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bah sad times!
I'd hate to see the figure on the bill for cell testing - could medicare not cover most of that?
as for the injectors, that's just tough. maybe you could ask for a return? if via eBay it's quite possible that it'll work!
what's happening with the exhaust? crazy welding tech?
and you know as they say for lsd's -> if you're having nothing but trouble, it's time to go for a minispool, plus like.. there's not many corners where you live anyway! and if there are, chances are you take them sideways... so ... what's the worry? hehe
Of course he has IRSOriginally Posted by Peanuts Inc.
that's why it's famous, there seems to be only half a handfull of IRS VP 5 liter executives around
Medicare give me some back yeah, it not that big a bill it's just that I didn't expect to get a bill from it, kinda normal blood test payed by the goverment spec, seems like the sicker you get the more it costs. I figured it would be the other way around :P, I think I might just get one of those locking diff's like you want for the VN.bah sad times!
I'd hate to see the figure on the bill for cell testing - could medicare not cover most of that?
as for the injectors, that's just tough. maybe you could ask for a return? if via eBay it's quite possible that it'll work!
what's happening with the exhaust? crazy welding tech?
and you know as they say for lsd's -> if you're having nothing but trouble, it's time to go for a minispool
The exhaust is a pain because I would have to make it fromall new pipe my theory of using the old pipe and a few bits joined on isnt really a good theory because the factory bits are thin and all wonky and not very good really, anyway I've forgotten about the exhaust for the moment and I'll concentrate on this manifold
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I think that and a 500 cfm cat is just what's needed. It can go on my list of things to buy next month after I help my wife pay some debts
I'm going to just put the vn headers on for now mostly so I can see exactly what gain they give over if anything over the cast headers (but expecting at least .1 to 60 mph) which should be enough that I don't get any runs over 6.0. Last time I went to the drags the car wouldn't/couldn't go under 6.3 on the morning before the drags were on. I was running a tune with not much bottom end just to be sure I would get full traction but that never happened anyway, now it's running 5.9s almost every timebut I haven't seen a 5.8 yet, when I put my new steering rack in this week I'll also do the gearbox mount and corvette servo and that should drop me down to 5.8 for sure. So just sneaky sneaky .1 at a time, it won't be many more of them untill I can run under 14.5 on the 1/4 mile still with the stock zoorst
New steering rack and VN headers are almost go time
I'll be gteching them on the weekend I'd say, looking for my first 5.8 to 60 mph maybe 5.7s! (after I take the AC pump off)
i didnt run mine stock without the exhaust but i did a 14.69 with extractors and 3" luky turbo muffler no cats. thats a bout .2 to .8 gain from exhaust and its on the stock tune still. also i used extractors that are probably too big for a stock 5.0L (pacemaker 5700) other than that just took air cleaner out. mine is an auto too. hope that helps. from you mph i would say you'll do better than 14.6 on the quater i was only getting 94.
Yeah but the gtech isn't averaged mph like the track so don't take much notice of that, mine made just on 75 mph at the track a while ago on the 1/8th mile but it's a bit faster than that now so you could compare that to your 660 foot mph. It should make a couple more mph with a 3 inch exhaust on it.
It's all pulled apart at the moment with no steering rack, wheels or headers on it :P just sitting up in the air on stands I have to edit the pipes in the Y-piece for the vn headers before I bolt the rack in so that's slowing me up at the moment
the holden mechanic
LSD would also help with traction for a quicker 60 foot timei thought the y piece would of just bolted straight in???
Nup the casties Y piece is different, the VN headers are different lengths to the cast headers so yeah I have to cut the pipes anyway to get the zoorst off since the nuts are seized on
good luck with the whole y piece thing n getting the extractors all fitted up lol pain to do, do you have a hoist? an lsd would help but i had one and if i gave it anything off the line it would still light them up lol. 76mph at 660 i still reccon that you would do better than 14.6. with exhaust and a good tune maybe low 14s. i wanna see it done! stock vn/vp doin 14.2-3s
Bitch of a bitch of a bitch of a thing
Oh yeah, I can use a hoist but my boss has had his Cobra on it all week because he's making a set of extractors for it, so I'm doing it bush style with jacks and wood and tyres and a couple car stands under the K frame just to be sure, but it wont be long now untill I can tell you all just exactly how much faster you go with VN headers rather than VP/S casties and also at the same time we will know about how much faster then VN V8 is when they are both stock. I'm expecting about 10 rwhp
Since I've got my computer running again, Ive been avle to run some simulations of my current setup vs the mods I'm doing now/soon
As the car is now it's something like this
Sat Feb 17 07 1:28 pm
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Simulated_VP_17-2-2007
0-60 mph 6.126
RT .500
60 ft 2.277
330 ft 6.140
1/8 ET 9.401
1/8 MPH 76.88
1000 ft 12.205
1/4 ET 14.584
1/4 MPH 94.58
With the VN headers on
Sat Feb 17 07 1:34 pm
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VP_VN_Headers
