Well, I mucked around a little with the map & also fuel pressure this afternoon. I got it to stutter less on throttle movements but now the idle is more poo poohouse, also, I can hear a bit of a knock at times (you can hear it in the video below at times, when I open the throttle a little etc. I'm hoping it might just be the fact the flex pipe is hard up against the sump, or something equally as silly and not a busted arse bottom end (bearings rooted etc) causing bottom end knock.

Took a quick video. Dunno what the autronic RPM signal was doing, thats the first time I noticed that one. Some of the dash light LED's obviously need changing around.

Anyway, hopefully my knocking noise is nothing important :|

Vid @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXxWpODMWXo

That stupid pulsating noise is the IAC valve by the way, letting air in, closing, letting air in, closing. I need to change something to stop that annoying crap.

i dont care if this is wierd, i want to have sex with those wheels -Totenkopf- ...

My mechanic is gunna give me the cable i need for the autronic when i drop the car off next wed, so im hoping ill have the file sent to you by late next week so you can check it out for me james..

cheers..

also, the youtube link says "this movie is no longer available" when i try load it.

sounds good james, but i think its about time u got some lumpy cams...
how did u find the incabin vibrations from the solid engine mounts, when i started my car, they were def noticable, but not like the whingers on the internet were talking about, i also have a antitorque bar aswell... http://www.twosrus.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_31&products_id=268

On marks phone, you free anytime this weekend Bustin? Reassemble a bit more of the interior tomorrow, bleed the clutch when I can get some assistance, then I'll be going for a burn, start breaking this engine in.

I screwed around a bit tonight trying to ascertain what the knocking noise was. Drained the oil and there was no evidence of a minced bearing, so I dont THINK its rod knock. Undid the B-pipe from the rest of the exhaust to see if it were the exhaust bangin on the sump, unfortunately this just resulted in me being deafened (basically just a down pipe) and hearing nothing else. Seemed to disappear after a few minutes running. This may or may not have coincided with the engine warming up, if so, it could have been some piston slap I was hearing or an exhaust leak closing up.

I flattened off my exhaust manifold before getting it ceramic coated, however, it may not have been totally flat.

unburnt mixture isn't great for turbochargers is it?

Heh, Neal Bates prepared a rally SW20 in '97 but it wasn't turbo...

Maybe you could get sponsorship from Garrett :D

would you mine sharing your information with me, as to where to get the phoenix engine lid from, cause I very interested. thanks.

No due to circumstances we had to postpone.
I'll keep ya posted.