Bear's White NB8B Turbo "Snowie"

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:03 pm

bear2230 wrote:Got some Injectors Bosch 950cc Thanks Suli
Also had a little package from John at PK. It hurts my eyes.

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Cylon version?

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:06 pm

Sailor wrote:Hey Richard, Did you require a drive by noise test for the exhaust?

Not yet but the exhaust is not loud. I would guess 85db max. Dann built it to pass emissions and did a corker of a job.
Im not 100% sure but I think I dont need to pass a noise test.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:30 am

My engineer just took my car for a drive (to jam on the brakes as a test). He then asked me if it was below 85db. Its quiet anyway.

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:39 pm

[b]EMISSIONS TEST NUMBER 3 PASS[/b]

April 1st was a good day.
The first run on E85 came out to rich and a CO reading of 11.5 (2 is the max)
The guy called me in and he let me adjust the A/F ratio, so I took 1 point across the whole fuel chart and these magic numbers came up.

(NOx) g/km 0.06
(CO) g/km 0.7
The PS1000 is relatively easy to increase or reduce richness across the whole range and also to bring the NOx down by adjusting the timing.

I was in the car through the whole test and he drove for about 3 km through all the gears and up and down hills.
Luckily it was never flat out as we had a slight timing miss above 6000rpm.
He said the test was for normal driving and what it does outside what they measure he couldn't give a stuff about.

Pretty happy with myself just quietly.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:47 pm

Cool.
So, he drives it on the road? No, how does he bag the emissions.

Snowmotion · Postby **Snowmotion** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:54 pm

Congrats in getting it passed.

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:59 pm

bruce wrote:Cool.
So, he drives it on the road? No, how does he bag the emissions.

He drives on rollers and the rollers have resistance for going up hills and assistance for going down hills. Quite clever really, and a bloody bog funnel over the exhaust.

speed · Postby **speed** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:41 pm

Awesome news. I'd love a ride sometime

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bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:00 pm

speed wrote:Awesome news. I'd love a ride sometime

Done, As soon as its legal

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 10:33 am

Well done Richard, congrats.

bear2230 · Postby **bear2230** » Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:17 pm

Today we had the first stage of engineering from Chris Gerovassilis from Sydney vehicle Compliance (0419 320 272)
He seems like a good guy but definitely won't let anything pass if it is dodgy.
RESULTS SO FAR
Suspension Travel: Pass Needs to have 100mm free travel.
Exhaust noise: pass Good job Dann Jolly. You rock man. :beer:

Track width/length Pass
Brakes: Pass
Ride Height: Failed needs to be raised by 20mm….Honestly, how can you be too low

100mm min everywhere.
Sparco's sprint V's: Failed. Sealt belts won't secure you down with the high side bolsters.
Brown Davis: Failed Roll bars must have its own mountings and bolts. They cant use seatbelt bolts. Hi risk of bolt/seatbelt failure. He would pass it though if I was to cut off the ears that the Brown Davis that you bolt through with the seat belt bolts and just use 2 x 10mm bolts on the shock tower and the rear bolts. Thats just friggin stupid.

So all we need to do to fully pass is raise it up 20mm, I can almost get that by swapping the 15 x 205 x 50 for my 16 x 205 x 50. That will give me +15mm and 5mm up on the MCA's and we are sweet.
Swap the seats back, pull out the B/D bar get the thing weighed. He also wants a heat shield. Shielding the turbo from the ABS unit and in particular the brake line that passes about 5mm from the dump. My SP doesn't have one but he wouldn't have it.
He is checking all that on Friday night and if its all good he will then do the blue slip as well and then it will off to the motor registry early next week after.

Good news though E-Flex fuel is $1.05/Litre
Bad news is you don't even get 200km from a tank.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:28 am

I though it was a harness for the sparcos?
I'd be interested in what an nb weighs.

speed · Postby **speed** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:34 am

Super close now Richard. Good work!

Suspense · Postby **Suspense** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:48 pm

bear2230 wrote:Sparco's sprint V's: Failed. Sealt belts won't secure you down with the high side bolsters.
Brown Davis: Failed Roll bars must have its own mountings and bolts. They cant use seatbelt bolts. Hi risk of bolt/seatbelt failure. He would pass it though if I was to cut off the ears that the Brown Davis that you bolt through with the seat belt bolts and just use 2 x 10mm bolts on the shock tower and the rear bolts. Thats just friggin stupid

How does that work when the Sparco Sprints have been through (and passed) the ADR testing?

The roll bar thing is just ridiculous and a great example of why people don't engineer mods. Pay a fortune to be told to hack up a safety device making it less secure to comply with regulations that were drafted with no contemplation of the particular cehicle's requirements or what in fact makes the vehicle more or less safe. I'd take an NB MX5 with a BD bar as the more safe vehicle than one without any day.