Well after cleaning my car doing a few bits n bobs! It was ready for tomorrow, took her out for a blast down the m60 and disaster! The rad started leaking again!!! Aghh so will have to come in the van now!! Really gutted! still attending tho! I've tried rad weld to no joy and Royz had a spare rad but that had a hole in it too!
Anyway still coming might get the van rolling roaded! Ha
Cant wait for tomorrow, whats the plan with the order of cars on the rollers? Or is it whoever turns up first and puts the name down?
true to form i won't be there.
mates car i repaired to go on rollers blew the bottom end less than 7 days after a rebuild.
my tow car that i planned to drive up instead with snapped its cambelt and destroyed the valve train a week ago.
the wifes car i've been driving around to find a replacement tow car with decided to start misfiring whilst in manchester today. 60mile drive along A roads on 2-3/3-4 cylinders aint fun - coil pack failure.
c'est la bloody vie.
Meeting robbo at the services,so see you all there.Was hoping to be running but not now.
So I had to change my wheels today back to some old 15" I have god what a difference I have 16s normally but I think I'm happier with the 15" less bumpy not so Much noise.. See how they go tomorrow on the way to scoffs
Is this the best route from, the m62?
The scenic route.
Thats what Scoff said last time but my satnav and google sends you that way... whats the best way?
Im leaving at 5.45am !! See you lot first at Hilton park services, then onto Scoffs !
I just hope the weathers ok.(and the 5)
Is there any news from the rr day? Is there s good turn out?
I couldn't make it coz of a family day I couldn't get out of.
News and pics plz! I'm glued to my phone and keep refreshing this page for info. I wish I was there.
Some pic's!
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Good day today,not happy about the rain on the way home though.couple of 5s over 200bhp and then there was blocky's vr6 powered turbo Nutter ******* Clio,400+bhp.awesome.
Good day at efi and a great host great drive there with the guys crap drive back in the rain did a 360 on a island hate the 15s lol think with my tracking set for 16s made them dangerous in the wet woke me up though now know were I wan tobe 200bhp is were I want it successful day with parts thanks to mark for the cam (interested to see what bhp) thanks to nick for the unskimmed head ready for some light gas flowing and haz for the dump valve that's it for me this year now the 5s going into hibernation ready for rebuild bit of a tidy up and then ready for blyton!!
Will be on here for help though and tips rebuilding the engine..
Fantastic day great turn out, good to catch up with members and meet a few new ones
Wish i could of stayed longer but had to shoot off to A&E for my son(everythings ok) just another one in a million worries that family life brings lol
Ill upload my graph and videos soon, really impressed by my cars performance today i didnt think i'd be anywhere near those figures.
Heres my afr/boost chart, boost spikes to 18.7 initially then levels to 17psi, max torque was at 18.7psi spike at 4700 and max hp was at 17psi 5700rpm
Heres my hp/torque curve 201bhp just made it torque was 198.4lbsft
Just got back, I'm in agony with my back, 6 hrs driving in those buckets of mine.
I had a great day and met some nice people. I'm also happy with my result, 170bhp 239lbs
gutted i couldnt make it guys, lack of £££ this month meant i just couldnt justify it, On a good note i took my carb off my ready ready to rebuild/clean it, hopefully to get rid of the rich idle issue.
Just got in after an eventfull journy home, my brothers headgasket went was like something from the red arrows
Aside from that It was a good day, good to see a few people i haven't seen for a while, i was relativly happy with how my car performed.
My print out says 201hp 189ft at 27psi! Lol the boost for the rollers was being measured at the carb top for my runs, was more like 23/24 manifold, scoff also had to put lot of load on the rollers as when it came on boost it was spinning up, it did make 210hp on one of the runs but it wasn't a smooth curve due to the wheel spin so i wasn't happy with it.
I need a larger downpipe and more boost
My motor is low comp hence the need for more boost, and my downpipe is standard.
Other than a blown boost hose 30 miles from home she ran faultlessly. Even had a little play with an Audi RS 3
Had a quality time. Blew a head gasket on the way home. Ill whip the head off I'm a few days and see what's occurring. But thanks to scoff, blocky and Haz.
Good to see all the lads and have a laugh.. Ron, Robin, Glenn, Kev, Ricky and many more! Cheers.
Oh and my car made 198bhp @ 189ftlbs of torque. Not bad to say I've had her 6 month
By the way who has bought the old orange backyard 5?
nothing special with mine really, i think the raceland manifold makes a huge hp difference, my engine really responded well to it. recenetly rebuilt with std internals, 2nd hand very worn piper 285 lol just threw it in anyway. turbos a t28ish i think a friend built and balanced it for me and just said itll go well without much info.
took alot of time adjusting the cam timing. alot of trial and error, and a fmic thats about it really.
Even made up my £30 transmech clutch is still holding well wish i could of seen how the others got on.
Long pull in 5th. Didn't lean out or overheat. To be honest, I set the boost up today via the actuator rod. When I went out id give it miles to much, flew upto 30 psi. Although I came off straight away I feel thats where the damage was done. Cause the car fuels mint all the time. Plus I had my eye on it.
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great pic
really cool picture. Thanks i was really suprised it made that much. wasnt expecting much beyond 170-180 at about 18psi? Cam adjustment made all the difference i think, altho it pulled better more retarded just too laggy and unrespronsive off boost.
i may retard it a couple of degrees.
amazing day, nice few pic of my 5 there lol.i didnt run it today as it ran 330 bhp at 16psi on thursday night and there was SOOOO many people there was nice to see some old faces and i could of talked all day but had family function to go to so showed my face for a few hours
great day, great turn out defo a must for next year!!!!
some quality conversions there today too
some great figures there!! and tony, brilliant power for the boost - well done!! if it really is the tubular manifold contributing to some extra horses then im gutted as i sold mine - but i missed the throaty bubble too much
are there any videos from today?
Awesome day, good to catch up with everybody again. Some decent power figures too