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Messages - Ares Helix
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« on: March 01, 2011, 12:09:38 pm »
Was a few years back but...  Me, Kevin Energy and my wife  Craziest gig I've ever played, having to follow two of Hardcore's biggest names, Kev and Sharkey. Still a great night though!
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« on: March 01, 2011, 09:13:03 am »
Final completed runs:  Final boost pressures: 
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« on: March 01, 2011, 09:10:56 am »
First Power runs, after it'd had the first work at Bob's:  And boost pressure:  Ok, should mention the torque on the above is counted at the flywheel, so divide it by the diff ratio (4.111) to get the power at the wheels. Net gain of about 100 nm (sorry they're measured differently!)
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« on: March 01, 2011, 07:27:37 am »
Have some vids of the dyno, but need to remove the plates from them, plus I suck as a cameraman! :p For now I'll try to link in my before/after dynos
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« on: February 28, 2011, 12:57:40 pm »
So to recap:
- Eyes sore from Lasik
- Moving house with people waiting on me
- Car not starting about an hours drive from home
- yay!
To the tune of: I've heard of this happenning with Power FC's but never seen it! We swung/stumbled into action.
The first job came in re-entering in several tables worth of fuel air ratio and timing degrees. Sounds straight forward,
but it was slow progress. For the second and third tables, we grabbed another laptop and took screenshots of the correct tables,
entering everything manually to be sure things were correct. After getting the basics in, we then made a few more tweaks,
re-attached a sensor module and went for a final test drive. This time, I was in the passenger seat hanging on to the laptop
for dear life, as I took in the marvel of the Guru's driving.
To be fair, I felt completely at ease; compared to the monsters he was used to my GTT is very tame indeed! This didn't stop
us, er, reaching 100km/h quite quickly, perhaps a little too quickly for a bird hanging out in the middle of the road.
Why do they always hang out on the road? I swear that's not a normal place for a bird to be...
Sadly it wasn't able to move out of the way in time, and the Guru apologised to both me and the bird.
He then set about testing the limits of my cars braking; pushed into seat, pushed into seat, pushed into seat, pushed int- thrown
forward!
Fun times!
We headed back to the garage and the Guru started pulling the sensors off the car and re-installing in the ECU in its correct place
(as opposed to in the passenger seat footwell where it had been all afternoon!) Re-installing the hand controller and checking /
tweaking things as he went. The Hand Controller was locked off to only allow me limited access to things (not that I hadn't
learned my lesson from last time!) Wilst the Guru was sorting this, I was given the important task of getting the bird out of my
intercooler.
It was squidgy.
*shudders*
We'd got everything back together, the Guru apologised once again for the inconvenience and we had a bit
of a chat over a well deserved glass of orange juice, as neither of us had eaten since I'd arrived at 1pm
and it was now about 7pm.
I decided to get going back home pretty sharpish, given the moving day bits and pieces, thanking the Guru
again for his time, hospitality and technical know-how.
The drive home in the sunset was perfect. The only things missing were my mates!
The car is now safe and sound, running so well and not missing a beat (aside from me not being used to the new clutch!)
Next update: Final conclusion! (complete with some dyno sheets!)
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« on: February 24, 2011, 01:16:07 pm »
There are few things in life that give you a feeling of real, solid relief. Getting home after a night out on the town,
at a place where the bathrooms are too dodgy to enter, is defiantely one! As is that feeling of, wow, asking the
boss for a payrise wasn't all that hard, even if he said no!
As I drove back from the Guru's, that Thursday, it was defiantely one of those moments! The car was running
flawlessly. The upped power and more solid cooling had definately given the car a more solid feel, not to mention
the lumpy rotary-ish sound coming from the engine bay at idle! The new clutch was proving to be interesting down
low, but amazing for changes whilst rolling.
All up, things were pretty sweet.
I decided I had time to grab a warrant before heading into Remuera for a pre-Lasik discussion with the doctor
performing the proceedure. I caught up with a mate who's a mechanic and he arranged it.
Took it to the place he'd recommended, parked up and jumped out to wait for a bit.
When it was started by the mechanic, is where my sense of relief ran screaming.
He turned on the lights and the engine started surging at idle.
Not good.
The warrant was passed however, as my mechanic buddy was present and explained what
I'd just had done.
From there it was into Remuera for the eye check.
That night the surging returned when my lights were on, so I called the Guru and arranged
to head back up on that coming Saturday.
Friday was a non event due to moving house and the lasik proceedure I'd just had that morning.
Might I just say, ow, followed by thank Christ for sedatives...
Saturday morning rolled around and with a great nights sleep behind me, I headed out to my
checkup appointment, then to the Oakley store who swapped out my perscription lenses for regular
ones. A bit later that day I headed up to the guru's. A few tests later, the Guru decided to check
an RB25DET wiring diagram he had handy. After disconnecting the rear demister and headlights from
the ECU loom and checked they were still working, we had one little tweak to the engine map to do.
