Rodney's twincam thread

redzone · Post by **redzone** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:59 pm

congrats!

now change the wheels! lol

LOL

JAS · Post by **JAS** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:05 pm

rodney007 wrote:Its alive...... alive!!!!!!!! :D

Awesome mate!!!! :beer

MitsuMadness · Post by **MitsuMadness** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:07 am

Yeh! That looks like a nice tough build. Love your exhaust manifold, and wastegate setup!

And I actually really like those mags on it

I always wondered how a Starion would look with those era wheels.

rodney007 · Post by **rodney007** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:38 am

Bit of an update,

Last week I blew the head gasket between number 2 & 3 ,

Shortly after I found out I had the wrong intake manifold!! with the larger VR4 ports compared to my smaller evo ports on my head!. DOH!!!!
Then I found that the head gasket used on the engine was a cheapy one

As for something good coming out of it the block had been freshly machined and they were in fact new pistons with a fresh honing job on the bores, not to mention Finding ARP head studs was a nice as well.

I sent the head to GER to be striped, checked and machined.

So now I am running a performance 3 layer head gasket and a Racefab Intake manifold.

I just got it running the other night :D :D :D

Some pics of new intake manifold:

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:42 pm

That is one awesomely tough looking car, well done :)

Does it go like a cut cat?

rodney007 · Post by **rodney007** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 2:55 pm

ProZac wrote:Does it go like a cut cat?

goes f%$^ load better than as SOHC thats for sure :-)

vid running with old intake manifold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0Mlu7SAic

Dunno how to embed?

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:40 pm

Inspiring... Might have to start collecting parts, heh :)

FST4RD · Post by **FST4RD** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:52 pm

ProZac wrote:Inspiring... Might have to start collecting parts, heh :)

Don't do it! Keep it SOHC... but go decent SOHC... go DASH

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:00 pm

Hah, dash's are pretty cool... But probably even more work than going DOHC?

enthuzed · Post by **enthuzed** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:45 pm

Coming along well Rodney, be good to see what sort of numbers you can get out of it.

rodney007 · Post by **rodney007** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:53 pm

enthuzed wrote:Coming along well Rodney, be good to see what sort of numbers you can get out of it.

Yeah, although I dont wanna stress it too much, this is a daily driver. On 10 psi it goes hard enough for my liking :-)

rodney007 · Post by **rodney007** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:48 pm

Bit of an update...

Intercooler and piping upgrade
FWD lancer powersteer pump with idler :-)
1 bar wastegate spring
oil catch tank with lines to suit
battery relocated to boot

Running quite nice at the moment. struggling for traction in third :-)

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:15 pm

bravo :beer lookin the goods!!

any reason you are using a maf instead of a map sensor? What computer are you running?

rodney007 · Post by **rodney007** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:19 pm

thrash wrote:bravo :beer lookin the goods!!

any reason you are using a maf instead of a map sensor? What computer are you running?

hey, no reason as far as i am aware. Its a chipped evo ecu.

how to go about map sensor?

ProZac · Post by **ProZac** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:12 pm

Love your car man, it's kind of my inspiration :)

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