Lawsy

I remember that, good times... Poor barry though, he was the best commentator...

I don't think I'll try to take a shot while driving as I'll have to put my beer down then. lmao.... Great call.

Back to the strut brace issue, there is no need. As you know, the rear end has control blade IRS... By its very nature, it is a very solid design and simply doesn't get any benefit from a brace.... It will take an aweful lot more force than you could possibly give it... Even with racing slicks, you couldn't build enough lateral G force to even give it a slight twist... Anyways, great purchase, you'll love it.

Didn't one of the mal woods guys say that if you do an oil swap it fixes this problem? Ask them, apparently a better oil does the trick.. Or maybe I'm dreaming... Give them a buzz and find out!

With a custom tune and injectors, you will probably feel a huge increase in power. It will make the 10psi map feel like a standard car.

BCL's gearbox is a modded T56, talk to him. Hes running just under 1400nm (yeah, pick your jaw up off the floor now). I'm fairly sure this is at least 60-70% or so more than the standard box would handle, on the brink of destruction... So my guess is about 800newtons. Take off 100 to be safe, 700 sounds like a nice, safe round figure.

Congrats mate. Its great to see a brand new life being braught into the world. I don't have any of my own (I'm working on it ) but I've got plenty of nephews (eldest is 6, I've watched them all grow from birth), and I know they definately are a gift from God! Keep up the good work, and make sure that if he ever bleeds, that its either engine oil or at least blue on colour!!!

So whats the xede going to be doing, other than decoration? I'm assuming its running other features and leaving the engine alone once the Edit gets in there.......

Great stuff mate. Cmon though, you know you want another 15 - 20kw... Get them to up the boost a notch, you know you want to

owned.

Hi Rob, The link no longer works for me, getting an error reporting dud file path. Is the file still there? Can others still see it? If anyone has it on file, care to upload? cheers I'm not sure if the uni computers are just gay or whether its just a dud or not. It just keeps showing the windows media player thing rotating around in the window... Even though the progress slider has already finished (for about the 50th time....). Not happy.

Mick, We've covered this before but this is not always right. The way you get more air through a filter is to increase the surface area ie: more pleats. The greater the surface area the lower resistance (pa) across the filter, resulting in better air flow. Increased airflow does not have to mean a lower level of filtration. Heres a few random points to consider which are important to filter design. I get most of this information from my knowledge of compressors, as filters are hugely important. Firstly, you aren't blowing into the filter, air is being sucked through it. This makes the shape of the filter less important and has less effect on the air flow as one might think. The reason is that the negative pressure will cause air to be sucked through the filter in a uniform fassion, not just through one spot. Aftermarket car filters are folded by design giving something like 3 times more surface area. This means that the larger the filter surface area, the lower the air velocity through any single surface of the filter. I think it should also be mentioned that independant tests using K&N filters in the past have shown significant increases in filtration and airflow... I guess the moral of the story is; don't believe every new article that comes out when it isn't specifically directed towards your situation. Quality air filters that are available in Australia (mainly K&N, BMC) are perfectly safe and will provide cleaner air and more of it (through less restriction) to your engine. This has been proven far too many times to suddenly go "oh wait, no it doesn't because this article says so, AND it has fancy graphs". That is the same as saying "People over the last 20 years, where high performance cars have used this type of filter and gained significant power increases over greater periods of time (ie, less power lost), have been all wrong." I don't think they are wrong, the results on the track prove it.

Mine surges at around 2000 on the crusie control. Does it with Edit, and did it pre-edit (Stock) Notice mostly when going down a slight incline when theres minimal load on the donk. Has to be turbo boost coming on and off Actually, this happens with quite a few cars on cruise control, from my experience anyway. It usually happens when you are going down a hill where the slope is just enough so that the force of gravity pushing you down the hill is almost exactly equal to the force of all resistance (wind, tyre friction, etc). So its simply the cruise going "oh... We're going faster than we need, so lets use 0% throttle... Hang on, now we're going slower, 10% throttle... Oh wait, faster, no wait.... " You get the idea. It does this in our Ghia and our liberty. And yes, it is a noticable surge, not just a slight push, a surge. Infact it could quite possibly be the driveline slack being taken up which is making it more noticable in the T's. The reason I would suggest this, and not the turbo spooling, as the cause of the surge is because off boost the T still produces enough torque to get you allong, without needing to make any boost, especially when only ~10% throttle is applied. So I wouldn't put it down to the turbo itself... Meh, just typing as I think. My 2c.

Yes mate, going to give her a tickle.................. Better give her more than a tickle mate.... Good chloice mate...

that's the spirit!

that is correct lawsy it is just that some times we comand 14.8/1.1 but get 14.5/.99 this is not the edit but the pcm or for that matter the test equipment etc!!! Oh, I see.... So would it be safe to say that you could just play with it untill you knew that you were going to get, say, just under 15:1 for less than 2300 rpm (about 120km/h ish) so that, without any real nasty increases in heat, you could get the benefit of the leaner mix? It would be interesting to see what you guys can come up with as a very mild and soft method of running a leaner mix without having ANY adverse affects on the engine. Really interesting indeed.....

