Member Profile - Rome - Final Update (pg 62)

[Jack_Keaka]

Top secret...

You, Sir, just let the cat outta the bag!

don't worry,its still a secret to me because i have no idea what any of that means

[bigBADbenny]

Kiahatsu maybe has his wideband hooked up using that method???
Hoping the AEM failsafe does the same thing

[Rome_BRZ]

Does that log straight into romraider though?

[Rome_BRZ]

So it's almost been a month since my E85 tune and thought I'd give a little update! Basically when I got the tune I still had a quarter of a tank of P98 in it so it wasn't a full E85 tune, but the car still drove like a beast! On the day of the tune, I noticed my temp needle rising pretty high, almost to the red, but then came back down. I didn't really think anything of this at the time as it had been on the dyno all day. Then it happened a week or two later so decided something was up and got my radiator pressure tested at Garage 88. Found out that there was a loose clamp at the back of my turbo coolant reservoir. Once this was all tightened up and coolant topped up I was good to go and no more issues!

In the meantime I had a BITCH of a time trying to get my Innovate Wideband O2 sensor hooked up. Had it installed at Garage 88 but didn't have a serial to USB adapter to connect it to my laptop. Spent about a week trying to get it to log directly to my Tactrix cable through an SD card (which means no laptop is needed while actually logging), but failed! Eventually just got the serial to USB adapter and was finally able to log some AFRs for Matt to check my tune now that I was running a full tank of E85.

Loaded my first revision on Sunday morning before our tune (sorry guys for making you all wait for me!) and the car seemed to run noticeably better straight away! Came on boost faster and the power delivery was just amazing! My lucky gf held onto the laptop while we logged it for around half an hour to check everything was OK then it was time to put it away and enjoy the rest of the cruise

Unfortunately, on the way back from Berry I noticed some more overheating issues. It was fine when driving but once we were in traffic the needle would start to creep up again! At the end of our national park run we pulled over into the park area and I was able to look under the hood and with the help of Mick (dr20t) try to see what was wrong. It seems that the radiator cap was leaking, so I think that it maybe can't take the pressure, but there might be a blockage somewhere. My plan is to take it to Garage 88 on Wednesday before the drags to see if they can diagnose an issue!

So after topping up the coolant levels with water (provided by 09libs, thanks Ricco!) I was good to go home haha. Did a few 0-100 pulls on the way home as I hadn't really had a chance to since the revision and it felt pretty fucking unbelievable. I can't wait to see what this will run at the drags now!

Oh and one more thing, I averaged just under 13 l/100kms for the whole of Sunday (filled up before we left) so after all that driving almost made 400kms before the petrol light came on...pretty good for E-flex!!

[Rome_BRZ]

Oh and here's a photo of my car from the cruise, courtesy of mitch2147!! Thanks Mitch

[alessandro132]

My money is on blocked radiator core - will see what Mick says on Wednesday! Also, love the stance rolling on 235s, looks good mate

[<GB>]

hope its just the cap or radiator...

[Rome_BRZ]

My money is on blocked radiator core - will see what Mick says on Wednesday! Also, love the stance rolling on 235s, looks good mate

Sits nice and flush with the guards hey

[Rome_BRZ]

hope its just the cap or radiator...

Hopefully it's just too much v-tec yo

[mynameisdaniel]

One day my car will be this impressive... Sits so much better on those wheels! Do you think 245s would be pushing it a little?

[SH30RB]

My money is on blocked radiator core - will see what Mick says on Wednesday! Also, love the stance rolling on 235s, looks good mate

Speaking of 235's they did look the goods and it was good to see what they looked like on an 18x8 wheel
they are the size i want for my next tyre. Your car was looking awesome Rome

[Rome_BRZ]

One day my car will be this impressive... Sits so much better on those wheels! Do you think 245s would be pushing it a little?

Wow thanks for the kind words Daniel To be honest I actually want my car sitting one step lower front and back but my centre pipe will scrape on any bump at all if I did that Not to mention the front lip *shudder*

245 will be the next step! I bought these wheels off Tony (senator) and he was going to try 245s next, him and Michael (Garage 88) were going to see if it could be done with guard rolling. This will be a little way off for me as I have other priorities but it will eventually happen!

Speaking of 235's they did look the goods and it was good to see what they looked like on an 18x8 wheel
they are the size i want for my next tyre. Your car was looking awesome Rome

Thanks Simon! Pity it was so dirty compared to everyone elses PS your car looked the goods too, can't wait til you add your DAMD bits

[<GB>]

hope its just the cap or radiator...

Hopefully it's just too much v-tec yo

yeah true, my cars never had an issue over heating and ive driving it at 40d days

have you done a learning veiw? any pinging?

[Rome_BRZ]

hope its just the cap or radiator...

Hopefully it's just too much v-tec yo

yeah true, my cars never had an issue over heating and ive driving it at 40d days

have you done a learning veiw? any pinging?

Yeh well I was kidding lol. The overheating issue was because of the leak which is most likely because of the radiator cap as that is where it was all sprouting out from and dirtying my engine bay!

And yes have logged and done learning views and no issues there

[shav]

This update has amazing amounts of win mate. Well done.