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Thanks guys, much appreciated, it really is. I am concerned about the clutch, but I love how it performs, so want to test it and see if it does what it says on the tin. It may hold, it may not, but if I don't try it, I'll never know. Fingers crossed really.

Me either Jamie, but Dane assures me it will take some decent torque so we'll see. If its no good then I'll have to upgrade it and take it back for more boost.

I'd be VERY happy with that.

Here's a few pics of yesterdays progress. Plug cover, coil packs, plugs and cam covers stripped. Shim gaps were all checked, as I had a concern that Lee.P mentioned. Basically I shimmed the cams in the garage, it was like minus 7. Lee said the gaps will be all wrong once the temps rise. So I wanted to check them all before the car was mapped. All the intake side were still exactly 0.2 apart from shim 1 cylinder 1 which was 0.21, and the exhaust side were still all 0.3, again apart from shim 1 cylinder 1 which was 0.32. Thought this was a little weird, seems both the opposite shims were the only ones that had changed. Didn't deem it nessessary to change them. After all the shims were checked, I fitted my NGK racing plugs back in. Here's a pic of the 2 plugs side by side so you can see the difference. I dropped the oil, and just as the last oil change 300 miles ago, it was perfectly clean. Oil filter was also clean. I fitted a new power enterprise filter. Just under 12ltrs of Royal purple oil. I dropped all the coolant next, replaced the damaged fitting on the top rad pipe added this, before I put coolant in. I saw good results with it last year and it reduced my temps by about 10 degrees whilst driving. Finally it all went back together and fired it up to bleed the engine off with my magical Internet funnel. I bought this a couple of years ago from eBay for about 30 quid and it's the best thing ever for bleeding off your engine. Basically it's a sealed funnel that attaches to you rad and you put coolant in it, so when the bubbles come out, coolant goes in, so the engine bleeds off very efficiently. I took a bit of a video of it I'll post later on today.

Bring a sick bag

You'll be on the top of my letting know list bud don't worry

Can't remember Chris, I just went and bought some from the place up the road. Yeah I'm there Wednesday Luc. Wish me luck cos I'm sh1tting myself lol.

A couple of reasons really chris, I've a new -24 fitting for my top rad hose, Got a bottle of Motcool to go in with the coolant, And finally just to give it a good flush out. - - - Updated - - -

Only 5 days to mapping, I'm getting pretty excited now. Desperate for some boost. I had a little play with a 911 turbo today but with only 0.5 bar of boost it didn't get too exciting I'm getting stuck into the car tomorrow. Engine has now done 500 miles so I'm goi g to change the crappy oil for Royal purple 20w 50 and change the coolant too. I've also got some NGK comp racing plugs to go in too. Couple of other little jobs to do too but hopefully I'll get them all done tomorrow.

Anytime, ask away mate.

Ah, now it makes sense. As far as I knew, only myself and lee had this setup, and there's not many of them in the US either. These fetch mega money over there. I had mine powder coated white to match my engine colour scheme. Robs right though, dont have them polished, there hard enough to keep clean when the thing is assembled on the car with it powdercoated.

That veilside plenum is a VERY rare piece of kit. Where the hell did you find that? Welcome to the elite Do you have the throttle body to go with it?

Not in shineyville dude, every other night is training or supra night.

I won't be there guys sorry, I'm spending the night in with mrs.H

Well like I said, lets hope the clutch holds out. The turbo kit I have is from Darrets car and made 968whp at only 1.6 bar, but this was on a 3.4 ltr. Just working out the injector duty on your car Luc, and if you work on 1cc per horse power at 79% duty you should have made about 869hp. But then again if you take off 15% (aprox figure) you get 738.65 which isn't far away really.

I can't see me going that far, but I'll leave it to whatever Ryan thinks best.

Yeah that sounds about right Luc, so I guess 1150cc will be good for 1000 whp. Maybe a little more if you up the fuel pressure a bit.

Had a good chat with Ryan tonight, with a few concerns. Mainly I was worried about my clutch holding power. Ryan tell me, if the clutch is rated to 765 ft/lb, that equates to around 1140hp (I think), so as long as it does what it says on the tin then it's all good in the hood. Ryan has also offered to sell me his 1150cc Ansu injectors from his GTR for a very good price, so I'll have more than enough fuel for the power. Getting really excited now.

All the best cars have them Plastic lights are lighter too (pardon the pun lol) Thanks John.

Thanks mate.

I thought all clutches were torque rated. Guess not.

Can we have some more pics please lee.

How much torque was the HKS rated too. That sounds a bit strange.

Yeah ^^^^^^^^^^ this.

I did actually, but decided to leave them silver. There pretty good quality j-specs.