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well, that went great easily the biggest party I've ever thrown. A lot of work went into it behind the scenes and the outcome was fantastic. morning all, happy Sunday 🪦

Ok well it wasn't the cam timing that was causing the cutting out issue. Yes there was indicators with the cam timing around the cutting issue and while they may be related, it wasn't the cause. Lol I reckon it might be the battery is farked. I knew it was a bit sh*t but I didn't replace it cos it charged up properly. Anyhow I'll get a new one and we'll see how it gets on.

The car was cutting the fuel and throttle. I had a stuffed throttle body which I've replaced but still having fuel cutting issues, no longer throttle cutting though. I'm just swapping the pistons pretty much, I might do bearings too but the ones in it are pretty new, they just have extra clearance which messes with the vct, especially if the vct is already worn.

Yeah maybe, I don't wanna go too nuts with a hurt piston. I turned the quick spool feature on this evening, it's the same as the under boost setting in the factory computer. It basically runs 100% wastegate duty until your boost target, then drops back down. I've got a bit of dialling in to do, but I already have a boost curve, just gotta raise it up a few percent. The 4 port is very touchy lol. Having real time wideband correction works a treat with the water meth system. You can actually see how much of a difference it makes in the ltft fuel map.

Did some driving around with the Haltech and it's pretty good straight out the box, although the timing map is more suited to E85 than 98. As I was driving and stopping a fair bit dialing things in, the car warmed up as to be expected, then it decided it was going to start cutting like it was the other day at roll racing. I had a good look at logs etc and what I can come up with now is the vct phasers are farked. There is massive cam error around the times the car plays up so that could be the issue. Any fricken way, I cbf fixing it for now, I'll wait until I do the entire engine. Eh maybe I will fix it, it doesn't take long to swap phasers lol.

Ok, head gasket ordered, rings for pistons ordered and new 7/16 rod bolts ordered. I figured I'd better do the rod bolts cos they have been used 3 or 4 times now and are probably stretched too much. My Haltech cable arrived this morning so I can get to tuning the car slightly and when all the stuff arrives I'll sort the engine out. I also bought a bead blasting cabinet yesterday with some glass bead to prepare the pistons, so everything is set in motion to get it done.