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If you can't do it without weight, your mobility sucks harder than a hoover. Yes it's easier to stabilise the body with added weight that you can move around; circus acrobats use a bar on the tightropes. But you shouldn't have to depend on it to do the movement, else you probably have stability/form issues in the movement when using weight too.

Now, some important things to remember about this setup: It has a 20rwkw gain in the top end, over the 98 tune, which you might say is not much for an E85 conversion. But look to the midrange and there is nearly 35rwkw gained in some places. It is a very engine safe tune at only 15-16psi. Obviously there is a top end restriction somewhere, but I didn't want to go replacing factory looking bits here and there with modified gear to chase some ponies up top for the sake of bragging rights. Being a daily driver, I care more about the low down and the midrange; the big area under the curve that starts very early in the rev range. This is what makes for drivability. Consequently, binning the cat was as far as I was willing to go to improve the top end and that did give me some extra midrange, plus another 11rwkw up top. We originally thought the cat might be the big restriction holding us back up top, but the reality is that it was just one of many: My engine has a return flow cooler, factory intake piping, internally wastegated turbo that is highflowed into a Nissan comp housing and a fairly quiet 3 inch system. Ergo, my engine bay, with the exception of my pod filter (because I love the sound), looks COMPLETELY STOCK and has 272rwkw to boot. As for the on-road experience, wow. The SS1PU was already something special; I've said it many a time that anyone looking for a daily drivable RB25 with some guts should opt for one of these turbos. It just made my car so much more driveable off and on boost than the standard turbo. It really is the perfect compromise between power and response in my opinion. This was before ethanol! With ethanol, my car comes on boost as fast as the factory turbo did. And when it comes on, the boost gauge spools up like a friggen tacho revving in neutral. The power is still very linear in delivery (as you can see on the graph), which is great for tyre grip, but don't get me wrong...the pull is ballistic. Any SS1PU owner will tell you that 3rd is their favourite gear because the turbo is a torque monster and just keeps pulling like a V8 at high speeds in higher gears. Well this is that on steroids! I will have a go at converting the speed on the graph to RPM like I did last time, so you can get an idea of the response. But you don't really need it to see how early it gets on or how fast it ramps up. And then there's the the smell of sugar and PVA glue while you're sitting at the lights...

Been a while since I posted in this thread! It's been a long time coming, but I finally got the SS1PU running on E85. So while ya'll gawk over top end power and laggy dyno queen status, here is a win for the guys chasing factory response and look with not so factory power Bottom red line is existing 98 tune Top red line is E85 with cat Black line is E85 without cat All @ 15-16psi

I've said it before and I'll say it again...Pettett is a cunt.

Work through the motion itself without weight first, it's not hard. If you can do it without weight you can probably do it with. If you can't do it without weight you likely can't do it with.

Country cops are shit if you're not local. Last I got done for doing a U turn over double lines (at 1am with no cars in sight), the prick made a point of saying "now I know you're used to the city, but down here we have a lot of accidents from stuff like this." "You'll get a fine in the mail cause I'm a fat lazy flamin mongrel who can't even tell you what the penalty is on the spot." Scumbag

lol @ googling a pub to review its food. It's a pub parma. It's going to taste like...a pub parma. Shit is more homogenous than McDonalds. Food critics are worse than music or movie critics; no one likes exactly the same shit so why listen to anyone else.

Who the f**k is crispin?

One you zed saw her

Actually, sir, we found the jade monkey; it was in your glove compartment.

I heard If you type his name three times At midnight He appears and strangles you with a braided oil line

Looks like ~35kw in some areas. Pretty good and that's a conservative E85 gain, really, from what I've seen. Second to NOS and boost controllers, best dollar/kw upgrade!

Cheers man...loving the sugarcane. The low boost means I don't need a Scotty intake Yet...

I'm running 555s Pat and they weren't anywhere close to max...you'll be fine with them. Just whack in a 040.

Bottom red line is existing 98 tune Top red line is E85 with cat Black line is E85 without cat Simples

Why do you need to carry jerry cans? Unless going long distance there are plenty of United servos around Melbourne. I have 4 within 15 mins drive of me Pat do E85 or buy a modified RB25 lol

Nah I love how stock my engine looks and what the car can do considering that. Twas my goal to make it as quick and stock looking as possible. Ex gates and big turbos ruin that. /knoxresident Yeah just over 250 on 98 Not a bad hike at all for the money. I wouldn't want much more power; would struggle to put it down. Just took her for a decent spin and faaaaark does she spool up quickly. Boost gauge goes up like a tacho revving in neutral. I don't care how much more frequently I'll be stopping there, there's something very satisfying about paying $75 for a tank of petrol! /ethanolpreacher

More boost was giving nothing more, so Chris scaled it back to the highest boost that made a worthwhile difference. Another factor that makes me think the turbo was struggling. Nice and safe for my engine at least.

272rwkw @ 16psi on United 85 RacePace "high flow" cat gave me another 10rwkw. So yeah, top end a little disappointing...prolly the small turbo maxing out...along with internal wastegate and a myriad of other "stock" looking restrictions...but the low and mid range are significantly better. I have near stock response with about 130rwkw more than stock. Car sounds beast and the exhaust smell is <3 Happy camper. Will upload graph when I get home

I've seen this T shirt on someone else before...

Seems my engine has a restriction! Making 260rwkw on E85, only 8rwkw up from my 98 result...albeit with good gains down low and in the midrange. So something is choking it up top. RP and I suspect it may be the cat converter, so tomorrow it's getting made more "functional" and then retuned. Could also be return flow cooler. Could also be turbo too small. Could be any of the things that make my car look as stock and legal as possible. Not fussed about top end; I switched to ethanol for the awesome mid range, but would be good to walk away from the exercise with a few more ponies up top if we can sort out the restriction.

You can bag the media, but they are only feeding the people what they want: death and disaster. Infinitely more fascinating to the human eye than success and happiness. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity, as they say.

Fortunately for me, our leg presses use the old thin holed 25kg plates, which only fit on that and the smith machine. So our plates stay in the area or on the leg press itself...usually find 8 plates already on there thanks to a lazy individual.

F*** a four hour trip each night. I'd buy weights to use at home.

Sif let her keep the beef. In this situation you generally take back the product they complained about and exchange it for the new one, not let them keep both!