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I pulled my old TL-01 out of the loft while visiting my parents but it seems to have a throttle control issue and doesn’t seem to make anywhere near the power it used, my guess is the batteries are dead and won’t hold charge anymore.
I’d have to buy a replacement pair of NiMH cells and a charger really, as the charger I have is rubbish and I think that probably means it’s not worth spending the money on right now
Probably going to put the money towards an RTR crawler like an SCX24 or a TRX-4M crawler for the boy instead
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Ha yeah I am familiar with that build, the main reason for me to go to use DBW is to get the throttle blip for future proofing if I end up being able to afford a sequential at some point (unlikely but still)
I don’t know what the deal with TPS sensors is, the number of times I’ve had issues and we’ve swapped the TPS and it’s sorted it is unreal
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Yeah interesting, TPS is probably the worst of my experience with ITBs, that and crank sensor reliability.
For reference my setup is jenvey ITBs on a cast manifold from MTS, with a DTA S60 ECU, although the one I had is quite old hat by now and I’ll likely replace with haltech / link at some point.
I was thinking of converting it to DBW aswell and getting rid of the throttle cable nonsense
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Yes correct country, only 2ish Hrs away to Burt's house.
Nah there was entire pieces of piston ring in the sump, aluminium literally fused to the end of the con rod on that cylinder and one of the ARP head studs is blue from being hot, plus one of the heads is scrap and all the bottom end shells are scrap too
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Yeah so, the block is toast, also maybe one cylinder head and the turbo. We found debris including shattered sections piston rings inside the sump.
However, the Impreza we acquired to put a H6 in came with a brand new EJ207 short block - you can buy them new from Subaru and Tom has this “in stock”. So the plan will be to rebuild that brand new block with the forged rods and a new set of forged pistons.
The next step is stopping it happening again, so the wastegate housing has been reworked to stop the boost creep, and the fuel lines to the rails will be re-worked to be in parallel not in series to reduce the chance of cyl 4 getting the least fuel pressure, some more mapping and some extra ECU protection put in
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Found the turbo waste gate port was 5mm undersize, which resulted in undetected boost creep. So this is what happens if you run 22psi on a tune for 18psi.
Despite this, it managed to finish 2nd in class at a two day national rally, and didn’t actually start running on 3cyl until we entered a hillclimb a couple of weeks later (and let go about 2km in to the first run)
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Yeah nice. Are you heading anywhere else in NZ? There is a great car scene