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Both done That name is already taken sorry

Wow theres a lot fo love in the room

Heh no probs, just happened to be online

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Well you're in luck, his wife just had one of those

Yes he is a champion, he's the only person who has touched the electrics in my cars for the last, I dunno, 8 or 9 years, and why myself and others will continually recommend his services! I'm sure he'll appreciate you taking the time to post this up, thankyou's do make a difference

IMHO, it's incredibly unlikely that the cars will be in an identifiable condition (resprayed, different plates, different wheels etc) so I doubt that the idea would work. Also, as it stands, people can already search for info by checking for 'stolen' threads just like this one. if a quick search doesn't bring it up, chances are it's been changed enough that it'll be unrecognisable anyway. Feel free to post the suggestion in the Ideas/Feedback and Bugs section though, the other guys might disagree with me

I think I might have a pic or two lying around if that helps James?

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Yep thought it had died a natural death. Unfortunately it keeps coming back... guys take it to PM if you have any further issues, thread closed.

Certainly would be! Say hi to them, they're lovely people

I like a good technical discussion It's not just about dollars, though obviously they come into the equation. I weighed up the pros and cons, and for me new coils with new casings win over worn out old coils with sticky tape every time. The only way I could have been comfortable leaving the stock coils in there would be if I'd sent them off to be rewound and had the casings fixed/replaced properly. That'd probably cost a fair whack I imagine and would be a bit of extra time off the road, when you can just bung in a set of brand newies and be confident that it'll be all good. To me, trying to fix the stock coils was a waste of the ingenuity and ability you mention when there is an easier and arguably superior method that doesn't really cost that much. It's not almost free, but when people are spending $10k on a car at the very least, often much more just in mods, $500 is cheap. As you mention, things will fail over time, and there will occasionally be faulty parts out of the box, but I'd hazard a guess at the odds being heavily in favour of new parts. It's also not just about failure, the old coils will probably have a weaker spark than when they were new. Choosing the easy, well-tested and almost guaranteed method isn't a cop-out IMHO, why make it harder than it needs to be? I'm all for DIY but in some cases it's wasted effort, particularly when we're not talking about an enormous outlay to do it "properly".

Yup, I went through 3 sets of coils in my 33 (mine plus two replacement sets), along with trying the taping/glue methods, including sealing with various goos. In the end I swapped them out for the purty blue Splitfires and all my spark problems went away and never returned, and I could even open my plug gaps back up a bit. I wasn't overly happy with taping and whatnot anyway, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and regardless of how well they might have been insulated, it just felt a bit dodgy. Besides, I always wondered if the second hand coils would perform at their best even if properly insulated, the windings could have been partially melted or in some other way degraded. I did look at Bosch external coils and leads, but it was going to cost very similar money to the Splitfires, but with more mucking around. Still wouldn't mind doing it if/when I build another RB but found it unnecessary at the time. This is one of those situations where personally, I'd recommend buying new instead of using some DIY

Heh yeah, we were on the way home in the Mazdarati. The traffic was fairly crap, so we decided to just be really early for TND lol Oh and the purple is better than the brownish colour it was last time I saw it

Followed Col's taxi for ages on Lutwyche Rd/Gympie Rd until about Aspley, where we stopped for dinner lol

Glad to hear things have improved Good luck with it whichever way you go mate

Yeah the old ones were cool too, I sort of miss them lol

If you're on the south side there are probably a few options at Springwood/Slacks Creek which I'm not overly familiar with, or if you're willing to go to the Gold Coast there are places like Gavin Wood who is very very good but not the cheapest around. There's also Signature in Ipswich if you don't mind a trip down the Logan Mway. There are no doubt other options but I'm not massively familiar with that side of town sorry!

Can't help with Wolf tuners, but I had exactly the same choice a few years back and ended up going with the PFC ($800 at the time lol) I don't recall specifics but I remember thinking that the Wolf was a flat-out ECU, and didn't have some of the niceties that you'd want in a street car. I think it didn't have closed loop for starters, and the idle control wasn't great and didn't have aircon idle-up or something??? And I think the tuning is pretty coarse on it, 8 or so rpm/load points? As I said I haven't checked them in ages so I may be wrong or things may have improved with them since then, but it's worth looking into for yourself anyway.

It sounds like the ECU has gone into a limp-home type mode. If you're confident it's not the ECU (can you swap it?) then there are a couple of other things you may or may not have already checked... * blocked fuel filter/line * dying fuel pump (but it's new, so doubtful) - check voltages to it? * wiring to AFM - unlikely as you're getting readings from it * ignition - coils, ignitor, plugs. Not sure if you've checked any of these? Throw some cheapo copper plugs in, for a couple of bucks a plug it's worth checking * sensors? TPS, CAS (which you've changed), AFM (ditto), O2 (ditto again), temp etc Dunno if any of that helps but it always pays to check the basics!

Hit up Eug if you need a sample mate

Which side of Brisbane or you on?

Send an email to Dan from Elite Racing Developments, email is [email protected] - he's very thorough and knows his stuff, but is quite busy so no guarantees that he'll be available. His name on these forums is 3lit3 32.

Unless your existing injectors and/or fuel pump are a restriction, doing nothing but changing your injectors and pump will not give you a performance improvement. If I remember correctly, at anything less than around 220rwkw (give or take a bit) it's unlikely you'll need to change either. Keep in mind that changing how much fuel the engine is getting will most likely mean a retune, and if you have the stock ECU, you'll have to replace it with something that can be tuned.