Quoting Adorsey: Is that youre coolent temp sensor right there in the upper rad. hose? Because the stock one is low on the t-stat, and is not the sensor on the direct top. I believe that is for ac.yep i know..replaced the ecu coolant sensor on t-hsg,not the fan switch on the adapter

Had a try on it today again..left battery disconnected and went back to it. Starts cold then after a few minutes of running turned it off and it will not start again. I've now tryed another water temp sensor,afm,crank sensor,tested fuel pump pressure with the checker terminal. The wiring is in...

Anyone had a experience of crank but no start when hot,no fault codes..ECU & ISC is in great condition..thought I had a fuel pump problem but it tests fine. Runs a chip similar to keydiver with stutter,055 afm,560 injs. Maybe thinking a sign of the No 1 TDC sensor failing?

Heres a few pics of it outside with the new scheme..

Yeh go check it out..Hutt Rd,Thorndon. Think its there for 6-8 weeks.

The rallycar is all stickered up now and on display at Motorsport NZ,Wellington NZ. Cool to have the car in front of pics of some of NZ's best drivers..Possum Bourne,Denny Hulme,Bruce McLaren etc

thanks for that..i'll be pulling the plug on it before the ecu fries.

just recently my car has been doing the high idle,occasionally not starting..i suspect something is happening to isc/ecu. I was going to fit a blanking plate to fiav soon. Do 1G's run with the isc plug disconnected when they are blanked? Do they throw any codes?

my rally incar click

factory turbine/shafts are great and take a beating,chinese knock offs don't. the turbine piston ring/seal is a custom higher tension one i make that i normally use in the group n rally evos. i use the later Evo 3 7cm exhaust housing with nickel to stop the cracking problem,but instead the...

I had a spare bypass valve from a Evo 7 that normally goes from pre- throttle intercooler pipe to exhaust manifold,and decided to plumb it in the same as the Evo 3 Group A cars had..using the EGR port that goes from beside the intake port through to the exhaust port on number 4 cylinder. I have...

This turbo will only flow 225 horsepower. Turbine is similar to a TD04 size & compressor is 36mm inducer and 52mm exducer. It is common for the vanes to carbon up and seize on these,the shafts also have a tendancy to bend in multiple places when boost is turned up on the steps close to the...

i had a similar oil leak,loosing that same amount of oil..turned out to be the oil relief plug washer.

Totara Park forestry roads..

Here some pics from the 4km gravel hillclimb held on the 11th of July in Wellington NZ. Practice run hit a head sized rock that bent the L/F rim(see pics),and sheared the nipple off the caliper bleeder(lucky not the whole bleed nipple!)..no other damage,the Michelin tyre even kept inflated for...

Some random pictures from my gravel events in 2009

probably have a few 8km in-car vids at the beginning of feb,when i fit the cam

Vid of my car out on the last gravel hillclimb..now running fabricated gearbox with 6.5:1 final drive. click

yeh i might have a few in a box somewhere,i'll have to dig and have a look if you're still keen

There many types of compressor wheels with different sizes,but also a influence is made by the number of blades on the compressor wheel.A compressor wheel with too many blades..normally a T04B 8 blade compressor with a inducer bore over 55mm will go into surge on a 4G63T.To clarify that is when...

Some pictures of works Ralliart VR4's in action.

Some pics of rally VR4's in action central New Zealand 2009.

I had recently been donated a customers old 1g motor that had come with his rallycar,it had been sitting in the corner of his workshop for a few years after he had seized it on the touring stage of a rally.I stripped it down for a look and this is what I found..one of the balance shaft bearings...

I have all my notes somewhere for volumes,flow testing etc..you will notice on the plenium in the pics that the far runner/number1 has a angle tapering towards it to increase airspeed,I was thinking a symmetrical intake into the centre of the plenium would be better,also individual bellmouths...

Hi Alex,have you considered a PPG gearset? David[quote name=Bimmubishi} Anyway I'm still trying to figure out what to do about this. There is a gearset manufacturer in South America that makes a straight cut syncronized box that I've heard is good. Station Arnside in UK also has some good...

no,didn't reuse any of the parts,ended up rebuilding a 92 VR4 RS WQYK gearbox for the car,and just rebuilt a Lancer Evo 2 RS WPFE as a spare

This setup was originally for a customer that wanted a VR4 4G63T put in a Starion.Quad throttle bodies off a Nissan N14 GTiR Pulsar SR20DET motor.I have made up a adapter plate that is cap-screwed to the intake manifold and then ported/blended to suit the 4G63T flange pattern.One of the...

..forgot to show the housing and centre diff..explains the wheels locking up

I have a cusco catalogue I brought back from Tokyo auto salon somewhere..I will look for it in the weekend so I can hand out the part numbers for you.I think it is worth getting them straight from cusco in japan instead of a agent,was quite a good service.Quoting bazeng: so vrfour_nz, are you...

Thats true..I have seen a tilton gearbox pump fail from running the redline green shock oil,as seen in Bimmushi's pic above.Was just way too thickQuoting Dialcaliper:If you decide to run an oil cooler for the transmission, you need to be running thinner gear oil or ATF, and the cooler also...

you should have a look..its always interesting to see what has happenedQuoting mrnvit: im interested to know whats left of my 4th gear in the drag car, there were lots of bits in the end of the case when i took it off, but i couldnt be bothered taking it down further to look.

I am running a 4 spider centre diff and the ralliart viscous at the moment.If you run a aftermarket plate lsd centre diff you wouldn't need the viscous to work,same as a locked centre diff.I have a friend with Prodrive Legacy rallycar and he had his gearbox out..interesting set up..has a oil...

I have seen this failure quite a few times with local dyno tuners when they do a run in 4th gear,the last one I saw was another rally car..when stripped down,a run-in rebuilt gearbox with crack tested shafts had let go pretty much straight away.On my car though definitely having a sump guard and...

The ralliart part number actually refers to a Evo 1-3 CD-CE9A Lancer Group N viscous coupling..I can enquire with ralliart nz if anyone is interested..

This could be a early Group A viscous..I remember the motorsport viscous couplings being numbered like thisQuoting Bimmubishi: Anyone know anything about this one?

Nah not selling..got brand new front and rear cusco out of japan..the other option are kaaz units..should be readily available in aus Quoting bazeng: Damn,Very lucky!!Want to sell that Cusco now? if not, where did you get it from?

Yeh 4th gear..big sideways around a big sweeping corner lost drive and spun out,should of left the restrictor on the turbo!Had the same thing watching brand new oil going down the drain.. Quoting Bimmubishi: 4th gear? I have broken two boxes this year. This time I was in 4th and the car just...

Thought I would share some pictures of the gearbox I damaged on a tarmac hillclimb..I was lucky enough to have no damage to the brand new cusco lsd I had fitted pre-event

If any of you run plate lsd's front and rear in your VR4,you will know that understeer can be a issue..especially on tarmac with rally tyres The ralliart viscous coupling RA737828A1 is what I have used in my rally car..given details on the box +30% 23.1KGf/100rpm,has transformed the car when...