Puffwagon

Here's an interesting one...the car is using triple the fuel at idle, over double at cruise, triple or more while gentle accelerating and a normal amount at WOT. I've ordered a leak/smoke machine to check the hot side, so it will be interesting to see if there is a leak causing the high fuel usage. Lol it was hitting the 30psi cut on the shifts so I upped the cut to 35psi. Should be sorted in that area at least

Boost leak turned out to be the throttle body, more than likely the water meth damaged the seal or whatever is in there. I'll pull it apart for a look, might be able to repair it. Anyway I put a new TB in there so it's sorted, and I bought another one just in case I need a spare. Still wasn't making boost though...Haltech did an update and limited the throttle to 50%. That was a fun one to solve. Now that it actually gets full throttle the turbo is in positive pressure before 2500rpm. I've only done one quick run at 26psi with no timing in it but it goes like feck with that big arse turbo. Don't get me wrong it has some lag to it, but I can live with that and it's good enough to chop at roll racing. Will get it back on the dyno one day to see what I can do with it, maybe Saturday.

Fitted hectic valve springs and titanium retainers, along with new valve guide seals. Vct immediately got unhappy so locked it out again. 50th time the rocker cover has been off this week Gonna have to use a smoke tester to find the boost leak cos I CBF pulling sh*t apart anymore. The turbo is making positive pressure at 3350rpm, not bad

Yay Tuesday Might do some more work on the car today, not sure yet.

Fitted an 85mm turbo yesterday/this morning. It appears to come on around 4000rpm so not terrible. Got a boost leak somewhere so gotta find that, it makes 10psi with 15psi gate spring so yerp. Also fitted my modified vct gears to the cams today, helps a bit with low end power.

Been married for 13 years, how bout dat?!

Found a small leak in a vband, fitting my 1800hp turbo to fix it.

Nah I checked, carnts just didn't do it right. Bunch of teenagers working on a Friday lol. Second tyre was off by 105g each side when I checked their work, and when I took the weights off and spun it, it was only off by 50g and 20g respectively. They literally didn't balance it and left old weights on it, or just chucked something on to make it look good. I quoted $50 to remove and balance two tyres, first one took me nearly 45 minutes to get right, cos after farking with the balance, I had to debead it and rotate the tyre 90 degrees on the rim. Second tyre took 5 minutes lol, as they should. Oh well, at least I have a return customer lol.

Balanced a couple of mud tyres this morning. The guy had been to a shop to get them fitted and balanced and complained about severe vibration. I chucked them on my machine and one was 115 grams out on one side! The other one was not much better. Needless to say I got both of his tyres to 00 each and he and his vehicle were much happier.

Drank fireball whiskey last night, feel ten types of crap. Yay Saturday

I overestimated the amount of duty cycle needed to make boost and I had the cut set at 30 just in case. Haha I was aiming for 25psi which is pretty normal, I will send the farker when the time comes, you can bet your whiskers

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New FG coils fitted today, it fixed the cutting out issue so that's good. It also was going brrr on the dyno yesterday over about 12psi so it fixed that too. Tried to crank some boost into it today and it hit 32psi at 3200rpm then hit the boost cut. Turned it down slightly but there's a godamn boost leak on the intake side somewhere, I can hear it and it isn't holding boost. It wasn't there before the rebuild so I've just gotta have a look at what I've touched and get it sorted. Also I remembered that I already replaced the valve stem seals so I ain't changing sh*t! Just another day in the life lol

Yay Friday

Yes it's still there, along with the cutting out issue, despite changing the battery. I'm going to do the coils, valve guide seals, valve springs and retainers tomorrow and just for a sanity check, change the cam timing to a known good economy position. Should take about 4 or 5 hours if I smash it, lucky I've had a coles order today that included plenty of energy drinks!!!

Oh yeah I ran gate pressure to start with...180awkw on 3.5psi lol

Eh I ain't re-updating nuffin But here's today's update: I went down to the dyno to diagnose a fuel issue and instead found another issue. It made 265awkw on 10psi so not too shabby there. The valve springs wouldn't have it with the hectic cams and would valve float with much more boost than that, so didn't bother going further. I'll be upgrading my valve springs and installing new valve stem seals while I'm there. I'll let it run in a bit more anyway before I turn it up too much. The fuel issue is that it's using over double the required amount of fuel at cruise, over triple at idle and has an average of 50L\100km at the moment, and that's not all from flooring it either. I've checked everything known to man except drive-line drag, but it ain't the brakes dragging if it is. Trans shifts perfectly, doesn't slip at all etc. I wonder if the converter is farked? I'll message the trans shop and get their opinion. Anyway there's that, maybe one day it will let me just drive it for a while without having to fix something

Oh well at least it's sorted as it can be now. Yay Thursday

Wednesday out the ass

Stuck it in quicker than ya dad on his honeymoon

Yep it's one of those spots that has those issues. It's easy enough to do in the car, still a pita though

Hmmm looks like that got a tad hot! Here's a pic, I helicoiled my sump turbo oil return.

It's Tuesday

A little bit more coating info, the engine in the video will be making around 2000hp

Lol is that why you were a butthead yesterday? It was a joke man, your reply had no humour in it, so you do have some explaining to do