Slowxr6t

What brand is it? 6 piston? 355mm rotors? Are they awesome, hows cold stopping? I got 6 piston brembos with brembo pads and 355mm dba slotted rotors, they shuddered and had to get them machined which was not cool. But they are awesome now, huge braking power.

What motor is in the caprice? Do you make your living being a back yard mechanic? Are you busy on customers cars usually and do you advertise or is it just word of mouth, go to puffwagons garage? Hes a legend.

Shouldve brake checkd him. Nah prob not the best idea. He was a road rager for sure.

My car has this random exhaust leak only when stone cold and it only chuffs for about 1 minute then the leak stops, I think its in the manifold area up by the firewall. I have custom heatsheilding over the manifold and I have to take the dump pipe off to take the heat sheild off to be able to investigate whether it has a slight leak out the manifold gasket. Its friggin annoying, I hardly drive my car but it seems like it always has a problem. Fix or repair daily, ford is what I have . I have a new stock manifold gasket, Artec manifold and studs and atomic anchorlox nuts holding it on, its only just developed this annoying exhaust leak after about 2000kms of driving.

Sheds are never big enough, unfortunately.

Yea im slowly working that one out, they seem to be more of a problem than anything else. Do you guys know that the stock xr6t bov piston actually runs sideways so to speak so the piston cant actually be pushed open by boost pressure, it could potentially just leak past the o-ring that seals it when its shut. Not sure if other oem bovs work like that but it seems like a pretty good idea to me. Aftermarket should make them like that. I might chuck the stock one back on and see how it goes.

I have a gfb dvx diverter/bov in place of the oem borgwarner bov that's part of the compressor housing and it has been working fine, well it wasnt opening under boost and causing a big boost leak. I was suspect that it could have been leaking and I had pressure tested turbo pipework and checked all plenum hoses and fittings and found nothing. I took dvx apart and put in a extra spring to make it really stiff and hard to open. It fixed it yaaa, I havnt had much luck with bovs on this barra, my Greddy type r 50mm leaked and when I put a stiff spring in it wouldnt open and this dvx has started to leak after a short amount of time too.

Fair enough.

@kenna802 whats wrong with 17 psi?

Very noice, I forgot to mention to you before you built it, that sheds are never big enough, so make it big. Looks great though, wish I could come round for a dyno run in my barra.

Do you aussies lay the concrete after shed is built? Otherway round over here pretty sure. Might be something to do with the scorching temps you get there and concrete setting too quickly and cracking?

@Puffwagonmove to NZ, maxxing out here at 30 on a real hot day otherwise 24-26ish degrees.

Iv heard its all in the tune.

Turbosmart gave me a brand new replacement 50mm progate to replace my leaky one. Took 2 weeks but they came to the party, cheers ts. Iv put 19psi of springs in it and checked it with air compressor, reg and guage, its cracking open at 21psi. Im gonna try it and go to dyno, I want engine to boost 18-19 psi and hold till redline ish, it will be interesting to see how it goes, whether exhaust gasses start pushing valve off its seat early in rpms or not cos I still have stock 3 inch exhaust after the 4 inch dump but with screamer pipe now to relieve back pressure when full boost hits. I will update after dyno visit and boost control remap.

On the up side you wont blow anything up.