Not unless you know someone who can dyno tune it for FREE.. I can't afford
to have it tuned yet, so it sits in my garage until I have the bickies..
Thanks to ShittyRail, I can still get to work like all the other lemmings.
I Hate front wheel drives with a passion. They handle funny, and there's no
powersliding around corners or fun stuff like that! Reverse donuts are the
best bit about FWD cars.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of simon
> waterhouse
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 September 2000 3:52 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SR20 goes!!
>
>
> not that i've ever driven an SR before but i think i know the feeling.
>
> Never driven anything quicker than my Excel with sports exhaust
> (LOL). then
> jumped in my first datto 6 months ago, wet road, at night, lots
> of rattles,
> no windscreen wipers and z18et with wategate hose hanging of to
> the side.:)
> basically as you can imagine with rear wheel drive and no experience, hit
> third gear and planted it doing about 65 and boost gauge hit
> about 18psi or
> something and ended up on the wrong side of the road before i
> knew what was
> happening. got out, took off my undies replaced them with new
> ones and drove
> very slowly for about two weeks!!!
>
> Great stuff Geordie nice too see your hard work came off with
> something your
> happy with.
> Maybe we'll see you on sunday at Peakhurst??
> Simon
>
>
> >From: "Geordie Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "Sr20transplants@Egroups. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: SR20 goes!!
> >Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:21:58 +1000
> >
> >
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >I have some wonderful news. I finally after 3 long months of
> working every
> >weekend and every night, got my SR20det running in my bluebird
> TRX. What a
> >rewarding experience!!! First kicked over at 9:30 on Saturday morning!
> >
> >
> >I finally figured out that the timing was out by 45 degrees on the crank
> >angle sensor, and the number 1 coil wasn't firing, so I joined
> the computer
> >output 1 and 4 together so they would fire simultaneously. This is how my
> >first drive went:
> >
> >Engine kicks over, blows shitloads of smoke out the exhaust and
> for about 5
> >minutes, the cabin was full of smoke, there was smoke coming off
> the engine
> >from all the cleaning solvents and fingerprints burning away.
> Engine won't
> >sit on idle though.. Bummer!!
> >
> >Pull out onto the street and drive 50 yards to the end of the
> street. Very
> >drivable at low speeds. Some HOT engines I've driven are really
> crappy low
> >down, this was smooth as a kitten's fur and purred just as
> nicely!!! Sit at
> >end of the street and wait for a clean break in traffic....
> >
> >Pull out onto the main road, long stretch of road ahead... Slowly wind
> >engine up to about 2000rpm... Then boot the throttle flat to the floor,
> >turbo goes
> "ssssssshhhhhhhhSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"
> >My head gets pulled back from the g-force engine hits 4000rpm in
> less than
> >1/10th of a second, back of the car squats a bit and then jumps
> like a frog
> >as the engine hits 5000rpm and still winding up... This thing
> was pulling
> >so
> >hard that my vision went blurry, then my head hit the headrest.
> I was just
> >sitting there going AAAAAAHHHHHHHH
> >FAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!... Push clutch
> down... BOV
> >goes "pf.pf.pfpf.pf.pf.pf.pf.pf" in the most beautiful flutter I've ever
> >heard... Pull her into second gear, boot it and the back of the
> car jumps a
> >bit to the side, pulls back straight and leaps like a frog again..Bluury
> >vision as my eyes get pulled to the back of my sockets, Speedo needle
> >hadn't seen this much excitement in all it's life... Hits
> something between
> >70 and 90 in second gear, and then driver's hands were too sweaty to
> >continue so pulls car into service station for it's first drink of Aussie
> >Unleaded!!
> >
> >
> >I swear guys, I have NEVER driven a faster car in all my life. I
> drove a 97
> >model WRX a few years back, and that was quite fun, but this bluebird is
> >totally balls out wicked. I was shaking when I hopped out of it at the
> >servo, had trouble putting the fuel nozzle in the hole!!
> >
> >Anybody thinking of doing the conversion... My advice is.. JUST
> DO IT!! I
> >had high expectations... and I am absolutely blown away with
> this motor..
> >It
> >is truly something to behold!!! I have trouble describing it..
> >
> >It probably sounds like I'm a bit excited, so I apologise to anybody who
> >thinks I'm a nutter. But if you haven't driven a car with a SR20 in, you
> >gotta try it... It really is an experience never to miss!!!
> >
> >
>
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