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dropped the oil and its got bolt heads & swarf all over it
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In Topic: Big Power For The Lego Brick!
22 March 2013 - 07:28 AM
crank trigger wheel bolts have failed @ 7400rpm and taken the scenic route round the engine!
dropped the oil and its got bolt heads & swarf all over it
dropped the oil and its got bolt heads & swarf all over it
In Topic: Big Power For The Lego Brick!
21 March 2013 - 03:21 AM
Well went back to see Chris @ EFi this afternoon now with boost leak fixed and first run on the rollers.... 384bhp!
Second run with a little more boost... 392bhp and that was only 20.5psi - with a boost leak it was pushing 24psi to produce 370bhp so plenty more there!
Then on the next run the car misfired & cut out & then refused to re-start, we spent about 3 hours looking for the cause but it really needs ramps & stripping down so GreenFlag recovered me back to Birmingham
Possible causes, slipped a tooth and the cam timings out though we did borescope all cylinders & quick compression test & all looked good, the crank sensor is slightly scored and looks like the toothed wheel is out of alighnment and catching it on rotation so crank bearings? something definatly loose there anyway & needs inspection
So when repaired its definatly good for over 400bhp 'as is' no need for higher lift cams ect just need to get this stripped down & assessed now and go from there
Second run with a little more boost... 392bhp and that was only 20.5psi - with a boost leak it was pushing 24psi to produce 370bhp so plenty more there!
Then on the next run the car misfired & cut out & then refused to re-start, we spent about 3 hours looking for the cause but it really needs ramps & stripping down so GreenFlag recovered me back to Birmingham
Possible causes, slipped a tooth and the cam timings out though we did borescope all cylinders & quick compression test & all looked good, the crank sensor is slightly scored and looks like the toothed wheel is out of alighnment and catching it on rotation so crank bearings? something definatly loose there anyway & needs inspection
So when repaired its definatly good for over 400bhp 'as is' no need for higher lift cams ect just need to get this stripped down & assessed now and go from there
In Topic: Bye Bye Elise.
17 March 2013 - 10:07 PM
Jonathan E, on 17 March 2013 - 06:29 PM, said:
"Driving the car in anything other than dry conditions demands a heightened sense of alertness than for most cars. Because you get so much feel through the steering you can feel where the grip is less due to ice or rain. Usually a good thing but sometimes it gets too much, there were times when I'd feel drained and be sweating buckets when driving in poor conditions, whereas in my Impreza, to drive quickly is a doddle by comparison. (perhaps you get used to it) After a long, hard day at work 1 time out of 3 I just wasn't in the mood for the Elise."
Yes this! You see, you have to drive an Elise, it doesn't have wizardry to cocoon you from the roads dangers. My abilities as a driver run out way before those of the car. Hell, I can drive a Scooby or an Evo fast, I can even drive my friends RS6 really really fast, you plant your right foot into the sumptuous dry carpet and weeeeeeeee! it goes like sh!t off a shovel, it will go around corners like its on rails and you are a fast driver, but thats not what the Elise is about, to drive an Elise fast take skill and concentration, it requires you to keep in mind at all times that you are the one controlling the car and that patch of mud or diesel spill around the next corner could send you backwards into a hedge, you need to respect that, and thats another thing that makes it so special.
This.
I love the way the Elise chassis rewards you when you get it 'right; but you know it will bite you hard if you get it even slightly wrong...
A few years ago had a 996 Turbo which was very very fast and very very dull... think I did 2000 miles in one year before I sold it!
You'd have got more 'involvement' if you took the train!
