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i have a set of those cams. haven't fitted them yet but i think you need to grind a tiny bit out of the inside of the scissor gears to get them onto the cams. could be wrong but i remember someone saying something like that when i was talking to them about installation.
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and also i forgot about this.
here is some footage of the drag day that was shown on TV. we're the first feature in the program. i talk and look stupid. which is pretty much standard for me.
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one of the reasons i put 17s on it was so i could run bigger brakes. i had to make some brackets (well, Neil at Whiters made them for me because he's a super GC) to get them to fit and it all went together perfectly. they are a Yellow Speed kit designed for a V spec R33 GTR - 330 dia x 32 thick with a 6 piston caliper. they arent bedded in properly yet but sweet baby jebus do they stop you in a hurry. i used a G meter to calibrate the difference between before and after and the calculations came out at 2 billion percent better. pictures of things. 2017-02-25_05-17-32 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-53 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-41 by sheepers, on Flickr 2017-02-25_04-36-28 by sheepers, on Flickr
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i have some solidworks files for the flanges and their offset to each other if you want them. That would be awesome mate, send over an email? yea that should work. the file i have is a whole manifold that i have made from the model and i know it fits. its about 3.5Mb
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i have some solidworks files for the flanges and their offset to each other if you want them.
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Jan 21, 2017 22:11:31 GMT
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just read the whole thread. i love it when i find a story that ends in great success!! well done man and good luck for the rest of it.
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Jan 20, 2017 18:04:54 GMT
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that looks cool as man. I'm heading down a similar path but it'll be next year before i can attach this to the car…. Untitled by sheepers, on Flickr
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I've done a bit of curse word around with the front end to get it to handle better.
i had about a 15mm gap between the rim and the strut on the inside so i decided it would be good to decrease the scrub radius as much as i could to stop it feeling all twitchy at speed.
by a combo of different length LCA's, narrower spacer and a couple of other things i managed to get the wheel within 3mm of the strut.
the difference is night and day. the caster, camber and toe are all over the show and basically set up by eye but its millions better than it was.
ill get the front end setup properly next week but its already a massive win.
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just read this thread from start to finish. fluck what and awesome build, congrats on the build the car looks amazing!!!
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Dec 22, 2016 18:08:35 GMT
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thanks man!!!
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Dec 13, 2016 18:45:01 GMT
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Dec 13, 2016 18:41:41 GMT
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oldschool.co.nz 2016 drag day. always such a fun day with a huge variety of cars and bikes. this year didn't go so well for me. i was hoping for more speeds and lower times but it wasn't to be. my first run was eventful to say the least. i was the second car down the strip in the morning after the track crew had been drying the track and getting things ready. it was also my first pass with the new motor and wider tyres. i was slow off the line as always and spun through first and second, it gripped in third and pushed hard then i grabbed forth and gave it the jandals. at that exact moment the windscreen got all wet and the back wheels lost all grip and started spinning, that car came round pointing me at the wall doing about 180kmph. everything went very slowly from that point on and i spent a LONG time looking at the wall and thinking how they would be removing my corpse from the wall with a wash down hose. i remember trying to be very gentle with steering inputs and hoping for the best. i was sure that if it did grip it would just flick round the other way and chuck me into the other wall but it didn't. the car gripped again and wobbled back into a straight line and i hit the brakes hard. i was shaking so much i couldn't undo my helmet until i got back to the pits. needless to say i was pretty cautious on my next few runs but the car just didn't feel right. every time the speed got up around the 170 mark it just felt awful, like it had a large wheel right in the middle of the car that it was pivoting on. so i spent the rest of the day just doing skids and practicing getting off the line better, then lifting at half track. i did do some skids though so the day wasnt a waste. last year i was doing about 180 through the traps with no issue at all, i would have gone faster if the car would have but that was my limit last year. its now got wider tyres and its higher off the ground and it feels like curse word so ill need to do some fixing before i go fast in it again. anywho Dorian and Andrew took some great photos of the car and Richard got some videos of skids so ill chuck them up here and think about what to do to stop the car feeling so yucky. 15369183_454106578046763_3413997068154013641_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15384628_454106138046807_4109710252954637796_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15369263_454106371380117_8157333445341447496_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15370176_454107804713307_3494654350294981551_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15326064_454106274713460_6269429424893272166_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15385432_454106141380140_5786078971728905938_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15325269_454108598046561_85776852376956230_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15392883_656484801200854_1966123044814446971_o by sheepers, on Flickr 15440508_656484434534224_8137288917001130306_o by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-12-10_04-54-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-12-10_04-54-22 by sheepers, on Flickr
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Nov 24, 2016 23:40:04 GMT
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great success. can ran really well and made good power, 375RWKS to be exact and 520lbft of torque. which is a lot. the poor little turbo just couldn't flow any more air. it tried its best but thats the absolute max it will do. I'm happy with that. the car is going really really well, not that i could give it the jandels in the rain, but its running faultlessly. 2016-11-25_12-31-05 by sheepers, on Flickr this is old 2.5L vs new 3L 2016-11-25_12-31-19 by sheepers, on Flickr
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back in business. few teething issues getting it started but its going well so far (have covered two Ks in it up to this point so not a huge test). ill put some more Ks on it and see what happens. 2016-11-14_07-55-07 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-14_07-54-56 by sheepers, on Flickr
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this has been pretty curse word on the whole and my two options were cry like a baby and throw all the toys out of the sandpit or just shrug and get the curse word on with rebuilding it. 2016-11-03_07-23-14 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-05_02-42-21 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-11-05_04-12-08 by sheepers, on Flickr so yea, new head is being worked on by the great people at Glendene engine reconditioners and i should have it back mid week. gonna change a few little things around to make life easier and this time it won't curse word itself.
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Sept 17, 2016 4:19:29 GMT
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finally, after sixeleventhousandbillion years my other seat turned up. long story but basically the mold for the seat i already had was damaged so i had to wait until they repaired the mold before i could get the other seat for the a passengers side. well I've got it now so i chucked it in. i made the mounts for it ages ago so it took all of about 1 minute to bolt it up. while i was at it i made some minor adjustments to the drivers seat position and now its curse word perfect. down sides, back seat in no longer accessible which is no surprise. there are no other down sides. 2016-09-17_04-05-34 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-05-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-04-55 by sheepers, on Flickr 2016-09-17_04-04-38 by sheepers, on Flickr
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Sept 11, 2016 5:36:52 GMT
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the temperature was climbing if it sat stationary and i wasn't happy with that. it would climb ever so slowly but it was still climbing, the 14" fan wasn't dropping the temperature, in fact it wasn't keeping up at all. the second the car was moving the temp dropped straight away but still it was no good in traffic. i figured if i made the radiator a cross flow with the tanks on the sides i could fit a bigger fan that would cover every tube. so thats what i did. Dave at real deal radiators made a new triple pass radiator and i mounted a 16" fan on it. problem solved. the fan now comes on and clicks off when its sitting stationary which means the fan is now able to pull 3 degrees out of the engine temp without any hassle. while the car is moving it has no issue at all but I'm sure the new radiator will be much more efficient on the track. old vs new, 2016-09-10_01-16-42 by sheepers, on Flickr
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Aug 29, 2016 18:37:27 GMT
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it just keeps getting better. nice work man!!!
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