Whats wrong with my car

[BOOSTMEISTER]

Look, if it makes you feel any better find the guy and I will race him and WIN, just for you....

[Squizz]

You're a gentlemen Cam...

[BOOSTMEISTER]

I was born to help people......

[Guest GregGTR]

Have you considered:

You might have a boost leak....

He might be running AVGAS and advanced his timing and boost...

He might of boosted the crap out of it, and it was about to explode....

You might have clutch slip...

Poor Launch technique

You were not willing to push you car as hard, (beyond your or your car's limits)

All the above are only some reason why you might of lost....

G.

[NismoGirl]

I push the car as hard as it will go.. Cant go any further down than the firewall... Reved it to the limiter and yeah.. It was a standing still start.. from about 60 up..

I'm not really that worried about loosing.. I'm just worried that there might be something wrong because of the problems we've had and the people we bought it off..

[NismoGirl]

err..

It wasn't a standing still start i meant to say

[51jay]

NismoGirl my best so far at the drag strip is 15sec, My son mick's

best time in my car is 14sec, same car different driver different time.

ps If I can't catch up with the little bugger I'll just have to ban him from driving it

[Guest INASNT]

just off the topic

i had a drag through the centre of dandenong raceway a couple of nights ago with a stock looking r33, and i pulled about 4-5 cars on him by 160!!

[Squizz]

Too late Cam I was already on it...

[matlowth]

See that's the thing... It's all about looking stock.

My car looks stock too (minus the exhaust).

Wouldn't mind lining up against a couple of skylines to see how I fair...

matt

[Guest DAZSPC]

Someone said something about what can be done internally to make the car quicker? The short answer would have to be LOADS!

I don't know if many of you have looked into stripping and rebuilding your sky's engines with performance in mind, but I am dead sure there is power to be gained. My real world exp is with Ford V8's in that regard, but I have myself built cars to look stock with high HP engines under the hood. In fact a great example (going back a few years) is a friend who owned an XD Fairmont and dropped an import 460 under the hood (thats just under 8 litres) he was running shaved heads, mild cam, manifold, holly carb, electronic dizzy and some very custom headers, and at one point a 150 shot of NOS, but if you looked under the bonnet you'd think, "nah it's a stocker 351" why? Grease and crap everywhere, no chrome or braid, no stickers or labels on parts, standard looking wiring, and to top it off, a butchered stock air filter box (complete with dirt covered 351ci sticker) with a nice filter inside it. Externally he even hunted down some beige rear window louvres and one of those horrid metal sun sheilds for the windscreen.

Granted thats an extreme case, but never trust a car that just 'looks' stock. I can show you the pix of my old T4 turbo'd 351 clevo in a near stock XC falcon. What I can't show is the look of utter disbelief on some poor racers faces after getting pumped by a 'shopping trolly'.

Lucky for me though the R33 looks pretty damn nice without a mega body kit anyway

[Cubes]

Mine looks dead stock.

From the 3" from the turbo to the 3" S/Steel Tip.

Even the exhaust looks stock.

Pop the bonnet and you can't see the FMIC, all of the plumbing is standard.

There is one R33 around here with Twin exhausts, big body kits big wheels very loud, loud bov but it quite slow. Slow enough for him to pull out of a round about in second and nail it with me pulling out from behind and passing him, pulling in front as I am at the end of third gear.

The bloke you had a run with may have had a SAFC or somthing wound the boost to 10psi or 11psi and got the fuel sorted out.

That is probably why he beat you.

Even a Fuel pressure reg bleed to lean the fuel off he may have.

A Std R33 with exhaust boost to 11psi and fuel sorted should pull 170rwkw.

Its when a V6 commodore starts to give you a run that you need to worry.

[Guest Boxhead]

nismo girl - basically, you were driving hahaha.. you should be at home cooking or cleaning... not driving a performance vehicle hahaha :lol: so go back to you desk, and take down some notes little miss sechitary

p.s for all of you guys who start thinking im being an asshole.. its an ohgoing joke between me and nismo girl...

[Cubes]

ouch.. Women don't like that kind of talk.

hey hey..

No offence intended by this joke..... Its only a joke, its not meant..

Why do women have smaller feet than males?

So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.

Its an old one that my old man told me years ago when he was stiring up mum.

[Guest Boxhead]

joel - dont forget the stove, they need to get nice and close when gcooking meals hahahaha

*sorry all your girls out there, no offense intended*