~Slideways~

Does the weight difference still add up when you've added all of the extra turbo stuff?

Really interesting idea though...

3 minutes ago, Nominal said:

Google photos links work for a few hours or so then go dead.

Ah, thats annoying. Cheers

3 hours ago, Willdat? said:

If I'm driving the 2GR model I get the same, if my wife is driving she gets <7km/L... It dorts well though. 

Our GS350 is used for the kindy and school run, it gets down to 6km/l from the short runs.

Longer drives and it hovers around 9-10km/l

Did a trip from wgtn to Tauranga and it managed 13.5km/l with 3 people and packed with stuff.

I wonder what the hybrid versions do? Probably has much less boot space due to batteries though?

17 hours ago, rumrum said:

g pics don't werk

Should be good now, was working with Google photos at first then it stopped. Not sure why so uploaded instead.

18 hours ago, fuel said:

Pics no worky for me

Weird, they were working at first but not anymore. Have uploaded to OS now.

Took this off the road to deal with the rust on drivers side of the roof, it was worse than I thought under the bog job that the previous owner had paid a lot of money for.... that was probably 7-8 years ago now so I guess it lasted a while.

I decided to go all out and cut any trace of rust out of the roof then paint the whole thing. 

Condensation is what gets to the roof skins on these so I sprayed lots of wax anti rust stuff in everywhere.

Decided to do something a bit different and paint the roof with 2 pack textured stuff, like Raptor liner but I used Novol Cobra stuff. 

In theory it'll hold up to scratching branches etc, some sound deadening and I don't know...it looks cool?

Also stripped the front bumper back to bare steel and coated that too.

This is just after spraying it so its a bit less glossy once dried, in person it turned out pretty cool:

Also made up some brackets to fit the passenger WRX seat, Murphy's Law meant the last bloody bolt was pre-stripped, it'll have been like that the whole time I've owned it, no way of getting it out so ended up having to cut it open to get to the stripped nut inside and weld it back up. 

Have been driving this everywhere, bit of a tidy up and a new wof.

Took the Semi's off and put the super cats back on, man what a difference the tyre walls make it feel like the tyres are flat. Still fun but easy to out drive the grip now. Shame the semi's are so fckn loud, louder than the worst mud terrains I've had!

Haven't had a chance to do anything else on the Speeduino yet, needed it as the daily while working on other cars.

Out of interest I unbolted a spare 1.6 exhaust manifold to see how bad the collector was to see if they were as bad as Roman's ones.

Yes they are.

Welded on the inside with a thick bead which is choking it down from the head port size:

Look at how much the tube is crushed to fit into the collector!

From the inside it doesn't look so bad because you can't see the crushed bit, but based on the outside, they must be bottled necked heaps here? Why didn't they just make the cone bit a little bigger to avoid crushing down all four tubes?

Bet if I made a better manifold it'd make at least 2hp across the board.

Fixed photo. Saw these in Naenae.

Watching with interest, I remember my old '83 ae86 was stock standard when I got it, even had the intake crossover pipe over the radiator, that thing had so little torque that even gravel roads would require higher revs to break traction.

I remember it was a thing to remove the TVIS butterflies for "more top end", I never did that but I imagine it would make the bottom end torque become a black hole of nothingness.

I had a stripped out ae92 Trueno, no sound deadening, no carpet, no stereo, motorbike AGM battery, seats removed, racetech drivers seat, removed sunroof with alloy panel, plus extra weight of turbo stuff.

Metal Recycler weighed at 920kg.

I know you meant AE70/85/86 chassis, but you said AE's so there you go. Don't be a racist.

12 hours ago, tortron said:

Watching various motorcycle touring/adv content. They all complain about how tiring it is to pick up your bike, and that in turn makes you more likely to drop your bike again.

 

Mate just ride a sub 100kg bike.

unfortunately it wont be as 'light' as my touring bike which i could shoulder fully loaded across rivers and up staircases, but will be close lol

Have you watched this guys stuff? Pretty cool.

https://c90adventures.co.uk/

Oldschool spotted?

