Swiper the Fox

How did Gervase go?...get booted 1st run?

Bring it in next week, Mark and I will check it out for you.

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There was once a fella called Mr Diesel...he invented an engine that ran on vegetable oil...he then mysteriously disappeared off the face of the planet. The engine was then used to burn a waste by-product that used to cost oil companies a fortune to get rid of after oil was refined to produce petrol. Oil companies are good...very good.

Check your TPS is correctly adjusted and tightened firmly...the plug-in boards have never had an ATESSA issue...only the V88 when running the early harness adaptor.

Nice work Baron...spot on...ive just done the fuel cell mod you mentioned about 2 weeks ago. 4 litres is a bit small though as fuel would heat up very quickly...ive gone for a 15litre foam filled item which im planning to run half full.

Mark Jacobsen has instructed me to be extremely careful handling this fuel. He passed this information down from the supplier (Performance Wholesale). Its illegal to use this fuel in any marine application such as personal watercraft. Must be a reason? James Hardie once said asbestos was harmless too!

OK...some insight. Roo16 contains MTBE...a very toxic substance, the fuel must be handled like its acid. MTBE allows the fuel to carry lots more oxygen molecules...but goes off very quickly when exposed to nitrogen (our air is 80% nitrogen). So it is unwise to re-use old fuel in the tank so each meeting starts with a fresh fill. A fresh fill is also important if i have been running pump fuel in the car as draining it will avoid contamination. By the time you fill the lines, pumps, surge tank etc you have about 15 litres out of your $260-$270 19 litre drum in your tank for use. As you may be aware it would be very foolish to run this down to less than 5 litres in a race car so this 15 litres will if im careful get me through the qualifying rounds. Then its time to crack a new drum of which i normally put about 1/2 in...if i go through to the semi then its time to put the rest in...if not this 10 or so litres is kept sealed and used to check the tune before the next event. Some events have over 90 pairs of cars so it could mean 5 or 6 eliminators before you get to the semi's which means if i took 2 drums to an event and made the semi final id be out of fuel!!. Its a real pain in the ass worrying about being so careful with the fuel as inhaling it and/or getting it on your skin is not going to do your long term health any favours as well as the added headache of having to worry about skimping on the fuel load to save some dollars. Everytime i crack a drum of this stuff it breaks my wallet in two...my fuel bill for tuning the car and a two day meet recently was $1060 !!!

$520 a meeting vs $72 a meeting...its a lot of money when you are earning a wage. $13.50 a litre vs $2 a litre...but also its the environmental savings that also have to be taken into account. I transferred all my old fuel system over to our other car so i am not totally out of pocket. might be peanuts to you Barron but im putting kids through school etc.

dont let it idle on warm up...keep varying the throttle...the first 20 mins are vital.

Seems like some weak excuses from the governing body...i planned to use only CSR E85 control fuel as i need a consistent and reliable blend. Peter from fuel control ( http://www.fuelcontrol.com.au/ ) was happy to supply fuel to our team and any other drag racing teams that were interested in changing over to E85. If ANDRA made CSR E85 an approved fuel then there would be no issue with various different types of additives etc as this fuel is able to be stringently analised and tested and ANDRA could liaise with AVESCO to get info on testing procedures etc. I recall at one drivers breifing ANDRA was beating their chest bragging about how their fuel testing equipment was state of the art/ best in the world and now come along and say they cannot test E85...one of these statements is either misleading, incorrect or a blatant lie. Its my personal view that if ANDRA wanted this greener fuel included on the list (i currently run a LEADED fuel!!) so teams could have the option of doing something thats more environmentally responsible they would. C'mon ANDRA show some bloody leadership on this issue and drag the sport into the 21st century...forcing people to run expensive leaded fuels when there is a safer product commercially available is just wrong.

Car is not ready....im out. Will be racing at the Aust vs USA nitro funnycar meet on the 2nd Jan though.

Some people don't like to accept they sometimes make errors...and when its pointed out to them have a tanty and get all narky. As it turned out you couldn't supply the product you originally stated you could so as it stands my comments were vindicated. I am an electrical engineer by trade but also dabble in a bit of property development which i always have a least one project on the go. If you would like to view the completed development project i was undertaking at the time go to http://www.torrenbell.com.au/ then click on portfolio, units, diemar to view. I hope your law degree (or whatever you are studying) is going well, but remember when you are loosing an arguement regarding a point of law name calling is going to get you nowhere. Im sure ive had a crack at a couple of guys on here but hey ive earned more of a reputation helping people out and doing quality work on not only my own cars but others as well. I freely share knowledge gain from developing and testing our own cars...sometimes proving or disproving various 'theories' that circle the internet. This testing is done on our own budget and at times incurrs substantial cost but handing these findings on to the public forum to help people out does give some satisfaction. A couple of the major workshops have been a little critical of why i sometimes do this as they are aware of how much time it has taken them test and prove various products/systems. You could have left this way in the past but you were the one who decided after all this time to dredge it up again. Very silly and childish of you. On topic.

Best way to do it is to modify a gearbox filler syringe the following way... pull the guts out of it and modify the top screw part to accept an airline fitting (weld it on). screw a ball valve into this fitting then attach an airline coupling. The lower hose needs to be locked on to the nipple with a wire tie and a barbed hose tail with a 1/8 NPT thread inserted into the end of the hose and wire locked also. You then attach the syringe to the oil pressure sensor fitting on the engine and attach the compressed air line to the ball valve, fill the canistor with run in oil and slowly open the ball valve until NEARLY all the oil is deposited into the engine. Repeat this until 4 litres of oil is in the engine (4 times) checking to see if oil is seeping from the cam bearing journals through the oil cap hole. Fill the engine with the rest of the oil to the required level and start the bastard. This is a much better method of priming the oil system.

Sure its not your 1/2 moons leaking?

yeah ill take it

of course its possible...we put men on the moon remember.

im half gay

I think ive been fuel tested at nearly every Jamboree and also at a bracket meet. Never tested at a street meet...so it might be E85 for street meets and Roo16 or methanol for the events.

would you sell it to me? i can pick up as im in brisbane.

you can order the plug in with a 5bar map sensor fitted as an option. We run one of these in our circuit gtr and runs the car extremely well...ultra smooth like factory and makes over 450KW at the tyres. V88 runs a map sensor separate from the ecu. we use the techedge wideband...local product and is what is fitted as standard equipment on Mainline dyno's

you saw the aussie junker Stace bought Marko...mint car...wont depreciate...cost only 5K. Thats the way to go id say...buy a commodore wagon and blend in with the crowd. I know where there is a mint factory VL turbo Berlina wagon 5 speed with low k's...but a bit dearer than what Stace paid for the NA sedan.

my pride could do with this service...its been dented a few times.

You can tee into the intermediate tank return line to breathe the rear of the head...top of sump on drivers side as high on the sump as possible....i use -10 for my sump to intermediate tank line...works well...no need for the rear head fitting if set-up correctly.