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Dan is that one the exhaust vacuum thingys on the intake
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nice to see your not following all the sheep mate but we need
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Inferno's Supra: Restored & Built From The Ground Up
paul mac replied to Inferno's topic in mkiv Supra Projects
niiiiiice work, not to keen on the "pimp my bell housing" i hope this is not going to be a trailer queen with mirrors underneith subscribed -
what do you want to boost to ? wind the adjuster right out then take it for a blat, if you haven't got a boost gauge forget it, if you have and the car boosts lower than you want wind the adjuster in, personally i would get it set up on the dyno
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i'm not condoning these actions but living on a bit of a rat run myself and having to suffer t**ts driving like t**ts down my road does make you want to take the law into your own hands, several people on my road have even given registrations and videos to the police and they still do nothing. Its been stated this was a well known area for fast driving why didn't the authorities put some control measures in, mastic and plasterboard isn't the work of kids this was someone who was extremely p***ed off, that said they now have blood on their hands
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if i was being picky just some slight bonnet bumper alignment issues, but on the whole a great effort, top respect for thinking outside the box
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i made my own modified bonnet and put rain chanels in, they divert the water off the engine and down the sides, from memory they are just 1mm sheet ally, very easy to do
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i made my own modified bonnet and put rain chanels in, they divert the water off the engine and down the sides, from memory they are just 1mm sheet ally, very easy to do
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i suspect you would end up with some very pretty pistons, a big bill and not much else
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oh i see you've crossed the pond to continue sniping, may i politely suggest if thats all your here for and you have nothing constructive to add please dont bother posting
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i feel for Eric here, he built a legend that a lot of people enjoyed sniping at who neither had the ability, vision or talent to build anything remotely as good, he has sold the car as seen and if he has disclosed everything to the seller then whats the problem, yes there are some ropey bits but to post everything up like SP are doing, to me is rather distastefull, karma may come round and bite them in the ass one day
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a bench supply delivering the kind of uumph you are after for cranking would be expensive, for powering electrical systems i would say the ones you have looked at would be suitable as long as you dont have a couple of huge cooling fans on the rad would it not be more cost effective to use a battery and charge it when not in use, you could get several hours from a decent battery
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Re calibrating Greddy boost gauge and fitting oil temp/pressure gauges?
paul mac replied to p3te's topic in mkiv Technical
have a look on the back of the gauge and look for small foil disks, if it has them peel them back and have a look for adjustment screws underneith, i managed to calibrate a Greddy EGT gauge a few years back -
cheers
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no idea mate, as i was still in the R & D stage, good point and that may well be the end of that if your correct
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dont know where this is going but having looked at mine without the rear seats a tank could be formed into the 2 seat wells with a pump in each well, it would put the tank lower than stock and bring it inboard of the rear axle, i was going to look at making it my next project after project ITB was finished , what are your intentions Wez
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c'mon Chris keep up its in post #115 of this thread
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i'm with it now Dan and i can only commend you on your approach here to quantify this topic, i have long suspected what you have found and posted my suspicions here http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=137208&highlight=big+brakes, hard figures are beyond argument, i also kind of killed this thread http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=168382&highlight=big+brakes at post #41
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cheers Chris, damper going in the spares bin, i was looking at drilling all the bodies for a port to check the balance, i presume Mr BMW does them off the car as they dont have a port and they are all linked which i will have to remove and plug for setup Jenvey look like they have a nice gadget for this, however saying that i haven't touched the throttle plate adjuster screws so hopefully they wont be a million miles off
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yes i think your right now you explain it (damm that red wine) i may be confusing friction force here, as i said its all a bit hazy , i am sure i remember contact area coming into the equation though i'll have to get out the old books, so the percentage figure you quote is clamping force generated by the hydraulics and not brake torque
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it would have been a piece of p**s and not have been so elaborate but for one word, cruise, the throttle pully and cruise pulley have to work independantly of each other, a few hours trawling the local scrap yard for a suitable linkage yielded nothing, so i used the stock one, i could of mounted it in the same orientation as the stock pulleys but this way meant i didn't have to start shortening the throttle and cruise cables (which looked a pig of a job)
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few pics of the progressing throttle linkage, marvel at my wooden rod eye link bar :, i find making mistakes in wood is much less time consuming than making them in metal, last pic the pesky damper, come on guys someone must know whether i need it or not, i'll settle for an educated guess ,
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Interesting post Dan, i have a few points though, I presume the figures you are quoting is brake torque. From my hazy recollections of HNC physics i can just about remember that the pad area is in the equation somewhere. You obviously have the pad height but are you presuming the pads are all the same length, what is the formula you are using to calculate your figures, are you using a standard coefficient of friction as this will increase (or decrease) dependent on the area of the friction material. ps my rear pad height is 45mm
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thanks for the encouragement guys, question, do i still need the throttle damper thingymajig attached to the stock throttle when running an emanage ultimate or aftermarket ecu, i would like to despense with the little ferker as its ruining the aesthetics of my throttle brackets
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Big Brakes.... Please can some one explain them
paul mac replied to ManwithSupra's topic in mkiv Technical
really good info Dan and that really validates what i said about slightly firmer brake pedal feel, ok maybe 1% would be a bit hard to feel the difference , dont forget Dan that although the brake force applied through the hydraulic system will be the same, with a larger pad area the coefficient of friction rises so the the actual brake force applied to the disk will rise
