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yep. have to keep a tanker beside it

we have a blue plate

now its roadworthy time. btw this thing scoots at half throttle . fixed the boost gauge- had it tapped in the wrong spot. curve is now 10,5,10 and vac is -20mmhg. so its runnning fine. still stumped on the boost noise (that also stumped my mechanic.)

if all goes well it will have insurance and rego on it by friday

took it for a roadworthy today - it didn't pass. only a few minor things though. engine is up in the air with the passenger side engine mount off as it shagged itself for some reason.

rest of it is done. car will have rego by friday arvo

has it been engineered at all ??

yep did that on the 13th. QT won't rego it if it doesn't have a blue plate and its VERY obvious.

that said :

I CAN LEGALLY DRIVE THE THING!!!!

it has rego, insurance and a full tank of E10 - taking it to gympie on the 26th.

anyone in brissy wanting a run in it - let me know

Chris_Rogers wrote: anyone in brissy wanting a run in it - let me know

how bout drive it to perth and all us over here will go for a drive

haha!

I meant brisbane. hell the fuel bill alone would kill me. 60l got me 190km in it with a 1/4 of a tank left..

bring it to the January club meeting - im sure there are a heap of us that would love to see it! great news

pm me the details and I'll come. (IE date.)

How about some pics of it finshed so we can all see and dream of something like this.

can do. I was up your way to day with it (bauple) . drove up and back without a hitch. spat a cooling fan when I got back into brissy.
476km on 60 lt with me keeping it OFF boost. on boost it will drain the tank in 250km!

Nice ride mate, very unique project!
Keep us updated.
Cheers
AP

finished pic

(this is the way I drive it - dirt spots and all.)



taken with a nokia 6120 so the image sux.. other camera is with the wife.

WOOOT! Looks really nice
Two thumbs up, but needs a few more 'dirt spots'...

only dirt that car will see is road grime. have a suzi 4x4 and a xtrail at my disposal (family cars) if I wish to play off road.

putting 2 new cooling fans in it right now so it stays cool ( the benz items died!) and gives me no trouble.

had a spare boost box handy as well so I tossed that in. boost is down to 10psi now and I do not have a 14psi spike any more. something was up with the other box.
think I found what my whistle was as well. (you have to hear the car to understand this.)

adam,

if you are reading this : do you have a LOUD whistle at 1 psi and does it go away when the second turbo comes on??

my singel turbo wrx has a VERY loud whistle at 1 pound but i know exactly what that is from ,,,,the whistle slowly dissipates into a very loud jet engine like taking off sound..hahaha

dave

im so jealous of you right now!

alex

haha, mine too, mine has wicked whistle with the VF22 going hard, sounds awesome at full noise with 3 inch exhaust i could imagine urs would be incredible to dave coz urs is straight through right? there was a guy in my town that had a bit of a worked wrx, vf34 turb, front mount etc... it had a 4 inch and it sounded scary....

I know what turbo whine sounds like - this is different. I have run the thing around without the charcoal canister on so I'm trying that. part of the reason I swapped the boost box in the first place.

charcoal canister shouldnt effect anything or even hint about causing any noises.......might caus a tad of surging but this box of yours should eliminate that...and yes...turbo whine is different..lmao....any way u can describe it any better? or is it just simply that...obviously i cant really offer any advice at all unless i hear it so sorry i cant be of any more help...

dave