Recent content by OzDave

Ahh well I can only speak from experience dealing with turbocharging a small capacity car engine, the particulars of a Vmax would need answers from people who've been there. With car engines, in particular here I'm refering to a 4 cylinder 2 litre SR20DE block, you can safely go to about 7 Psi...

How does this sound for a hydraulic setup. Power steering pump geared down to sit on the flywheel, going up to another power steering pump running backwards... essentially acting like a motor, to drive the supercharger. Been idly looking at price of hydraulics in my spare time... rather...

It was the blue goo! Buggered if I know what it was or why it was there, but it was just weirding me out. Ended up pulling the entire front end of the bike to bits trying to trouble shoot it, and when I got to frustrated to continue took a sample of the blue goo inside to experiment on. I dont...

Arggh this is getting wierder by the second, I've been tearing into the bike trying to pull out each part to bench test. Coil pack to the suspect cylinder is fine, but now the coils for the back cylinders are wierding me out. Pull the lead off where it goes into the coil on the back gear...

Work for the Government. Wasn't to bad when our agency was called the OSS but then some halfwitted politician decided to waste several months and a few million dollars of tax payer money to rename us the SS. Yes... thats right... my job title is officially an SS Officer. I cant believe no-one...

Okay, another round of testing done. Chilling the TCI had no effect. But... Is there something special about the front cylinder on the gear shifter side? Because... Checking the spark through the leads, every other cylinder, no effect on the idle a lumpy running on three sound. Then when it...

Awesome link! For future folks who are having TCI/CDI problems check out that link above! Particularly interested in the section regarding pulling the CDI/TCI apart for corrosion and moisture. The Vmax had to put up with a few nights in the rain recently... bit of an issue with a brakefluid...

Yer, that's the problem when you go into the vast unknown like this, there's no similar setups I can just modfiy to suit, gonna have to figure out all the sizing from scratch and that means wandering around asking people questions they really dont want to answer like "How much extra stress can...

cheers mate. Ya know how it is when ur troubleshooting an engine, start getting paranoid after a while! "did it always make a crack?" "was it a crack or a snap?" "Did the headlight just dim or was that a street light?" Will try cooling the cdi tomorrow but think i'll ring around and see if...

oh and on topic, have been sitting around thinking about how hard it'd be to pull the pipe from the water pump and route it so in spins a hydraulic motor then have the water exiting the motor going back into the cooling circuit... I mean it leaves a whole lotta question about the amount of water...

hey alright, score one for the glory of the commonwealth empire, I convert to imperial for no-one but if we're all counting to ten it's gonna save a lotta explaining. Soz if i ruffled anyones feathers, calling canadians a yank is probably on par with calling an ozzie a kiwi. Saw the .com and...

Bugger it, was sure akatora had it but just tried measuring the resistance, 124 on every coil when cold, then when hot and misfiring 147 on every coil... sounded like the right answer too... still kinda leaning towards it being the prob... when it misfires its not a continuous misfire, it kinda...

Aww if I was to try it I'd go cheap as possible to find out if it'd work. Reckon it'd be an SC14 toyota supercharger (bought for about $AU 300 at a wrecker) which is designed for a 1.4 litre engine (sorry, I'm a shocker at converting to imperial measurements but tis an American forum so best I...

Gday all, I'm just kicking an idea around at the moment, and thought I'd see what others thought of it... not going to be building it anytime soon, just jotting down some thoughts. I've got a bit of experience with forced induction, along the lines of turbocharged imports, but have always...

Right, reckon I've got a testing plan now. Seat off, Multimeter into the joint socket, looking for 96 to 126 ohm's between all wires and black. Check voltage at battery. Fire it up. Check voltage at battery while running. Seat back on. Let it heat up and wait for misfire to...