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$2.99/kg pork leg. Not bad for a lazy sat. beer and spit.

There was a break in the weather and the sun came out. Since the roof is iron, it dried off and I got the job done. Lucky too cos now it's pissing down again.

Jesus...it's like goeer wrote that website...

Managed to get Mrs BCB up early (6:30) and went for a ride up to port Douglas for brecky nice spot by the beach, bacon, eggs and coffee mmmmmmmmmmmmmm hardly anyone on the road, made for good bitumen carving gota love winter in the tropics

Hahaha I’m pretty terrible with spelling and grammar but that’s nek level,especially for a business

Well have good news. Just worked with IMS and it is all working as expected. Just a few clean ups but there is now Flex Fuel in the Falcon One thing to fix is Stoich recalc but I was expected that could be a issue to resolve. I will do that and the WOT gear change over the weekend.

Hello all. Names Sam and I’m from Tumut, a little town at the foot of the snowy mountains in country nsw. I have always appreciated the turbo and have been on this forum hiding in the background since 2012. A little bit of my background. I finished year 12 of high school in 2004 and went straight into a machanical engineering (fitting and machining) apprenticeship before the year ended. From there I learnt a lot from the trade as well as picking up fabrication skills mainly in stainless steel tig welding. The shop I worked for specialised in both machining and boiler making and fabrication. As a apprentice you tend to get shifted about a bit learning from all the tradesmen. My hobbies back then were mainly fishing, camping, 4wd touring. Playing rugby league in the winter, cricket in the summer and playing golf in between. My first car was a 1986 2.4 diesel Toyota 4Runner. (Still have it as my knock around Work car). Being non turbo it was a real slug. Especially after the 33” mud tyres and lift etc went on. So I changed out the diff gears from 4.11 to 4.88 ratios and rolled like that fit a couple years. Then I built a high mount tubular style turbo manifold out of stainless steam pipe (with bung for egt probe) and built flanges on the milling machine on my lunch breaks. After fitting them up I built a mandrel bent 3” stainless dump/exhaust with a hotdog muffler. A bit of a tweak on the injector pump according to egt and still happy as near 100k later. Next on the list for the old girl is top mount intercooling. Have the bits there to do it but never got around to it. 2010 my beloved dragons won the nrl premiership and I had a career change. I went in to be a production engineer at a local craft paper making mill doing 12 hour day/night shift basically 5 on 5 off. And still doing it. 2009 saw me buy a 2005 ba mk2 manual GT-P falcon in rapid yellow with 25k on the clock. Did all the usual bolt ons. Lowered suspension with bilstien shocks, full Difilippo exhaust, ballistic cats, underdrives etc. eventually bluepower air box,Herrod cams and blue power tune around 2011. 2012 saw me Drag race for the first time at the fordforums drag nationals where I travelled down with a group from Canberra. And seen me come home with the encouragement award. Bowing out of the dyo Comp by over running my dialed time running my pb for the weekend. 2013 I went back to the same event travelling with the same group. And come home with the trophy for the 12.00-13.99 dyo winner. (Haven’t been back since) A couple more years went by having fun with the GT doing khanacross, short tracks on cootamundra airport and hill climbs with Wagga car club. 2015 seen a exploded diff so I installed a new harrop trutrac centre and second hand 4.11 gears bought from tweeked a year or so earlier. To this day the hasn’t been any other major changes to the GT. Just issues with intermediate timing chain tensioner plastic guides on the drivers side bank. Done 3 of them now since the herrod cams and maybe 35k travelled. First time seen bent valves in 2014 on a qld holiday. So all new chains and sprockets, valves, machine work done through elite auto. 2016 was the 2nd time I got lucky and only had to remove the sump to clean out the plastic etc. 3rd time was at the start of this year about 40m down the road from home. I suspect some kind of engine harmonics are making the drivers side let go maybe from the cams. But this last time the plastic guide grabbed and went around the sprocket and caused a big skip in timing and broke most of the intake finger followers in half. No now it’s living in the garage unregistered until I figure out a plan and what direction I want to go with it. Possibly built motor to hand more revs, bigger cams and something around 200 shot of nitrous OR built motor with single turbo all dabbed up by me or procharger set up. (Brother has au Ute with built dart block/heads 363ci with pd Supercharger so would like to do something different in that regard). Now after all that jibberish leads me to here. Married, mortgage, two kids in daycare under 3 years old. Mrs is driving a 120 prado as the Mum bus. And my only running car was the trusty old 2 door 4runner which isn’t car seat friendly with the little ones. I started looking around for something suitable for me to drive and run the kids around while the Mrs works. Looked at g6e, g6e turbo, f6e and dare I say it, some cammed Expensive Daewoo caprice and Calais. Also at this time my mums partner of something like 20 years recently retired and decided he would trade his ex cop 2007 bf mk2 turbo with the zf in winter white for a new mustang. He called me from the dealership he was thinking of accepting the trade in price of a measley $4k. I told him I would buy it from him for that, so I run to the bank and bought it off him for that price the same day. Happy as Larry. Now pics of the all important turbo When I got it the paint looked cloudy and was in a pretty poor state. Some fading by some kind of chemical used to remove the police stickers. I should have gotten close up pics of it all to show what I mean but these two are the earliest pics I have of the car a few weeks after I went over with tardis to remove old wax that hadn’t been removed and tree sap, bugs and tar After about 18 hours of detailing fun over a few days... 3 stages of cut and polishes topped with Wolfgang fusion estate wax

Do love some 19" argents in silver

Anyways, the first thing I bought for the car to make it more mine (since I’ve known it close to the family for so long) was bought a used turbosmart dual port bov for $100 delivered. Works a charm but makes me wish I had a manual car. Next to change the look was different wheels. Got a hold of 4 genuine silver argents in almost perfect condition. One of them had never been mounted to a car. Chucked on some used spare tyres I had. Pirelli pzero 245/35 front and pzero 255/35 rears. Looks and fit fine. I was worried they might balloon a bit on 8” wide rims but looks perfect.