Still chasing this misfire, currently have injectors out, which were new xSpurt 1000cc's when put in some time over a year ago. 

They were tested and it sounds like one was a little iffy on a low pulse, but was then fine which is frustrating. But it does actually match the intermittentness of the misfire. I'm not sure its enough to explain the behavior I'm seeing, but maybe since it only happens at idle/low throttle cruise which would be a pretty low duty cycle on big injectors, it could fit.

Getting them ultrasonically cleaned, if that doesn't do anything then maybe I'll just have to buy one new injector and hope for the best.

Haven't had much time to spend on this but have tested the Speeduino in the car a bit more. I had a problem where it seemed like it wasn't reading the trigger signal but have it working now.

When its connected to the car it reads:

- Air temp, with a generic Holden/GM sensor.

- RPM through the factory loom

- Water Temp  

- MAP (vac line to speeduino onboard sensor)

- TPS (BMW one not on the car yet)

- Injectors duty cycle

I still need to sort out an AFR sensor and controller. Maybe I'll just use the one off the 200sx for now.

Previously it just cranked and didn't start but I was happy because it was communicating with sensors etc, this time it actually fired for about 1 second and got up to 1500rpm then died. I view this as a big success though! It does stuff! Even without the TPS fitted since I found I need to remove the throttlebody to get it off the shaft, ran out of time/daily driver things.

I can't tell if the fuel pump is running because its so quiet. Maybe it's just not getting fuel.

Also, much thanks to @Roman for printing this adapter:

1 hour ago, Yowzer said:

Yeah man it goes good! I killed the motor but that was due to deliberate abuse, chucked a new motor in it and it's back up and running.

For the price I think it's worth getting it from Supercheap tbh

Good to know it works well, yeah probably best to just get it from Supercheap. Last time I looked, no one was doing that type of ratchet for some reason. Maybe because they don't fit with the whole one-battery-for-all thing?

On 30/08/2020 at 22:01, Yowzer said:

Holy lols that is my AliExpress ratchet

Is it any good? I was thinking about getting the SCA one but if its the same as Aliexpress I might as well get that. Do you still have the seller details?

2 hours ago, BlownCorona said:

i dont see any reason you couldnt make one. 3d printed ones can be purchased from someone on the NZMX5 Facebook page, but i cant remember who. i also got banned from that page for consistently pointing out that one of the mods, who is also on oldschool, advice is always horrible and wrong lol. 

I was thinking I could make something out of aluminium but a 3d printed one would be easier if the guy on NZMX5's is doing it, I've joined now to try find them. 

Lol, that's a bit weird about being banned.

17 hours ago, BlownCorona said:

bmw e36 (or pretty much any bmw) TPS is popular, several options for mounting it to the mx5 throttle

I literally just got back from Pick a Part with a BMW one! Cheers though.

I was actually hoping to find a Nissan one which is supposed to be a good fit without an adapter. None there so got the BMW one based on the PnP kits. 

I'll see if I can make an adapter or if I need to get one 3d printed. 

27 minutes ago, V8Pete said:

/Emergency exit?

True, could be or also a bit more head room.

Holy crap that's amazing.

Interesting that they all have a sunroof too. 

It does things!
 

Firmware successfully updated with speedyloader:

Tunerstudio recognises it and when I set the map sensor correctly it reads a change when I blow into a vacuum hose:

Connected to the mx5 loom it powers on and the LED’s flash when it cranks:

Next I need to go to Pick a Part and find a suitable variable TPS that’ll fit and maybe a generic Air temp sensor and see if it will fire.

Then decide what AFR sensor to use, could just take the one out of the 200sx but to be honest I haven’t been impressed with it. 

2 hours ago, Adoom said:

Can you get another case and stack them?

Maybe... the standard one can go on top although the bolt holes don’t go through. I’ll probably just space it out or make a new bottom plate.

Trying to find out what type of resistor and diodes the adapter needs but Other than that it’s altogether.

Will need to modify The standard ecu case as it’s too tall.