2007 Fpv Tornado Ute - Tinkering & Setup

[Stoney85]

Can you not get it engineered firstly then inspected?

[k31th]

1 hour ago, Stoney85 said:

get it engineered

This is exactly the time consuming and expensive bit

[PhilMeUp]

8 hours ago, Stoney85 said:

Can you not get it engineered firstly then inspected?

 

That's one of the things that I've been working on.

 

However, getting a car ready for the engineering process is a complex process, and requires adequate preparation.

 

The initial part of that preparation is finding a suitable brick wall.  The wall must be solid.

 

Before even starting the engineering paperwork, the applicant needs to move his head in a backward and forward motion.

 

When moving the head forward, it must then be applied to the brick wall with a suitable amount of force.  

 

How much force?  As much as humanly possible.  This is why the wall needs to be solid.  A thick limestone wall would be worth considering.

 

Concrete walls are good, but tend to crack when applied with the amount of force required for the engineering process.  

 

I have actually been going through this process.  I wasn't exactly a pretty man before, but I'm damn ugly now.

 

Another couple of thousand hits against the wall and I'll almost be ready to fill out the first page on the paperwork.

 

Moments before starting the engineering process:

 

 

One hour after starting the engineering process:

 

 

(I've actually got a possible solution lined up...  I'll know in a few days...)

Edited 12/04/16 07:56 AM by PhilMeUp

[eff xr6t]

For all that effort you could just buy a stock cooler intake setup off gumtree for $100 and would have it registered strait away with no issues would only take a day to swap it over. Even when you engineer all this if a cop pulls you over he can just ignore your permits and put a sticker on anyway so it's a waste of time.

[barnz]

lol another quality post phil

[Tocchi]

I had zero drama with modification approval for engineering etc.

Had a 74 Toyota crown approved for Ls1 conversion. Just needed to be upgraded to disc brakes & collapsible steering column

[PhilMeUp]

1 hour ago, eff xr6t said:

For all that effort you could just buy a stock cooler intake setup off gumtree for $100 and would have it registered strait away with no issues would only take a day to swap it over. Even when you engineer all this if a cop pulls you over he can just ignore your permits and put a sticker on anyway so it's a waste of time.

 

Didn't have any way of salvaging the existing tune, or putting a standard tune on the car (ie no Xcal).  I'm looking forward to getting the car re-tuned later on, but need the existing tune for now.  Refer to bottom diagram to explain this further.

 

I've got an Xcal 3 on the way.  I bought a married one for $50 and then spent $10 posting it to the place on eBay that reckons that they can reset them for $150.  So, for $210 I should have a fresh Xcal3.  

 

Then I'll get the tune copied from the car and onto the Xcal3 using HP Tuners and some other stuff.  

 

I have found a place in Perth that has both HP Tuners and an emissions testing machine, which means that they can play with the tuning until it passes an emissions test.  Bloody ripper.  It will need a standard cat and dump pipe on there, which I've already got.  

 

The taxi world in Perth has collapsed, and financially I basically try and survive day by day these days.  Last year was bad, but it's completely deceased this year.  I'll be borrowing money for anything else that I do with the car in the near future, and will be changing jobs soon.

 

With tuning, emissions tests, etc, there are people and workshops that know how to get cars through an emissions test.  But there is no interest from anyone in sharing that info.  There was one place that could do it on a drive-in/drive-out basis but their price was "around $1,500".  Stuff that.  

 

I drove for 45 minutes to one place, had a 60 second conversation and then drove home again.   That was to see a bloke who tunes Commodores, and all he would tell me is that he tinkers with the air/fuel ratio and ignition timing.  He wouldn't even consider looking at touching a Falcon.  

 

I'm used to taxi workshops, where things are done cheaply and efficiently.  Ask a taxi mechanic a question and he'll generally give all the advice that he can.  In the tuning workshop world, things are done secretly and expensively.  Ask a tuning person a question about getting through an emissions test and it's like talking to a lawyer - you'll get thirty seconds out of them, but that's it unless you're going to immediately pay thousands of dollars.  Ah well, lessons learned (very, very slowly).  Fair enough, tuning workshops want to protect their performance tuning data, but they could have been a hell of a lot more open to getting a car through an emissions test (ie very few places have any interest in it).

 

However, there is a plan in place right now that actually might just work.  I'll hopefully know within a week, and if it works out then I'll be posting info about an emissions solution everywhere.

 

[PhilMeUp]

Recent attention has been on sorting out an Aprilia SXV550 motard bike that I've had sitting around for three years.  Another project that was meant to take days, and went wrong.   

 

Now that I've got that converted from track bike to road bike (and licenced) I'm going to be focussing again on the Tornado.   

 

 

 

[eff xr6t]

Wouldn't even need to change the tune to get it registered its only intake piping and exhaust they don't need to go on a hot lap in the car they should only be checking for bald tyres, oil leaks, worn bushes and balljoints it's not that hard I've done a few cars now and I just leave little thing wrong with the car like slight oil leak then they pick it first time fix the little bits and it will pass it's it really easy I don't know why everyone makes such a fuss about it.

If you really want to engineer it and emissions Justin at BYE Performance seems to have no problems getting a car to pass an emissions test first time.

[PhilMeUp]

3 hours ago, Tocchi said:

I had zero drama with modification approval for engineering etc.

Had a 74 Toyota crown approved for Ls1 conversion. Just needed to be upgraded to disc brakes & collapsible steering column

 

Did the car have to pass an emissions test?