The Bogan

Maybe not on a dyno See how it goes on sustained high rpm runs

Stock engine, read the linky, all 84 odd pages No point in having all of the powers if you don't have any oil in the sump At the power levels your looking at she will be a heavy breather

Not the same engine, but good talk about billet, and the issues and requirements for building big HP alloy blocks that can survive on the street, well, survive for a while anyway without needing pre warming the block

A manual impact driver is a handy tool to have on hand

3.5 bar, that water filter should make 1500hp easy Nice kitchen mod

Noice

My 86 had a "sound tube", it was removed when the turbo intake went on Real car noises FTW

I cannot see myself in a EV Call me old fashion but I need something that makes car noises Car noises make me smile

Nope, I've decided the SS will remain registered in the stable until my licence is kaput I'm getting old and broken, not dead

The V8 is fun, although it did use almost 3/4 of tank of fuel on the drive to Goulburn and back So not really good for a daily for driving to and from work or shop runs He'll, that fuel economy is rubbish for pretty much anyone driving to and from work, luckily the VX really only comes out for weekend cruises and the occasional squirt for LOLS My Harley is my daily hack, but I'm in a bit of a conundrum at the moment, the arthritis in my neck is pretty bad, and it ain't going to improve, to the point of probably really being a safety issue riding the bike as I cannot really turn my head much to check traffic properly, and on a bike that is pretty important if you don't want to end up as a smear on Sydney roads, I reckon I've got a year at max before my neck says "no turn for you" I'm thinking of selling the Harley and buying a car more suitable as a weekday runabout I'm getting the little auto Yaris hatch (1.5 big block) back from my daughter soon when her new car finally arrives, which is currently on a very slow boat from South Korea, but, should arrive this month, I'm going to see if I can deal with a Yaris for a while as a daily, then maybe flip the Yaris and bike and grab some new and fancy smaller car for a daily Whatever it is, it does need to be "somewhat" sporty I think a little i30N would tick all the boxes, it goes really well, has all the safety mod cons and stuff, it also makes all the cool noises pretty much as is I also retire at 60 in 1 year, 9 months, 2 weeks and 1 day (not that I'm counting), so I'm looking for something that will take me, and everyone around me, safely into my retirement years as I only really have another 10 or so years before I call it quits and bin my licence for the safety of all concerned I don't want to be one of those old dudes that refuse to accept reality and keep on driving past their use by date I'll then be one of those grumpy old bastards in the passenger seat or on public transport, and as I'm apparently already grumpy, and occasionally a bastard (talk to any of my family or work colleagues), I reckon I got this covered On a side note, I just paid for my rego, it cost $0.00, there are at least some benefits of getting older and broken

Drove to Goulburn to visit my daughter.......and her boys nice new performance blue i30 N manual hatch, he had only put 100km on it so far and was itching to drive it some more, so we took that into Canberra for lunch The i30N hatch is a fun little car, really comfortable, good build quality and sounds great If your looking for something new and fun I think it a great value little hot hatch to definitely look at

Euro 4, IIRC 2 of the 4" body ones for my 3" Y pipe Only a couple of hundred each, the Euro 5 high flow were more expensive but had a 5" body, I needed 2 so cheaped out on the Euro 4 The car (2002) only needs to meet Euro 3 but it ain't stock, so 1 extra Euro was acquired, which going of todays conversion rate is $1.67AUD, so I'm making money not fumes!!!!!!!

On the bots topic: I too was an idiot and decatted some, yeah, all, of my old street cars thinking that that would give me more powers It did make the exhaust a little louder, and I may have gained a killerwasp or 2, but the fuel smell was fairly horrible He'll, the bogan cruise ship had 100 cell cats when I first got it, they did nothing for removing the stink Replacing the 100 cell cats with some actual Euro spec ones fixed the stench For a potential killerwasp or 2 running a decat on a street car is silly And this guy doesn't want to kick you in the balls >

Logs were reviewed and Jacek said that that is as good as it will get on the street tyres The only change he recommended was playing with the max slip fuel cut for when the drag radials are on, start at 70% and see how that effects the 60", then test and adjust up from there It is currently at 85% on setting 6, which works great for the street tyres and a awesome 0-100 in the old bus 15 logs sent and 8 configurator changes sent So now the street tyre settings are sorted, from cold wet icey roads, to kill mode in the dry, time to hit the drag radials The plan is to move setting 2 into setting 1, and follow them all down until setting 6 is moved to setting 5, setting 6 will then be basically the same as setting 5, but with less max slip fuel cut % for the drag radials at the strip As for spinning wheels on drag radials, last time out they spun fairly hard and I needed to pedal a bit, but, my tyre pressures were too high, I'll drop the tyre pressure down to about 15 psi and see if they hook without the traction control on, look at a log and see how much it is spinning, I'll then try with traction control on, and compare some logs Hopefully a Wednesday night soon I'll hit WSID and see how it goes

