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| posted on July 7th, 2008 at 10:50 PM |
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yeah yeah Johnny...............
got your ride sorted for this year?
..............o never mind, i organised sumthing for you.....
"can't beat em--- join them" they say!!...........welcome aboard JVL
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not bad! still think mind sounded better
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yeah yeah Johnny...............
got your ride sorted for this year?
..............o never mind, i organised sumthing for you.....
"can't beat em--- join them" they say!!...........welcome aboard JVL
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fuk me! which seat is mind
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| posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 08:31 PM |
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ooorkay, all washed and vacummed, ready for Valla..........
can't believe how many people i had to ask to ride passenger before i got some suckers signed up ...........looks like Dassdubber (gotta get him used to 200+ H.P somehow), miss vw, and quick camper are up for a
run.........welcome aboard don't forget your long pants, shirts and covered shoes.
get amped guys, the thing is running harder than ever before..........damn well couldn't even get it back to the garage without needing bulk ooposite
lock............and that was going as slow as i could
here's your view;
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Look forward to more footage dude 
...getting more wound up to make mine go 'harder' too...hush hush
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| posted on August 1st, 2008 at 06:36 AM |
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did a shake down yesterday.........running well (touch wood)...........making good use of that 75km/h first gear now with a clutch, but man it and
second gear dissapear very rapidly
learning to hang the tail right out....in car video loading!
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Have fun daimo and make sure you give them all a good scaring and show them what subie grunts all about.
Wish i was there but sorry can't be due to a sudden job rethink , but have fun all the same.
Hopefully if all goes to plan you will see a very quick towdster at the track in 2 years
Andrew
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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| posted on August 6th, 2008 at 11:45 AM |
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did I hear a rumour that a subie powered notch blew up?
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Reckon you could mount the camera in car and take us for a spin? 
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| posted on August 6th, 2008 at 02:24 PM |
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Not for a while now as it had some what of a little fuel fire
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| posted on August 9th, 2008 at 09:48 AM |
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I would of chosen a word other than "little" lol... perhaps large!!
[size=4] ACCEPT THAT SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE PIDGEON AND SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE STATUE[/size]
Alder Outlaws VW Racing - check it out on fb!!
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| posted on August 9th, 2008 at 04:00 PM |
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yeah got some good in car footage, but to big of a file to remote host..............anyone know of a video editing programme i can get hold of ??? i
need to chop 30KB out before i can up load anywhere>
car will run again, new colours picked already, lined up paint and panel sponsor........maybe a few electrical wires to replace and obviously new fuel delivery lines.................not sure to stay soft or go to
steel lines?
car was running better than ever with new clutch and turbo pipes, boost coming on much lower and peaking at 30pds..........which made the car much
easier and predictable to drive than ever before. new clutch is great.
check out how much fun we were having on the trailer tyres for the first couple of days........(pages 5 +6).......
http://www.circlework.com.au/lightbox/index.php?module=media&category=gal...
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| posted on August 9th, 2008 at 04:26 PM |
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Just use windows movie maker...
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| posted on August 9th, 2008 at 04:29 PM |
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you two need to enter a drift battle!!!
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| posted on August 9th, 2008 at 04:34 PM |
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yes, that's what we were having a feel of.............they hold them at the very same track as the spectaular (Raleigh).........and we were testing
the potential of the notch for doing just that.
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| posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 08:04 PM |
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still looking for video editing programme if anyone knows one to download...........but anyways, got it fired up again today.
running well, re-routed and shortended most of the excessively long vacumn, water and of course the fuel hoses, looking much more organised in the
engine bay now .....can't wait to get it painted and out again
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| posted on September 22nd, 2008 at 09:11 PM |
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very nasty, pleased to hear it's been sorted out.
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| posted on January 9th, 2009 at 07:39 AM |
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well, just read Ct's "09 resolution and it's got me thinking i'd better get keen on this thing again.
