SideOfBacon

Turbos are showing how deep the rabbit hole can go.




There is no spoon.

PhillipM

Turbo = Can't go rallying. Unless we convert it to diesel, which may be a little difficult.

Besides, turbo lag = fail

Marklar

So how are you pushing 268 bhp without a turbo? Let me guess, you're a supercharger fanboi? :P

PhillipM

Nope

That's a crank figure btw, not wheels, I'm not that good!

Marklar

But still, how are you getting that much at the crank, when stock 8s dyno 180-190 at the wheels? Also, how/why did you measure it at the crank?

PhillipM

No air-con/PAS pump, underdrive pulleys, some intake modifications, tiny flywheel, some slight tidying of the exhaust port castings, standalone management, a proper siamesed LCB exhaust manifold, the silencers are straight through designs, no cat, higher rev. limit, ceramic coated intake with PTFE gaskets to keep the intake temperatures down a little (quite high originally we found), more efficient water pump, a little more charge time on the coils helped too, surprisingly.
Fuel rail was altered to a pass-through to stop the fuel boiling in the rail - there's some heat in that bugger as standard too.

Nothing huge mechanically but lots of little changes.

PhillipM

Oh, and it's running a smaller alternator from a '7, and of course the OMP is in the bin, premixed on Silkolene and IPA.

I've probably forgot some bits.

PhillipM

And my torqueless wonder has just snapped the input shaft clean off the gearbox whilst changing into 4th gear

kersh4w

iTrader: (3)

ipa = india pale ale?

quite a premix!

PhillipM

Obviously it works, sheared an inch of input shaft off like it was made of butter.

shazy

Damn man... That really does suck! I wonder how much it will cost to fix it!

PhillipM

It's not so much fixing it - it's stopping it doing it again!

04RX8man

oh yeah rotary's have not torque oh and their motors blow up at 30k miles

PhillipM

That's OK, the way it's going it's going to struggle to clock up another 100.

04RX8man

yeah of course i'm gonna have to get the first 100 thousand in first

PhillipM

Aw, bugger, the clutch is slipping again...



Give it a few seconds with no throttle then.




Hmm, nope, still slipping...

1.3L

You can get flywheel rubber out of just about anything

-1.3L

Nemesis8

iTrader: (3)

An inch of input shaft? holy smokes

PhillipM

It's the shock loading that kills 'em over the rough stuff, took out the end of a 300M driveshaft and cracked the chro-moly race cages on 2 CV joints too.

Still, back going again now!

YaXMaNGTO

Not totally sure, but I think I see the slippage problem... There are numerous photons of light passing unobstructed beneath your tires.



So, if when hitting water, it's called "hydroplaning", this is an example of "airplaning"

KrumbZ

iTrader: (3)

That's rotary engines don't have **** for torque check out this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZStKvjVTk

Roariee

bollocks!!

PhillipM

2 thanks

PhillipM

Aw bugger, I knew I shouldn't have converted it to hydrogen...

rancan

nice!