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Looking at stuff on marketplace and I see a cheap guitar. I say to the missus, "I'll get that and drop the lad at his friends house while I'm there". Turns out the seller is the father lol. I have a nice vintage acoustic but a cheap one will be good for the family

You can only try.

You can try to fit the studs but they might just pull straight out when you tighten them. If that is the case then you pull the manifold off, helicoil them and that will be sorted.

You need 18 inch wheels for territory front brakes, the stock Falcon 17s will barely fit but if there is a stick on wheel weight there it'll hit the caliper.

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It currently works based off injector duty cycle, although there is the provision for map input. It comes on at about 20% duty cycle and the injectors are maxing out at 65% up top. The water meth unit is operating at about 50% capacity right now, it can be adjusted up and down and also the injection slope can be modified to flow more or less up top. Hmmm nitro sounds expensive in more ways than one lol

It's got a 0.6mm and a 0.7mm jet pre tb. I don't have the right thread tap for the port injection install, plus I CBF pulling the manifold off to do it. Also my port injection kit is specced for 700kw, it has 6x 0.5mm jets, that would be overkill for what I'm doing now.

Well it's happy with 13 degrees in the middle and 16 up top, still at 26ish psi. Dunno what it's making for power but my guess is low to mid 500s. So yerp there's that, I don't really have any other plans for it right now. I was gonna send the turbo a bit harder and I still might, but I'm just gonna enjoy it for a while before I do more wrenching.

Raspberry flavoured methanol acquired, time to add some timing

Yep I have noticed the long duration pulls have benefitted immensely with the water, as far as keeping the iat low and the timing stable. I do have a hygrometer but it's for home brew, not fuel mixing. I'll just mix it by volume, it's good enough, not that crucial and the knock control is in the tune rather than the addition of the water meth. The fuel can change up or down a point, I've got it very rich anyway cus it still has stock turbo pistons. For example, I could switch the water off and the current tune will be fine, it just pulls all the timing after a long run.

Yeah bro that comment got you reported. Enjoy the bin fool

Yep it holds it to 6400 where the rev limiter is. This car would be perfect for traffic light drags if that's your thing. My nearest traffic light is probably 30km away so the big turbo was never really an issue, I could just wait for the 100kph sign and let it rip. With the converter, it'll hold 3500rpm and full boost on the converter but that just smashes the tires. It is noticeably better with normal driving though, you can get it boosting in the blink of an eye. Power wise it's getting back to the point where you can't really floor it very often, cos it hits the speed limit too quickly. Once I have the water meth system set up properly, I will push it to where the turbo runs out, just to see where that is. I suppose that'll be 30psi/600awkw but we'll see how that goes.

Yep it goes pretty good hey. It's now on 26.5psi, 98 octane fuel, 6 degrees of timing, water injection and is a little bit quicker than the clip. I tried a launch and let a fair bit of the smoke out of the front tyres in first and second. I've organised to purchase some methanol tomorrow and I'll have that after lunch. That is what will allow me to safely increase timing and make more power. At this stage of the tune, each degree will pick up around 15kw at the wheels. I'll update as things progress

I'm happy for you man, it's gotta be the best feeling sleeping at your own house

My aunt had a child at 46, naturally conceived, you never know will happen ay. You sleeping at the new house tonight?

I owned a suitcase of clothes, a guitar and a car when I met my missus, it was enough for me. Now we have so much stuff it's insane and that's just mine and hers. Just wait till you have kids lol.

Hell yeah man that's farken sick. It's a good idea using the pros, it's a mofo moving everything yourself.

Cheers guys, having fun pressing buttons lol

Here's a video boys, this is 98 and water injection with 24psi of boost https://I.imgur.com/CMgtKlp.mp4 @k31th can you embed please?

So far I've only just got it running today and I've only got water in it. Seat of the pants is farking ridiculous but I've yet to plug in the laptop to see what it's doing. The tune was getting borderline hectic for 98, but still ok, so it'll be interesting to see how it's changed. My dyno install has been set back a few weeks, but I'll be sure to lay down the data nice and thick when it's in.

Lol I made a hella update post a few pages back. So now it is the same but new optitorque head studs and thinner head gasket. And it's all in the turbo car instead of the na car.

You know what else is a good time? Having Spool I beam rods in your engine

Getting stuff done is always a good time

Fitted my Aquamist water meth kit today, could have done that 3 years ago but here we are lol. I only fitted a couple of jets to the intake pipe, it'll be enough for now. Later when things ramp up I'll do the direct port install. I only have to fit a few trim pieces back to the car and it's all done. Took frigging ages but you get that on a first attempt. I'll head down and get a 20L drum of methanol on Monday, but I'll look into getting a 200L from cos it's roughly 2/3 the price of smaller quantities. So yerp, I'll be able to run E85 levels of timing going forward, and it made 503awkw @23psi last time I had this turbo on E85. Should be a decent upgrade.

No it won't do that, it'll just dry in place.