Wakefield is a must do and be nice to make it to a few hill climbs.........maybe QLD dyno day & Warwick for something different...........we'll
see
watching these vids has helped for inspiration........these are from the weekend of Valla, straight off the trailer SKINNIES and all .
we were having some half arsed drifting fun before everyone else arrived.........almost got the three from the top of the hill at the 5.20 min mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmXoMbbZFjw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIjQRVXMQXQ&feature=related (watch out for a bit of colorful A.O LANGUAGE at the 6
minute mark of this one.....oops)
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| posted on January 10th, 2009 at 04:22 AM |
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so the camera man was over hanging onto the camera hey
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| posted on January 10th, 2009 at 06:35 AM |
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so the camera man was over hanging onto the camera hey
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yeah some small things are too much to ask from certain teenage prats 
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| posted on May 11th, 2009 at 07:07 PM |
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been working hard to get this thing to the supersprint.......new platinum spark plugs, lots of lines (fuel, water, vacumn/boost, electrics) changed
and re routed so shorter and better sorted, more secure....running great again!~
time to get rid of the gay green and look mean 
YUCKY!
stripped down
actually wasn't too bad.....
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Ummm, when was this supersprint....... next week? 
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THE SUPERSPRINT SAGA........a true tale of man V machine both possesed
well, after the fireball at Raleigh the engine damage was quickly repaired and engine fired up......all sweet.
the supersprint date had been set and we wanted this car there in an attempt to "proove" it's worth as one very fast VW.
a month out i loaded it onto the trailer and successfully set a date with the panel shop to have the rear end repaired and colour shot over the cacky
green and purple......all good at a very nice price and low priority job as a consequence........the turbo was spooling up getting it up the ramps,
all seemed good.
the trailer was taken to the sparkies to have the lights and electric brakes fixed up and my "ol man" was slowly coming around to the idea that he
WAS the nominated tow vehicle owner/driver
with 13 days left to our departure date, a visit to the shop revealed one untouched notch, no probs still time, i decided to keep things moving and
finished removing bumpers, tail lights and the rear window, then grabbing the sander and roughing up the paint and ridding all the flakey burnt bog
and crap over the next two days........then back to work till the Friday one week before Wakefield meet.
a visit to the shop on the Friday again revealed one untouched notch .....and worse still i wouldn't be able to access it over the weekend to get
anything else done
go to plan B
a couple of phone calls later and a rescue team was on the way to reclaim the car and a deal struck on the phone Saturday morning to have a friend
over see panel work proceedings during the next few days to have the car ready for re assembly and a test session by the Wednesday before the
supersprints......HA HA!
the ever growing team made it to the remote secret rebuild location whilst i continued work Saturday morning (well someone had to pay for all
this!).........upon arrival mid afternoon, with no expectations for progress on the rear quater..........i was greeted by my smirking cousin and this
scene..........the car kinda looked a bit "blanker" than usual as i approached it from afar
it would seem some confusion had reigned in my absence as to how much was to be painted and what was to be a quick lick of paint on the rear was now
somewhat of a larger project!!..........Lukes laughter that he had been the one to authorise a total respray was probably the equivelent to my
dumbfoundedness over the situation with just 7 days till the start flag dropped over 700kms away from us..........apparantly my mate had picked over
the crappy paint and decided we may as well respray the whole thing
so that was Saturday afternoon so i removed the last two windows and went back to work........a late night visit revealed that the holes from chrome
strips been taken care of and most of the small dents filled ready for sanding the next day..........the plan was one bog, one high fill undercoat,
one sand and one paint session.......
Sunday afternoon, the bog work was finished (well it's rough but we all understood the body is just a mule for what lurks beneath).........and a
decision on paint colour had been made as we masked it up...
"red or blue"....
"not red........blue like that bucket"
"that's too dark, it's not straight enough"
"blue like that trolley"......
"yeah, that reminds me of Falcon GT tru blu.......sort of similar shaped cars, bit square, bit round"
"sounds patriotic, Jeff will like that, it'll do"
"ok, i'll order it Monday, you pick it up and we'll paint Tuesday"
Jeff still hadn't been told we were painting his whole car, nor what colour
goodbye gay green
it was Sunday evening when we shot it with a guide coat..we were enjoying the sunshine and out doors.....but that was about to change
sooooooooo Monday i had to stop at the local sign writers with cams manual in hand to organise racing numbers and battery triangle etc.....and did the
2hour trip to pick up the paint in my luch break that "the overseer" had ordered before rushing off to Newcastle to dyno his 9 second drag car
(that's why he needed the $$ and was willing to work on the weekend)......back to work till 6PM for me then return to commence hand sanding the high
fill coat..........."no need to take off every square mm of the guide coat" were the instructions..........we'll with no finger prints left on my
hands and a couple of red bulls later.......i had done just that, finishing up at midnight.
even worse was that the wind was now howling and rain a certainty on Tuesday.......PAINT DAY
yeah well Tuesady was WINDY and WET, but there were breaks in it and i pushed on, the snow ball effect was happening and more parts were being prepped
for paint between work shifts and a temporary booth was sorted........