Also don't let the weight of the converter hang from that last bolt. Put the other ones back in and just nip them up until you crack that last one.

It's bolted to the flex plate obviously. It only slips onto the input shaft in the gearbox. Use a screwdriver or the like to brace the flex plate when you undo it. You can also chuck a breaker bar and a socket onto the harmonic balancer bolt and let it brace on the floor. It's heavy as crap so when you pull the last bolt out make sure you're holding it onto the flex plate or it will just fall off. There converter has a little choad that sits in the crank so it will fall off pretty easily.

You inspired me Rab. I'm just having some marinated chook tits with a couple of sides for dinner but figured why not chuck em on the barby?

Cheers Keith. There’s been a lot of sweet times in the GT for sure. The sour times though is far worse than the baddest warhead. Tumut is a decent town I reckon. Though locals here will complain and want out and blah blah blah. Theres other towns out there a lot worse off than us. Great river to swim in, bush for 4wd and motorbikes, dams for fishing, skiing wakeboading, coast isn’t too far away when it’s a good drive. Especially from here to Cooma as you’d know. bad points for me is race tracks are a long way away. Especially if I break something. definitely happy with the turbo. Going to slowly build it up as cheap as I can to get a stout 350rwkw. I’d be happy with that for a pretty much every day car. I have two brothers into me already saying I drive slow cars. Mark has had a 320rw fg Xr6 turbo and sold it to buy a fg f6. Fully built it and turns near 600rwkw (e85) on bta tune/dyno. He doesnt quite understand the whole mortgage, kids and cost of living plus time to stuff around in the shed fully yet. But I will get there in my own pace as things allow.

I'd be looking at the coils, spark plugs and egt sensor first.

checkmate

sim racing haven't got one, want one this one https://www.pccasegear.com/products/42283/htc-vive-pro-virtual-reality-headset-kit

Mine didnt either back in 2009. So I bought one and threw it in. Bang, instant 2 screens.

Very nice write up, buddy! Good to see you stick with the Fords. Went through a fair bit with your GT to keep it running... Looks like you're into a winner with the turbo. We come through and stay at Tumut before hitting the snowy mountains every year or so. Have probably seen us or we've seen you on the main street. Good spot.

I would have to dig around for it but I believe there was a firmware update for BA's back in the day. The VCT & soliniods could get a little gummy pushing the timing out so I think they programmed in a purge once the engine started to prevent them sticking? I think that was something like the story anyway, I stand to be corrected on that. The connectors on the VCT are also brittle as hell so they may be broken & shorting a bit. As for the rich/lean? Bad o2, vac leak, intake gasket? But if a service cleared them I would focus on the VCT issue and check back re the tune

GTX 2080 anyone?

Yeah doesn't take much to get someone to proof read your site. If I go that way, I'd probably paint it or see if he will make up something a bit plainer. Meanwhile, poor car:

I got his bracket and the upper grill he makes. It's all overpriced but shiny so if you like shiny get it.

So, do all the high flow pumps (walbro etc etc) get the s#its with low fuel levels? I took my stock one out which was doing pretty well on 14psi and would only 'surge' with really low fuel levels 5% etc. First, I put in a second hand walbro GSS340 def genuine, and was getting bad surge at 15% and pinging on boost, so I decided that was shot. A good deal came up for an AEM E85 340lph, so I have put that in but I'm getting surge from about 15% again, no pinging on boost, seems very smooth, slightly less noise than walbro which is good. Is this everyones experience? Happy Birthday Puff.

Yep good tools for the money, I’ve got a large array of kincrome stuff at home and so far no issues

Thinking back to that talk about P clamps etc to attach water and oil lines for the turbo, a guy buying parts off me last week put me onto these: http://www.mackielecindustries.com.au/product/barra-stainless-hanger-for-braided-turbo-oil-and-water Not a bad option. I'm still in two minds as to whether or not it's worth doing a new oil feed on the FG or leaving factory. If I change it I'll do the water line too and get one of these.

I think when you have released your logging software you'll have more interest. Also when some pcmtec tuned cars show solid results, interest will pick up even further. There was mention that @Peppy_t92 had good results with large cam control and drivability. This to me is as much of a game changer as flex fuel and boost by gear is. It's still early days though. If a tuner can't offer flex fuel and boost by gear then 99% of customers will go elsewhere.

@NA_TURBO

I think that cow must have died of malnutrition

#nohoistlyfe

Jake spend only about $3000-$3500 total on mods and tunes on his FG turbo ute .he also has a HDI cooler ,and his power rating is at 346 rwkw on E85 . he has no problems with heat soak at all (QLD Caloundra ) last Saturday he ran a 11.51 at 121 miles and a 60 foot 1.8 . as I have said before ,if the instructions would be better it would be easy to fit the HDI cooler .no problem for someone with some brains to fit one of those (I did stuff up but got it to work ).but for the price nothing comes close to it . the rest of the coolers for sale on the market are over priced (yes they are better )bang for buck show me one that is better . the cooler has been on the car for about a year with no problems so far . all the mods to his car are ,fuel pump - injectors -4 inch dump and cat only -tuned by Forced Performance

Trent, I reckon grab a couple of cheap 22" monitors for work and keep yours at home. Or buy a cheap 22" and take that and your current one to work and get yourself a new one for home. Speaking of sim racing setups...think I've used mine like 3 times since I bought it all...that was a well spent chunk of cash