VS Manta #218

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Car has been running excellent, takin it for a few drives since dyno run and it hasn’t skipped a beat

 

I was goin to take it to C4C in nth qld next weekend and even had a VIP ticket but Unforeseen Medical issues have arose and instead I’m goin to the city to get looked at by a specialist and spend a day on the operating table instead

 

so it’s next public event will be at the drags for some runs on a test and tune night  in a few weeks time

 

so idea is this tune just needs another tweek or 2 in the cold start and another road tune to fine tune it a little further and then I’ll save this on my lap top as my mostly used tune and is extremely safe and the car is very happy like this to drive

 

i am now learning how to make small changes with wide band logs and tuner can look to see if I’m doin things right to fine tune little parts as I go on over time

 

then ill save the tune with more timing when we do that and that will be uploaded when I go to strip or just feel completely and utterly stupid and want more power lol

 

we will also devide the e85 tune  by 1.34 (or what ever it is) at some stage with very little timing so I have a safe tune that can be used for 98 if I choose to use it at some stage for cruises and so on

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Great stuff, must be a nice feeling to now have a car with a nice driveable baseline tune, and also to be able to strt learning to do it yourself.  Be very interesting to see what it does at the drags, hooking up will be key I guess?

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Think im goin to go for biggest mph and slowest time record lol

 

132mph @ 12.9 lol

 

I wont be able to put decent tyres on for a few months due to my back but when im better i will throw on some decent tyres and go for a decent 60 foot time

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

So what the hell have you done, your back?  But you are a fairly young fella arent you?

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Post time slip

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

So how come Pete can just post a time slip but all I get is you want a vid of skids?

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

You obviously haven’t seen my FB page Gary

 

Iv been having back problems for over 3 weeks now and my last Physio  appoitment referred me to get a MRI on Tuesday just gone

 

on sunday i  deteriorated   badly and Monday I sneezed while at the shopping centre car park, that was it I was fucked and couldn’t move

 

ambos come and got me, dosed me up on green stick to get me on there bed, then morphine then Valium to tie me over the night till I got my MRI on Tuesday

 

the results are not good, L5/s1 lumba disc is blowen out and causing pressure on my s1 nerve causing me the wicked sciatic pain that I am sure other members on here have experienced

Need surgery

 

 

When i I do some runs in few weeks cava I will post fottage and time slips but first meet won’t be special as I won’t be able to launch it hard

[ImmortalityParticipant 97 HSV Senator 185i 02 VX L67 Calais View build HERE Member since: August 31, 2015 Posts: 535]

Hmmmm, lower back pain used to be my best friend.  Still comes back to reminisce once in a while.

 

If it’s as bad as it sounds it would mean getting the disk removed and the 2 vertebrae fused.  Going to be a while before driving anything in anger larger then a vitz.

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Fuck no good with the back. Nothing worse. I get niggles but nothing like u have mentioned.

 

FYI 132mph is low 10second pass in perfect world. Knocking on a 9

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Shit, for some reason (I dont know fb that well) this hasnt come up on mine.  Mate that sucks.  I am not sure what to say, hopefully it works out.

 

Cav, Petes car wuld run a 9 any day with an auto, with a mnual, I still say it runs a 10 any day of the week.

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

That mph is 10.20-10.30’s territory regardless of transmission.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

he was just picking a number buddy, look at his hp, weight etc, gotta run a 9 (with a correctly stalled auto) and think he is running a 10 any day as is.  Time will tell 

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

LOL.

I thought he DID run 12.9@132

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Gary go into my profile and see if the (following) box is ticked, it will be near friends box

 

Hope there isn’t any fusing my disc together    that sounds pretty sucky

 

132mph was just a random number I picked out of thin air

 

if if I changed rear springs, rear brakes to accomodate 15inch rims with 275 radials and a 3800rpm stall and t400 I wreckin I would get into the 9s as is on the tune now yet along when we ramp 17  or so degrees timing Into it from the 11 degrees it is now

 

took robbey for a spin while he was here on the weekend Gary and he was mighty impressed with how it goes

 

my first plan is some smooth runs to see what mph I can get right now, 20 inch rims, full interim and 11 degrees timing

 

then it’s back to dyno with some 18 inch rims and ramp it up to 17 degrees and head out to streets to make sure it still drives smooth

 

then em try do some full blowen runs and see what I can get again in a full trim, coil overs but with 18s and radials

Back when I did a run with old v2 blower and 8psi I maxed out 4th gear at just on 200km/h just before end of track

 

lights and times where not working that night

 

I’m confident I will get a high 10 in manual eventually

Think I will be hard pressed getting 11.9 on street tyres though

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Haha cava

 

i was jokingly saying when I go there I’m goin for highest mph slowest 1/4 time lol

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Not sure if every one on here knows but I got sick of breaking cv shafts so I got Roberts billet axel stubs and billet shafts from his VR drag car

 

stubs bs have been running 9s for a year or so with 1.4s 60 foot times and axels only did 2 runs before he got the VL with live 9 inch rear end

 

so now it’s just the tail shaft that’s the week spot but they handle some serious punishment so I’m happy to hold it on 4000- 5000rpm now and drop the clutch with decent tyres on

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Always wondered where he got them from. They seemed pretty tuff. Good score.

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Both from diff techniques

 

2 piece stubs

axels they say are unbreakable but I say anything is breakable

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Well I thought the car was finished for mods

 

then I found this, so dont mind if I do

 

its is slightly more rear then a Mid mount designed shifter but I’m sure I can make it work and I feel my car is asking me to get it one

 

car is still goin awesome, well set up my go pro for some fottage that Ill post up here soon

 

http://www.s1sequential.com/t56-sequential-shifter/

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

^like the look of that….

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