No Crust Racing

Nice, had you hands full in the corner before coming onto the back straight

HP Confirmed Sold.

Mate that's no good about the damage and you managed to get 0 photos of my car but that's cool The silver Evo5/6 in those pics, if you know the driver, tell him that I apologise for not seeing him coming sooner down the back straight. He might remember my S13 green/grey and big wing. I was on a cool down lap and checking guages etc when he was coming up behind me and I may have inadvertently caused him to brake earlier than he wanted to into the chicane.

At a recent track day my CA filled the 1L catch can twice, I'd done an oil change the night before so it might have been a touch over full but certainly not 2Ls I've read quite a lot about CAs having inadequate breathing through the head at high revs and with boost turned up but there seems to be a lot of conjecture as to how best to resolve it. From what I've seen a common approach is to T both breather hoses together and feed into catch can, have catch can output to intake as per usual, block off pcv and in some cases vent the catch can so it can breath properly and also plumb the catch back into the sump or turbo oil return so it can drain back to the sump easily. What have other track drive CA owners done? I considered that the rings might be cactus but a cold and dry comp test with throttle open gave me a max of 160 in cyl 1 and then 150-155 for the remaining 3 so seems healthy enough as I'd suspect a hot test or a wet test to have figures closer to 170 which is decent for an original engine. Car is running GT2560 on 17psi also and doesn't seem to be making any more power than it did with the 25G on 14psi (it was running a remap previously and made 164rwkw and now has a new remap + the supporting mod of injectors, Z32, and fuel pump to suit but doesn't feel any more powerful). Could my pressure issue be chocking it somehow? (I do need to check base timing again so that could be an issue but I doubt it's stopping it making ANY more power, I say no more power because back straight speed at Winton was no different than with the old setup and it just doesn't feel any more powerful). It has also developed a half moon seal leak at the back of the rocker, which I also suspect is from pressure build up as the seal is only 2yrs old. That said though, the rockers shouldn't be so heavily pressurised unless it had some kind of compression leak I'd have thought? So in short. - What's a good setup to avoid the catch filling so quickly? - Thoughts on why no power increase? Cheers

I got this from Adam re the VLs "Hi Dan, The VL’s are a group of people that come from Bendigo. They are generally pretty good, but on the weekend they had a couple of new drivers, but they were allocated into the Beginners group. I will have a chat to them and tell them to be more careful on the track. Obviously we want everyone to have an enjoyable experience so I am glad you took the time to email and let me know. Part of the problem is the way we run the groups. I am working on a new process that we can easily identify which driver is in which group, so that our man on the track entry can control it better. We are always evolving, or trying to anyway. Cheers Adam"

Damn, sorry to hear that to whoever it was. Martin you might remember me lamenting having so many Honda drivers in my group, the first 2 sessions were more a case of self preservation than going for outright lap times.

What incident? I left about 4:15 so must have missed it. I was running RS-R's also and struggled to keep them at the right temp when hot, they were heating up quite quickly.

Thanks for saving me a pit spot guys, much obliged. Was a very mixed bag for me. Car made no extra power after going from a smaller turbo on 14psi to a larger one on 17psi, filled the catch can twice, leaked out the back of the rocker cover and handled like a wet sock all day. Only managed to shave 3 tenths off my PB. I'll be compression testing shortly as I have a feeling the engine is showing its 23yrs and 145,000ks of age. Could have been worse, got there and back in one piece and got to do some testing on setup and learn a few things the car needs and despite all the hurdles still managed to go a touch faster. EDIT: I've sent an email to Adam about those VL drivers. I almost had the front of my car ripped off a number of times. they don't signal to pass and will drive across into your line without any hesitation. Also happy to go two wide, and sideways, through corners if you get up beside them. I don't mind pushing harder and doing that sort of thing with mates but not people who drive like lunatics who clearly aren't watching mirrors plus it's not a door to door racing event.

Disks still for sale.

Everyone has bailed on me so I'm flying solo. Save me a garage spot Richo. What time are you guys arriving?

HP Sold pending payment. All disks tentatively sold, will have confirmation after the weekend.

