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[soldave]

No helicoils available really in Japan (at least at no shops in Okinawa where I am). Will probably have to order something internationally.

If I have to, this will probably do the job.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...em=330833814387

[soldave]

My Christmas present for the car was a set of new shoes, in the form of some TE37 rims and Star Spec rubber. Just waiting for the new original decals to come through and they'll be put on too.

[bazeng]

Looking good but I honestly didn't mind the look of the old rims...

Is it driving well now?
What left?

[soldave]

The other rims were a love/hate thing with people. Nobody was really indifferent to them!

The car stumbles from one crisis to another, so matches me pretty well. I have a small coolant leak at the moment, but have a hose in the mail that should (fingers crossed) fix that. Then it's just a case of waiting for the next thing to go wrong!

[GSRWRC]

Nice, early Evos really sit great on TE37s. Looking good!

[DOUGMO]

yep, they look the bizzo

[soldave]

You think I should put the Rays stickers on the TE37s? I've got a blue set on order from an Ebay seller but looks like I might not receive the item from them (just opened a dispute case ). I could also get a set of red ones from a friend here on island, but am just wondering if it needs them or not, seeing as the rest of the car is debadged.

[Ian91]

I just got te37s (copies but meh) and I'm going to put the stickers on once I decide what colour to paint them, I think without the stickers they don't stand out from other rims personally, but they do look awesome on your car without the stickers so it could be great either way

[SIVART]

thoes rims look heaps better

[soldave]

After new wheel bearings at the front, new wheels and tires I decided to get an alignment. Just got home from picking the car up so have the figures here. Now take a look and see if you can spot which of the before figures seems a little strange. You might have to look hard...


or maybe not so hard. God knows what happened with the front right. The guy asked me if it had been in an accident since the last alignment, which it hadn't. I'm guessing something was way off with the wheel bearing or something the last time it was done. All as straight as it's going to be with this car frame though now.

[DOUGMO]

that amount of toe the wheel would look turned!! and the tyres must have been screaming?

[soldave]

Surprisingly not! But it does explain the slightly excessive tyre wear at the front!

[jack be nimble]

Have you got the readings for front castor and wheelbase?

He will have centered your rack and straightened your steering wheel so that when driving straight the steering wheel is straight.
If you change any front end parts, or the mrs drives it. If the wheel is not straight when driving straight, then it's alignment time again, as some settings have moved

[soldave]

Well you never know... one of these days I might get back into what I like doing most with cars: playing with ECMLink and tuning them.

And I've just been reading the data from a guy in the States who's got a fairly similar setup as me, and having good success. He's running a HX-40 Pro on a built engine with the usual nice trimmings but stock intake manifold, but is only using 91 octane petrol. And he's doing a knock-free run at 30psi and making close to 600bhp according to his ECMLink figures (not good for a comparison I know, but still showing good power). Another good figure would be saying his 70-90mph times are about 1.15s and the turbo peaking at 65lbs/min of airflow.

What is interesting for me is looking at his timing maps, and seeing how much timing he's dropped compared to my map currently.

His timing map:


My timing map:


Now I know there are lots of factors involved, but it does look like I could still drop timing by a degree or 2 at the higher end of the rpm scale and pick up some more boost (running around 1.6-1.65 bar at the moment, or was the last time the car was fit for a 1/4 mile run). And knowing that the turbo is only starting to come alive, I'm wondering if sacrificing timing in favour of boost might net me some big gains in power.

I'll inevitably have another problem tomorrow with the car, putting tuning even further away, but it gives me something to think about.

[DOUGMO]

Im no tuning pro but i would think you may gain torque and midrange but not so much power?

Also remember that 91 in the us is MON not RON which is more like 95-96 ron or so

[leadfoot]

American 91 is equivalent to Australia 98. the americans just have to be different they actually use aki (anti knock index) or mon

[soldave]

Right, but what I'm getting at us that he's not using E85,but had still managed to get a knock free powerful run by dropping timing and upping boost. Hopefully I might be able to do the same.

[DOUGMO]

worth a shot, might wake up the turbo

[caged]

His timing map is fucken horrible, don't copy any of that. Anyway as they said above we use ron+mon/2 which makes their 91 close to our 95. But I do know that your quality and octane of fuel available over in Japan is alot better than even our 98 we get at the pump.

[soldave]

Premium here in Japan is RON 96. Regular is RON 89.

No real way to get race gas unless you've got 'baller money. But there is methanol injection (which I did have on the old Evo). Now 100% methanol is a controlled substance in Japan, but I managed to get creative before and could get a regular supply of 90% meth. Might look to go down that route if the car doesn't kill me in the next 6 months.