Thirsty e85 180sx

[colm]

Im snowed in today so decided to fit my adjustable rear arms.





i just measured them up the to the same as the standard for now and il take it to be aligned propely when the weather clears up

[colm]

Ive been messing about with a few things and made a bit of an attempt to get some more lock, thanks to tj for a mad notion that paid off :thumbs:

I marked up things roughly and did some rough trig. and before doing anything i had 32degs of lock either side.


Now ive 44degs.



some clearence issuse are about to arise i think. My disc is about .5mm from catching the lower arm and im getting close to the tension rod with the inside of the rim. As long as there not rubbing im happy, when we get a way to alter the anchorman without having to do any welding il prob have to make a few adjustments

[Frankae86]

Glad it worked out well fella
Did you take pics of the work ya did?

[tweek]

sssshhhh its a secret lol

[colm]

haha so secret i dont even know what your talking about

[colm]

Glad it worked out well fella
Did you take pics of the work ya did?

cheers frank, no didnt get any pics while i was working with em

[colm]

Time this was updated.

Things have gotten pretty slow this last while. I stuck on some adjustable rear arms and then woeful trouble trying to find anyone to re-align my car because it was "too low, too long and too wide" but i eventually got it done so its sorted for now. It isnt exctly how i wanted it and there was a slight misunderstanding which led to some almost positive camber on the front but tis sorted now.

While i was waiting if got some hid's and locking collars from apex. The lights are unbelievable, the difference between them and the standard ones is incredable.

There was a terrible knocking coming from the rear of the car after fitting the collars, after a bit of searching i found out thats fairly normal so now i get to hear every bang and clunk coming from my diff. It would have been handy if i had found that out before taking the collars on and off a couple of times to figure out wtf the noise was

[colm]

and a slightly less boring update, the car is now mapped and pulling like a train!

Stiv worked a bit of his magic on it today and its reminded me how much all the effort was worth it

We expected the q45 afm to max our first but it held out and still has some more room to go. It never went about 4.86v i think. At the min its mapped up to 1.5bar. Once it goes over 1.4/1.5bar is starting to drop to about 1.3 once were above 7k rpm.
Stiv thinks the .5bar spring in the wastegate could be opening slightly so time to get a 1bar spring and keep going.

There was little or no knock throughout the mapping, reading less than 40 on the wideband on the 1.6bar run with plenty of timing advance.

Its now coming on boost at about 2800 and hitting full at about 4000 and feels like a different turbo compaired to how it was running. It used to begin spooling at about 3500.

Traction is now an issue hitting 4.5k in second gave us an interesting instant loss of grip moment on a bone dry road. Along with it slipping out of 4th gear while doing a power run in when lifting off at the limiter

all in all im a happy chap today some more things to do before the trackday but nothing too major. Massive thanks to Stiv for spot on work as always

Higher compression e85 powers ftmfw!

[nick180sx]

hows the sr box holding up man??i'd say mondello won't be long about testing it!same as myself

[tweek]

nice going colm glad to hear your happy with it

@nick how is your car coming on??