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cj, did you get an estimated time the work should be completed by?

I'll try to get some in the next couple of days.

The "chirping" is the wastegate AFAIK. I thought they also had variable rate BOVs. I could be wrong.

W'ey! :)

Oh, boys... you can't own a 300 and not love tunnels... but at the risk of getting a good kicking, if this is all you've got... then BRING IT ON M*THERF*CKERS!.. Come to sunny SOS and I'll show you a couple of noisy tunnels. Mr Groves knows what I'm on about. I wouldn't advise it, but you could get sideways under one and it'd make some fantastic video. There's even room for camcorder man to stand an capture. Might even get a few runs in before being arrested. It's all pencilled in if I ever get my car back of course ;) What's going on with the non-working boost gauge BTW? Looks like you guys had fun... which is what it's all about really. Nice one ;) Tunnels are ace :)

Hey, going to a gay bar is the last thing I need right now! I dunno, I thought maybe day-dreaming about a couple of good looking girls getting it on might help stop thinking about my current crappy situation. "Relationships", eh?! Never again. It's all f*ckin' one night stands and meaningless casual sex from now on. I'm so f'kin depressed :(

Errrr, no. You're only going to need uprated recircs if you're stock ones can't take the boost you're running. Yeah, fair enough... but on mine they were screwed at 11 psi. I could have had them replaced or uprated, but I don't think I've made a mistake considering how much boost I will be running. they're always going to be better than throwing away all that air you've spent time charging. But I think the point I was kinda making was you throw it away whatever... it can't be stored anywhere without slowing down the turbo (I guess(ed)) and where it's being dumped to with the recirc, it's only benefit seems to be it's dumped back through the intercooler to keep it cool(ish). With the dump valve, yeah you stop the turbo stalling, but you're running the engine on an awful mixture in the meantime This was another thing I didn't really get from the TTnet stuff... if you've taken your foot off the throttle anyway, the ECU will know not to inject tons of fuel... not that it really matters anyway because the throttle's closed... so if anything it might chuck a bit of fuel out the exhaust where it doesn't need to burn it at that time... which (maybe?) helps keep the turbo's spun up? This is all such a total guess on my part, of course. and you're losing all your carefully compressed air. You'll be losing it whatever. No? It can't stay compressed or it wouldn't get dumped. I'm going to get so much shit for this aren't I? No. Why? It's just harmless discussion. I'm no expert (obviously).

Are there any bisexual girls on here... with good looking girl-friends?! What was that about day-dreaming?

Gulp, yeah :) No Stu, I'm not putting a date on it this time... probably won't be running that much by Trax but should (SHOULD!) have the car back at least. Which reminds me, I still need to send that cheque to Ajay. This whole dump valves versus recircs question... can we effectively sum it up by saying uprated recircs could be as good as decent quality dump valves, but are harder to get to and don't burp so loud?

LOL :D Maybe I should stick to what I'm good at? But you can hardly blame me for getting it @rse-faced... "we could direct that pressurized air somewhere else where we could hold on to it until we need it again? The intake side of the compressor housing (between the intercooler and the turbo) would be a good place wouldn't it?" Am I being dumb?! It still makes sense that you can't store up pressure for later. I dunno where he gets the idea recircs can dump enough air for 600+ bhp (2 bar?)... mine started honking at 11 psi. OK, so maybe they were old and busted but at least I know my dump valves will handle 2 bar when I run it... soon ;)

Ouch! :( Is there any chance you can get away with buying the outer half of the split rims? Or are they split effect? Kirbs eh? Hm.

Well, yeah... but she'll be done shortly. What's that got to do with it?!

wow! I like.

Injector pimp? ;)

A fuse on the front bumper?!

Lucky that wasn't the well thought out version then ;) So where does that leave me?

I was gonna put a (maybe) controversial but well thought out post about that "theory"... but this is quicker (I don't wanna think about this much more): how can you save the boost pressure you don't currently need somewhere in the system (so it can be used when you do need it) without slowing the turbo down?! It won't happen. The point is you want to dump the pressure somewhere that's at a lower pressure... like the atmosphere. The way I'm looking at it, the recirc valves dumping it from the high pressure side of the turbo to the low pressure side (ie. the intake) it's the same as dumping it to the atmosphere... it doesn't store up pressure for later! If anything it's blowing air that's been heated by the turbo back into the turbo, and possibly up toward the intercooler. IMO you're better off dumping the pressure out of the system unhindered into the atmostphere (it'll be wasted whatever) - the next air the turbo draws in will be fresh and coming straight from the intercooler. Just cos Nissan fit recircs in the original design doesn't mean it's a better idea. There's probably all sorts of things in the 300 engine that seem technologically revolutionary - like variable inlet timing - but in practice you're (probably) better off without. Discuss ;)

What's going on with that black thing on the nsf corner?!

OMG! :eek: I feel sick. How the feck did that happen?!

Hold on... they've been photoshop'd on! Either that or they're an after-thought (how can anyone design a nose and forget the indicators?!). Or maybe you don't need them in Germany (ditto)?! Yeah, that red one looks kinda rough. Maybe it's been knocked about by all the foxes / small children he's sucked into it?

That's not the one I remember... the gauges were further out to the front (less overhang on the top) with a more positive angle toward you. I should probably get some pics. Stu - they should look good sat up there. How much for one of these BTW?

Good point Ian... where are the front indicators on the modded one?!

A house for my car and a shed to live in. If there's any change (yeah, right!) I'd put it toward paying my SE tab :(

Hahaha! :D I'm with ya now. I'm kinda of a mind that you get what you pay for with paintwork. My mate got his car fully resprayed as a part insurance job and it looks soddin' lovely - everyone who's seen it says the same thing. It wasn't cheap tho. And it was sprayed in it's original colour. If you know you're not gay then WTF?.. paint it pink. Or let it all fade to pink ;) (also not gay wink)

Yeah, sorry... that does look like a big IC in the centre. I'm so observant! What d'ya reckon the big holes in the sides are for then? Air intakes? A filter either side?