Save me a garage guys, my mates coming are all non drivers on the day so if I can park it next to some SAU folk I'll be in a happy place. I just took a look at the weather again before confirming my entry, 25 degrees, oh yeah

Does anyone have a spare camera mount they are game enough to let me borrow, I'm happy to strap my point and shooter to the side of my car, just need a mount. If need be I can race tape it

Should have clarified. Remap from a tuner for those mods. In the UK they do it need for speed style stage 1 = these mods, stage 2 = some other mods, stage 3 = the mods I have (with the exception of my slightly larger injectors). The UK has a much larger CA user base and as the CA ECU is so easy to socket and swap EPROMS in there are Remap chips available very cheaply everywhere. You're right, I can get a Nistune for that money, which I simply can't justify on a hobby. Dr Drifts Remaps are $350 also. This one, from a tuner who is tried and proven on a number of CA forums in the UK, was $35 delivered. If you're like me that'd make you very skeptical but after doing a few months of research into others who use them, speaking with the tuner himself, and getting plenty of referrals on CA forums SXOC and Driftworks are two notable examples, I was willing to take the risk. Backyard cheapo modding at its very best. AFRs are good according to my wideband and the car drives very well on and off boost. I wouldn't call it doughy at all, not sure where you get the 10% richer figure from (The RX7 injectors are only 4-5% larger than the GT-R ones that the Remap is tuned for). Do you mean being in the 11s at the transition point? I fiddled with that a little in the SAFC (still wired in but values zero'd as it allows me to watch knock and monitor peak revs etc) and it made no bum dyno difference. I agree with you completely that a full tune by a good tuner with a Nistune would be superior, but I'm willing to sacrifice 10kw and maybe some response for $600+ saving which would get me 3 more track days or another set of tyres.

An update to this. Fixed boost controller leak, now running 17psi and in 3rd and 4th I have that by 4k rpm, a few more revs needed in second (I have a plumb back bov though so once it's on it stays on well between changes - this is a track car). Installed RX7 460cc injectors (These are from an 88-89 FC Non turbo and ease of fitmet depends on what seals were provided, but otherwise go straight in. Cheaper than GT-R units by a good margin and were cleaned and had new seals/pintles and are 20% larger than stockers instead of only 16% like the GT-R units. Guy on ebay seals them from the US. Installed Z32 AFM. Bought a remap from the UK (for GT-R injectors, Z32 and GT2560 on 17psi) as CA tuning is much bigger over there and prices are hell cheap. Found my ECU had already been socketed so chip swap was 2 second job. Slightly larger injectors also gives me more head room and results in a richer tune which I like. (Base timing adjustment required also - timing light used). Wideband shows AFR's on full boost at WOT do not go above 12, coming onto boost it's in the low to mid 11s just at transition. Car feels largely the same up to about 100km/h but pulls harder and for longer than it did from 100-160+ now, it's happy enough holding that boost til 7krpm too and I'm not game to rev a stocker any further and will likely only do that on hot laps. At least now if I clutch kick it in second at 70-80km/h it'll spin and keep spinning. Off to Winton on Monday to see if the lap time can be improved at all.

lol sorry mate I'm sure you'll be fine, it's me I'm worried about Getting a bit nervous and sketchy in my old age, must be time for a cage of some sort.

Prices dropped before eBaying 1x HP DX2300 - $70 (NOW INCLUDES DELIVERY which ranges about $25-35) Core2Due 1.8GHz 1.5GB RAM 80GB HDD Dual Layer DVD-RW + Lightscribe Win7 Enterprise/Office 2010 Legitimate upgrade from Vista business/comes with Vista sticker on box. Was used as an RDP test box, only has a few remote support tools on it, can format with clean Win7 but will not come with Office if Formatted. 2x Seagate 7200rpm 500GB SATA Drives, formatted and error checked. $45ea delivered or have both for $75 delivered. 2x Samsung 7200rpm 320GB SATA Drives, formatted and error checked. $30ea delivered or have both for $50 delivered. Take all 4 disks for $110 delivered.

Good good, that clip freaks me out because that corner is where my car is often most unbalanced/on the edge lol

Fixed boost controller, just need to do an oil change and we're good to go. Noticed the brakes felt a bit different so hopefully the fluid lasts the day as it feels a bit tired, could just be new pads still bedding though. See you there John, and no repeats of that YouTube clip...

Roy? Argh! I'm 50/50 at the moment as we have a trip coming up so money is not plentiful. That said, I just finished putting in injectors, an AFM, a bigger turbo, and a remap... (and hopefully the boost leak is fixed as of last night so I can hold more than 15psi) so it would be good to see if it's any quicker, but I haven't even had it on the dyno yet so just relying on my wide band to tell me it's happy. So absolutely no chance you are going?

Well for those playing along at home, more carbs before workout + more water through the day has taken my sweat smell back to what it was so no more stinky Dan.

IBM Sold. Will now entertain some stupid offers on the remaining gear, keen to wrap this up and not have to bother with eBay.

Media PC confirmed sold. Will be putting everything up on eBay if there are no offers. Prefer to sell via SAU though and avoid the fees so make some offers chaps.

Please

Not really, as unlike you I shower daily and it gets washed off and needs to be reapplied. This explains your pit stains at DECA...