Leroy Peterson

this week has been very chaotic. fabricator adding delays upon delays and tuner rescheduling resulted in getting tune done the morning of a track day. GTX2867 and AM Performance manifold fitted (theres a spacer there too, dont remember having one lol) but caused 2 of the studs to lack enough threads to properly tighten and most of the nuts came loose during the tune. Piping is now going underneath for a short run to intercooler. Aeroflow fittings in black and cooler piping painted black. Turbosmart Race port BOV, recirc to 2 vac ports on the throttle bodies. Custom catch looks the goods. PCV valve removed and fed straight to the can, same with the stock air/oil connection. Can then drains to the block. Apparently there is no baffling, which I found a bit strange but was assured it works well. we'll see what happens. Struggled to get under the car, so will show some better pics of the new air intake location Car didnt make it to the track sadly. Tuning was going well, once ready for boost the blanks in the spare vacuum ports blew off so fitted some better ones. Managed to make 250kw at 15 psi The manifold plate wasnt flat, or bolted up very well so exhaust leak developed as the car got warmer and eventually the threads failed and one stud actually vibrated off the block during a dyno run, so will need to get that recoiled and longer studs with locking washers. Tune has been set to 19-20psi which resulted in some funny graphs due to the leak. So as the leak got bigger with time, the turbo response and torque curved was pushed later into the rev range. Just need to get manifold machined down a bit and maybe ditch the gasket too? (i dont think the torque figure is correct) Went to swap wheels over and found the wheel nuts were still stuffed and came to the conclusion its time for new studs too. Wouldnt have passed scruitineering since even one/two of the brand new nuts i bought today wouldnt tighten fully. Getting mixed opinions on the wheel colour. I quite like it, but some people werent really big fans. (ill tidy up the tyres later)

thats great news if they need people to chip in, would be happy to. Will sign-in and attend briefing but probably wont be on track till after 10. Would love to leave my tools in a garage during that time.

may your trip home be swift

Cihan said he'll work on it tomorrow. Just hope he farking makes a start tonight at least, cant use dyno after 6pm. ...and mow stuck in burley tunnel because car flipped over on the monash and closed 2 lanes

need dyno tuner ASAP. Cihan is wasting my time. lemme know of anyone not limited by noise curfews and willing to work late for extra reacharounds. edit: just rang most tuners in melb and all have closed for today or tied up with other work. looks like ill be starting late tomorrow.

whats this about free garages???? hope to get there before 7:30.... (thats if my car is tuned and ready lol)

oh god... between apple, google and microsoft it will be a battle of the control freaks.

so after driving pulsar yesterday, i think its going to be a pretty mean machine lol. new turbo sounds like a truck spooling up (didnt put over a few psi in it though). sound with new manifold will make many silvias jelly and Race port BOV is a nice addition too but any chance of talking cops out of anything has officially gone out the window #skylinelyf eagerly awaiting tune results from today. just hope no one at edge motorworks steals any parts haha. I walked in and once they found out it was a pulsar "hey bro do you have a drivers seat for sale?" "im after a front pipe for the N15 over there". was like walking into drift sales.

Birds dont troll the vicwaste, theres abgood r35 thread with your name all over it

It was an easy 25+ in the sun. And surrounded by 4 lanes of cars and trucks...

Rad is fine, was worried thermos eerent coming on but pulled over and they were running. Hsvent been in suvh heavy traffic with it for so long before. 110 water temp on hand controller, never been that high before. Will see how temps go on saturday.

strong unaware of melbourne Grand Prix. queen st is farged. pulsar was sooo close to overheating and of course, there is nowhere to pull over. lucky. stopped at Andrews Hamburgers in south melbourne for lunch. VWLHC

Drags was before GOR cruise

I was mistaken. it's an ET turbo pulsar. so fwd 1.5L.

good vid. looked like gtr_jet there, and that NXR was at Sandown in december. he ran into issues but looks like its running again. Thats a Milano pulsar. Pretty sure it was an X1 which is AWD but they cant be registered because motor was never put on the compliance list or whatever. PGA guy has one and tracked once with me at Winton... till this happened: (cant add image for some reason) ran a 12.6 1/4 mile before that though good ol' CAs. and also why you should use ARP studs.

he wasnt there?

damn glad at least track day is going ahead. thanks for the info, i havent received an email yet

ok so Cihan not available till Friday, bit annoying but getting screwed around a bit with piping fabrication as well... ergh just as long as its ready for Saturday. will bust many balls to make it happen

becoz cairns.

apparently. I gotta pick it up from fabrication today... getting stuffed over a bit. will call Cihan later cause he hasn't given me a time or address.

"...back in my day... wore onions around our wait, as it was the fashion at the time..."

quit your jibber jabber

just make sure you get a wheel alignment after adjusting the height?

the cold start tune is fine. I'm only following the clutch instructions letting it warm up before driving and stabilise oil pressure.

meh. ferrari's are for purists and people who like being looked at/paying stupid amounts for inevitable repairs. spoke to the guy who tracks his 1970's ferrari and said he had a newer one (i dont know ferraris) and he would cry every time it broke down. Said it would cost $20,000 minimum for repairs and parts. broke down a couple of times and he f**ked it off. and that newer SAU member with the R35 got sick of repairing his newer ferrari too. I'd hate to see what Weltmesier charge for their countless Porsche customers.