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  1. Ok so I've gone to have a look and it's not as straightforward as I first thought. Basically the ignition timing and the idle airflow are both in closed loop control at idle. That means that if you change them to an incorrect value they will self correct in just a couple of seconds. I would need to look further into the tune file and see if there is a way of having either the ignition timing or the airflow not be controlled at idle. This isn't a common thing to be looking for, so I would have to sit down and browse through a few hundred, or possibly a couple of thousand parameters to find a likely candidate, then I would need to flash my car etc etc. While it doesn't cost me anything to do this, it does take a lot of time. This certainly isn't a request you would take to a workshop, as you could easily run up a few hours, or a whole day sorting it out. I'll have a look through the tune when I've got some quiet time during the week, I wouldn't hold my breath for an outcome though.
  2. Missus said " should be able to" and I said shooby? She said huh? I said shooby...ubuda, shooby ubuda
  3. Yay Saturday Here's some Aussie slang for ya, "shooby ubuda".
  4. I haven't forgotten again lol but I've been tied up most of the day and now it's dinner time and kids etc. Haha I will go out there and make some changes tomorrow morning and update then.
  5. Fitting the actual intercooler itself is the same as a Falcon. There is some trimming of the inner crash bar, bending of the AC line, I used a rivnut gun to insert some threads for the top mounts and tec screwed some mounts into the lower rad support. I suppose I could rivnut the lower ones too but it was too hot and I cbf lol. FG upper piping fits to the hot side of the intercooler with an extra silicone and 90 degree bend while BA/BF piping fits on the cold side, with a slight change for the lower part of the piping as the terry cooler is flipped. I used the Raceport BOV as well, it needed a vacuum/boost source that I stole from the no longer used IMRC solenoid. It took me about 4 hours to remove the intercooler from the other car, find all the various bits of pipe and silicone, weld up a hole in one of the pipes, temporarily relocate the trans cooler and fark around removing the stock stuff and fitting it all to the car. I went for another drive and it has definitely made an improvement.
  6. There was one on the ground just to the right of the pic
  7. Hue hue hue. Despite the weather man bullsh*tting me, I got the front mount intercooler installed today. I went for a quick drive and it definitely keeps pulling, where it would slow down a fair bit before. After a good few runs I pulled over and the cold side was cool to the touch whereas the hot side was roasting. Needless to say the top mount intercooler was always too hot to touch. Another win, what's next lol?! Valve springs I reckon, I can hear them playing up occasionally. I have a new set and a tool so that can be the next job
  8. Yep currently just over 35, full sun and I'm out here like a dickhead working in the sun all day. Meh it's not as bad as you'd think plus I'm making car gains so that's something.
  9. Weather man says 30C and slightly cloudy which is perfect for working outside. Nek minute it's 36C and full sun which ain't the worst but it ain't the best.
  10. Nah no tuning, just cos the air was cold.
  11. Haha nah, their stop is only 500m from the house. Did a lap around town first to warm it up, same with the other car.
  12. Yay Friday Cold air this morning so some boosting done, then came home and took the old v8 out for a run.
  13. I fitted an under the battery cold air intake today with a fresh K&N pod filter. Now I get all the turbo sucking noises and a baby flutter. Not sure if it goes much better yet, it seems to for about half a second until the intercooler turns thermonuclear 🫠
  14. I haven't tried it yet, I forgot, I'll get onto it tomorrow.
  15. Obviously, that is the first thing I tried. With modern elbows you can't just guess what the problem is, you have to plug in the scanner to see what codes they have.
  16. Yay Thursday Got an ultrasound and xray booked for my elbow next week. Hopefully nothing too hectic is wrong with it, I need the farker working so I can work out the way I want.
  17. It just makes the car better lol. Kinda like having creatine when you lift weights. It doesn't do a whole lot but it does something
  18. Not today but last night, I changed the torque converter lockup schedule on my na+t territory. There's a you beaut OSS tool in the PCMTec software, you chuck in your wheel size, gear ratios and diff ratio, of which the last two can be plucked from the tune. With that you can decide when you want the converter to lock up. I went through and made gears 1 thru 4 stay unlocked until 4000rpm, I left 5th and 6th alone for cruise economy. Now the converter flashes up a little bit quicker, it comes on boost a bit quicker, gear changes are smoother and a kick down has it hauling ass immediately, although it kinda already was like that. 4000rpm is about 140kph in 4th, so a normal kickdown from 6th to 4th to overtake means it's on boost straight away and has a bit more power due to it being slightly higher in the rev range from the converter slip. I am still very tempted to install my built trans with its 3200rpm stall speed, just gonna wait until I can be farked.
  19. The Late model camira one looks like a pretty easy solution. Cheap enough too that if it sucks, or rather doesn't suck enough, you can just donate it to goodwill. Edit: it pulls 29.5 inhg or 14.5psi vacuum, that's more than a stock barra at idle.
  20. I had a ham sammich with bbq sauce for lube, a nectarine, 2 plums and a bunch of grapes. Yay Wednesday
  21. Man I'm hungry! Time for a late night sammich methinks
  22. Not being facetious but you can just press the pedal harder, I did that with mine all the time. I also had a split booster in my other car and the pedal was like a rock in that. I'd just press the fark out of it and it worked fine. Not so much for the missus though lol. Thinking outside the box here, you could raise your idle speed a couple hundred rpm, might be enough to make a difference you can live with.
  23. I think he meant 1.4 bar which is 20.3psi. 2.4 bar is 34.8psi, ain't nobody running that on a stock tmap.
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