0-60 mph 6.050
RT .500
60 ft 2.269
330 ft 6.114
1/8 ET 9.355
1/8 MPH 77.41
1000 ft 12.139
1/4 ET 14.499
1/4 MPH 95.33
With the headers and a 3 inch exhaust and high flow cat
It will be at least like this on the last 1/8th mile meeting here on April 22nd powerwise but may not do the times if I don't have a lsd by then
Sat Feb 17 07 1:47 pm
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VP_VN_headers_3_inch_zoorst
0-60 mph 5.773
RT .500
60 ft 2.244
330 ft 6.022
1/8 ET 9.192
1/8 MPH 79.39
1000 ft 11.911
1/4 ET 14.214
1/4 MPH 97.73
And I might get a manifold built fairly soon now
Sat Feb 17 07 1:52 pm
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VP_vnheaders_3inch_12_inch_runners_choppedbanana
0-60mph 5.526
RT .500
60 ft 2.232
330 ft 5.953
1/8 ET 9.027
1/8 MPH 82.08
1000 ft 11.648
1/4 ET 13.864
1/4 MPH 101.42
It should be able to run a high 13 before I even make proper extractors or change the diff ratio or get a cam, which will be good. That's enough sums for today
OK the VP is drivable again but I still need to edit my zoorst Y piece, the new steering rack works a treat, well if you like driving a girls car. I kinda miss the HQ non power like muscle car feel my old rack had developed along with the 1 litre per week leak :P. I took it for a little drive out the front gate while the wheels were still not lined up quite right (couldn't resist) it seems to have gained a bit in the upper mid range at like 4000 revs but I didnt gtech it yet so I'm only guessing really. Hopefully I can bend the exhaust into a close enough spot so it doesnt leak at the cat tomorrow with my ace pipe bending tech (a jack under it
Gteched tonight, run a 5.85 which is my best time ever but mostly were 5.9s and flat 6's so it hasn't gained hardy anything from the VN headers at this stage, but I expect more once the rest of the exhaust can breath. I'm only making slow progress on my way to 5.5 0-60 mphs but any progress is good at this stage :P
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hows the banana mod coming along? any pics yet? or still in simulation?
The banana is out of simulation and into production, slow production so far, just imagine the banana manifodl with the nose cut off it. That's how it is at the moment. The top will get cut out of it this week, overlaped runners the week after etc
Today I pulled the drivers side strut out to tighten the nut that holds the shocker down. If you ever have a unexplained clunk from the front end there's a good chance that's what it is, so check that
I'm waiting on this NACA duct to complete my new CAI, I'll post some pictures of the rest of the parts once the duct arrives and I have it all bolted up, it's going to be pretty impressive
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is that duct for the bonnet or the front bar? excuse the ignorance
looks like a XB bonnet scoop
For the front bar, its the same ducts planes run on the sides. I think I got a bad batch of fuel today, cars not right, times are not right but that's ok. I'll do no more testing now untill just before the next drag meeting in two weeks time, then I'll try some fine tuning to gain another tenth, I'll also try the blue top injectors before then too. I've concluded the VN headers have gained me nothing at all, 0.0% so so much for that theory. They may gain me something if I had some decent flow inthe rest of the exhaust but not right now.
I decided since alot of people have car loans and are paying 100$ a week back to the bank, I thought it only fair that I put 100$ away each week into a "VP fund" for repairs and parts, if I dont need any parts for a few weeks well then I'll by a cam, if I don't need parts for a year I'll build a strocker motor, but you get the idea. Apart from all that the car seems nice at the moment, everythings solid and handling good, I got a wheel alignment today to setup the new rack and I've had a few sideways almost legal sensible soft rubber (silent) half throttle style drifts from 60-80 km/h out onto the highway and it's been quite nice to steer so I'm pretty happy today
I failed a RWC today, needed a new boot on the IRS axel, which I spent all afternoon replacing. Tonigth I put the old injectors in but I droped them and broke the caps on two so now I have to use old spare ones that are clogged up a bit not all mint white filter baskets liek mine are. I don't know why mine are so clean? but they are reallly really clean.
Anyway I'm going back to the shed to put a new throttle cable in and rewire some lights which I also needed to fix for the recheck tomorrow, them I'm driving to the drag strip tomorrow afternoon. Tonight I've also tuned my friends Silvia, talk about a last minute preperation for both of us
Last edited by greenfoam; 16-03-2007 at 10:53 PM.
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I got rego and ran a 9.3 1/8th mile Luke at 75.50 mph
Also ran a 2.153 60 foot in a stock stall 5 litre with a single spinner diff on $70 remoulds (ace soft rubber ones), that must be something good
They other day I found VP V6 with all the same colours as my car in a wreckers so I got a proper and mint parcel shelf, yay!: ) and I took the back seat also. I'm going to go back and get the front bar because it's much minter than the one on my car.
This afternoon I'll hook up that CAI and then I have to find a IRS muffler and I'll start doing the drivers side of the exhaust, I'd like to have that done before April 15th for the Casterton drags but that doesn't give me much time
All go no and not much show : ) this is the VP after I got home from running a 9.3 1/8th mile
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