#### LIGHTYEAR'S TURBO NA6 CLUBRACER ####

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:06 pm

New wheels and seat. Went to winton on friday and blew the power steering line and lost a couple of bolts from the turbo after a few laps. So couldn't race.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:12 am

Sandown was fun, And only 4 minutes from home. Thanks for the pic.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:21 pm

NEW SPOILER - Sits 70mm from the ground

VENTS - still have to put the rubber pinchweld around the edges.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:34 am

I went down to phillip island yesterday with the bmw guys. I was there before 8.00am and my first session was at 2:45 pm. They wouldn't let us on the track because there was no ambulance. It cost me over $300.00 and i did 9 laps. I did manage to lower my lap times to 1:57.1 from a 1:57.9 and that's with the turbo bolts loose again. Only running 4psi. I really need to fix it properly.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:48 pm

New sponsorship stickers, almost looks like a race car.............

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:54 pm

I have put a set of nb8b brakes all round with braided brake lines and rbf 600 brake fluid. (Thanks James)

They are suprisingly bigger - 2" or so...pics soon. I just need to know which pads would be most suitable for track use.

I was quoted a set for $640 but they have to be cut down. I would prefer a set made for these brakes.

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:58 pm

I cant help with the pads, although the car looks great with the stickers and I really like the spoiler in side profile.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:02 am

Magnaflow str8 thru muffler and mandrel bent 2.5" exhaust

NB8B Brakes *note caliper is much closer to rims

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:10 am

I took the car to AVO to get it tuned to 10psi, but it actually lost power. So i have to put on a new down pipe as it's too restrictive. But he said that with the new downpipe on i should see 150rwkw. It has 132rwkw now on 6.5 psi.

d-mag · Postby **d-mag** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:28 pm

I saw your car at AVO last week Dan, wondered what you were up to.

What sort of dump is on there at the moment? And what sort of ECU are you running?

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:52 pm

The dump pipe is shocking, the steel plate that bolts onto the back of the turbo just has a small pipe behind the turbine wheel, and the butterfly on the wastegate is hitting the steel plate. And it has 2 very tight 90* bends straight after the turbo to clear the firewall. So now it will have a 3" flanged, tapering down to a 2.5" to let the wastegate and turbine wheel to merge together. It is running a microtech. And it's david, not dan. I saw yours when i picked up mine. You probably saw my bike there too.

d-mag · Postby **d-mag** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:57 pm

Typo

Who's making the dump?

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:05 pm

AVO - $500

Boags · Postby **Boags** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:01 pm

lightyear wrote:The dump pipe is shocking, the steel plate that bolts onto the back of the turbo just has a small pipe behind the turbine wheel, and the butterfly on the wastegate is hitting the steel plate. And it has 2 very tight 90* bends straight after the turbo to clear the firewall.

GReddy.

Fatty · Postby **Fatty** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:36 pm

Boags'MX5 wrote:
lightyear wrote:The dump pipe is shocking, the steel plate that bolts onto the back of the turbo just has a small pipe behind the turbine wheel, and the butterfly on the wastegate is hitting the steel plate. And it has 2 very tight 90* bends straight after the turbo to clear the firewall.

GReddy.

hey dave, it's funny you mention that because i remember talking to the guys at maztech in preston about your car (ages ago, back when glenn owned it). they did some of the work on the car (installed and tuned the ecu and a few other things i guess) , so as i was looking at getting a turbo at the time , naturally i went and spoke to them , AVO, and a few others.

but yeah they told me that the exhaust on the car was pretty bad and very restrictive (they didn't actually say which part tho, whether it was the manifold, dump pipe, pipes etc ), so they couldn't get a lot of power out of it when they did the tune. i had totally forgotten all about that!

sounds like your car will be a rocket once you get that new dump pipe on.