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Project update

Postby QikLude » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:19 pm

Hey everyone, long time no post from me i know but im still around 8)

Just a quick update note and picture, im trying to pull finger and get the T1 City finished finaly and use it for a daily driver.

Heres a quick picture which says more than anything :)

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Its good to see the City community still alive and lots of others giving some tired old citys a restore :!:

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Postby 84hondacity » Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:42 am

looks god top work

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Postby James » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:01 am

Looking real good man. Been wondering what happened to your project, I know how easy it is to lose momentum. :roll:

Good to have some of the older members still kicking around with cities.

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Postby QikLude » Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:21 pm

bigelboe wrote:Looking real good man. Been wondering what happened to your project, I know how easy it is to lose momentum. :roll:

Good to have some of the older members still kicking around with cities.


thanks for that, and yes these things can lose momentum alright!

and hey, the old citys are such quirky little things i dont think i could ever leave them alone :lol:

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Postby city_cabriolet » Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:15 pm

Hell yeah :twisted:

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Postby K1W1 » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:27 am

Good to hear from one of the "old boys" of this site .Quirky aint the word , I get stopped at least a couple times a week by people who just love the car-s . Sorry Henry but "red"(Pro-T) gets all the comments , "silver" (T2) gets the "what the?" from the numb nuts in fast sixes , silver a "great white" in "tommy ruff" disguise .Great to see some rebuilds goin on too.

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Postby turbocab » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:17 pm

good to see you getting all stoked about the car again,thaught we had lost you for a while there.
keep us posted,more pics!
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Postby QikLude » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:57 pm

the car is now legal and on the road again 8)

I think ive tracked down a place in NZ to recon the vac advance units so that will help the sloppy advance..

doing the run in now, 5psi (modded turbo) and some good right foot feels dam good tho :twisted:

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Postby James » Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:30 pm

Hehe sounds awesome man :D If you ever cross the straight youll have to drop in here.

I was considering having a go at recoing a vacuum advance, I think I have a stuffed one to work on. Actually I think I might even have a spare working one for you...

Out of interest what turbo do you have and what do you plan on boosting?

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Postby QikLude » Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:17 am

bigelboe wrote:Hehe sounds awesome man :D If you ever cross the straight youll have to drop in here.

I was considering having a go at recoing a vacuum advance, I think I have a stuffed one to work on. Actually I think I might even have a spare working one for you...

Out of interest what turbo do you have and what do you plan on boosting?


yeh likewise dude, ever down this way theres always a spare bed here.

anyway,

Hmm turbo is a city exhaust housing bored to fit an Isuzu MU truck turbo exhaust wheel and shaft, mu or GTX center? (cant remember) GTX mazda compressor cover and wheel. Cant remember what the GTX turbos where now. - non GTR ball bearing turbo...

As for boost, more the better lol, was thinking back around the 14psi mark... would love to get rid of the factory cut at some point..

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Postby James » Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:37 am

GTX turbo will either be the vj6 from the bp6 motors or the vj20 (or is it 22) from the later 1800 ones.

Both are fairly capable with the later one being a little larger. They will be pretty good at around 13-14-15psi but will lose efficiency rapidly much higher than that. In saying that it should be heaps for a road car.

Is it a T1 or T2 exhaust housing? The T1 is quite a bit tighter and would spool better.

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Postby QikLude » Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:12 pm

t1 exhaust housing, had to be bored to fit everything though.. clearance is tight.

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Postby James » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:34 pm

yeah when I made the T1/VJ6 hybrid there wasn't a whole lot of meat left in the T1 exhaust housing in places, should flow a lot better with that hunk of metal out of the middle tho!

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Postby QikLude » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:42 pm

seems to spin up quite well, cant comment to much as wastegate only running 5psi so actuator is opening pretty early..

with a good does of left foot it easily hits the 5psi in the 3000rpm range somewhere..

Will take more notice soon i guess :) lol

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Postby James » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:43 pm

Mmmm sounds interesting, keep us posted. Want a working vac advance to borrow for testing?


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