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For the refz.......
 
In order from left to right.
 
NOS standard
Mackay aftermarket
RareSpares aftermarket
Superpro
 

That was my thought too steve. Its cool to see all the stuff you can do but I want to see the whole process.

Id be more impressed if I could see the results of the items in this clip a couple of days after they have dried. Also show us removing the paint, scratching it up with a piece of 36 grade paper just to prove "its an actual painting process"
Whats the stuff coming from the spray gun at the beginning of the clip? They painting the water with ???? and why.
 
I see this maybe getting bigger in the future, good for painting custom bikes and what not but right now, I don't think it has a huge market.
 
What prep goes into this?
 
To many questions un answered for a 14 minute vid clip.

When a member of wes caliber is banned I understand it will leave shockwaves for a while,it's been long enough.
 
He's started a fight in a turbo thread and he isn't even here lol.
 
Enough though,only gay dudes fight over hair driers.

Now have a heap of pics:

Now Stu and Smithy at Vintage racing prefer tri y's and concentrate on the collectors and sizing more.I did ask if either was keen to do so and they both said they could and would If I really wanted but they have had better results with the tri y's.Go figure...
 
So I have a ex port size of 1.29
 
extractor port of 1.45 
 
valve of 1.56
 
duration @ 50th of 275
 
lift of 709 (684 minus rocker clearance,see it's not that big)
 
12.4 comp
 
6.25 rod
 
3x50mm webers
 
250 shot of fogger...
 
Knock your selves out...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OK maybe no gas but the rest is true...and I'm going to have a shower to get all this bog dust off me and clean up to see if I can pull a root later.

i use anything in my paint cupboard thats just left over silver,then a couple of coats of clear to shine em up nicely ,

Hey guys. I've got a set of bf xr6 rims that I've fixed a heap of gutter rash and scuff marks on. Just wondering what silver/alloy color paint people use when they're respraying or touching them up. I've got them all prepped and ready to paint but the silvers I have are just too silver or bright to match the original paint. Cheers.

Plus to cap off the day nicely, on my way back from picking up the wheels...... I came across Batman - out fighting crime like a trooper, in the Batmobile.
 

 
 

Ando yes 100% tunable, and will run ANYTHING!!!! EFI, carb with ingition, water injection, whatever you want it to do it will be able to do it, just wire it up as needed and select the option in the software. You can datalog to a laptop or ive even got a bluetooth adapter that i can do bascially anything i could normally do on my laptop now on my galaxy S3, i can drivae along and open the app up and change the tune or datalog or have different tunes loaded for each fuel type and just select one. If you wanted to go bigger there are units to do a lot more but just for the basics and a bit more you cant go past these things for price and simplicity.
 
For under $900 delivered to your door you can get all the hardware to run a MS3X which has a lot more functions including sequential injection for 8 cyl and up to 8 igniton outputs for running LSX coil packs, and the rest, even has an onboard SD card slot to datalog direct to the card with a flip of the switch, then eject the card and load it into your laptop.
The software is 100% free but for a small price (donation) you can choose to register and unlock a lot of other features including autotune. And the best part its open source so its been designed by tuners and not programmers so its dead simple to understand and use, and because its not copywrited its constantly improved by tuners all over the world, its like the linux version of haltech
 
I sound like a salesman ahaha...

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Some cunts dont get enought credit for the effort the spend for members on here.
 
Good job, Clint

Your on your PH again ain't you Webby...LOL 

Whenever you want Dave! Just sing out bud. I'm gunna have to get my own anyways now. To used to it being there. It gives a great indication of whats happening with your tune.<br />

i run a innovative one to est tool ive got in the last year but will pete ever give it back LOL

You have to remember that most TMU/TOG cops now are my age (42) and grew up around this era of cars and probably knew at least one person who owned an XC. Out of my group of mates there were 3 that had owned an XC at any one time, 1 of them is now a Sergeant
 
As for sales people, it's a rare deal to find someone who knows something about older cars working at Repco now, sales experience is the number one prerequisite now. Steve McQueen is one of those rare deals.
I had a mate who had over 15yrs wrecker experience and has forgotten more about cars than I know, yet was passed up for a job when the Geelong Super Thief Auto store opened because he didn't have the pretty boy sales look about him and didn't have enough sales experience. WTF!
I asked one young bloke in Geelong for some XE door handles and they weren't in stock on the computer, so I asked him for TE Cortina handles and they had 2 full sets, I told him I'd take both sets and put one set in my XE, he flat out refused to sell them to me because the computer told him they were different part numbers so they were different door handles. It was only after his manager stepped in as I was giving the kid what for that he capitulated and shut his smart arse mouth.

