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04' mk2 BA ute 554rwkw


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My 04' BA ute used to be the pride of chiptorque on the gold coast, and has been around for a long time by 4 different owners. I managed to track down the owners and get an idea of the history.

 

I bought the car making 743rwhp (554rwkw) on E85, and 606rwhp (452rwkw) on pump98, but was in very sad shape. Maintenance had been neglected, needed ball joints, tyres, rackends, oil leak repairs, misfiring badly, sh*t matt black territory rims, 2 layers of tint darker than 5%, etc etc

 

The car was running a Direct Clutch twin plate button, great clutch, but was taking its toll on me around town (car accident injuries).. After replacing the concentric slave, and master cylinder twice I had enough, and converted it to auto.

After the conversion, took it out to Willowbank Raceway and promptly melted number 5 piston, which is found out through the previous owners, this is the 3rd time (still ran 11.3 on low boost, on 5 cylinders, backing off just after half track). Time for another rebuild. Going through the older dyno sheets, I found that the AFR's were as lean as 13.6:1 with thanks to 80lb injectors maxed out.

 

ENGINE (*NEWLY PURCHASED)

Nizpro crank girdle

ARP bolts throughout

ARP head studs

Billet oil pump gears

Hardened backing plate

*JE custom forged pistons

*JE chromoly rings

SCAT rods

*Powerbond Race Balancer

*Atomic Simplex timing chain

*Atomic stage 4.5 cams

*Atomic valve springs

*Atomic Ti retainers

*Paul Gilbert ported and polished race head with oversized valves

 

*Nizpro Plenum

*2200cc Bosch Motorsport Injectors

*Turbosmart FPR1200

*Plazmaman fuel rail

Garrett T04Z, A/R1.15 84mm in / 66.7mm ex

Nizpro stainless manifold

*Turbosmart 50mm progate

4" defilipo exhaust

Nizpro Stage 2 Intercooler kit

Turbosmart BOV

 

*Haltech Elite 2500 w/ flex sensor

*Innovate wideband AFR meter w/ data log and linked to haltech for auto tune

*FG coils

 

DRIVELINE

Precise Automatic 1500hp reverse pattern TH400 w/ transbrake

Torque Power Bellhousing

Converter Shop 3500rpm stall

Hardy Spicer tailshaft

2.73 M86 diff that has suprising put up with the abuse (soon to have a TruTrac centre, to make do while I put pennies away for the 9" conversion)

TCI outlaw shifter

 

THE REST

Koni adjustables all round

Low King spring front, Reset leafs rear

Territory front rotors

18x11 & 18x8 Work Emotion rims, 275/40 & 245/45 Federal RSR  --  275/40/17 et street on BF XR6 rims -- 275/65/15 et street pro on ProStar 15x10 5.5" BS

F6 Typhoon frp front bar

Genuine hardlid

35% tint

FPV FG rocker cover

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550rwkw on E85 through 80lb junkers and only 13.6afrs haha better than I thought 

 

what muppet last tuned that ? 

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yep, Chiptorque LOL. You would have thought after the 1st 2 engines they would have figured out their tuner is sh*t

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Nope I wouldn't, there's a poor pro drifter that slides a FG ute that's been through about 5 engines now and each one melts pistons 5 or 6 so they just keep replacing the engine and roll 80lb dekas also and assume the tune is still ok ... muppets everywhere I tell ya lol

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The older these cars get the more amateurs out there that think they can tune. Probably only a dozen in the country and 1/2 of them that are really on the job.

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this was last tuned way back in 07' (by previous owner), I'm pretty picky when it comes to tuners. In SE QLD Forced Performance seem to be the go to guys, but Phantom Performance and Ash Mason of WTS I rate very highly as well. 

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