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Nah I checked, carnts just didn't do it right. Bunch of teenagers working on a Friday lol. Second tyre was off by 105g each side when I checked their work, and when I took the weights off and spun it, it was only off by 50g and 20g respectively. They literally didn't balance it and left old weights on it, or just chucked something on to make it look good. I quoted $50 to remove and balance two tyres, first one took me nearly 45 minutes to get right, cos after farking with the balance, I had to debead it and rotate the tyre 90 degrees on the rim. Second tyre took 5 minutes lol, as they should. Oh well, at least I have a return customer lol.

Hmmm looks like that got a tad hot! Here's a pic, I helicoiled my sump turbo oil return.

Yay Tuesday Might do some more work on the car today, not sure yet.

that's an impressive amount of time good work bro

Nah, but what went from a Nexus upgrade and general check over has kinda escalated. Sticking with same turbo and everything else, but engine is getting a full Nitto rotating assembly.

Found a small leak in a vband, fitting my 1800hp turbo to fix it.

I overestimated the amount of duty cycle needed to make boost and I had the cut set at 30 just in case. Haha I was aiming for 25psi which is pretty normal, I will send the farker when the time comes, you can bet your whiskers

Eh I ain't re-updating nuffin But here's today's update: I went down to the dyno to diagnose a fuel issue and instead found another issue. It made 265awkw on 10psi so not too shabby there. The valve springs wouldn't have it with the hectic cams and would valve float with much more boost than that, so didn't bother going further. I'll be upgrading my valve springs and installing new valve stem seals while I'm there. I'll let it run in a bit more anyway before I turn it up too much. The fuel issue is that it's using over double the required amount of fuel at cruise, over triple at idle and has an average of 50L\100km at the moment, and that's not all from flooring it either. I've checked everything known to man except drive-line drag, but it ain't the brakes dragging if it is. Trans shifts perfectly, doesn't slip at all etc. I wonder if the converter is farked? I'll message the trans shop and get their opinion. Anyway there's that, maybe one day it will let me just drive it for a while without having to fix something

yeah... big PITA but reasonable outcome

Stuck it in quicker than ya dad on his honeymoon

Yep it's one of those spots that has those issues. It's easy enough to do in the car, still a pita though

I'm jealous of those threads... looking slick my bloody turbo oil return just leaks like a mofo unless it's perfectly in between "under-tightenened" and "over-tightened" haha

As long as it doesn't look like this you will be right I reckon

all fun and games until somebody does a "as helpful as" thread of jokes

Top chat, go fit some cam caps back to front

The coating is designed to take up clearance. They recommend 2 to 5 thou which is a fair bit when talking piston to bore clearance. If you did a very light coat it would be nearly nothing though.