on the grub screws and didn't put a shield on the radiator, two mistakes I won't be repeating! It was the key steel that did the damage though. Yep PWR are drawing up a cross flow radiator at the moment, will also add a swirl pot and make a new header tank. Then back to the dyno to sort out the cam timing. A mix of cov's and rs components while the deutsch gear was ordered out of the US. The materials and hours definitely add up....

No worries, few images below. The body loom follows the tunnel to the rear of the car, relay's and breakers tucked up behind the glovebox and then the loom heads forward of the firewall via bulkheads. The engine loom bulkhead sits just below the plenum and the body loom is on the drivers side. Crank and cam trigger terminations The beginning of the body loom This is the engine bay end of the body loom, basically just wiring for the indicators, two fans and headlights... It has all been terminated and tucked away now. The battery isolation works well, push buttons for isolation/emergency shut down Basically the whole lot looks like that with deutsch connectors etc. Ok updates... Had a pretty eventful day on the dyno, can confirm it throws pretty blue flames at all exits Had the joy of driving the car to the dyno, first time behind the wheel in more than 4 years (I think). Much to my relief the brakes, clutch etc all worked as they should and I made it to the dyno with nothing breaking/falling off. It's surprisingly quite nice to drive. I was lucky to have two tuners on the job plus Masters running support. So light load tuning on running in oil progressed well. Ran about 420hp at spring pressure (~14psi) and was spewing some epic flames. Dumped oil, changed filter and it was time to get into it a bit more. Started blowing out spark so out came the run of the mill copper plugs. Replaced those with some fancy Champion race plugs with recessed electrodes and the problem got worse. So back in went the NGK's with a smaller gap. Two hot swaps of plugs was very f*cking unpleasant but problem sorted. The ipotato combined with photobucket destroys the sound quality sadly. Hopefully these work... http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb146/hr31rb26coupe/HR31%20track%20prep/th_27A4EB32-CEA2-4B0A-80E3-03563A7FBF72_zps3ix605yw.mp4 http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb146/hr31rb26coupe/HR31%20track%20prep/th_5E79FEC8-6F85-4348-B42C-6DA81664416A_zps5qu1pwyv.mp4 We were hovering around the 490hp mark at 18psi progressively feeding in more timing (it loves lots of advance, NA motor levels) all going well and then out came the coolant Luckily caught it very early so water temps were still very low and it didn't lose the oil pump belt (thank f**k for the pulley shields). The aim was to tune for 500-550hp or 20psi whichever came first as a sort of starting point (with the intention to wind it up to 2bar once it has done some work) so we weren't far off. Seems the cam timing is a long way out though as the power curve takes a dive around 7k so I'd say there's a lot left in it. Was pretty down at the time but all up it was a pretty good day, motor ran well, it's making good power and it drives well. Lumpy has been trying to talk me into a revised radiator combo anyway so this might be a good opportunity to do it properly (or at least better). Some more vids

Wow, love the attention to detail!

Actually agree with most of that. Play on.

It was up and running but put a hole in the radiator on the dyno. Just needs a new radiator and its good to go! I'll do a proper update tonight

The reasons for not lagging industrial equipment are for the most part completely irrelevant to this topic and an order of magnitude more complex than "it's not a good idea to stress metal that way". What is your point?

Time to stick on a set of soft a050's and go for a sub 60sec. That'd put the wind up a few people!

I've got a theme going then! Haha

Thanks! Hopefully the action vids are not too far away! Thanks Simon! The curly chord will run along the column... there are boss kits with integral connectors so the chord isn't required but they're not cheap What sort of issues have you seen with them?

Cheers! Yep! Got the old girl running a few weeks back which was a massive relief. We're just chipping away at the last few parts of the wiring before it gets a check over from the engine builder and then heads to the dyno. Wiring up the steering wheel, three buttons will control the dash and the fourth is spare on a separate connector (could be used for radio for example). Ditched the really rough bonnet pin install and replaced them with some aerocatch latches. Really cleans up the front end. Obviously there has been heaps of wiring progress but everyone knows what a deutsch connector looks like! A vid of the first start-up holding it at 2000rpm to run in the cams. Next start will be on the dyno for run in hopefully. http://vid209.photobucket.com/albums/bb146/hr31rb26coupe/HR31%20track%20prep/6C25291D-B6A6-44A5-9131-D5B019E00E8B_zpsizifezb5.mp4

Are there any pics or details on the MCA car? I saw mention of a billet block on FB.

Looks great! Reminds me of Robbie Nishida's d1 car with those flares.

You got them back!?!

It's definitely a beautiful manifold but it sits ridiculously high (but maybe that's an rb30 specific problem)... 1000hp on an 8374 is a bit of a stretch too!

Thanks Michael These guys made them up for me (http://www.pgc.com.au/), reasonably good service but a $70 minimum charge. I'm sure you could find a similar shop local to you? Otherwise I need a few more made up so welcome to piggy back an order and spread out that minimum charge! No worries Martin, looking forward to seeing it! In the mean time some more of your handy work below! For mounting buttons on the steering wheel And blanking the hole left by the cluster Came up pretty well with the buttons installed And a mount for the GPS receiver I guess we can tell where this is heading! Picked up a dash and logger Mounting it up with some neat brackets made up for me by Brad Stacy.. making almost weekly trips up to his place at the moment.