this car has gone a long way since i first remeber reading about it

Quote: Originally Posted by RB30-POWER Yeah, when the package is as well sorted as this car, you really have to look at the aero dynamics for further cuts to your lap times. I remember when that Mr-Enforcer guy had custom wings and spoilers on his car (not a VL) trying to cut lap times down. They are never preety, but you can't make a final design as its something that is usually under constant re-development. I've said it before Brent and i will say it again. Your VL is really a piece of art. dropped a second with the wing / front bar, high speed grip has been improved heaps. Thanks for the comment, its good to see some VLT guys appreciate going round corners too

Hey I would like to know what did you do to your car to make the handling better?

um, a fair bit... spring rates are approx 5 times the stardard VL rate. shocks are custom built for the car. swaybars are custom with the front bar being 50mm and moved to behind the steering rack. there are no bushes left in the car, its all now rod-ends. rear 4 link geometry is changed. camber is approx 5 degrees negative front with 1 degree negative rear. roll cage is welded in various places in the car to make the chassis more rigid. all suspension arms are custom chrome-moly tube. front and rear track have been changed. wheels are wide - 9" soon to be 10". tyres are race slicks. walkie front and ford touring car rear wing blade also have helped heaps. hope that helps. Cheers Brent

cheers that must of cost a **** load

What is the dash out of? Looks awsome

Sorry didnt realise there was another page

yer mate top stuff absolutely brilliant !

motor/ car rebuild underway at the moment including: MOTOR: reworked head Ferrea 1mm oversize race valves higher CR - was 7.2:1 now 8.0:1 custom moly retainers - LukeVL bigger valve springs bigger cam - 229@.050" and .513" lift - LukeVL ported and matched manifold runners bigger injectors - was 550cc now 750cc motec fuel rail dash 8 fuel line and dash 6 return 984 pump replaced with 044 Argo billet rods ARP head and main studs - cheers Loc new rings and bearings - still std nissan revised oil restrictors ATI race harmonic balancer kit N1 oil and water pumps crank collar to suit N1 pump CDI ignition sump enlarged from the current 8L to 10L CAR: 4" stainless exhaust - no muffler or cat, exits 1/2 way down sill 2" stainless screamer - now exits beside exhaust 17 x 10 BBS 3 piece race wheels - was 17 x 9 ROH bigger driveshaft with race quality OS unis race pedalbox, tilton masters, no booster power steer cooler revised brake ducts lexan rear window (like the side ones are now) VK front screen and rubber remove some more crap I dont need - like headlights motor will be back on the engine dyno in the next few weeks, 20 minute run in and into it...... yay cant wait Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

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with the higher comp, will you still be able to run the boost you were before? What kind of power figure will the bottom end be good for now with those rods? will you be increasing the rev limit?

The plan is to run similar power (hopefully at 3 psi less or so) then use a switch on the dash to use 2 bar, avgas aint bad compared with pulp so it will run 2 bar no probs on 8.0:1, have run 2 bar on occasions already. I have a 3 position switch on the dash that will be: WET - 18 psi DRY - 24psi QUALIFY/PASS - 30psi bottom end rating.....um 700+ at a guess? hard to say really RPM limit will be up, by how much i dont know, I want to have a few 'looks' on the engine dyno to 8k to see how bad the harmonic is on these things, im guessing 7400-7500 limiter.

unreal, sounds like you will have a much wider power band too, with the higher comp probably knocking a few hungred rpm off the spool time. I remember you mentioned limiting peak torque as to not stress the factory rods to much, would this new combination allow you to use the GT35 to it's potential without having engine internals holding it back?

Quote: Originally Posted by Morgz unreal, sounds like you will have a much wider power band too, with the higher comp probably knocking a few hungred rpm off the spool time. I remember you mentioned limiting peak torque as to not stress the factory rods to much, would this new combination allow you to use the GT35 to it's potential without having engine internals holding it back? It will be very interesting on the engine dyno to see how the new combo works and where the power / trq has moved to, cant wait. yes, the dip at peak trq in the boost map will be eliminated and the 3 degrees in the pk trq area will be put back in, the overall timing map was quite soft, so im picking it will still be fine with the higher CR, may even sneak it up by a degree or 2, will find out soon

new pics

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very nice, i like the air intake set-up at the front... what type of harmonic balancer is that??? u running one of those 20% less water pump pulley????

ati balancer, says so up a few posts!!!

thats some serious quality engineering

whoops, im not very good at reading... Some original photos have not been recovered yet.