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Puffwagon

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  1. It won't last long I can tell ya that
  2. Mo info mo better. I wouldn't be too worried about 0.1mm difference. Take this with a grain of salt but I heard billet gears leave room for growth when they're at operating temp.
  3. Haha I'm not sure saving a bit of Loctite makes much a difference It's a lot more head fark to check the smaller turbos once they're installed cos they don't have a vband compressor or turbine housing. Still less of a head fark than having a busted turbo that's spat ground up compressor wheel into your intercooler. The best thing to do for new customers is to have their turbo gone through by a workshop to ensure reliability, or you can do it yourself if you know how.
  4. No worries lol. Looking at my post it appears that the friction from the back side of the compressor wheel was causing the issue. Why is there friction in this place? There is the bearing, the seal housing piece then the compressor wheel. The bearing design is much different than a Garrett turbo, maybe the design doesn't allow for much leeway in the assembly process. The Pulsar and Garrett use a dual ceramic bearing cartridge whereas the Aeroflow has a dual ceramic angular contact bearing design that uses two separate bearings. Anyhow just thinking out aloud now. Should still be able to pull the skin off the custard when it counts.
  5. Back to the car related stuff, when I was working on the car yesterday I noticed the turbo didn't spin freely. I checked again today when it was back together and it was still tight. I ran it and eventually the turbo stopped spinning. Looking story short the compressor nut was doing itself up and causing friction between the compressor wheel and the backing plate seal piece. I fixed it and went for that short drive this afternoon. Rechecked it a minute ago and it's tightened itself up again. Inspected the shaft and there was a bees dick worth of Loctite on it, not nearly enough to hold it still. Farken loctited the bastard, lined up the marks I had made on the nut and wheel and it now spins freely with fark all axial play. Moral of this story is if you buy an Aeroflow or Pulsar turbo, pull it apart before you use it and make sure it won't come loose like both of mine have. The Aeroflow unit had the backing plate screws come loose and the backplate was rubbing the compressor wheel, for those that don't remember. Lucky I caught both of mine quickly and fixed them, 99% of users will end up with a repair bill for turbo repair and possibly a farked turbo to boot.
  6. Haha she does now. Once again no opinion. Being silly isn't her thing, fark knows why she married me and then stayed with me for nearly 13 years?!
  7. I asked her, she laughed and said no comment. She approves
  8. True dat. The party starts when you get to jerkin off and get the exhaust wrap dust between the sack and the leg.
  9. How good does exhaust wrap dust feel between the fingers? Farken love it
  10. I only went for a quick drive to check for leaks etc, didn't log it. My ethanol/wideband/boost gauge has a peak boost function and it touched 35psi which is pretty normal for a 34 psi tune. I'll get tuning in a couple of days and she should be sweet. Cars don't mind going down in spring pressure, just going up can make them run amok.
  11. Car is sorted. I pulled a wg spring out so now I've got 14psi of spring in the gate instead of 19. It still makes all the boost cos 4 port but now I can turn it right down for a 98 tune when that comes about. I'll have to retune it slightly for the spring change with the E85 tune but that's easy enough.
  12. Yep get it done while I still can. Haha after dinner I'm in it again, the weather has different ideas. Stuck in the shed listening to hill top hoods with a beer, could be worse.
  13. Sounds like you just need someone to help. Where's all them Melbourne folks at? Or maybe a better blow torch, or two blow torches
  14. Oi I don't wanna be a bad influence but isn't this a sign from the heavens telling you that it's time for a brand new shiny hectic exhaust? Then you just fit it up and away you go What you can do though is chuck a pole down the exhaust so you have a fark off lever to bend it. I'm sure the missus can get under the car and heat it where you tell her to.
  15. Yeah I'm not surprised you didn't get the exhaust perfect, that particular job is a carnt to do by yourself at home. If it's good from afar and doesn't bang it might just be good enough ay?!
  16. Haha yeah there's that option too. Unfortunately it doesn't get my car fixed so I just git er done.
  17. Pulled it apart, turns out I had fixed a sh*tload of holes last time that I'd forgotten about. Anyhow the one that pulled the stud out had been helicoiled and the helicoil had pulled some bullsh*t. I used a pin punch and tapped the end of helicoil back into it's groove. I got a longer stud in there and it's nice and tight. That one can go fark itself, fark knows how I'll fix it if it lets go again but I'll cross that bridge if it ever gets built. Put the manifold on and as always the last nut I did up pulled another stud out. Just so ya know I'm not doing them up very tight, the head is just a weak piece of sh*t. Manifold back off, fix that hole, inspect the rest and 3 more looked iffy so rammed helicoils into them as well. Actually I drilled the holes, cleaned and dried them, tapped them with oil, cleaned and dried them again, installed the helicoils, snapped the tangs, blew them out and installed new longer studs into them....but yeah slapped them in and now the manifold is on there tight as cuns nunt. Too sunny to keep at it, I've already had too much sun so now I'll have 57 beers, tree fiddy shots of jacks and put the rest of it together later or tomorrow.
  18. Turbo smart sell an oil pressure regulator designed for this purpose. You can then use a 1mm restrictor at the turbo or in some cases the turbo will already have a suitable restrictor installed into the chra.
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