Project D - 1 DEC 2007

Yeah that is what most people do... I read up on it quite a bit, the pro's reckon 2000KM to change to full synthetic

Most guys also say nurse the engine the first 1000km, but then your rings don't set, it needs load and some boost to set perfectly...

I tried to keep below 0.3 bar boost and variable load for the first 1000km after that I drove normally, giving it good now.

Car just needs a good tune up now then she'll be 100% think the car is running way to rich but Calibrator will sort that out, think my timing isn't 100% as well.

another thing that I might need to do is get a surge tank for my petrol, blerry thing keeps starving when fuel load is low and sliding through a right hand corner.

When it going for dyno tune??

Mine does the same thing, I can hear the pump groan when I hook it hard or park on a slope.

Ummm as soon as I replace my clutch on my Polo, so maybe late next week

Ja my buddy got a swirl pot made for a couple of hundred rand, only problem is the second pump

So when it going to Duane??

Need to fit my clutch in the polo... quickly dropped the gearbox yesterday, will fit clutch in the week

Gary57 wrote:

I got them from Whiteline in Aus, they do international deliveries so no problem there. Check their site for prices.

sorry for hi jacking again, I'm not sure what I need for a complete kit for all suspension bushes, you dont perhaps have the part numbers of what you ordered from them? Oh and your cost on that? Thanks

So when is the car going to Duane to get tuned??

Yip... that and he is sorting out some minor issues

What minor issues??

the previous rubber cheque?

widowmaker wrote:

the previous rubber cheque?

you can see who is back on the forum again

thanks 😉

rubber check hehe... 😂

Did you manage to get the car tuned before Duane left??

STRIKE 3 XX0

Last chance... If a pro can't do it right, who can? I CAN...

D DATE = 27th October... 10 Days from today... Goal - bottom end rebuilt

Reason for rebuilt: Warn rings did a compression test warmed up 600kpa with a dash of oil 1000kpa this was on all cylinders with less than 5% difference, thats the reason for my mystery smoke gents.

Thanks Freddy for donating a set of Genuine Nissan 84mm rings, costs will be marginally small (my CC can handle it) at worst the following will need to be done
* Rebore block (got one spare block)
* Big End bearing set
* Small end bearing set - got spare set
* Few gaskets - Oil Cooler / Front + Rear crank seal, HG got a MLS one

Started stripping last night, engine coming out this weekend!

Tonight, I'll do the dirty work, drain water, oil cooler hoses, gearbox wires...

Last chance!

But if you rebore your piston wont be the correct size, that means new pistons!?

Do you know what cause the rings and bearings to go?? Werent you using ACL race bearings??

Glad to see you are attacking the project again, just think by the end of this you will better than Duane, since he couldnt get the motor right either.

nah I still have my old block than one is about 30 thou oversize and my pistons is 40 thou

Rings went because of a lack of attention from the tuner... motor was running extremely rich (I complained about the fuel usage a while back) it basically washed the cylinders, thus causing the rings to wear.

If I had a wideband meter this could have been avoided, but eish don't have that kind of cash lying around and vark sakes isn't that what my tuner is suppose to do...

Nah I couldn't use ACL's Race for the last build, they don't supply oversize bearings for the CA no more, only STD, I'll just use ACL Duraglide like the last time.

I have managed to find a generic wideband sensor that will plug straight into the wolf and give the same read outs as the LSM-11 but at 15% of the cost. I will get the part number, Bosch have stock in Dbn here for R560-00 or so, much cheaper than buying a wideband meter.

guess what the funny thing is.

this weekend i'm also pulling a ca18det out of an sx, because its tuner (your so-called Pro!???!) also "missed" a few things!!!

like the crank key eating away the main underdrive pulley's keyway, as well as the timing belt pulley's keyway, and everything else down there!

after the "tune" its 140rwkw's (apparently) lasted 3 days, and as for the rest of the work done - i personally consider it unacceptable. i wouldn't pay for that kind of work to be done, in all honesty!!!

luckily the owner now knows someone who is honest, doesn't make any outrageous claims to fame, and will admit when he cant do something so that it can be outsourced!

so i'll hold thumbs for you, if you keep murphy on your side of gauteng, and thus out of my garage!!!!

just a gentle reminder not to be too hasty vladimus, or to try putting squares into round holes (meaning rather match up the right spares, instead just using them cozof they're lying around or are cheap)

if its your last try, pleeeeeez do it slowly and properly. otherwise we all know whats gonna happen...