Fuel Testing Results

[ZX2NV]

Fuel testing results

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Well after much anticipation and discussion and great effort the stage was set for the battle of the race fuels. William from Autosalon magazine arrived by 9:30am while Ben was putting the finishing touches on his in drum walbro custom makeshift fuel system for the tests.

Started out and my in tank stock pump decided to play up which was okay as we had the walbro anyway so on with the tests. The my lower drivers side cooler pipe kept blowing off, tried constant tension clamps massive T bolt clamp torqued right up no go in the end Andrew had to weld some lips onto the pipes and all was sorted.

Car was making 250ish on pump fuel which is pretty normal so we tried the Martini again altered the timing and only 255 wtf. continued the tests and all the same around that 250 mark. After several scans of previous charts we new something was really wrong. Boost isnt holding still and power is not there. Time to do a compression test, all plugs out and we got an average of 132 excpet for cylinder 6 good old number 6 who decided it liked around 75. Ben did a cylinder leak down test and confirmed that the rings are in fact to blame. So looks like everything got a little too hot and cooked number 6 cylinder.

Conclusion -

Test was inconclusive due to car problem and I spent around 2.5k to find out my number 6 cylinder is rooted, hence why I am sitting down at the moment drinking a bottle of Moet and Chandon and generally feeling down about the whole caper. I had Autosalon there and everything and no results to show for the effort put in apart from a very large repair bill. Oh well such is life and had to happen sooner or later just wished it was later about 6 months later then new engine would have been done.

Once the new engine is built I will rerun the test and see whats what.

Jp is going to buy some of the fuel and test it in the slotcar next week so some results will be forthwith

Its not over yet!!!!!!!!!!!!

[evil_weevil]

This all in your 300 Jason?

Hope everything is ok mate.

When you say Martini - what type of fuel/octane rating?

[ZX2NV]

This all in your 300 Jason?

Hope everything is ok mate.

When you say Martini - what type of fuel/octane rating?

It was supposed to be a comparison of the top rated and most expensive unleaded race fuels money can buy.

I got some ELF Turbo max at $8.20 per litre, Martini Super turbo 1400 (formerly M110) and Sunoco GT Plus.

So we had a Euro fuel and Aussie fuel and the American stuff.

But then we found the comp problem aaarrrrr.

Will sort the engine in no time and will rerun it so all will not be lost

Cheers

[DRD-00F]

i admire your spelling, punctuation and grammer...

and your on the piss even more amazing!

good luck next time!

would LOVE to see the outcome...

[Abo Bob]

Bad luck Jas. Hope it all comes together well.