Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Yep - those Francaise gendarmes have alerted the Espanol... ah, whatever Spanish police are called... to stop the Gumballers!

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,405...55E1702,00.html

The Spanish police who, juding from that video of the guy on the motorbike I saw the other day, seem to be fresh out of humor have impounded 20-cars and thrown some of the automotive aristocracy behind bars.

Props though to the guy who travelled 210km in 50 mins :P

The Gumball has an £8000 entry fee (not including car, fuel, tyres, bribes, tolls etc) and last year (in the US) generated nearly $20,000 in fines! Tattslotto - here we come!

James

yeh teckademics series is pretty cool, i got the Gumball 3000 and Mischeif Destroy Dvd's

They got a new one out from the gumbal in Europe, called Mischeif Invasion

Havent seen it anywhere yet, u can usually get the others at like Jb Hifi

The R33 has said they will put some pics up and the Reyland crew have some footage which I look forward to seeing when they are all fit and well and back in the UK. I have a couple of vids but have posted the link for the biggest one on here.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • I refreshed the OEM injectors with the kit and connected it up. It now ideals okay even with the IACV removed. Driving still has the same cutoff issue like the 550cc injectors so the issue is somewhere else. I bought FPG's Fuel Pump Hanger. I will be installing it next, but it is not as straightforward as I thought it was with my limited wiring knowledge and no instruction on the specific model I purchased (FPG-089). I also got the incorrect billet clamp as I could not find info on the OEM sizing.
    • Stop looking at the garage floor, and turn the radio up a bit louder if there's any strange noises...
    • No. Turbo shuffle and surge/flutter are not the same thing. Specifically, on a GTR, turbo shuffle has a definite meaning. On a GTR, the twin turbos are assumed to be the same thing and to operate the same way, exactly. In reality, they do not. Their exhaust sides are fed and exhaust a little differently, to each other. Their inlet sides are fed and exhausted a little differently, to each other. Consequently, when they are "working" they are often at slightly different points on the compressor map compared to each other. What this means, particularly when coming on boost, is that one of them will spool up and start producing extra flow compared to the other, which will put back pressure on that other compressor, which will push the operating point on that other compressor up (vertically). This will generally result in it bumping up against the surge line on the map, but even if it doesn't, it upsets the compressor and you get this surging shuffle back and forth between them That is "turbo shuffle" on a GTR. It is related to other flutter effects heard on other turbo systems, but it is a particular feature of the somewhat crappy outlet piping arrangement on RB26s. There are plenty of mods that have been attempted with varying levels of success. People have ground out and/or welded more material into the twin turbo pipe to try to prevent it. Extending the divider inside it works, removing material doesn't. There are aftermarket replacement twin turbo pipes available, and these exist pretty mush purely because of this shuffle problem.
    • You can temporarily* use lock collars to keep it in place until you can do the bushes, back the nuts off, slide them in, snug back up. *temporarily is often for ever
    • Thanks for the quick reply. To be clear, when you say turbo shuffle do you mean turbo flutter "stustustu" or referring to something else? I had thought they were the same thing. When I wrote the post my intention was to say it wasn't a flutter/compression surge sound. My understanding was that a flutter sound would be occurring when throttle is released, whereas I can keep the throttle in the same position for this noise
×
×
  • Create New...