Latest configurator setting 6 got me a 3.96 0-100 kph Slip settings were the same as the last, 65%, the only change were to the kD (D value for pid control), the new were 5.00, the old were 3.00, yeah, I have no idea of what that actually means, LOL, but, it has something to do with my car having quote: "alot of drive train inertia and when it starts to slip it takes awhile before it stops, more sensitive kD should act as a prediction of what is going to happen"......(black magic stuff) He believes the most we can shave may be 0.1-0.2 seconds off the flat 4.0 I've sent the logs off again for Jacek to look at I was actually happy with the flat 4.00, but a 3.96 is even better Sort of like the difference between a 11.000, and a 10.999 at the drags, it is then either a 11 second car or a 10 second car, it's now a 3 second 0-100 car... . sort of....yeap .......I'm an idiot rounding down Winner winner chicken dinner

My advice, if you are looking at a T400 or glide, is to try and find a core now, good T400's cores alone are going for drug money I wouldn't use a glide if you plan to use the car on the street If your pockets are full they even do a overdrive for a T400

#Kinkstaah Yes, yes, you were 100% right

I had a copper mix in my old R33 GTS-t boat, it was a great clutch, at the track, the strip and for daily street duties Pedal feel, IIRC, was near stock like like

My main concern is how it effects my 60' at WSID But yeah.....

New settings were much better, I sent some street tyre (255/40 17 RS4's) setting 6 (max slip 65%) logs to Jacek to have a look and see how it's going New 0-100 kph is 4.096 seconds , last settings were 5.08, the one before that was 5.084, before the RaceTCS there was no way of getting it that low Definitely going in the right direction Before the RaceTCS I needed to be real gentle and pedal, alot, to not just bag it up, in first gear with any "real" throttle (over 25%) it would just spin, and 2nd under power was just a smoke show, now, I just mash the load pedal and the car launches You can hear it cutting cylinders, the exhaust note changes, but it just leaps forward and pulls like a train Hopefully there is a little more black magic that Jacek can do, a 3.??? would be insane on the street tyres, but, I'm as happy as a p ig in sh it now anyway Once this next lot of changes come in, if their are any, because a 0-100kph in 4.0 seconds is really good IMO, then on with the drag radials and go for a 60' under my best of 1.6 My last 60' was a 1.6 with a 11.2 at 124mph, a 1.5 60' gets me real close to that 10.???

I was only just watching that YouTube guy who rebuilt a "12" rotor and needed to make his own "O" rings for it Special primer and glue isn't apparently optional At around 27.30

https://youtu.be/A4q9XahF7es

Just tried to find a website that went into the "science" behind getting a PCV to exhaust working.....nope, couldn't find it But, I did look into this year's ago It had a long tube from the PCV going into the exhaust, from memory about 6" long, but IICRC, the length and diameter of the tube was designed around how much vacuum was in the exhaust at different rev ranges There was lots of math involved, also lots of fluid dynamic talk and other stuff about that PCV valve, and even scavenging pumps Even then it was based around a NA application I get the whole venturi thing, but because there was so much talk about crankcase pressure, vacuum and positive pressure in the exhaust, vacuum pumps.....and math, it made my head hurt so I binned the idea

New settings have already arrived Min and Max slip settings were raised a bit and Max fuel cut was lowered a bit in all settings I'll load them in and do some testing tomorrow I am really happy with the RaceTCS and the support I'm getting

Updated Configurator was dropped in and launching was done Settings were better, it wasn't "horrible" at WOT in 1st and 2nd, but still a bit aggressive and noticeable I logged a setting 6 on the street tyres and a pull from stopped through 1st, 2nd into 3rd, setting 6 lets most amount of slip in the current slip settings, and sent it off to Jacek I did also tell him I'm happy to lay "some" rubber in 1st and 2nd at WOT in setting 6 on the street tyres, currently I cannot really feel any wheel spin that would really concern me as the TC kicks in real quick When I'm happy with they street tyre settings I will see how it goes with drag radials at the "strip" The plan, if I haven't already mentioned it already, (blame my little fun sized stroke I had 2 years ago) is settings 4-5-6 will be for street tyres, settings 1-2-3 for the drag radials So far so good, test and adjust, test and adjust Shiny shiny