tommis85

now that is a track that would make me quite happy while lapping it..

A happy raps at lakeside u say

But I'm always up for a cruise peeps espesh if there's food of some sort at the end of it

And I'm still waiting on my stoopid wheel. Hopefully they'll tell me this week if I get a replacement or not

Well now you'll have to give it a chance to learn the engine again. I had to do this for my GTST when I put the intercooler on and also when I put the pod on. There's actually a procedure to *helping* the eccs learn...like, a set way that you should drive it so that the computer can fine tune all it's tables (seeing that all engines are different but the computers all have the same maps etc etc) But yes, if it's chuggy/surgy I'd go over all your vacuum lines, pressurised pipework and all your sensors. Give it all a tighten-up and clean with contact/carb cleaner - your engine will love it (even if it doesn't fix that particular problem)

Just disconnect the battery and tap the break a couple times, turn lights on etc, turn key etc etc....to bleed the system of all power. I also left my old liner disconnected for a couple hours to make sure she was well and truly in reset mode when you fire it up the next time.

Had this happen with my bro's silvia...turned out to be faulty egi relay (pretty much killed power to the efi sub system)

Does she get fuel and spark?

Those wtf plates?

Are you on any of the GTR facebook pages mate?

Hey Xklaba, Yeh she goes alright but could obviously do with a nicer tune. Something to maybe give it some better economy for day to day driving would be awesome if that's even possible with these animals As for the diff - I haven't put it in yet. I was unemployed for a while and didn't want to fork out for the remaining parts I needed so just left her in rear-wheel drive. Makes for a slippery car tho he he. I hope to get on to it soon tho

Yeh standard one mate. Yep, that's the only way to go with so many so called mechanics and tuners out there just waiting to f**k your car up.

Also all the intercooler work can be done with the engine in the car - it's pretty easy.

I have a R33 S1.5 cooler sitting here

I see...suppose I could try it out on an inconspicuous area and see what happens....like on my poor bonnet lol

Yeh it's a type of polishing compound with a wax mixed in...may as well polish/wax it while you're scrubbing away

Nice! Did I ever end up showing you the dents in my bonnet?I dare say that I'm gonna have to get the whole bonnet fixed and resprayed at some stage...it doesn't look like it from a distance but it has at least 5 decent hail stone dents in it and some pretty bad stone chips on the leading edge above the grill =/

Yeh I wouldn't mind trying it out out on a little patch - I take it that you have to use it with a form of liquid polish as a lubricant?

Chris, I might have to check out this clay bar of yours that you mentioned.....was just checking out some youtube vids, never used one before.

You dirty man lol

Yeh it's definitely a lot of fun and even with it's ordinary tune it still is fairly responsive. I know what you mean with the lag and lack of responsiveness - that's why I got rid of my big singles. People must be used to some really laggy setups because every time I take people for a joy ride they comment on how soon and hard the turbos come on and how they pull to eternity haha! I reckon that these really are the best you can go for, for the 400hp mark...any less runs out of puff (with -7's being an exception I guess) and anything more will equal too much lag again and be a pain in day to day traffic. I've definitely learnt to set yourself a power goal and then select a turbo that will almost be maxed out by it....selecting turbos with ample headroom just equal massive lag especially if you don't really plan on maker more power in the near future =/ I'd rather just get the manifolds sorted and then just bolt on bigger and bigger turbos as you need them so that you always have a non-compromised setup. Yes it's all sorted. What's sad is that the guys at Mercury didn't pick up on it either. They flogged the car all day long wondering why she had the flattest and most gradual boost curve. Came home, wound on some preload and voila, boost came on 1500 earlier with 1 bar by around 3.8-4k or so.

Like a retard over a bus window

Hey, yeh pretty much all sorted now. Haven't had a compression test done but she makes around the 400hp mark now which is good. Been ages since I've posted in this thread, can't remember if I updated it or not, but the main problem was very soft actuators. Have since then added about 7mm or so of preload to force those gates to stay shut and she is quite a monster. No 1000hp GTR but goes like shower of shit - puts a smile on my dial every time haha Yeh I'd imagine the compression to not be 160+ across the board but she still feels alright. Guess she'd be due for an overhaul and some more power when the money's there for it...

This particular ls1 can corner Yeh I got your back Nick lol