Vlad's rides thread

[vlad01]

Seat belts are only for when hitting trees.

[Gareth]

The poor old thing will probably go bang soon

Whats with the 66mm throttle body?

[vlad01]

machined one up myself 5 years ago to 65mm, soon as I got to 65mm the purge ports broke through and I had 2 8mm holes to deal with, so I tapped them and ran 2 tapered brass plugs from the inside of the TB, re-machined it to 66mm, got mace to make me a plate for 30 something bucks, worked out the new port locations, drilled them with 1mm drill bits, fitted brass tapered barbs the other way, good as gold.

So cost me less that 50 bucks to make a larger quality TB, the v8 ones 2nd hand at the time and probably still do cost over 100 bucks and machined ones were 220 back then. V8 ones dont fit V6 ones without mods to the cruse control linkage and cable bracket. So its work either way.

It wont go bang, its buick neither will the box, its got 592,500km of serious abuse, hasn't quit then, wont quit now.

[HQ355]

Time for some forced induction if it's only just getting run in, may be change the clutch though ?

[vlad01]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFrxX7nRfE[/youtube]

[Dylan]

Just looked at that vacationer tune, nice amount of timing I bet it's pretty responsive in the VR with the manual!
Have you tried any leaner AFR's in to 100kpa areas? It might make a bit more power in the 12.8 range?

Good work great to see the V6's getting some good attention.

[TdracerTd]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFrxX7nRfE[/youtube]

Cant see it, says it's private.

[vlad01]

try now, youtube was having a heart attach yesterday and it didn't even publish a title or description.

[vlad01]

Just looked at that vacationer tune, nice amount of timing I bet it's pretty responsive in the VR with the manual!
Have you tried any leaner AFR's in to 100kpa areas? It might make a bit more power in the 12.8 range?

Good work great to see the V6's getting some good attention.

yeah it has 5% more timing across the table compared to the VR due to lower comp.

I think the VE must be out a heap as it misfires and carries on for 20sec after starting and only get 450-500k out of a tank where the VR with same tune bar the 5% difference in spark and reinstated stock injector specs, where the VR gets easy 800k

Time to mod the loom and add a VR OBD socket and WB connector and do it properly, can't be using that much fuel can we, even if my work pays for it all lol

The stangest thing is the engine sounds way different now, more throaty in the mid to high, where as before it screamed like a motorbike.

Also planting it going from 100 to 110 in 3rd has this loud induction howl. 1st time I thought something was wrong haha. Never had that sound before.

[psyolent]

is it me but did you just pull ~9 sec 0-100 in that thing?