DC-Auto New Member 24 Member For: 9y 1m 4d Gender: Male Location: GOLD COAST, QLD Posted 15/07/17 01:46 PM Share Posted 15/07/17 01:46 PM (edited) My 04' BA ute used to be the pride of chiptorque on the gold coast, and has been around for a long time by 4 different owners. I managed to track down the owners and get an idea of the history. I bought the car making 743rwhp (554rwkw) on E85, and 606rwhp (452rwkw) on pump98, but was in very sad shape. Maintenance had been neglected, needed ball joints, tyres, rackends, oil leak repairs, misfiring badly, sh*t matt black territory rims, 2 layers of tint darker than 5%, etc etc The car was running a Direct Clutch twin plate button, great clutch, but was taking its toll on me around town (car accident injuries).. After replacing the concentric slave, and master cylinder twice I had enough, and converted it to auto. After the conversion, took it out to Willowbank Raceway and promptly melted number 5 piston, which is found out through the previous owners, this is the 3rd time (still ran 11.3 on low boost, on 5 cylinders, backing off just after half track). Time for another rebuild. Going through the older dyno sheets, I found that the AFR's were as lean as 13.6:1 with thanks to 80lb injectors maxed out. ENGINE (*NEWLY PURCHASED) Nizpro crank girdle ARP bolts throughout ARP head studs Billet oil pump gears Hardened backing plate *JE custom forged pistons *JE chromoly rings SCAT rods *Powerbond Race Balancer *Atomic Simplex timing chain *Atomic stage 4.5 cams *Atomic valve springs *Atomic Ti retainers *Paul Gilbert ported and polished race head with oversized valves *Nizpro Plenum *2200cc Bosch Motorsport Injectors *Turbosmart FPR1200 *Plazmaman fuel rail Garrett T04Z, A/R1.15 84mm in / 66.7mm ex Nizpro stainless manifold *Turbosmart 50mm progate 4" defilipo exhaust Nizpro Stage 2 Intercooler kit Turbosmart BOV *Haltech Elite 2500 w/ flex sensor *Innovate wideband AFR meter w/ data log and linked to haltech for auto tune *FG coils DRIVELINE Precise Automatic 1500hp reverse pattern TH400 w/ transbrake Torque Power Bellhousing Converter Shop 3500rpm stall Hardy Spicer tailshaft 2.73 M86 diff that has suprising put up with the abuse (soon to have a TruTrac centre, to make do while I put pennies away for the 9" conversion) TCI outlaw shifter THE REST Koni adjustables all round Low King spring front, Reset leafs rear Territory front rotors 18x11 & 18x8 Work Emotion rims, 275/40 & 245/45 Federal RSR -- 275/40/17 et street on BF XR6 rims -- 275/65/15 et street pro on ProStar 15x10 5.5" BS F6 Typhoon frp front bar Genuine hardlid 35% tint FPV FG rocker cover Edited 15/07/17 01:51 PM by DC-Auto adjustments 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,140 Member For: 16y 9m 6d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 15/07/17 02:08 PM Share Posted 15/07/17 02:08 PM Very nice car 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 15/07/17 09:03 PM Share Posted 15/07/17 09:03 PM 550rwkw on E85 through 80lb junkers and only 13.6afrs haha better than I thought what muppet last tuned that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,433 Member For: 15y 21d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 15/07/17 10:31 PM Share Posted 15/07/17 10:31 PM hahah lol chiptorque? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC-Auto New Member 24 Member For: 9y 1m 4d Gender: Male Location: GOLD COAST, QLD Posted 16/07/17 01:43 AM Author Share Posted 16/07/17 01:43 AM yep, Chiptorque LOL. You would have thought after the 1st 2 engines they would have figured out their tuner is sh*t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,433 Member For: 15y 21d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 16/07/17 03:42 AM Share Posted 16/07/17 03:42 AM (edited) Edited 16/07/17 03:43 AM by Ford Freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 16/07/17 11:23 AM Share Posted 16/07/17 11:23 AM Nope I wouldn't, there's a poor pro drifter that slides a FG ute that's been through about 5 engines now and each one melts pistons 5 or 6 so they just keep replacing the engine and roll 80lb dekas also and assume the tune is still ok ... muppets everywhere I tell ya lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 2m 20d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 16/07/17 11:52 AM Share Posted 16/07/17 11:52 AM The older these cars get the more amateurs out there that think they can tune. Probably only a dozen in the country and 1/2 of them that are really on the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC-Auto New Member 24 Member For: 9y 1m 4d Gender: Male Location: GOLD COAST, QLD Posted 16/07/17 12:00 PM Author Share Posted 16/07/17 12:00 PM this was last tuned way back in 07' (by previous owner), I'm pretty picky when it comes to tuners. In SE QLD Forced Performance seem to be the go to guys, but Phantom Performance and Ash Mason of WTS I rate very highly as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 16/07/17 12:45 PM Share Posted 16/07/17 12:45 PM Jamie at Forced Performance Is the man I recommend people to use 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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