charlie's na6

rxmx · Postby **rxmx** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:50 pm

Nice, on a rolling start if you get traction that should put you in low 12 - high 11 sec territory. You running caltex e85?

charlie_91 · Postby **charlie_91** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:47 pm

Ive got some spare wheels sitting under the house that im gonna get a pair of 225/50 street radials and head to the strip one night. Atm its just on bp 98. But the plan is to go for e85 in the not so distant future. i want like 200rwkw on low boost (14psi) and 270ish rwkw on high boost (20ish). I think its pretty achievable. I already have the fuel system for it so i just need to go buy a barrel of e85 and get it retuned.

Im going barrel over pump as there is no pump e85 within like 45min of my house.

Postby **NitroDann** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:55 pm

You will pick up 12ish percent across the range with just a retune, without adding additional boost.
EDIT: You will probably find that 4 degrees more timing in boost will net max torque, and that will get you a bit more power.

Good luck

Dann

charlie_91 · Postby **charlie_91** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:03 pm

Yeah that's what I'm hopping for

should be good fun. Maybe then I'll be happy with the power

Should've built a supra haha

Postby **NitroDann** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:05 pm

Pats car gained 70rwhp in the midrange from the change and retune.

Dann

rxmx · Postby **rxmx** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:26 am

Yah would be good to see what your car does down the strip, e85 is the super juice atm. I'm lucky there's an e85 station 10mins from my place. Ive just received id1000's looking forward to the switch. Just gotta finish fabbing up new exhaust.

Trust me when you start putting down some serious power on e85 you will give some big power cars a surprise. Our cars are just hard to get off the line but once your in motion its all power-weight

charlie_91 · Postby **charlie_91** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:38 pm

Yeah should be good when i do it.. Just gotta wait a bit

Update:
So i have some splitter brackets in transit atm. Hoping they get here by friday

So in anticipation i made a template of the size im having. Ill be going down to the hardware store tomorrow to pick up a big bit of ply to use.

Ive figured out how im going to support the front and sides.. just need to make it up haha

Anyways heres a pic.

Hopefully i get it friday and can finish the install on the weekend in preparation for the trackday on monday

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 7:48 pm

more chins than a chinese phonebook.

matty hall · Postby **matty hall** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:17 pm

What type of splitter brackets did you buy? and where from if you dint mind me asking. Only ask as im In the process doing mine.

Also, are you planning on using ply as the finished material or will you use fiber glass/carbon?

Cheers.

plohl · Postby **plohl** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:26 pm

cardboard - light and super strong :lol:

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:38 pm

plohl

I'm going for the lightest!! Just cutting up an old 'Courier-Mail' now!! [joke]

Looks good

charlie_91 · Postby **charlie_91** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 1:57 pm

Update:

So the track day has gone by to quick unfortunately. I never got a chance to install the splitter though which was sad ..

Track day went down like this:
- woke up in the morning to blue skies

- by the time it was ready to go out of track dark clouds had come over us.
- Managed to get 1.5 sessions on the Clubman Track before it starting pissing it down for a good 40mins.
- Went back out in the rain with no wipers (because i took them out lol) and saw how it drove in the wet.
- These Rs3's paired with my wing makes a surprisingly amount of grip in the wet.

- Changed over to the Sprint Track late afternoon
- Still very wet in the last few corners which made it hard to get front and rear grip exiting the last corner onto the straight.
- Next session the line started drying up good from the sessions before hand
- Went out and as i went to rev past 5000rpm the car just stopped at that point. (See video below)
- After two laps it started to clear up a bit and i managed to get 2 decent laps in.
- With the car still not revving properly i managed a pb of 58.7 on the sprint track

- Not braking into turn one at the top of 5th is fun

Packed up all my stuff and decided to go home one session early due to the car acting up. I think we might have an answer to why it was doing it. Im gonna start by changing over the crank and cam position sensor for new oem parts and hopefully that is that. I think once the car gets a lot of heat into it they start to break down and inturn the Haltech gets a dud reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hemta4V97us&feature=share&list=UUqWwfvuyKn8Jw7z_V0EIoGw

Anyways..

So the next day my splitter brackets rocked up. I unpacked them and went to test fit straight away

Front up on stands

Brackets installed.

Still working on spacing the bottom section of the splitter up to meet the brackets. And i bought the wrong stuff for the front

Oh well it will be done sooner or later

Still working on uploading incar vids.. My computer is being a dick atm

MINX · Postby **MINX** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:28 pm

It was a great day - even with the weather.
I really enjoyed 'following' you down the straight, i was going to watch where you braked and try your line into turn 1
but.... you didnt brake!
so i chickened out and you dissapeared :shock:

Maybe i should get me some aero

Great lap times by the way :beer:

charlie_91 · Postby **charlie_91** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:09 pm

Had some spare time today so i pushed on with the splitter. Subframe mounts done, Front mounts done. Still have to do the side mounts but because of my cooler piping i need to weld something up

Gonna take it off and paint it tomorrow but pretty stoked so far.. Holds my weight just fine (75kg)

Big thanks to Henry for sending me out these and making them in the first place. Cant wait to test this out

Pics...