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What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

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chuckie
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FITTED 2 NEW BOLTS TO MY Brakes is this a MOD i CAN POST or do i need aprovall from NM#% But i may need to ask if it`s ok to POST hope to POST MORE SOON

chuckie
chuckie

Thanks for all your HELP , I guess owning a NM#% is some sort of gift , i guess with all your imput i will be happy to have a NM#% in the family & may be you will be more helpfully then, but a

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LOOKING AT BUYING NM#% CAN I GET SOME POINTERS ON WHATS SHIT & WHATS NOT got some new bolts for Calipers

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Jetwreck Grand Master

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lol +1..

im pretty sure craig noticed a difference after the snip still

whistling.gifmaybe

onto other news I am sure as soon as I get this tune sorted this thing will rock out of the hole!!nyaanyaa.gif

Up for a Jaffa run!!!BAAAAHHHHHAAAA

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Tangles Grand Master

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Got the Stagea back today after the bottom end rebuild

Home by 3pm, took a cpl hours to refit the front 324mm brake rotor kit

Yet to test the brakes since refitting. Engine purrs very nicely. Will run in the engine slowly over the next 6 weeks or so.

Duncan Grand Master

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Will run in the engine slowly over the next 6 weeks or so.

don't do it! run in the engine the same way you intend to use it.

with modern clearances you should run in a motor hard over the first 200-500klm. By then it is well and truely done.

In particular, don't allow it to idle. Once it is warm load it up hard. Little boost but as much load as you can do (long up hills). Vary the load point. Low boost so it's not over the top

Tangles Grand Master

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Yeah I know, I ran in my old Fireblade 919cc engine nice and hard and that was a stomper once tuned with the flatslide carbies.

Recently ran in the rb26 engine via loading it up; will have that tuned when I can afford it (once house is sold). Buying the track car was a BIG mistake but admittedly Ive been mentally crazy over the past number of years (pain, medication).

What I actually meant with "slowly"was I'll only be doing small sessions of driving and the 1000kms will probably take me 6 weeks to get up to (builder/tuner advice was to make sure I do the 1000kms, whereas Id rather bring it in for new fluids and tune after 500kms). Boost is limited to 8psi currently. I'll be loading the engine when possible. 1st proper drive will be in the Hills sometime in the next couple days. Will take it up Willunga Hill rd a few times (big hill that features in the Tour Down Under cycle race).

Thanks for your suggestions mate; I'll be sure not to let it idle much. Just drove it 35kms home today; might go out shortly up a small hill and make sure the brake lines are clear from the rim edge - a couple of times now Ive stuffed up where Ive cable tied the lines and broke the metal tube line that goes into R32 gtst calipers...........

Duncan Grand Master

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yeah my builder too for that matter, he wants 1500klm on it before oil change and full boost tune.

but frankly I've done a heap of motors over the years, always run them in hard, and never had a problem with bearings or rings bedding in. I think the workshops want to minimise risk and get a lot of klm on board, particularly to turn up any short term/bedding in issues.

Duncan Grand Master

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I meant to add, the only problem I've ever had running in a motor was in the early days when the rings did not bed in well (compression was pretty poor after 1000klm). Turned out the bores had glazed due to overfueling early on (efi cars run richer when cold).

The engine guy spent a few hours on the dyno absolutely smashing it at full load and no boost and it came up good. Which was lucky because the other option was to pull the motor right down and hone it again

Tangles Grand Master

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Lucky save, for sure.

Yeah with the position Im in now financially I cant afford for anything to go wrong. Putting all my eggs in the one basket, so to speak, by studying medical radiation science next year at Uni-SA in Adelaide. Been on the disability pension since June 08 and have used up all my savings; at the point where I cant afford the morgage any longer. Pretty much only regained my mental health 5 weeks ago when I took myself off my medication (fentanyl - 80x strength of heroin & literally sent me insane). Ive got a lot in front of me & just cant afford for anything to go wrong. Once the house sells I'll need all I get after the loan repayment & divorce split to get myself through Uni over the next 4, possibly 5, years.

Just went up'n'round a hill for a couple of minutes, brakes seem good. Forgot Ive got an 18psi actuator so no my boost isnt limited to 8psi; going to have to load up the engine carefully as I dont trust the tune just at this point - definately dont want it overfuelling with a whack of air pressure to boot. Greddy boost solonoid is removed but that'd mean its running off the actuator, going to have to be careful with how I go about it.

Sunkist Grand Master

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whistling.gifmaybe

onto other news I am sure as soon as I get this tune sorted this thing will rock out of the hole!!nyaanyaa.gif

Up for a Jaffa run!!!BAAAAHHHHHAAAA

im down but only if Im tune.. should be though i only need a fuel reg and im set for a tune! no videos unless on a track lol

bigkevracer Grand Master

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Just went up'n'round a hill for a couple of minutes, brakes seem good. Forgot Ive got an 18psi actuator so no my boost isnt limited to 8psi; going to have to load up the engine carefully as I dont trust the tune just at this point - definately dont want it overfuelling with a whack of air pressure to boot. Greddy boost solonoid is removed but that'd mean its running off the actuator, going to have to be careful with how I go about it.

Sounds like a good thing. Still RB25?

What kind of power are you looking for?

Sunkist Grand Master

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lol im pretty sure craig has more track experience than probably anyone on here........ id do the dyno video

he'd kick my ass on a dyno for sure.. im only trying to push 220 out of this for the time being.. i'll wait for the turbo to die(s15 turbo still) and ill chuck a TD06L2 20G on. then i'll give him a proper run.

sideways..

iamhe77 Grand Master

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he'd kick my ass on a dyno for sure.. im only trying to push 220 out of this for the time being.. i'll wait for the turbo to die(s15 turbo still) and ill chuck a TD06L2 20G on. then i'll give him a proper run.

sideways..

Slowest way around a corner :whistling:

Sunkist Grand Master

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actually its the fastest!

however the tyre wear is also the fastest lol

lol i've got flat spots on them after yesterdays asian driver who thought it was correct to cut in front of me and stop at 80kph might as well ruin them

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