"the oversee-er" arrived back on a high after lunch with his 125HP shot of nitrous giving his car instant boost and 480HP on tap when the trans
brake was released........he had decided the 600KG car might need wheelie bars after all.......he went for it, saying again that getting ALL the guide coat off was madness........we were pushing each
other now ........the car was painted, looked great and the
Wednesday would be spent on re-asembly YAY!!
THEN TUESDAY NIGHT.........it REALLY started to rain, wind everything!.........the ol faithfull booth LEAKED for the first time........wet paint got,
well WET
so Wednesday (again between work shifts) against any desires of mine whatsoever, as i swore my last ever sanding was finished Monday........ the whole
car was colour sanded by, you guessed it........my hands.......which were now beyond lack of finger prints, and bleeding
Wednesday evening, it was resprayed while i went to work.......and even tho the weather was conituing to worsen, it somehow stayed dry....pheww
so that night i went and grabbed some parts to touch up at home while the paint cured and i was tired of being wet and cold anyhow.........we were now
facing the serious possability of being flooded in
couple of more red bulls and these were masked up and painted in the garage at midnight........
while they dried, the missus helped cover the headlight glasses to comply with cams, and they were pieced back together just before bed
time.........Thursday was already here before we hit the sack, so it really was do or die time
Thursday morning greeted me, wet, windy and cold........on the way to work just before 7am, the last strand on the freying clutch cable of my beetle
let go.......i was gutted and rang my dad and told him to flip a coin right then and there........wether we went to the supersprint or not rested on
the result......how many signs did i need that it just wasn't ment to happen
well, after my shift, i changed that cable in 35 minutes flat and headed out to the notch, a plan in my head and parts for it strewen throughout my
car, sheds and home........the session went well, removing the masking for the first time got the excitment happening........more red bull.........
the rivets and washers i guessed the size of were right and to my surprise the perspex windows went in without craking.....
the bumpers went back in their place (although the rear ones battled because of the engine stabilisers being mounted there).......... and that was all
i had time for......grabbed the trailer and started the car as the heavens opened up good and proper.......what happened next was madness.......the
car was spinning the tyres trying to get it on the trailer and in the back of my mind i wondered quietly why it didn't boost up and slam the new body
work fair into the side of the trailer......sadly the rush had tasken over and i didn't think too long or hard about it, i was soaked to the core and
didin't have a minute to spare to get to work
the chevy only just managed to get the trailer out of the driveway..........and a team of us were now running seperate pieces to get organised.
Jeff was 4WD tractoring the slicks and spare accross his now flooded driveway on the other side of the valley.........so he could rendevous with us
all in Nambucca where i could conitnue working on piecing the car back together and load the necessities in together while everyone slept .
Mark was loading my beetle onto the tilt tray to get it into town for me so i could get home that night
my father was en route to take the trailer off the chevy when i made it to work so he could match the wiring to his tow vehicle that afternoon before
dark and add some more clearence lights to the aging float
somehow it all came together, the passengers seat still there from the VW spectacular was removed and every vacant inch of the race car was loaded
with race suits, helmets, tyres, spares, tools, jacks.........and strangely Jeff had delivered a set of "cut" slicks even tho the car was already on
"wets"...........perhaps the farmer had taken more of an interest in the the wether forecast than someone who had been stuck under a race car all
week.......
well it was on the trailer and packed..........nothing else was, but the car was ready bar the stuff that still wasn't put back on yet (well we
thought so).....Thursday night 11PM
then things went down hill, i knew i was possesed, but unbeknowns at this stage, the car was too..............
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looks sweet daimo, well done man
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yeah we'll, looks don't go fast unfortunately........
still the weather worsened Thrusday night while i slept (oops).......i didn't have enough red bull to keep myself awake long enough to pack my bags,
but i did have the forsight to put my cams licence and paperwork in the race car (if i didn't have anything else i would be able to race still ) AND
set the alarm.......
well, it really was flooding and the alarm never went off due to a blackout........i awoke an hour late and again asked dad to make the "yo or no"
decision for me when i phoned him to confess that i was late and still not organised.........not his favourite trait of mine 
we did get away tho after the missus helped pack my bags and the rain and wind belted us all the way down to Sydney...........and then
Golburn........i can honestly say the wipers were not turned off once during the entire trip.
