King Of The Bogans Part 2!

Discussion in 'Member's Garage' started by Chrispy, Mar 15, 2009.

  1. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    :rofl: I need a few of them to help with uni :p

    I thought that was all horrible SMD stuff to do the Type 3 boards. I will probably get another type 2 ECU and go from there. At the moment it's working fine and not throwing any errors that make the engine check light come on.
     
  2. tassuperkart

    tassuperkart Its a lie I tell you!

    Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!
     
  3. brisz

    brisz Well-Known Member

    Type 3 is 2x20 holes that need to be desoldered, very easy with a temperature controlled vacuum soldering iron.
     
  4. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Ah ok... Well either way I'll come for a visit one day and let you work your magic :D
     
  5. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Well it's been a while, and I've been pretty slack over the last 5 months :eek:


    The Zed is now practically complete. It all works and there are only a few niggly little bits and pieces left to do.

    I've hooked up the heater hoses. I used standard VG hoses, cut in the middle and extended with some 316SS tube I got from work. This allows the angles to line up properly too.

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    As I had oil pressure problems running the oil filter relocator and oil thermostat, I binned the lot and got a oil input sandwich plate from Canton so I could plumb up the Accusump again.

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    I took it for a spin this arvo around the block and it's running real nice :D No problems at all with overheating, quite the opposite. Barely got over 65deg while moving, 75 when giving it a bootfull and 82ish when idling. Might need to put a thermostat in rather than just rely on the electric pump to control temp.

    Car is great fun to drive, so responsive and lights them up pretty easy, even with sticky Potenza Adrenalins. The diff is super tight too, I like a lot! :cool: Got a max airflow voltage of 4.54V, so it's not doing too bad for itself ;)

    I enjoyed it hugely, I think I'll be keeping this engine for a little while at least. I think it may come up for sale in 6 months or so due to having a play with something else. We'll see :)

    There are a couple of things I don't like at the moment and will fix.

    First and worst is the oil starvation issue on hard rights and heavy braking. The oil pickup is located on the back right side of the sump and with the limited room for sump it appears that the pickup is sucking a bit of air. The accusump kicks in fine, but still not too good. I will pull the sump off and baffle it up. Some trapdoors I think.

    I've got heaps of exhaust leaks in my extractors and exhaust so while the crossmember and sump is off I will pull the lot off and fix it up. Will also hack up the 3" mandrel bend on the drivers side to fix the ground clearance issue. It's around the 75-80mm mark at the lowest point and the rest of it is tucked up nice and high. Don't want to get defected for something stupid like that.

    After that the only items left for a non-dodgy RWC is window washers on the bonnet and fix the hazard lights button on the pod.


    And as some know I've been collecting other bits too.... Here's a sneak peak :p

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  6. Chad_

    Chad_ Well-Known Member

    nice updatee :cool: now get some more pics and vids up :cool::cool:
     
  7. mafi-zed

    mafi-zed the resident hoon

    +1!
     
  8. ichizora

    ichizora Loud

    You're still getting oil starvation even with the Accusump? That doesn't sound promising for my Accusump-less setup... I've been doing a bit of research and drawing up some baffle designs to stick on the sump but I really know nothing about fluid dynamics:confused:
     
  9. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    I took some more pics yesterday, but they just look like all the other pics I have. Red zed with failside :p Vids will come later, need a helper for that :p


    Pah, don't need to know anything other than fluid runs downhill (unless turning or braking).

    Having such a shallow sump makes it tricky. If I was going to get super excited this is what I would do:

    Get the pickup in the middle of the sump.
    Surround it with 4 trapdoors like this:
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    And then have a feed plate from the 'thin' bit of the sump to this middle piece so all returning oil has to go into that centre trap-doored section. This will also stop oil shooting forward under braking.

    I doubt I'll go to this extent, but that's coz I'm lazy :p
     
  10. ichizora

    ichizora Loud

    lol that's pretty elaborate. But doesn't look too hard to implement. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to borrow this trapdoor idea :D
     
  11. Sanouske

    Sanouske Retired Moderator

    TT time Chrispy....

