The Mafia

I am also keen to know this

does anyone have his number? He hasnt checked this thread for a while

I'll take the grill. I have a Series II thats been needing one for 2.5 years. $100 plus whatever postage costs, sold to me. PM sent. Oh, and my car is silver so I won't even have to paint the grill!

well, If I can put them in the front, sold to me at $110 pp

are these the same size as what's in the front of the car?

http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html This would have to be the most excellent piece of Car PC hardware I have ever seen, and at a good price. Runs windows XP embedded... Or a version of Linux. Is there a version of FCtune that runs on Linux?

you've given me and idea. I'm going to build a PC, about the size of 5 CD cases stacked together. Then I am going to create a version of windows 98 that is completely destroyed ie: Doesn't run anything but FCtune. Then I am going to make it autostart, so that it loads win98 with only the drivers it needs, and not even load explorer.exe. Should start up in about 5 seconds. Get a LCD panel that is a reasonable size with a VGA connector, mount it in the dash, and have all of my guages running. Tips - 1. The PC doesn't need a Hard disk. I'd use a memory key. Probably 512 meg or 1024 meg. 2. The Video Card only needs to support 640x480. 3. The power will be from 12 volt. 4. The CPU only needs to be minimal ie 300mhz or below with 64 ram. 5. Minimal space. I'll keep this thread updated and see how I go. Nice little project that I can get stuck into, and should cost minimal. oh, and I have advanced hardware and software experience, so this shouldn't be hard to design. (i'm a top level IT support officer for a bank.. heh)

jetdat - I'll be looking at a set on wednesday (6th). If I like them, would it be too late to place an order with you?

this man is correct. The laptop tuning side of things makes the job 1000 times easier. Seriously.

I dunno man, you might have to fix us up with some sort of cash adjustment because that was a hard one

what he said.

what a lag monster.. haha mine isn't laggy at all

to be honest, I am quite happy with my results. I've fixed my afr's since this dyno plot and the car feels heaps better. here are the dyno plots The Powercurve is pretty fat in the mid range, that tiny little dip due to me missing a spot in the afrs causing a minute bit of torque loss; but fixed now, and feeling a lot stronger in that spot. Thats why I wanted the AFR's plotted, so I could filter out little gremlins like this. There is one thing wrong though - The dyno operator said the plot is slightly incorrect about the peak power - he said it should read peak power at 6800rpm, not 6400rpm like the plot shows. I'm also impressed at how well the boost holds, with a $22 bleed valve.

yeah the LM1 makes a hell of a difference when you have the time to tune etc. I've managed to make this turbo very desirable in the past few weeks, and now I'm taking it off to go bigger But power is nice and smooth, comes on really well, has excellent amounts of top end. As I said, the only problem being the smaller exhaust housing creating a bit of a restriction - but hey, thats all a .63 housing is good for; 250rwkw.

I thought a nice straight powercuve meant consistant power?

Hi Guys, just thought I'd update my thread. After getting 243rwkw with this turbo, I set out to achieve a little more because there were a heap of spots that were hitting around the 11.1:1 mark. After leaning them to 11.9:1 or 12:1 I noticed quite a bit of difference. The car pulled a lot harder. I reckon I would have scavenged another 7rwkw making it 250rwkw easily. Also, after a good inspection of the dyno graph, I can put a ruler along the power curve and see that its almost straight. Something that impresses me. The means that even though the turbo is taking a while to spool (about 3800rpm) it seems to be pushing a lot of air into the motor at low shaft RPM and keeping volume of flow nice and high anyway. (I've managed to get it to come on a little earlier - fixed with some increases in low end timing) I guess the power curve being nearly straight proves this? Anyway, after a few long chats with Rob Stafford, he's explained that the turbo isn't bad at all, but only limited in power due to the smaller turbine and trim. This causes it to max out at around 260rwkw - 270rwkw at about 24psi of boost. Rob also confirmed the fact that even though this turbo takes a little longer to spool due to needing a lot of shaft torque, its made up for because the 7 blade wheel grabs and pushes a lot more air than the 6 blade. BUT Rob also said that the .63 exhaust housing will ONLY let the engine breathe to 400hp. Meaning 298kw - take 50kw for drivetrain - meaning about 250rwkw. So if you are after more than 250rwkw, then you NEED to go a bigger exhaust housing. (.8x) I will admit, I jumped the gun saying that the turbo wasn't that good - but it actually is pretty good. Its doing exactly what it was setup for - 250rwkw, it pulls very hard for 3,000rpm, and the power curve is dead straight. Which is usually exactly what you want right? I'll post the dyno graph up to show this. Hopefully It will prove that they aren't as bad as everyone thinks. I guess its a case of been there done that right? I've learnt a hell of a lot in the past few weeks.

yeah what sambo said. Also, make use of full stops and comma's in your next post, makes it a little easier to read. Good luck with your engine.

phew... Blown engine averted

withdrawn, looking for a Series 2 grill.

can you send pics to paceys[AT]gmail.com please.

I hope I didn't sound too harsh in my last post, but I'm only telling it how it is.

I want that SII grill so bad..

If you think you have 195rwkw and are only running 95mph, then you are kidding youself. Whoever dyno'd your car - made it look high. I laugh at all of these people that say "my car has this rwkw" and then when I say thats not right, they get all smart assed about it and tell me I am jealous or something. Then someone goes down the strip, and runs 95mph and shows their TRUE power. Mate, you'll be lucky if you have more than 160rwkw. Oh, and I don't see the mention of a aftermarket ECU \ management... If you don't have that then you certainly don't have anymore than 160rwkw. When I had a Powerfc, Tune, FMIC, FULL exhaust, boost at 12psi, I was running 200rwkw, and 13's at 105mph... 240rwkw now - 12's at 112mph+........

can you post the link please?