Well, this is what I need to know, thanks Saleen. Maybe I wasn't too clear in my initial explanation, but I was trying to make a differentiation between shift 'speed' and shift 'firmness', for want of better terms. I'm trying to get rid of that delay between throttle input and actual kickdown, if that's even possible (and it sounds like it isn't), not looking for a firmer/snappier/harder shift or even to chirp my tyres between changes. Sigh, looks like it's something I'll have to live with then. I'm already finding myself trying to time my throttle inputs in advance in anticipation of this bloody delay. When driving the ghia around I find that when I know there is a situation coming up where I might need to pick a small gap, I'll put the thing in manual mode and hold second gear (for those <60km/h merging situations) and so rather than waiting for it to kick into 1st, I just let the thing thunder along in 2nd... Now this is a ghia, not a turbo. If I have never once had an issue in sydney traffic in the ghia using this method, it should be many times easier to do the same in the turbo. Especially considering that (regardless of turbo lag, or lack thereof) the XR6T will quickly build up allot more torque anywhere in the rev range over the standard NA I6... Sometimes its the simplest solutions that give the best results....

42c? ..........been 36c/litre down here for a long time. STOP TEASING ME!!!!!!! Gas down here is 61.9 and ulp is 115.9 We are getting near 50 for the lpg just west of sydney and about 112 for premium.

Did you actually take the time to read Brian's post? The 8 sec VL Turbo would be a drag car....not a street car. Probably pulls the motor down and rebuilds it after every drag meet too. The motor isnt pulled down after each meeting I know many vl's that run 9's and 10's that drive on the street everyday and dont have a problem my car had never had a BOV on it and never had a problem with it and it has been both manual and auto My point is you DONT have to run a bov and without it you get better cooler noise and your engine isnt going to die without one No, you don't HAVE to run one. Its just that by the things you seemed to hold in high esteem in your post, being "better cooler noise" and that "it wont hurt your turbo", indicated to me that you didn't understand why the BOV existed. Also that you have compared this to (or even mentioned for that matter) a 45psi drag car as an argument for why a <15psi street car shouldn't run a BOV also indicated that you don't exactly understand the physics and reasoning behind why BOV exist for a drivable, tuff street car that has minimal stress on the engine overall... So my appologies, as obviously you have a doctorate in intake systems and turbine mechanics (yeah....). Again, my appologies. So let me rephrase. If you are running a mild street XR6T then it would be unwise if you chose not to run a Blow Off Valve... Sorry for trying to help. Oh, and btw, I didn't specifically mean just the intake manifold in my above post, the specific components that I was refering to would be everything pre throttle body, post turbo. For ease of explanation I simply coined everything on the intake as the manifold to make life easier, as I didn't reason that he would realise the difference anyways, yes, I shouldn't have assumed this. My bad, I'll make myself clearer next time. Anyway. Enough of this petty crap, lets just get on the with topic; as it should never have been side-tracked in the first place. Cheers.

I'm sure you could just be really soft in your adjustments, like 14.8:1 clossed loop AFR. It might give you another 10k's in a tank, you never know..... I'm sure that would have barely any effect on the temps as well...... Meh, I'm just spamming.

That would be an acheivement, but entirely possible......

Al, Thanks heaps for the jumper cables it still worked out better cause I would hate to have pushed my car all the way back out. LOL.. The only blame for what happened is driver error, The car was dyno tuned at S&S Racing but was not tuned with the NOS, add that and the NOS bottle warmer to feed more NOS in plus add a Driver that is sick of doing 11's driving the car flat out without regard for the little popping,detonation noises that I heard from when I launched the car and got louder all the way down the track.... that's where the problem was... My fault but I will come back for another go within the next 2 months and I will bring my own trailer this time... thanks, jeff Its more fun when its your own fault though... I much prefere to be pissed off with myself then have no one to blame (when it isn't your issue).... Anyways dude, there is always a stronger conrod out there somewhere :D Can't wait to see the next incarnation of your car, should be sweet.

Ok, you obviously don't understand what a BOV does. It releaves the manifold pressure when you ease off after high load. Without a BOV you put increased stress on the intake manifold and its components. It helps keep things under control allowing everything to work nice and happy.... So no, you can't run sans-BOV on a street car. It is not designed to cope with the increased stress....

I would just love to see the face of the drivers he went around... They wouldn't have any idea what on earth was going on. Love it!

There obviously needs to be some sort of regulation with regards to sheilding the turbines so that if something does let go, the teams, officials and spectators are protected... This is what, the 3rd time in the last year that a turbine has let go? A simple double insulated, double laminated glass sheild (heat insulation on both sides of a 3 layer glass lamination... Its a cheaper, thinner version of bullet proof glass, but works just as good) would have prevented this from happening.... Might cost the team about 200 bucks, plus some screws and a metal brace...