MiKa

Hope I get my car running right for friday.... otherwise I'll be dissapearing in your rear views.... My mate from work just had his LS1 VZ tuned also and he's askin me to go out too, if my car aint ready in time, one of you guys will have to hand him his arse for me...

FARRRRk time to cancel my plans I think... this is gonna be good... Friday night it is...

I doubt a car converted to turbo would fetch as much as an ORIGINAL turbo??? So I dont think it would hold its value to the point your thinking... Shoulda got the T in the first place, but I guess a complete turbo motor would be cheaper than $5000 after you sell your N/A engine to recoop some of the costs, but then you have to factor in, exhaust, wirings, cooler and anything else different from N/a xr's to the T's... Are the drivelines the same??

I get what you mean.... But I meant quiet from customers/customers cars etc....

Best colour by far!!! Bionic Phoon is in second place LOL

Count me in, weekend though.... Nice quiet workshop to take our time etc....

Wherebouts around Knox is the show and what time does it start??

Hey PATCHES! Let me know how it goes... If my car still stalls with the factory tune, than im probably lookin at the TPS also... Is you car still under warranty? If not do you know how much it will be to replace?? Cheers Mike....

How do they compare price wise??

Tried something else today... I flashed the car back to standard, took it for a drive and whatta you know... Not the slightest sign of stalling or even revs dropping.. This leads me to believe that its got something to do with the tune perhaps...I read a post by robbin yesterday about rev settings in the tune, maybe that's whats happening.. But why happen mid last year, I clean the TB, its gone, and now its back. Flash back to standard and now its gone?? Im gonna leave the stock tune on till wednesday when HP-F take a look at it to see if todays drive was a 'fluke'... Cheers Mike

If your car is stock it'll overboost and go into limp mode if you give it a boot... If your car has a tune, I think it may overboost and lean out and that can lead to major damage... I'd get a custom tune asap or drive like a girl till you do....

I was right... The car stalled twice tonight... Can Ford check the computor for error codes whilst I still have my tune in? The next thing to look at is the TPS...anyone know what a new TPS sensor is worth from ford?

Hopefully I'll be there too, Im also havin a few niggling problems...

The cat has 2 outlets so a straight pipe I dont think would work down the guts of it... Dunno about how dirty it would be though...

I'm also 'modifying' my standard cat before my next tune.....

Just cleaned the throttle body, inside the crossover and piping leading to the TB (as far as I could get my fingers into it) Wasnt too dirty, had a bit of crud in the TB and some on the rubber joiner that connects it to the crossover and a lil bit of oil on that bit of piping... Took it for a spin, didnt stall, revs did come as low as 500rpm and hovered around there... The car wasnt really that hot (that's when it really happens) I'll see after a longer trip tonight and see if it rears its head up again... I still think it will hapen again, I wanst too impressed on the lil drive I took...

I dunno if they did... Should they have, or should I have asked them to? Hmmm the car is going into HP-F this wednesday for an unrelated problem and a service so I'll get them to change the filter... In searching the past threads on pretty much the same problem, I read somewhere that this can be tune related, an idle setting when the car is tuned can be altered.. The person in the particular thread said his idle was set at 450rpm, he had problems and then got it raised to 500 or 550 rpm by his tuner, and the problem was gone... Then I read about TPS, drilling holes in the throttle body, changing whole throttle bodys etc... There is no easy fix, just a few options to look for I guess...

It all started on Friday.. On thursday I had valve springs and fuel pump fitted by Nizpro.. They showed me my old fuel pump and it had rust on it? They said that the car might run like a pig cause their might be some rust/dirt in the fuel... The next day, the car when coming to a stop the revs dropped and the car stalled... Its happend a few times... This problem has happened about a year ago, I cleaned the throttle body and that seemed to fix it then... I've done the search and some one suggested to plant my foot on the accelerator and crank the car, this would reset some sensor or something... I tried that and the problem is still present... This car is my daily driver and its getting dangerous with the car stalling in the middle of the road all the time... I need a quick fix.. The car is out of warranty also.. Could it be the TPS?? Or something else??? I'll give the throttle body another clean to see if that helps.... Any thoughts?

Got mine fitted by Nizpro yesterday.....

I've got heaps more so I might add another layer, but I'll see how it goes....

Yeah its wire mesh.. fairly fine though.. There is about 10cm between the guard and the cooler...

Heres a pic of what I did today... Pretty much explains itself.... Still have to fab something up to get more air to it though... I was thinking something like a CAI from near the air dam(cooler hole) in the front bumper to the tranny cooler?? Any thought or suggestions? Mike...

He's not joking at all with that above description... Smallest garage (big shed) I've ever seen...

HAHA what boot, its still as messy as when you saw it... Yeah me and my mate shared the work load... he made sure I did the hard bits, but he pretty much told me what to do.... Check out the thread I started, I got some pics of it installed, and a summary of how it went... Mike....

Was a pisser... You really think they ate the road kill??? The COW, imagine carving that up!!!