Things were going pretty well, I'd been there for about 20 minutes all up, when we decided to update
the ECU automatically, rather than just changing the few little tweaks needed, think of it like flashing and
updating the bios on your pc.
Got that pictured?
Good, now think about what happens when the bios errors half way through updating.
Turned the key.
Nothing Happened.
...
FUCK!
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« on: February 22, 2011, 11:41:51 am »
Or a really bad FPS?
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« on: February 22, 2011, 11:19:44 am »
Going to go and wash my new addition... M35 Stagea. NICE!!!
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« on: February 22, 2011, 08:41:55 am »
Grrr, reply fail! Just typed one and now all gone  Ok, NZ Sunshine is pretty nasty due to a lack of UV filtering ozone, the cause of all those terrible things like melanomas, heat stroke and slip slop slap and wrap adverts. Most cars are sensitive to it as well, hence your paint will last longer of parked inside. The Head-light lenses of most cars are prone to discolouration and 'clouding' after prolonged exposure to NZ's harmful UV levels. Quickest way to sort them is with a bit of cutting compound and an orbital buffer (even a cheap one!) but once you start doing this, you'll need to keep doing it every few months... Or at least each warrant!
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« on: February 15, 2011, 01:41:07 pm »
You know when you're really racing to meet a deadline but things keep popping up that keep you from it?
Like the last few weeks of work or school before a holiday?
That time that drags and drags and you're continually thinkin: Geez, when is this xyz thing going to roll around?
Well, if you've ever been in this situation, you may have also been in the one I was in last week, where,
for some reason, when Raj called and said: "I've got MOST of the car assembled, but I've got two drivers side
gaskets and I need one for the drivers side, and one for the passenger side..."
I cracked up laughing.
After all the dramas, after the missed deadlines and all the other little things that had come along, honestly,
this was so inconsequential that I couldn't help it. Thankfully, it was an overnight order at Nissan, and my
wife in her S2000 to the rescue. She starts work at mid-day so was able to run it up to him.
Of course, that left me sitting here at my work desk wondering where things were with the car, but on Tuesday
night, Raj called and confirmed:
"I'll work on it and get the timing and initial tuning sorted on Wednesday, then we'll get these dyno runs and
final tweaks done on Thursday."
"OK!"
To say a hectic week got worse is an understatement! We were moving out of our flat and into our own home
last week, and to compound things, I was booked in for Lasik eye surgery on Friday morning.Still, I wasn't
wanting to wait any longer and thankfully, my boss knows all about my car dramas!
My wife ran me up to Raj's and after a couple of power runs on the dyno, with a few tweaks of the ecu, we
decided to put her s2000 on the dyno too, just to see what sort of power it had and yes, I'll post up some pics
of the results!
After she'd headed off to work we took the car out for a run and my god did it do that!
So happy with the result I headed off to get a warrant and head home to rest up before I had Lasik the next day...
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« on: February 02, 2011, 02:25:30 pm »
Ok, so New year and Cannonball have been and gone. Holiday non-events and bad mood from lack of car aside, The last week has been mad for car stuff! The only new part to the build was an afterthought: "Will my transmission be ok?""Is it stock?" "Yep...""Nope..." "Rats..."I looked around for an ACT clutch and flywheel for my somewhat problematic car, but to no avail, settling on a sprung twin plate from Exedy. I'm not a fan of twin plate clutches, especially in a road car, but I've been told it's light and the springs make it less bitchy...We'll see though! During the last week of last year, I picked up the newly painted bumper, and that's now on the car looking fantastic. The Sard Injectors were replaced with Siemens 680cc injectors and the Fuel Pressure regulator is squared away nicely. All shims arrived (finally) from Nissan yesterday and I was able to get them up to the Guru's shortly after. When I arrived, the gearbox was out, new clutch was in and so without too much waiting around I headed back to work. I got a call from the Guru later that day, asking me to grab gear box a seal off Nissan, which I ordered, picked up and dropped off this morning. When I got there, again, car was on the hoist...BUT: Camshafts installed with the new shims. Cam Gears Installed and the Gear Box is back in, presumably getting to know the new clutch in a non working environment... At this point we're agreeing that the two areas that will be holding me back power wise are the turbo, being a tad on the small size and possibly the intake. We've decided to do a dyno with no filter on to see if it helps things. If it does, we'll look at a different intake for it, rather than the stock one. Phew! It's been an emotional few weeks, but looks like the final dynos should be this week or next. Fingers crossed!
