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no auto fan its just switched manually for both cooler and radiator fans as thats how the car came when we bought it LOL.i went over it and checked check engine wiring and it started and the light went out maybe the ecu is flakey and then pop on it came error 43 knock sensor open or short.now a while ago like 2 meetings ago i found the knock sensor wire at the ecu had a resistor accross it to earth i cut it out and taped the loom and all was good obviously the check engine light wasnt working at the time :D been racing on reduced timing and previously all driving was done with no knock sensor working at all.quick check with the multimeter confirmed the wiring good so fitted a spare knock sensor fired it back up viola no more light and the cars running better than it ever has LOL sounds way less cammed up :C.fed it 20L of avgas fired it up handbrake hard on foot brake hard on 1/8th throttle or less 2500rpm 0 boost bloody tyres start ripping up still LOL tomorrow its time to go over all the rear brakes its not gonna win LOL on a plus at least we have no where near as much slip we have pulled it to 4000rpm 0psi on the brakes before so its much better :D should sound more like when it was manual and make use of its whole torque curve instead of flashing clean past max torque and max HP rpm LOL
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im glad i havnt got into the whole 4x4 thing landcruiser hasnt even been offroad yet and its put a massive crack in the transfer case have been asked to turn it down a bit LOL
and after putting the engine back in the VB we found the drivers manifold leaking at the flange GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY
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and a couple for sam
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adjusted the handbrake shoes tonight and had another go still no dice heres a vid 2200 rpm minimal throttle just inching it up slowly turbo gets noisey then the tyres turn
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geez that's the flashest tappet cover paint job I've ever seen!

bugger about the leaking flange! nothing worse than having to pull it half apart after just getting it together.
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transbrake time? they are diff breakingly good :P
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well just been for 4 drives round the block we had issues LOL.goto start car solid check engine light again.wiggled the ecu wires and unplugged memcal and plugged back in and its fixed.go for a drive hit boost big pop like we blew a cooler pipe no grunt gas on and it would die off and splutter engine light on restart drive home code 33 map high hmmm check map output all normal check tps output all normal go again same.pull memcal goto swap in another eprom from in the glovebox we have multiple tunes in there for different uses LOL.goto fit the eprom and was like WTF theres a bit of brass on one pin look at the memcal sure as shit when the owner swapped tunes at some stage the machine pin insert had stayed on the pin and one leg was just sitting in a big hole in the memcal socket sometimes making contact sometimes not.this is our stalling issue weve had at the drags the last few meetings i bet ya.fitted another memcal and the same tune that didnt work five minutes before and shes back to being an animal.little more laggy but still slides all over the show at 9psi when boost hits and pulls like a steam train for low boost.time to turn it back up to 21psi :D.also tightened the handbrake to the point it drags quite bad and got it stalled to 3000rpm 5psi time to add drift handbrake and a 2nd set of rear calipers trying to avoid the damage that will come with a transbrake its allready twisted off a axle or 2 in its life without one LOL
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Wow you've got a cool garage full of nice toys. My wife is getting on my back saying 10 cars is too many. I only have 10 cars 3 bikes 2 boats and 4 trailers I thought would be average but she seems to think otherwise.
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we all holden mad the vb owner has 6 holdens right now LOL

Note to anyone reading when you are setting up efi on anything dont just look at the nipple size on the fittings and think they look fine LOL. just stripping the inlet manifold for the 202 turbo so it can be painted and ummm map sensor was on a 5mm nipple but the threaded end of the fitting has a 1mm hole GOTCHA bloody scumbag bet that didnt help the headgasket LOL fuel reg vac sorce nipple wasnt much better hahahaha
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And they are often gummed up inside too, I've seen them totally blocked before!
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