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Ben Lipman
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 08:00 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I wanted to use a woven roving or cloth, but my supplier reccomended against it as there is greater shrinkage than CSM?

I used cloth on the flat bottom undertray, and agree it is so much easier top work with. No bloody fibres everywhere, much easier to wet out.
Ben Lipman
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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 08:19 am, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 09:27 am, by:  Andrew McKellar (Toymax) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bloody hell! Well done Ben, that's tops.
Ben Lipman
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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 01:03 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

As usual there are a bunch of little things that need to be sorted, but the fact that it looks like a mould is very pleasing.

I have spent the morning on a parts run etc. I Spoke to Simon at Morpowa and purchased a Haltech PS2000 and loom from him. It will go in the car hopefully in December. Morpowa will handle the tuning. I just need to get the high flow turbos and radiator in the car before they start.

I also got hold of some DZUS fasteners to see how/if I can use them to mount the front bar. Bloody expensive little suckers.

I also purchased 50 bolts, nuts and washers to bolt the mould together. I'll then use clay to fix any gaps and look to lay the first bar down either today or tomorrow.

Feels good to be moving forwards again.
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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 07:59 pm, by:  Antonio Hunt (Carajo) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Good work Ben, great to see your progress, love the front bar. Sure it will be awesome to get some more power with the ecu and high flows and be reliable with running higher boost. Great following the thread too.
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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 08:07 pm, by:  Dan McColl (Hoon) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Awesome. Love your work.
Ben Lipman
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Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 09:11 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So today I started my first front bar. I mixed black pigment into my gel coat seeing as I have a black car. This should save on resprays seeing as paint chips will not show up the white fibreglass underneath.

Gel coat went alright, however fibreglassing was very tricky. Next time I will do all the fiddly little bits first such as the returns around the headlights and the bonnet area. I am not sure I got these right this time around. I need to be able to lay the mould down so I can see in there and gravity will assist getting into the tight areas.

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Ben Lipman
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 08:58 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well, after some fiddling around with a hose and some wedges, the front bar and spoiler assembly came away from the mould.

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The bar has some rough edges, especially in the area I was concerned about. I still need to clean the clay etc from the splitter join. There are some modifications to the mould I want to make, like tidying up the lower flange, and making a flanged area around the intercooler opening to stiffen up this area. This bar was always going to be suck and see. The next bar to come out should be much better as I have learnt a few things.

I'll spend the next few nights coming up with a mounting arrangement, and buy some more gelcoat and PVA on Friday and continue work on the undertray to match the spoiler.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 09:38 pm, by:  Paul Kalie (Ajzs) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Now come and finish mine for me, Im still sanding :-(
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 10:22 pm, by:  Allan Langford (Allan) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

try putting some air fittings in the mould sticky points and just fill them with clay should make it easier to pop out
Ben Lipman
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:06 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah I read about that Allan. I considered glassing in standard pope garden hose fittings as well.

I might try it if it is going to be an issue. The main sticking point this time was the damn high beams. I never gel coated this area and the bits of resin and glass from the part bonded with the mould. I'll fix that for next time.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 12:45 am, by:  Andrew McKellar (Toymax) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Excellent work Ben, as usual.
Ben Lipman
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 07:58 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Another minor milestone today. I mounted the front bar using four DZUS fasteners. Now with a single screw driver (or a 5c piece!) I can take the bar on and off. This will be handy for getting on and off the trailer.

I ended up welding some steel plate to the end of the chassis rails. The front bar buts up against this, and the DZUS fastener passes through this into the locking wire.



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Monday, November 28, 2011 - 12:33 am, by:  Dan McColl (Hoon) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh how I hate Dzus fastners.

Coming along awesomely mate.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 - 04:47 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Dan McColl wrote on Monday, November 28, 2011 - 12:33 am:

Oh how I hate Dzus fastners.




Why? If it is the fact they are bloody fiddly to set up, I agree completely. It took ages to figure out how to use them. Three out of four are now nice and solid, but the first one I did I am not happy with. The second issue is for future bars...I drilled through the bar and then into the plate for the front fittings. This is going to be a bit hard to do with any future bars I need to fit to the car.

If there is some other reason, I'd be keen to hear it. They seem to fit the bill of what I wanted to do nicely. If there is a reliability issue I'd prefer find out now rather than on the track.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 - 06:36 pm, by:  Dan McColl (Hoon) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Nah, no problems, in fact they are ideal for what you're doing.

Only issues will be with age if things start to wear and move, or if the car gets a little boof they will be a prick to get lined up again and make them work.

My grievance is many years ago having to undo and re-do hundreds of rooted, out ones with no slot left and nothing aligning because everything around it was also rooted.

I shouldn't say I hate them because they are basically what holds the sprint car together.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 - 08:18 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ahhh. OK. They were a bugger to fit up for essentially the reasons you stated.