    Tomei cams.

    Thats all the semi exciting stuff for a VG.... or is it parts for a VHTT.... =D

    Good to read of some growth in the project. Was starting to wonder where it was all at.
     
  12. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Nah, just Tomei boxes ;) Custom ground cams on Nismo blanks. Those turbo's have HKS written on them too :p

    Won't be turboing the VH.
     
  13. Sanouske

    Sanouske Retired Moderator

    Nah ah bu but butt!!

    I thought that was the idea all along. You were my hero and and and your going back to a VG....?

    Nismo blanks. I realy would enjoy borrowing your wallet for an evening.

    So what does the mad scientist have in mind? Or do we have to sit tight.
     
  14. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    I've been out on my private race track again ;)

    Absolutely NO overheating issues (did 20k's and a lot of that 'spirited'), I think I will need to put a thermostat back in though, runs too cool. Around the ~70-75deg mark

    And 0-100k's in 6.3sec with a bad start and two missed gears :D lol! According to ecutalk, so not sure how accurate that is. I really have to put new shifter bushings in rather than the none I have in there now :p
     
  15. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Well I have some enthusiasm back now...

    Pulled the exhaust, driveshaft, crossmember, swaybar, intake, sump and pickup.

    Only found a few minor issues. Slight leak from a heater hose, few little oil leaks from where I welded the dipstick to the sump (to be expected) and loose engine mount bolts!! Loctite next time I think... Finger tight :eek: I know I cranked them up tight when I put them on...

    Will be baffling and trap-dooring up the sump :D I've made some measurements, the pickup is pretty central but slightly on the piss due to depth constraints. This means the square hole in the pickup isn't level with the bottom of the sump and makes it more prone to oil surge. Not sure if I will cut and rotate it, it's already about as low as it can go and all the welds are good.

    I'll put piccies up next week when I take some :p


    Extractors are also coming off, need to fix all those horrible exhaust leaks :eek: Also having a good look at the drivers side extractor, I reckon I could have done it much betterer. I'll be able to shorten it about 40mm which will stop it being stupidly (and illegally) low, it's already got big scrapes! Might make a new one one day, but not for a while. Engine and gearbox have to come down a foot or so to get the extractors off. Yay... :( Hopefully the gaskets are ok, the place I bought them off last time only had 10 in stock and I bought 8.
     
  16. Vader

    Vader Just another guy

    That's kinda similar to what is in the fuel tank, yes?

    (btw, nice write-up, as always)
     
  17. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Had a productive evening and day. Got the baffles and trapdoors in the sump done, modified the drivers side extractor for more ground clearance and fixed up what leaks I could (won't be selling them, sorry Kevin :p)

    First part of the baffles getting tacked in to check clearance against the pickup on my spare block.
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    Hinges added to work as trap doors. This allows oil into the main pickup section, but not out.
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    Some little diverter plates to divert the oil into the middle sections only. Stole this idea off a piccy Gav showed me of a DJR Cossie sump.
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    Only a bit of a leak on one of the faces. All the gaskets were OK on this side, but have to replace all the pass side ones. Hopefully there are some in the country.
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    Turns out flameproof extractor paint isn't that flameproof :rolleyes:
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    Need some gaskets, another 180 deg 2.5" mandrel stainless bend and it can all go back together again :D Might even get through a RWC ;)
     
  18. Benny_C

    Benny_C About as subtle as...

    That's awesome bro! Nice work!

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    You're nearly as quick as a stock VG30DETT now! :br::sorry:

    ...

    Do you still love me, Chrispy. :zlove:
     
  19. Chrispy

    Chrispy Pretentious Upstart

    Hehe, it's quicker than a stock TT that's for sure :p I think it's faster than it feels. Guys in the states are running 12's with what I have, less extractors.

    Course I still love you Benny :p
     
  20. ichizora

    ichizora Loud

    Awwwwww, oh well I'll be getting one TIG'd up then :D

    That sump is looking shmick!
     

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