arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 16y 5m 27d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 21/10/13 01:23 PM Share Posted 21/10/13 01:23 PM Good to hear your back and the road Steve. Drove my car for the first time in a long time on the weekend. Forgot how powerful it is, I thought there was something wrong with the tyres. bloody thing just kept spinning the wheels. OH YEH!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 21/10/13 02:11 PM Author Share Posted 21/10/13 02:11 PM Cheers Arron! Feels good to be driving again, except for the wicked bang into gear as mentioned. Here's the piccies! I think I can see the missing bolt he mentioned. Trust Ford to make eleventy billion changes mid production...meh.Sweet!Think the missing bolt is visible here, on the leftFrom the frontDriving it home I tried to change gears heaps, like in the constant 80 zone going from 4th to 5th to 4th every few seconds for example. That particular sequence I felt smooth up nicely. Shifts out of third are a bit hectic at the moment, reminds me of the feeling of Grug's tuned ZF a couple years ago but worse! Interesting Mr Turboboink that you say it will never be as smooth as stock, I'm still on factory ZF tune so fingers crossed it gets back to 95% or so. I'd be happy with 80% smoothness as it is 20% stronger now and that means burrrnnnnoutttssss hahaha. For warming up tyres at the plex. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurdoK Donating Members 719 Member For: 13y 10m 1d Gender: Male Location: Perth,WA Posted 21/10/13 10:47 PM Share Posted 21/10/13 10:47 PM as Simon says it does take about a 1000ks for the box to soften up. was the case with mine. why no zf tune? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 22/10/13 02:05 AM Author Share Posted 22/10/13 02:05 AM Yeah Simon advised if I'm not after more power it would be fine to leave it stock. Prior to that anyway I was not convinced on the need for a tune if it robbed the car of pleasant smooth changes. Especially since I drive in manual mode all the time! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzMahoony Hench, but no longer shredded or tanned. Member 3,343 Member For: 17y 26d Gender: Male Location: Canning Vale, W.A Posted 22/10/13 02:10 AM Share Posted 22/10/13 02:10 AM After you've done your 1k drive in, thread needs more burnouts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 22/10/13 02:44 AM Author Share Posted 22/10/13 02:44 AM I better get down the plex again then! Also no zf tune because it costs money and this was not a "planned maintenance window" shall we say. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masda74 To Loud Gold Donating Members 4,112 Member For: 12y 4m 23d Gender: Male Location: WA, Perth Posted 22/10/13 03:43 AM Share Posted 22/10/13 03:43 AM Sounds like someone is under the thumb just like me.Well at least the cat is out of the hat.The misses is now aware of the planned mods before the end of the year.Good to hear that all is sorted now Steve. I watched your youtube clip like 5 times as I still couldn't believe that you were racing a F6 and kept the lead.Good stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 22/10/13 04:32 AM Author Share Posted 22/10/13 04:32 AM (edited) You mean the HSV right? He was the only car I "lost" to, the others were like 12.5 to 14 second I think. Didn't check if it was a GTS or not...not that relevant anyway as it was clearly modified so it's just a question of budget at that point. Plus it's a dog's breakfast at WAW. Never know what you'll run against, in the end it's only against yourself.If I'm under the thumb then I recommend it to everyone, she puts up with my car obsession with good humor Maybe if she was a bit more hardlined I'd have a fatter bank though!!! Edited 22/10/13 04:32 AM by -SteveR- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 22/10/13 04:53 AM Author Share Posted 22/10/13 04:53 AM LOL just noticed thisReally wish I had pics of them to see the destruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtRmn8 570Nm @1800rpm Donating Members 2,441 Member For: 20y 7m 1d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 22/10/13 06:51 AM Share Posted 22/10/13 06:51 AM Sucks that it was broke, but good that you got it sorted now Steve. I am in two minds about tuning just for this reason, once you pop you can't stop.Also as the saying goes: "Happy wife, happy life" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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