Puffwagon

Lol I was just about to post the video

That car is now in possession of Maxx Performance

The fun continues... I resealed the sump no worries but the head gasket has been leaking, so I pulled the head off. I've ordered a set of Optitorque head studs as my old ARP ones have been used several times, an Atomic timing chain kit with a genuine tensioner and will pick up a genuine single layer head gasket from the parts store tomorrow. I swapped the intercooler into the other car, got the battery charged, so got a couple of other things done. I've still gotta do some work to the fuel system and I suppose I can install the trans etc while I wait for the engine stuff.

Got the engine and trans out of the car today, will get to resealing etc tomorrow. CBF writing much more rn.

NB is narrow band, it has a very small voltage operating window. WB is wideband and it has a 0 to 5 volt operating range. If the voltage doesn't move the car is in open loop or the sensor is stuffed.

A nb sensor reads from about 0.1V to 1.5V. To see if they're stuffed you watch it swing and if doesn't then it's usually stuffed. The car has to be fully warmed up and it has to be running for longer than 40 seconds to ensure it's in closed loop.

Homemade pizza tonight, this is my one, haha vegetarian pizza cos I like the veggies

Yeah she knows. The previous owner tried concreting the back half of the shed and didn't bother screeding it. I bought a jack hammer and removed it cos it was completely and utterly farked. As a result only the first 5 metres of the shed has concrete and the rest is dirt covered in carpet, until it gets fixed. The shed is already 11 metres in length and I'm going to extend it a further 8 metres, concrete all of it, then make a dyno cell inside it from cool room panels with acoustic foam lined inside to prevent reverberation. I have an extraction system with it, it has a couple of pipes to line up with the exhaust so can do twin or single exhaust vehicles. It then goes into a 2 foot vent pipe with a hectic fan. I bought an 8mx4.5m above ground swimming pool somewhat recently that I want to set up after the dyno. I'll hire a bobcat to dig and prep the floor for the shed as well as prep a pool area out the back. I think I'll scrape a lot of the back yard to make it flat and probably do the front yard too cos it's also farked. I'll do a whole bunch of grass seeding for the yard for now, I've had success in the past doing it and late winter/spring will be the best time to get it started. So yeah that's the rough plan, I've got the funds available to do it all, just gotta fix my car first cos it's a priority then I'll get into the other stuff.

Tell that to the missus lol. She's finally come around though, I'm still surprised she agreed to buying a dyno.

Nah he hasn't got all his parts yet and obviously there is a wait time on the machine shop etc. I'm gonna fix my car first, modify my shed, then install the dyno. Lots of work ahead but the results will be worth it.

Haha there is a certain level of irony there but it's all good. I have an engine build coming up soon for a guy, piston/rod deal with all bolt ons and tune. Should make some good power once I'm done with it

Yeah nah, I charged $5 per hole

Yeah man I used my petrol powered digger, she's putting a fence up. I just saw her asking for help on FB so I messaged her and went out and did it. I had replaced the carby and tuned it a while back, so it just needed fresh fuel and was good to go.

I just dug 35 holes for a lady in the span of an hour and got paid $175. Killer on the back and shoulders though.

What are they doing?

Tuning is tuning and the principles are the same. Read the damn thread.

Tell your tuner to read the FG boost control thread on the PCMTec forum or find a better tuner.

Yep I can get away with it so why not?! I never need to dress up anyway lol

Yep I'm happy with it. I think I'm gonna buy more stuff from there, I don't care that it's cheap, anything looks good when you've got gains

I got attacked by a meat pie, so bought a tshirt from the op shop for $3.

Yeah man, should only take a few months to get strong again. Haha I'm sure you have some strength to you by now, you seem to have been pretty consistent with your efforts.

I'm using pretty light weights atm, I'll increase it as needed.

I'll take a picture later. Mine is divided in the collector. A single gate works fine for smaller turbos like this one and was ok for my 7675 I had on there a couple of years ago. The 77mm pulsar had a minimum boost of around 24psi and the 85mm had a minimum boost of around 30psi. I had thought about using a straight gate with a big turbo and night end up trying it one day. I expect the setup had potential to make low to mid 400s on 98 and 600 on E85. We shall see when I've set my dyno up.

Haha dong isn't getting any smaller, sharing is getting lol Second day back in the gym, been a long time since I was in it. Things are going well, muscle memory is my bitch and I'm looking forward to seeing some steady progress again. As always I'll do a 1rm attempt, but it won't be until the end of the year. Here's to hoping I can add another 10% this year, sh*ts getting harder as the years go by but I ain't dead yet

Other things are coming to a close and quite successfully, farken hooray. Onto the cars, I have ordered and bought things for future shenanigans. I'm going to swap the engine and trans from my na territory into my genuine turbo territory. The engine has a host of upgrades and it's much more durable than a stock turbo engine, while the trans is the built turbo trans. This body swap will give me factory boost control, along with quite a few other benefits. Better brakes, better exterior and interior condition, thicker driveshafts and a full suite of PCMTec credits with antilag and flex fuel are just a few of these benefits. The parts that are here, or in the post, are to facilitate a slight modification that I've always wanted to carry out. The current turbo is a genuine Garrett gen 2 GTX3582r supercore, it is housed in a factory T3 internal gate Ford turbine housing, with a flapper upgrade. It's making about 16psi on 98 right now, and probably makes about 330awkw through the stock TT exhaust system, albiet with a high flow cat and debung carried out. I have a T4 split pulse 0.85 external gate turbine housing that fits the GT and GTX 35 frame series of turbos. This is to be combined with a split pulse T4 6boost manifold, that will have boost controlled by a 50mm Turbosmart external wastegate and a 4 port Mac valve. It should provide a nice wide boost range, perhaps 7psi up to 30psi. I have a 3 to 4 inch adapter to connect my custom built 4 inch turbo back exhaust to the turbo, as it only has a 3 inch vband outlet. Another minor modification is a new fuel pot, it will house a single 525 fuel pump that has a dedicated power feed, with option to add another pump when required. I think that is about the extent of this round of work, it'll still be on 98 but I will be able to make a bit more power with the upgraded hot side. I have a bit of an oil leak at the sump, so I have talked the missus into taking a couple of days off so I can smash this out. This is the primary motivator for all of this work, we all know how oil leaks are treated around here!!! I am particularly curious as to how the turbo will respond, I am hopeful it will spool quicker, yet have less back pressure to allow more timing, less heat and have more potential for higher octane options in the future. That's all I got for now homies, here's a pic of the different housings side by side. The T4 is just slightly bigger, but being split pulse should spool like a mofo!