If you get an engineers you've got some sort of guarantee and paper work that its legal. Then when you get pulled over (and you will being on you're p's) you can wave it in their face and then they'll dick you for something else:D

That'll be $100, thanks........

If you get an engineers you've got some sort of guarantee and paper work that its legal. Then when you get pulled over (and you will being on you're p's) you can wave it in their face and then they'll dick you for something else:D

I rang the guy from Knox yesterday and he said he is all good and i can pick some up tomorrow. Recon thats the way ill go at this stage cause its seems easy to get there from our lodgings!
 
Thanks everyone for your input! Ill let you know how they go when i fit them up!

I am liking the bottom pic, it is era correct as well

man I admire you for this thread (and others) your dedication into engine performance and efficiency is second to none, who else has taken the time to build their own flow bench just learn how to port heads properly (I know some people have access to such equipment but who really has their own at home)  its a real credit to your ability and dedication to doing what you love

Well I do...better than copping burns metal splinters shards or cut hands on sheetmetal.Grinder will cut ya hand off with or without gloves regardless

What about a colour scheme off an ef era race car? Djr yellow and blue?

Hey gentlemen, I've started some development work for a blokes speedway engine and thought I would share it along the way and the things I've discovered with the new flow bench.
I've only got a couple of weeks until the season starts so this first lot of development is reasonably basic just to get some improved results to go racing with and develop some more as time goes on. The bloke that the engine is for has asked me to do the inlet, head and carb for him, he wants to build the bottom end himself to save some time as the timeframe for development work is very short.
First of all the biggest restriction in the category is the use of the stock intake manifold, I started with an 84da manifold as they seem to have the most meat in the runners to work with, the stock manifold bolted to a stock head flows between 135 and 138 cfm, the best runners were number 1 and 6, the worst were 3 and 4.
The first thing that I noticed is the abrupt turn from the plenum into the runners, the air can't make the sharp turn so becomes very turbulent and noisy before it even starts to make it's way to the runners themselves, I found big gains in just reworking the plenum area for a smoother and more contoured entrance into the runners, flow jumped to 150cfm. This is a worthwhile effort for anyone that wants to gain a bit of power just by reworking the plenum of there stock manifold without having to do anything else, a cheap improvement that will just cost you some time and some new gaskets.
I've taken it a bit further and cut the manifold up to get access further down to rework the short turns of the runners themselves to improve the flow path further down the manifold.
The engine has to run a 350 holley, so an adaptor is used, the taller the adaptor the better I found the stability of the airflow into the runners, this also gives the plenum more volume which is what I wanted. All of the speedway guys I have spoken to told me that they swap a 500 holley baseplate onto the 350 holley, so I did this and run some comparisons to a stock 350. First of all a 500 base doesn't just bolt on, you have to clearance the venturis for the butterflys to clear, I blended the base plate and reworked the venturis, with just the carbs on the bench the stock 350 pulled 325cfm at 28in depression, my modified 350 pulled 360cfm which is a good gain for topend power. The thing that surprised me was that when I flow tested the carbs on the manifold and head the modified carb dropped airflow compared to the stock 350. After probing the velocities to find out why I discovered that the discharge point of the bigger butterflies was closer to the walls of the plenum and put airflow in a position that made it more difficult for the air to make the turn into the runners, the smaller stock 350 discharged the air more central to the plenum so made the change in direction into the runners less aggressive.
So after reworking the shape of the plenum again to make the walls of the plenum further away from the carb butterflies and change the contour of the curve into the runners I got to a stage the modified carb is no longer a restriction to flow.
After that I finished the rough shapes of the inner runners and there short turn areas which need to be made taller and a wider radius, to aid in airflow making it around the corner into the main runner which leads to the head port, then I finished up the texture on the walls in 80 grit and welded it back together and try to make it look like it hadn't been played with hahahaha
The finished product now flows between 162 and 165 cfm across all the runners so that's around a 20% gain in usable flow, as a comparison a stock 2brl redline manifold flowed 170cfm on the same head so my modified 1 is not too bad for my first prototype, the next 1 will have a bit more time put into it and needs a larger plenum so I will share that when I start it.
The head is next, it is just being reconditioned at the moment then I can start on those ports, with the restriction of the manifold the aim for the head is all lower lift flow so I will show the development of that as I go as well, again this will be on a very tight time frame so just the basics will be done but will show very good results.
Here's some pics
 
manifold I started with

 
After I cut it up

 
Pics of the rough burr work showing the shape of the plenum and runners, I forgot to take pics of the finished texture before I welded it back together, I always forget to take pics hahahaha





 
Welded back together and cleaned up


 
The 350 holley with blended 500 base

 
Some pics of the roughing out of a port getting ready for some port shape changes, more on this in the coming weeks


 

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