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well some good news and some bad news today. It's amazing that even though you are so busy at work you can always find the time to organise something for the car. If it was someone wanting a meeting or having to go and pay bills you could not find the time but today i sneaked out to SW motorsport for an update. I had received a call from Stewart that was not a great one, the assurances that the gear lever will be in the stock position has not worked out exactly to plan. Kind of a fair way off plan actually but unfortunately i am to far into it to pull out so we are going to have the bend the shifter a little and cut/modify the section where the lever comes through the floor. The good thing is that the gearbox is in good nick (thanks Kim), it had been in the back of my mind for so long now it was a relief that everything was ok. The clearances around the bell housing were also great and meant no modifying the transmission tunnel so another bonus but the ...

Wanted to get down the breakdown of costs, spoke with Stewart today and covered them off. The main issue with the clutch is that the pressure plate is warped, so far it still is working and i can purchase a new pressure plate for $365 but the thought process is that i can probably get another 6months life left and then run a rebuild kit through it now i know what the condition of the clutch is in. Breakdown Bell housing - $700 Front Gearbox gasket - $20 (when you crack the case need to replace) Oil Synthetic - $50  Tail shaft - $650              Falcon single piece shaft shortened to length              New Front Splicer Yoke              New Rear Splicer Flange Thrust Bearing - $25 Labour - $600 Total $2045 Couple of things i picked up SR20DET has a 20mm bearing carrier, RB25 has 16mm Clutch is TS2BD – 205mm Current disc thickness is 3.65mm, std is 4.2mm...

snuck out of work today and having already put the bell housing in the boot this morning i ducked out to SW to check out the car and see what the clutch looked like. Unfortunately when i arrived about 2pm they were having lunch so i felt kind of bad but Stewart said hello and after finishing off his sandwich showed me over the car. Whilst i was waiting i snapped some shots of the modified bell housing before it had been cleaned up and ground back. Bit rough looking i must admit but all the edges and fins get ground down to blend in apparently - famous last words? We went over to the car and looked at the drive shaft to see if the uni joints were ok and unfortunately they were cactus as i suspected, the drive line noise i had been hearing was in some part to do with this along with also finding out a new thrust bearing is in order as well. Going to go with option 2 as per previous post as can't use the standard tail shaft and simp...

Yesterday before dropping off the car we went for a little drive where I was able to use some full throttle applications and change through the gears a bit. I didn’t get to go full on through the corners mainly because of the gearbox in the boot but it was enough to get a feel for the car and   the car felt strong again and thankfully didn’t seem to miss fire. As with my last post I am a little hesitant but it seems like it has been fixed. What we did was to raise the fuel pressure via the Sard regulator and then retune the car, the reason we raised the fuel pressure was because the injector duty cycle on the ID1000’s were sometimes peaking at 97% on the track. When you get above about 85% it meant the injectors were not linear in their control and the thought was it was dumping to much fuel into the car causing the miss fire. This was particularly the case on gear changes hence the reluctance for it to do it on the dyno. It is the same with all injectors and you can see on this ...

Today I dropped off the car at Stewart Wilkins after a nice little drive with James on the way. Strapped in the R33 gearbox in the boot of the Nissan with an old sleeping bag and heavy cardboard box to make sure it didn’t move. It was quiet solidly strapped in J We ducked out and to the workshop and spoke with Stewart. He is an unassuming guy, very quietly spoken and it was interesting talking with him. You got the impression he had been around for a while and didn't come across as cocky or full of himself, kind of reminded me a bit of my grand father who was a motor mechanic with his own service station. James was asking lots of questions and looking around the place and i was kind of just sitting back trying to take it all in and see what was going on. We had a little look around the workshop at the varying cars predominantly rally based. A nice DR30 was in the front with some fairly nice work done to it which is apparently for sale as well. Thought Rob and Alister would l...

Well I have had an r33 gtst gearbox in the shed for a while now which I picked up for a fair price from a good friend and with the tax return money I received recently I thought I might splurge a little and get it installed. I have held off because of the extra expense but with the power the car is making I am worried about blowing up a perfectly good gear box that I could sell and get money back on. There seems to be a lot of options with the Nissan Z32 or R33 box with spacer plates etc or alternatively you can go the cut and shut approach where you get an sr20 bell housing and cut the end of the r33 bell housing and weld the sr20 and r33 bell housings together. Sounds quiet simple but it is quiet difficult to do and I have herd stories of workshops that have done the same conversion not welding the bell housing on 100% straight. Doesn’t sound that bad but it causes issues with the input shaft and thrust bearings wearing out and then you have to keep pulling the box out to fix. A lot ...

Have been chasing an update from Unigroup from about Thursday last week but was not to worried as I have nothing planned with the car this order last week but justed wanted to know if the issue was fixed. Thought I would drop around on Saturday about 11am to see how things were going and rocked up only to find the roller door down and no one home. Called and left a message that I had dropped by and got a text back on Saturday night that he will be back on Monday. Working away on Monday and about lunch time I was thinking I should call Unigroup when to my surprise the phone rang with Unigroup on the other end. (Pretty freaky stuff). Unigroup were very apologetic saying that they had been quiet busy last week and even Thursday night had slept at the workshop after trying to get the RX7 sorted for the race day on Friday. It must have been satisfying as the RX6 won it’s class and came third outright so seems like it was worth it. I was not to worried as they had fitted me in at short noti...

Was looking around and found these - $31 which is cheap considering what Nissan want for them. http://www.probolt-australia.com/Products/11040001000200060004

Organised to drop over to unigroup today and take the car for a spin with the AFR meter hooked up. The aim was to find the miss fire problem and with everything hooked up after going for a short drive we got some miss fire but the AFR's were fine. We ran it then taking 10% fuel out and it fixed the issue, the mixtures were OK with the 10% fuel but apparently a little to lean for a car that sees the track. Back to the suggestion that the injectors were running at over 90% and are not linear in there curve and harder to control,we decided to look at bumping up the fuel pressure. Check the fuel pressure base it was running 50psi which was higher then expected and with the bosch 044 we could run a bit higher so bumped it up to 60psi. We then chucked the computer in as well and went for a drive to adjust the maps and unfortunately it made things worse, will have to run it on the dyno and have a think about what else it could be. I still think it is somethi...

Called Unigroup on Monday and spoke with them about the miss fire issue, suggestion was to change spark plugs but keeping the same gap. Changed over the plugs yesterday and whilst i was at it added some extra earthing to the coil packs as suggested by the sutton brothers. Went for a drive tonight and sure enough it still happened, as it comes onto boost it miss fires kind of splutters then gets going. I went for a bit of a drive and was thinking about a few things when nearly home i thought i might try taking 10% fuel out, just a little stab of the throttle to see if anything happens. Sure enough BINGO!!!! no miss fire, quickly check the knock levels which are low and give it a big bit of stick. Sweet still no miss fire. Will try and give unigroup a call in the morning but it looks as though the tune is a little to rich and dumping to much fuel in as the boost comes on.