The V8 Owners Forum -

The car was finished today minus the ecu
now put away in the garage, fingers crossed the ecu is soon otherwise i may lose interest again and it stay in the garage for another year

waiting to be loaded on the trailor,




Now loaded for the journey home:

Sorry to hear it Tony, will turn out to be something simple. It is normally about now when people stop bragging about injection! Wait til you get your ecu back it will hopefully fire straight up.

i still swear by efi mate,
will never ever go back to a carb, even with this set back at present.
but while its not running gives me time to hunt down a charger

M112/3? Or are you thinking twin screw or centrifugal?

looking at centrifugal mate, paxton, vortech procharger etc
missed one last week, which aint a bad thing, real need to get the car running before i go buying more bits

"real need to get the car running before i go buying more bits"

Tony really wash your mouth out immediatly, what sort or grown up talk is that, no more of it on this forum please, there are seriously immature V8 fans reading this and we don't want to upset them with silly talk do we?
Mike

your gona get me in to trouble Mike
the wife said not allowed to buy anymore bits until the car is running and every thing with the new engine etc is ok,
She didn't say anything about looking though,

all joking aside, i am looking to go the supercharged route, and maybe ditch the Nos, or squirt a smaller amount with the charger

that was one of the reason hunting down the serp front end as driving the charger would be a bit easier with poly vee belt.
thus my other post in forced asking what ribs variants do the pulleys come in

i have my eye on an intercooler at present, and by moving the rad another 40mm towards the engine it will open up enough room just to squeeze it between the front grill and the rad,
Jago (montyman) is bringing his centrifugal charger over when he has finished my ecu to see what room i have on the passengers side to fit one.

Thats better talk Tony , now if you are going centrifugal and a nice big healthy intercooler then I would keep the NOs to get you away while the boost is building through the gears. You have probably already realised this, but this type of blower delivers boost in a non linear fassion, if you set it up for say 12lb boost at 6k revs it only makes 3lb at 3k revs, handy if you are trying to avoid detonation at peak torque (where you normally get it) and good for making the engine produce power where the normally aspirated version would be dropping off but can leave you wanting in the mid range a bit. This charictoristic is one reason they are so popular in the US for bolt on aftermarket kits where they don't want to change the CR. If you set up the NOs controler to blead off the gas as boost rises then you should be able to shape the torque curve to what you want and still avoid detonation.
Mike

ahhh cheers for that mike

Good news on the ecu front,
Dave thinks he has sussed it, was a ressistor on the board that should of been removed when converting from Hall to VR trigger.

he is doing a few more tests etc before he lets me have it back,
nice one mate.

So you might be able to take her out for a bedding in run to the Pod this weekend if all goes well Coops ?

BBQ and kettle will be on hand.

Pel

nope no run this weekend mate,
Dave is bringing it to me personally next monday when he is over gathering parts,
I then need to get her trailored back to caprisport to bed the cam in (neighbours wont like me doing that here )
then mot (31st October), Tax November 1st.
any meets in November?

Funnily enough Coops!
I'm at the Pod with Derek on the 1st November for RWYB. Although the MG might be in bits. So I'm thinking of running the MR2 instead.

well if things go to plan next monday when daves over i'll see you on the 1st mate as long as it passes the mot

You mean we can't run it in at your house?
I'm disappointed!

Mind you, some of my neighbours don't exactly like me...

It's still working. I ran a 5 minute test pattern 5 times last night. No trigger errors and no glitches. I'm going to get adventurous and try a new firmware on my ECU tonight.