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Oh, you got the stagea tent....? If not, you don't have all the options

Yeah, I can confirm they are a prick to do up. I've got a 44mm too, and took me an age to get the vband aligned just right.

Withdrawing the 255s from sale. They are now covered in spray paint. They've become a paint/panel bench.

Hope to see it on the track. Would be awesome.

There is shit loads of oil out there. It's not running out in my lifetime, or my kids. However the issue is, when does it become economically viable to extract it? Easy oil comes out with pumps (the stereotypical Middle East image). Hard oil comes from sands, where the oil has to be extracted. This is much more resource heavy, and therefore expensive method. There is however, shit tons of it. So, the answer is IMO we will have oil for a long time, but it's going to be expensive.

The tighter the LSD the more understeer it will push as my understanding. Forgive my ignorance with the R chassis cars, but of what variety is the LSD? Viscous? In which case you don't need to use a LSD type oil. First thing is to check tyre pressure, as a Pesky mechanic might have pumped them up thinking he was doing the right thing.

Rules should state that all cossie motors should have mandatory scatter shields around the block.

Some shitbox that you aren't going to cry (or die) when you crash it. Notice I said "when". Chances are it will happen.

They took over all the old servos up here, the mum and dad places, that have tanks from the 70s... Same with 711 and mobil. So, while I'm not going to say that the stuff that gets trucked in is crap, I'd prefer not to get my fuel from 40 year old tanks. There are a couple of newer ones floating around, but I can't even think of the nearest one to me.

SOLD

Sorry man, I've never even seen E10 100oct up here, but, I NEVER use united servos. I was referring to regular poo grade e10 We just don't have the access to e85 that you guys do.

Wasn't the O2 sensors that was my issues, it's the RON. O2 sensors change ignition timing now too? Would you rely on a fuel that is advertised as 95oct, but with a caveat that it may be as low as 91oct?

Problem is Artz, many of our servos have a "up to 10% ethanol" fuel for e10. So really, without the sensor (and I know you love the sensors ) you wouldn't know what your putting in. Could be anything from 91-95. I know you and Scotty love to get together and have a fap on the e85 pump...

Only if it was a 458...

I emailed Just Jap too, but got no reply. I'm after just one. If you end up hitting the jackpot, hook a brother up. I'll do the same.

OEM RB fans flow higher than SR fans to start with, but apparently not as much as the GKTech item either. GKTech fan works just fine in my car - Mat knows this after we compared temps at Texi! Put the stocker back in and see if that cures it on the track. Lets not rubbish it until we know there isn't another issue in the system.

You'd have to look at the figures. I'd say they would be marginal, not much head room.

9.8:1 says google for e85. Vq35 stock ecu and add/ subtract 25% fuel, sadly I know from experience. So, if it had an infinite range, on e85 it would still be able to trim fuel to lambda, the sensor would output volts that the ecu sees as 14.7, and the real afr would be 9.8:1?

Ok, so let me try to understand this. Hypothetically, you can fill up your stock as a rock car with e85, drive it around on closed loop, and have a e85 lambda of 1? What is the e85 afr equilivent of 14.7?

E85 and 98 have different stoich ratios. Which the O2 sensor can't take into account. It's fixed on 14.7- petrol. Both have a lambda of 1 ( lambda is just the indication of the best or most efficient ratio). So you might then tune petrol to 11.5afr, however that isn't equal to the same ratio when using e85

But they run to AFR... Not lambda.

E85 requires a custom dyno tune, complete with a marginally larger set of injectors. As above, you CANNOT dump a tank in and expect the car to run ok.

Yes, but there seems to be this perception that the ECU "removes" timing when it detects knock on the fly. I've never seen any evidence of it, when I played around with Uprev and set the knock map up, it is quite simply just another Ign timing table to set say 20 points lower than the standard table.

Question for those who have the ability to map / record engine parameters. Have you seen the ECU ever actually take out timing due to the knock sensor sensing knock? The knock map is just a secondary Table for ignition values, I don't believe it alternates between the two, but just throws a CEL and then switches over. I've seen a motor die (nil compression) due to a bad tune knocking (electrodes off the sparkplugs). Yet the knock sensor seemed to do SFA. Unless the tuner didn't complete the knock map, or the knock map wasn't touched and had higher than tuned map values, in which we'll never know.

Two of em Terry. Double trouble.