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« on: December 15, 2010, 05:06:10 pm »
So, here i sit, pretty much heartbroken. Decided to stop by the Nissan parts department after work, on the off chance the valve shims I'd ordered had arrived. They let me know that the ETA had been pushed back as there were none in stock in Japan. Sadly, this means that they won't be ready until the 27th of Jan at the earliest. After sopping in to see my wife on the way home for some moral support, I came home and called up, a few places to see if they could machine some for me but at this point it's not looking likely. Meaning no Cannonball Run and no car until February next year at the earliest. I'm so, so gutted.
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« on: December 10, 2010, 04:56:29 pm »
Will see if I'm allowed :p
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« on: December 10, 2010, 11:01:00 am »
Yup, different base diameter's. He's got a tonne of GTR shims, but none would fit mine. Still Nissan has them on the way for me. If by degreeing you mean timing them correctly, yep definately. The timing gears were a 'mare to track down cos i wanted to retain nvcs (nissan's vtech) They'll be tuned up prior to and during the final dyno runs The ECU settings will also need to be tweaked as the fuel/air mix is up the wazoo at the moment, again, that's what the dyno is for! 
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« on: December 10, 2010, 09:00:19 am »
Ok, so where we're at... The build was progressing well... - Front Mount Intercooler: Check! - Oil Cooler Kit: Check! - Wastegate Actuator: Check! - Camshafts: Check (ish) - Cam timing gears: Check! - Fuel Pressure regulator: Check! - Injectors: FAIL! - Coil packs: Waiting for delivery - Front Bumper: away for painting Ok, so that's the in brief. Guru raj has really outdone himself with the fitting up of everything involved. The oil cooler and intercooler have been fitted up and look great. Sadly we needed to get some speedflow 90 degree connectors to replace the 45 degree ones that came with the kit, but once he got those we were ok. Intercooler had no troubles in mounting whatsoever. The wastegate actuator has been installed and whilst it limits me to one bar (14.5 lbs), tbh, that's more than i was running before and it will be a more constant pressure across more of the rev range. The fuel pressure regulator fitted up, but again needed a few little speedflow bits to help it connect up. Now the fun stuff. The old camshafts were removed and measured and new ones ftted, but sadly, they're a different diameter to the GTR, so i needed to order 14 valve shims from Nissan. No drama really, but they're about a week out from arrival. The cams themselves have been fitted though, along with the timing gears. The front bumper i'm expecting to hear back about today or early next week. Turns out it had been re-painted before, so looking forward to seeing the results of a decent coat of paint. So, the injectors. Sadly, the Sard reccomended injectors turned out to be the correct Ohm rating, but were way to big to fit my fuel rail, even with a lot of modification, it wasn't looking good! I contacted the supplier (being local really helps out here!) and explained the situation. The fact that last time it took about four months to get the injectors he's agreed to give me a refund. Meanwhile, Guru Raj sourced some siemens 680cc injectors and they should be going in today. Aside from that, I'm waiting on a set of Splitfire coils from Aussie to arrive, which I caved and decided to get as they were on special  So that's where we are now!
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« on: December 09, 2010, 05:00:57 pm »
Ignore the cubic inch addict, give us some updates on how this build is going man, it's about the only thing worth visiting in the car forums here.
I didn't know my wife posted here... OH right...
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« on: December 09, 2010, 04:26:18 pm »
v8 or go home tbh......
Each to their own mate.
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« on: December 09, 2010, 02:28:15 pm »
Does it have vtec?
Technically, yes. NVCS is Nissan's equivalent.
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« on: December 09, 2010, 08:28:48 am »
Ok, quick update;
So, work is progressing well. Just after some new valve shims then we'll be squared away.
Will post up the last lot of dramas when everything's done, lol!
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« on: December 08, 2010, 12:58:12 pm »
That's just mean! Was gonna say the winner or person who gets close might get a prize if I can find sumin worht finding a home for!
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« on: December 08, 2010, 10:01:13 am »
Ok, time for a quick question:
How much in the way of rkw (rear kilowatts) do we think she'll make?
Pre-upgrades, my boy blue was putting up 196kw at the rear wheels, not too bad all up!
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« on: November 05, 2010, 08:03:22 am »
Well, it is MO-Vember...
TBH I don't really like the styling of them. Seems like they're trying a bit too hard to look flashy, when understated looks would probably make the car's performance shine all the more!
Any which way I look though, I still come back to the whole:
Those engines should make more power, just like the American ones, which pushes me towards the Toyota and Nissan V8's
Anyhow, in other news, I'm driving an auto '91 323 at the moment. It's horrible.
Can't wait to get my big blue buddy back!
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« on: November 02, 2010, 01:39:49 pm »
K, my bad, I thought it was DOHC and the legacy was SOHC (well, twin cam, when it should be quad...)
As you were...
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« on: November 02, 2010, 07:51:39 am »
Lol.
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« on: November 01, 2010, 02:00:15 pm »
Hmmmmm, check Octane rating on the Civic too btw.
I know my Levin ran like a dog on 91. Needed 98, like my skyline and the wife's S2000.
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