Sheepers' RA28 Celica

[JoKer]

let him have his moment : some one will need to enlargen his MAGA cap's

stoked you've got a result there Master of Metal and all things old Toyota Mr Sheepers

[RUNAMUCK]

I think there really needs to be a full throttle stationary cooling system test, just to make sure its 100% right. 

Please film, and post results.

[westy]

Awesome news mr sheeper’s. 

[thegreatestben]

Yes now we can look forward to the rest of the car being painted, that red is going to look fucking SHARP.

[Yowzer]

8 hours ago, RUNAMUCK said:

I think there really needs to be a full throttle stationary cooling system test, just to make sure its 100% right. 

Please film, and post results.

I was gonna suggest that too, however it was just on a dyno which is the same thing really.

[Roman]

If you want to try some launch control stuff at the drags with just one wheelspeed sensor then I've found this can work good 



But probably not 4200rpm launch when it's making a shitload of power there haha.

Not sure if its better to use a fuel cut instead of ign cut though. 

Might be harder to get a burnout going though, and that's possibly 80% of the point of drags

[sheepers]

that looks like a thing that might work.

but you're right, burnouts might be compromised and we cant have that.

[RUNAMUCK]

Jolly good show cracking into the 12's!

I'm a little surprised your MPH is so slow, for such a fast time? 

I've gone mid 90's in low 14's, and mid 12s at 107. 

[Roman]

Fuck yeah! 

Awesome 60 foot time! 

Was it hooking up like that all day, or dialled it in a bit? 

 

[sheepers]

that was the only pass i made with such a good launch and some actual traction through first and second.

rest of the day was all 13.2, 13.4 with wheel spin at the first part of the track.

[kyteler]

3 minutes ago, sheepers said:

that was the only pass i made with such a good launch and some actual traction through first and second.

rest of the day was all 13.2, 13.4 with wheel spin at the first part of the track.

Worth getting some sticky drag slick big tyres for next time just even for science? 

[RUNAMUCK]

20 minutes ago, kyteler said:

Worth getting some sticky drag slick big tyres for next time just even for science? 

Do what OMS says.......

[yetchh]

36 minutes ago, sheepers said:

the dash is coming along but i thought i should see if it works before i get to much further down the track.

temp wired it and it works.

now i have to learn a bunch about customising which data gets sent to the dash and also how to drive the dash customisation software.

 

2021-01-14_08-13-50 by sheepers, on Flickr

 

Looks like its idling a bit high.. 

 

 

[NVMPAJ]

Dash looks great,  and will have plenty of options l presume ......whats it cost ..   yes I'm sitting down

[sheepers]

yea there a millions of options.

it was 1800$

[Roman]

Look forward to seeing how that dash turns out! 

It's massively underrated to have a dash (and/or ECU) that can just flash "stop the car, idiot!" in your face instead of having to interpret constantly sweeping gauges while you're concentrating on barrelling down the track at way to fast o-clock.

I'm still chuffed on your behalf for getting a 12, thats friggen sweet.

[sheepers]

yea im looking forward to seeing whats going on inside the engine as i hoon.

more information is always good.

unfortunately because the instructions for the aim dash are so fucking bad i put power to a pin i shouldn't have and fried something so the dash is now on its way back to aim in australia to get repaired. 

the information that comes from aim is so bad that i would actually recommend you buy another brand of dash if your looking. 

[cletus]

I realised I was posting in your build thread, what a n00b   

 

On 21/01/2021 at 09:40, sheepers said:

 

its been since i put the supercharger motor in.

but,

i also replaced the driveshaft center bearing and fucked up putting the driveshaft back together so its been wrong since new motor.

now that's fixed its really not any better.

a camera like yours under the car may reveal something. 

what do you use? the magnetic mount must be pretty full on?

 

Just a bit of 3mm steel bolted to the camera, with 2 very grunty magnets.  I assume neodymium or whatever fancy magnets are . 

[nzstato]

Just re-read this...., inspiring build

Was your 15deg retarded timing come from opposite polarity on the crank sensor?  Same issue here

 

[yetchh]

5 hours ago, sheepers said:

Turned out the vibration was tyres. 

I took the fronts off and chucked them on the balancer to check the balance and straight away you could see they both had big lumps in them. 

Weird. 

Because all 4 tyres did it at pretty much the same time. 

Fuck knows. 

Anyway it's fixed and here's a picture of a tyre so you've got a picture to look at. 

 

Sure it didn't have something to do with that massive chunk outta your rim?