HI PSI Member 1,586 Member For: 18y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: Central Queensland Posted 20/05/15 09:52 AM Author Share Posted 20/05/15 09:52 AM (edited) Hi bjc, Personally I have not done any tuning at all. I purchased HP tuner with the intention of learning. I am fortunate to have a friend who used to tune full time, so I will be picking him knowledge base. The car will be tuned by Dave Sheehy at CPV in Mackay, using the SCT software. Personally I believe that using a dyno is the best option, as there is a greater chance of obtaining accurate data as it is in a relatively controlled enviroment and data recording would be more accurate and repeatable. Road logging and tuning has its merits when it comes to light throttle applications.Besides, I don't think the boys in blue would like anyone doing 4th gear power runs on any public roads. ....I relation to the plenums, I have not seen seen any back to back testing. The standatd plenums seem to be fine up to around 500 rwkw. Changing the upper half does decrease the piping length and eliminates some sharp turns, but the bottleneck and air turbulence (Standard plenum runners) remain. So in essence, these can be problematic for those chasing bigger power and increases in efficiency can be made by changing to a Hypertune or Plazmaman billet type manifolds. Plenums like the Hypertune and the Plazmaman have a tuned length runners, which depending on length, determines where their power range/band will be. These plenums as expertly engineered to maximise flow and air speed to the cylinder ports with the last amount of turbulence and restriction. These plenums have dead straight runners, which allows for mauve air speeds, wick is what you want. Porting the head also assists this am slow you to create a choke point, to slow the air and allow it to turn and go into the cylinder will the least turbulence. This is why the most porting of the head is done to the floor and not the roof.. It is a very complicated topic and hard to explain. I hope that this helps you... Edited 20/05/15 10:06 AM by HI PSI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI PSI Member 1,586 Member For: 18y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: Central Queensland Posted 20/05/15 10:58 AM Author Share Posted 20/05/15 10:58 AM God I hate replying on a phone. Sorry for the typo's. I'm sure they you get the jist of what I'm trying to convey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,823 Member For: 21y 4m 26d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 21/05/15 06:40 AM Share Posted 21/05/15 06:40 AM Dave's the best mate and it's who I've been recommending since he started the tuning for money path as I met him by chance back in 2005 when I he was selling a PWR IC and he dropped in at my place here in Townsville to have a sticky beak at the TSI piggyback I had fitted as he was using? (not a unichip!) and doing his own tuning and racing back then (12.5 113mph). I knew back then he was a top bloke and just really friendly... Good to see he is where he's at now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI PSI Member 1,586 Member For: 18y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: Central Queensland Posted 29/05/15 01:39 PM Author Share Posted 29/05/15 01:39 PM Dave doesn't know me from a bar of soap. But, he spent an hour with me on the phone, discussing my setup and gave me a lot of advice on how to have the car ready for him. He is a very smart man, and I admire his honesty and candor. No sugar coating or bullsh*t. I can't wait for him to weave his magic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkets is Drunk? Too heavy needs boost Member 5,929 Member For: 11y 5m 24d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 29/05/15 02:01 PM Share Posted 29/05/15 02:01 PM Cant wait to see a video of this car up and running. Have you given street fords mag a email. Front page with this build for sure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI PSI Member 1,586 Member For: 18y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: Central Queensland Posted 29/05/15 02:19 PM Author Share Posted 29/05/15 02:19 PM (edited) Well, I managed to get a bit done on the car today. The fuel system is now almost complete. I now only have to mount the regulator and fit the lines. The turbo oil feed line is complete, except the fitting on the turbo. The Turbosmart "Big Bubba" blow off valve arrived today, so fabrication of the plumbback piping will commence on Monday. We had a few problems with the Plazmaman plenum. It wasmanufactured without the facility for the MAP sensor. So Plazmaman have made me a 25 mm billet spacer that will be installed between the plenum flange and the throttle body. Today, I was informed that it was in transit, so the remaining cold side piping will be finished next week. Due to the length of the plenum around No.1 cylinder, we had a fitment problem with the factory metal heater line that runs from the thermostat housing and down the left bank of the engine. The line fouled where the line slopes upwards towards the thermostat, so we decided to cut the line and insert a section of flexible hose. To do this, we milled the thermostat housing to give us a flat surface. We then tapped the housing and inserted a o'ringed Speedflow fitting. We then cut the metal heater line near the front support bracket and welded on in a -10 fitting (Pics on Monday). We will install the flexible on Monday. The milled and tapped thermostst housing. As most would know, the power steering lines in these car tend to leak and make quite a mess. We weren't happy with setup and the amount of room that the pressure line and switch get in the way of the turbo intake. So we have made a few changes... The port for the suction line has been tapped and a fitting installed. We decided to drill and tap the pressure side also. As you can see in the picture, we have fitted a -10 an blank. We are going to drill the center out of the blank, tap it and install a banjo fitting. This will allow us to reroute the line and pressure sensor well out of the way of the turbo intake, and allow us to achieve a better angle with inlet pipe. I will upload more pics when the process is completed. All in all, it feels like we're achieving the proverbial "two steps froward, one step back", and we are constantly finding more areas that require additional modifications. At times, it is overwhelming, and my patience has been tested on a few occasions. I am fortunate to have a good group of people around me, for guidance and to fabricate and modify components. Without them, the quality of the would have certainly suffered. Edited 10/04/18 04:08 AM by k31th pb pics fix 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI PSI Member 1,586 Member For: 18y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: Central Queensland Posted 29/05/15 02:36 PM Author Share Posted 29/05/15 02:36 PM (edited) On 5/30/2015 at 12:01 AM, Bizkets is fat? said: Cant wait to see a video of this car up and running. Have you given street fords mag a email. Front page with this build for sure Lol. Thanks mate, but I don't think that it would make the cut. :D Edited 10/04/18 04:08 AM by k31th pb pics fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 23d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 07/06/15 07:12 AM Share Posted 07/06/15 07:12 AM The Drive Shaft Shop 1400hp drive shafts arrived today. The picture really doesn't show how big these things really are.With any luck, I will have the new IRS and fuel system fitted before the car gets its engine bay painted on Sunday.I searched all the posts around this but couldn't find the answer....Where did you get them from coz these should guarentee that I don't break another one (hopefully) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTR_NITRO_FG Donating Members 3,214 Member For: 11y 8m 5d Gender: Male Location: NOR Perth Posted 07/06/15 10:51 AM Share Posted 07/06/15 10:51 AM The Drive Shaft Shop (first 4 words?)But tbh cannot find a weblink for the business? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OZYWALKER XR50T Gold Donating Members 2,795 Member For: 11y 8m 29d Gender: Male Location: Western Sydney Posted 07/06/15 10:59 AM Share Posted 07/06/15 10:59 AM Here: http://www.driveshaftshop.com/domestic-axles/ford/ford-2008-falcon-1400hp-full-chromoly-level-5-axle-hub-kit-supercharged-v8-and-turbo-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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