Saturday morning we had a lazy start.......it was still wet and cold..... the list of things to do made weeks before was shrinking, but still long.
arrived at the track after stopping at the big sheep for some suitable 98 octane fuel and got the car off the trailer and into a nice dry pit lane
shed...........and the gear unloaded from every nook and cranny
headlights went in, tailights back on (with the only reference to which wire where being a picture on my phone), dad put the wipers back
on........Zane dried the car off so we could put the numbers and battery triangles on.......then he changed the harness to one that was "in
date"..........coolant and intercooler liquid was topped up oil level checked and we headed for scruitineering........despite the tyres being on the
wrong direction and lack of tow hook markers (i had bought some off ebay that didn't arrive in time).
man the car was running rough, but it does that some times and a quick squirt always did the trick in the past
well we copied the size of tow triangles off Boris' car in the scruitineering shed and put the wing mirror back on just in time............
the sighting laps and my first session came and went without me while we swapped tyres around and bled the brakes.........Zane fabricted a cushion for
himself in the meantime and suited up and strapped himself in while we mounted the transponder on the roll cage........the door slammed shut and he
headed for the dummy grid just after his group was called..........he didn't make it
.........so again i hauled the car hurriedly back to the pits to mount the front splitter on and correct tyre pressures...........finally we were
truely ready YAY!!
well, the anticipation of that first rush when the thing hits boost was eating me alive.............it's no relaxing drive in the wet and i was
wondering if i would be brave enough to even get into the noise in third gear..........
Steve Carter sent me off from the start line and i flattend it waiting for the tyre spin of 260HP with no grip..................NOTHING,
NOTHINg.........and still nothing.........i knew instantly it was lack of boost and didn't complete the lap.
opened the boot and started with the simple things......blow off valve signal vacumn line was split........too easy...........blat round the
pits......still no boost
look deeper........ map sensor ok, wastegate not stuck, exhaust not leaking........
pull aircleaner pipe off the try and look in the turbo......no chance.......stick fingers in there, ouch HOT!!!........bite the bullet, it's hot, but
it's also siezed ........it moves a bit, then stops, then a bit then
siezes..........the all of a sudden it spins freely.........Luke was there helping and tells a tale of their off road buggy having a drop of weld
doing the same thing then dislodgining and the thing survived............could i be that lucky?
Sides wanders past and asks where the dislodged piece will end up?............i replyed "who cares"........and i ment it
re-assemble and off to the grid..........foot flat to the floor NOTHING...........it's stuffed
game over.
"THATS RACING"
why?, how?, when? are the questions eating at me now.
i'm as keen to find out as i was to make the super sprints.......hopefully not too long for a diagnosis.........gotta wait for the floods to go
down....
because the car is still in Kempsey, 70 Km from home.........where we left it..........the highway remains flooded and i caught the train back to my
missus and reality from there.
what a week !!!!!
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The word from the pits Daimo was that some other disgruntled EJ20T Type 3 owner wasnt up for the competition and dropped some metal shavings into
various spots around the engine
Sorry to hear that, was looking forward to seeing it blast around the track. To me it sure looks a lot deeper blue than in the photos.............and
imo much better than the green. What weight do you have that thing at now, it should be screaming? Im a touch over 1000kg and about 20hp down on your
figures plus nowhere near the handling setup. Would have made some nice times.
1971 Type 3 Fasty - EJ20T
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Hi Damo
If we awarded a hard luck trophy you would surely get it, thanks for making the effort, I'm glad you got to have a few laps in Rods car at least.
Steve
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| posted on May 25th, 2009 at 09:57 PM |
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 ..........yeah mate, i'm sure you did.
.........the one lap i did, it was handling great, i thought i was actually gonna have to pass the mini till he drove away on the back
straight........
it's somewhere in the 900kg region from memory......i believe Jeff had it corner weighted
times.........well, i wanted to go there and run right along side Rudi.....next year
yeah Steve, i enjoyed my drive and the whole adventure..........apologies for the red mist descending and my brain fade resulting in me passing on the
out lap in Rods car........there were plenty of hard luck stories around the paddock, i just hope it turns out to be something simple (well only a
fried turbo)..........although number 3 cylinder wasn't firing, but that may well be a burnt wire from the fireball or a spat cylinder .......who knows
happy to support the event this year, and in the future..........i always said i didn't go the the nationals because there was no racing
anymore........so when there was, i wasn't going to miss it....... what a great format and venue!!!!........i will have the "spare" race car there
next year too, just in case
PLEASE lets do it again.
