Winter Strip Down and Rebuild (Done and Dusted)

[meatball]

ah....its back! I enjoy this.....and wish I was more able to do the same!

[tut]

Sounds great Mike and good to see that Ricky is involved.

I am doing nothing all next week so call me if you want to get out for a run.

tut

[meatball]

He is trying to be gentle with the engine at the mo tut!

[dlogan]

Great to hear its back up and running Mike!!!

[Mikie711]

Out at 5am and put 250 miles on it today, pulls strongly, up to 4500rpm now. Few tweeks and the Emerald will fine tune the fueling. Usead a tank of petrol (30l) for 250 miles which isn't to bad, I suspect it won't give quite that return a KH though

[tut]

He is trying to be gentle with the engine at the mo tut!

Then he could do no better than someone who is ambling around in 6th gear 90% of the time............

tut

[campbell]

Out at 5am and put 250 miles on it today, pulls strongly, up to 4500rpm now. Few tweeks and the Emerald will fine tune the fueling. Usead a tank of petrol (30l) for 250 miles which isn't to bad, I suspect it won't give quite that return a KH though

No harm in seeing that it cruises fairly economically though Mike, surely a good sign that the old management and mapping is at least in the ballpark And of course it helps the wallet a wee bit!

[Mikie711]

Me thinks it's more to do with the fact it isn't getting up on the cam, that and it was fairly gentle use of the throttle until it clock it's first couple of hundred miles.

[Mikie711]

Another couple of hundred on it now and starting to use full throttle up to 5500-6000rpm. Certainly feels quick, pulls well from anything above 2500rpm in top gear. Makes overtaking a breeze.
Backed of the dampeners to 7 on re-bound and 5 on compression, which as I type this I have realised is the wrong way round. Kinda explains some of the weird handling I been getting . Will bump up the compression tomorrow to iron out some of the bobbing I been getting.
Engine sounds like a bag of spanners on tick over but sings when rev'ed, can't wait for KH

[alicrozier]

What dampers are they Mike?
Springrates?

[Mikie711]

Nitron NTR 2-ways with eibach 325lb fronts, 400lb rears.

[alicrozier]

Not familiar with the valving/number of clicks on the 2-way Nitrons Mike but on my (much heavier) Exige, the 2-way Ohlins with 325/425 springs are able to give very good road performance.

They have 22 bump and 60 rebound adjustments and for the road I currently run F11/8, R15/15, this equates as a percentage of the range as follows (100% would be full hard, 0% full soft):

Front
Bump 50%
Rebound 87%

Rear
Bump 32%
Rebound 75%

Doesn't mean much as your dampers are completely different but seeing as they are designed for similar applications the relative settings may help as a starting point. Rebound relatively a fair bit harder than bump...

[Mikie711]

Mine have 18 clicks compression and 24 clicks rebound , by the feel of it there isn't enough compression and the readings I gave are from fully off. So that works out to 13 clicks compression and 17 clicks rebound. Had it up around yours Ali (percentage wise) and it's to hard for the road but would work on the track, just looking for a road setting now. Going to bump up the compression a bit a see what it's like.

[Mikie711]

The end is nigh. Fitted a quick shifter today and it has certainly improved the gear change also tidied up a bunch of wiring and, for the gadget freeks among us, replaced these



with this





it's a PLX logger which lets you have up to 8 gauges on display at any one time. I have AFR, oil temp and pressure at the moment but have extra sensors to fit for fuel pressure and water temp. With it you can connect up to 32 devises should you feel the need and it's also a data logger plus it's OBDII compatible.
Bit neater than the gauge pod which I kept hitting with my knee.

Also switch the car over to synthetic oil today and started exploring the rev range a bit more . Now really looking forward to KH at he weekend see what it's like on track.

[Esprit]

SOOOOO jealous... about to begin my engine build, have all my engine bits now Off to the states shortly so will get my engine builder working on it whilst I'm away