I can only assume they are strong enough. They guy in the shop had no specs on them, only the sage advice that this is what all the race car guys use. Except for V8 supercars...which is a worry given the similarities between the two 'sedan' based cars.
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Monday, November 28, 2011 - 08:24 pm, by:  Andrew McKellar (Toymax) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Just make sure you put a square of gaffer tape over each of them before you go out on the track. Even with the springs on them, they can vibrate loose and come undone, particularly as they get older and the fittings loosen off a bit.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 07:43 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Funny, I had a conversation with an open wheel racer at work who said the exact same thing. Sounds like good, cheap insurance.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 09:46 pm, by:  Tayne Riley (Maxiain) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Put the bar back in the mould and either mark an indent in the mould or place a high point in the places the fastners go so you have a new drilling point with next bar from that mould.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 08:49 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yep, I reckon you're right there Tayne. That's what I'll have to do. I am going to tidy up all the little things I don't quite like on this bar (mainly around the flanges at the back, and front lip) and then modify the mould from that. I'll do it then. The next bar should come out a bit nicer.

Unfortunately is has reverted to BLOODY FREEZING here in Adelaide again. Oh how I wish I lived back in Darwin...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 12:17 pm, by:  Scott Casey (V8soarer_1991) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

now starting to look like a modded au v8 supershit car front bar.

its still awesome Ben keep it up
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 05:21 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Scott Casey wrote on Sunday, December 04, 2011 - 12:17 pm:

now starting to look like a modded au v8 supershit car front bar.



I'm going to take that as a compliment...I think.

I went out to close the shed door last night and made the mistake of turning the light on...three hours later the new radiator is in, the strut brace, intercooler, piping, turbos and dump pipes are out.

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On closer inspection, I really wish I had of pulled these off for rebuilding and held onto the others. I'm no expert, but the compressor blades on these don't look too healthy...


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Thursday, December 08, 2011 - 11:06 am, by:  Scott Casey (V8soarer_1991) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm going to take that as a compliment...I think.

YES that was written while i was chuckling to myself.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 10:04 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The new turbos are in. Apart from one small drama where I forgot to tighten the nuts on the oil feed/drain on the rear turbo, it all went well. I need to clean the floor when I get the car out of the garage...

I also took the opportunity to swap all the pipework from the road car to the race car. I can't see the point having shiny pipes on the daily given the way the coppers are these days. I just need to look through my box of spares for an unmolested radiator hose (top) so I can put the polished pipe on the track car. (The track car radiator hose is a bit of a mess with coolant sensor adaptors etc cut and shut into it.)

I have also done some improvements in the front strut bar, namely tidying up a really crappy weld and boxing and welding up the cutouts I made last year to clear the engine ancillaries drama when I fitted the Kazama engine mounts.

Next I need to create an new duct/shroud for the powersteering cooler as this was destroyed in the 'crash'. At the same time I need to do the same for the top of the intercooler to fill the gap between the bar and the top of the cooler core.

The undertray mould was cracked today. It appears to have gone very well. I am trying to work out how to run the brake ducting before I bond the undertray to the rest of the front bar. I need something that will basically slide into a housing so that it easily connects and disconnects when the bar goes on and off.

I have purchased a Haltech Platinum Sport 2000 to run the car and am waiting for a loom to be made up through Morpowa who will be brought in to tune the thing. I did think about wiring it in myself, but I have a bit on my plate already and I figured it may be easier in the long run if they have to go chasing an issue.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 07:50 am, by:  Allan Langford (Allan) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I hope you washed the turbo guts out of your intercooler!
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 08:18 am, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I haven't as yet, but might give it a flush with white spirits to be on the safe side. The cooler was put back in yesterday so I can plan out the brake ducting, but the car hasn't been started with the cooler in place yet.

I am a bit annoyed, as the junk turbos I bought off a member for a hundred bucks to be rebuilt were in much better condition than the ones I was running around on. Even the turbos in the road car with 125000km on them are in much better nick. Unfortunately I did not send off the worst turbos so these are pretty much useless to me now.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 09:01 am, by:  Allan Langford (Allan) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

just half fill the cooler with petrol and give it a good slosh around a couple of times, drain petrol through rag and then use in lawn mower :-)
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 08:30 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ahh yeah, that would work too. Didin't get to it today, but did start work on running the brake ducting.

I have decided to go with a pair of fibreglass pipes 3 inches (75mm) in diameter from the ducts in the front bar back to the wheel well. These will be mounted to the chassis and have a flared opening to receive the front bar. I will then reuse the existing (and very expensive) scat tubing as a flexible link to the actual brake rotor.

Well, that's the theory. Looking around for something to help visualise all this I discovered the Boy's pool noodle. I cut this in half (well he better be learning something at swimming lessons) and found it to be excellent for the task of running brake ducting. In fact, I wrapped it in silver duct tape and simply glassed over the top of it. It may or may not come out of the fibreglass. If not, I'll just run a cut down the length of it and pry it open. It doesn't need to be pretty as you cant see it, it just needs to work.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 09:30 pm, by:  Carl Mccormack (Eville) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

hey ben just thought id show you i went to a time attack here in brisbane for the first time in my soarer i had to laugh when i saw the number :-) pity i wasnt as fast as your car but mines only been on the road about 5 weeks.