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| posted on May 25th, 2009 at 10:58 PM |
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Sorry to hear of your escapades Daimo....thats race'n, all good fun , better get ready for dyno day
Matt Berry Motorsports...air cooled advice, repairs and mods Ph 0408 704 662
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hellbugged
A.k.a.: Daimo Pell
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| posted on June 8th, 2009 at 10:59 PM |
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yeah Matt.......looking forward to working on my street car again.........but i don't think it will be staying too street for long .
anyways going through the motions to get number three cylinder firing we swapped coil packs, plugs then decided it wasn't either........went on to
find a soldered signal wire from the computer had come apart and that sorted that. still no luck with firing and went onto find a terminal in the plug
on the injector had slipped back and wasn't making contact.......so with those two repaired we were firing on all 4 again, YAY!
plug showed signs that it had been firing previously (they were only installed before going to the panel beaters)....so bad luck alone was the
culprit for this going aray somewhere between home and Wakefield.
.......but there wasn't boost either
so we start nutting that out and having already dove into the inlet side of the little spinner trackside, it was decided to take a look in the exhaust
housing.......so we took the exhaust off first
again we couldn't see anything in the blades nor feel anything through the wastegate, but turning it back and forth we could get it free spinning
again. start the engine we could hear the turbo spinning, then a fluttering noise (like a kid on a bike with something clicking on the spokes)as again
whatever it was in the housing would jam in there to once again stop the turbo spinning.
now feeling confident it wasn't a oil , nor H2O delivery problem.
it was obvious now it was something in the exhaust housing......although we were quite complexed as to what it was, as compression testing showed a
healthy 165PSI accross the board and as such we felt it couldn't be anything that should have been still inside the engine.
so we pulled the turbos "up" pipe to have another go at copping a feel in that housing.........so up i go like a rookie proctologist to find some
gunk in there.......grabbed the air blower and forced air back through the thing from the exhaust outlet side and for the first minute nothing fell
out but the familiar "whistling of the blades (allbeit in reversed direction) was quite pronounced.......then some chunks dislogged splattering me in
the face and the turbo could be heard spinning it's head off........
these chunks were about the size of a little finger interesting.....
i hadn't looked back down the up pipe yet, but this is what i found.......
one very messed up and loose catalytic converter......
so the heat shields were removed and pipe sectioned to remove what was left of the converter, then wleded back up again.......
soooooo getting rather keen at this stage of the evening, it was decided the local test track was begging for a lap and everything thrown back
together about 6pm tonite............the best reason yet for having lights in your race car
........the familiar whistle was back as i negotiated the "pit lane", i didn't have dash lights in the boost guage nor rpm counter, but did in the
speedo...............set the shift light at 6000rpm and when it flashed in 3rd gear in next to no time,i new that would be my last chance to look at
the speedo
.......it was well past the 90mph and fourth gear was dissapearing damn rapidly too........
naturally the car still has issues, when i got back to the shed safe and sound, one of the headlights was GOOOOONE........how can you bounce a car
1600 KM on a trailer then take it for a 10 minute run to have the headlight dissapear on the side of the road?
possesed i say!
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hellbugged
A.k.a.: Daimo Pell
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| posted on June 9th, 2009 at 10:39 PM |
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 ..........ha went and looked for the lost headlight this morning
and found it a good distance off the road (albeit glass and bucket one side and reflector/bulb) on the other.........
amazingly none of it was broken despite the scars from a good couple of bounces on the tar......maybe my luck has finally turned.
for those who have asked me along the traps, turbo is IHI VF30......good bang for buck in the VF series before going to ball bearing, good quick
spooling, to avoid lag with only slight loss on top end, great for high boost aps (the car is set to run 22psi, but problems with it cutting out with
over boost now has programming to run 7 psi over the 22 when air temps etc have it making more).aside from it's prformance characteristics, choice
for that turbo was partially made on the basis it was rebuildable........thankfully it didn't need it this time around
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