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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 09:31 pm, by:  Carl Mccormack (Eville) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

its a bit hard to see in that pic its number 48
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 10:10 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That is funny, because I used to borrow my mates magnetic numbers from his Rx-7 in NSW before I joined a club (in NT) and was issued my own number...and his number was 48 also.

That is one beautiful looking car you have there, by the way...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 10:36 pm, by:  Carl Mccormack (Eville) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks ben, took a year but least i can drive it now, still a lot left to do but i really like it :-) who knows in another year if my skills improve any i may hav to come down and visit one of the tracks there have a race with your car :-) im sure you'll win but least you wont be the only soarer on the tracks. :-)
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 04:42 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Arrrgh! I have a water leak from somewhere up under the front turbo. The best I can see, it is from some water pipe running out of the back of the water pump, or in that area. Annoying, because I didn't undo anything down there. There is a good possibility the leak was there previously, but I never noticed it. I was looking for leaks in and around the turbos and found it that way.

Going to jump on the EPC to get a better look at what I am working with. Hope the old laptop fires up OK...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 06:04 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

According to the EPC it is the coolant bypass No 2 gasket.

At least I know there is a gasket in there...so I'll order another and deal with it when it gets here. No point pulling everything apart unless I have a new gasket. The leak is not major, just a drop per second, so not something that should hold up other works.

Hopefully the car goes into Morpowa on Monday to get measured up for a harness for the Haltech. We are trying to cut some costs and see if we can copy a loom made for a 1JZ chaser. Hopefully the looms are not to dissimilar.

Lot of hopefullys in that last paragraph. We'll see how it goes.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 06:39 pm, by:  Dan McColl (Hoon) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Loom should be similar if it's a JZX90, as the JZX90 and JZZ30 power fc is the same unit.

I think that means non vvti chaser, but not sure of the differences between the chaser models.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 09:59 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I haven't seen the other car, so do not know what sort of chaser it is, just that it is a 1J.

I Thought I'd better catch you all up on some pictures:
Here is the rebuilt turbo next to the stock item-

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My trusty rear turbo manifold spanner-
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Using a pool noodle to plan out brake ducting-

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The undertray mould-

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 10:12 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is the gunk that came out of the intercooler. Seriously thinking about buying a stock airbox and running a proper filter- HKS pod doesn't seem to be doing a great job!

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The engine bay with the shiny stuff in it-
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Car with bonnet up-
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Car with front bar and lights back in it-
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Monday, December 19, 2011 - 07:12 am, by:  Blake Gloyn (Blakenz) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

the jzx90 loom has the ignitor on the opposite side of the engine bay from what i recall.
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Monday, December 19, 2011 - 03:30 pm, by:  Spencer Cameron (Switchio) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Ben Lipman wrote on Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 10:12 pm:

Here is the gunk that came out of the intercooler. Seriously thinking about buying a stock airbox and running a proper filter- HKS pod doesn't seem to be doing a great job!




I wouldn't worry about the air filter too much Ben. That crap in your cooler probably has a lot more to do with your old, disintegrating turbos..
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Monday, December 19, 2011 - 08:49 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'd say the turbos were disintegrating due to poor filtration, that is due to dirt and crap hitting the blades at 60-odd-thousand rpm.

If they were simply falling apart due to age etc they would have failed spectacularly, I reckon. They have done half the Km of the ones in the red car.

I took the car down to Morpowa today and spoke to the guy who will be doing the wiring. We have decided to build a new loom, rather than modify/plug into the factory loom. So now I am chasing some new coil plug connectors or a decent quality coil plug loom.
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Monday, December 19, 2011 - 09:22 pm, by:  Spencer Cameron (Switchio) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Ben Lipman wrote on Monday, December 19, 2011 - 08:49 pm:

If they were simply falling apart due to age etc they would have failed spectacularly, I reckon.




Just thought the damage looked like an excessive shaft play thing.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 12:26 am, by:  Dan McColl (Hoon) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Coil pack connectors, get the superspark ones off ebay.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 07:23 am, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Dan McColl wrote on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 12:26 am:

Coil pack connectors, get the superspark ones off ebay.


Yeah cheers Dan, I ordered them from Superspark direct.

Spencer- the shaft play is pretty good. There is no scoring on the housing so no contact. It really looks like a micro sized shotgun was fired at the end of each vane.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 09:48 pm, by:  Daniel Clarke (Dieseltrain) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe try running a K&N filter ? Ive been running one for almost 100,000km and turbo blades are still good :-)

Regularly cleaned @ every oil change & Oiled with K&N kit .

Nice work Ben on this car , i read all of it but never say much , How much were the turbos ? Did you need custom water/oil lines or do they still retain the stock core ?

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