John Stevenson

If it goes to plan Dunc I'll be well happy !! Price was pretty good too

MAGNUM Type R

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Ment to be a right pain to get working spot on but good once done I believe adrain in the fensport celica runs one

Adam Kindness

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Why are 'real' sequentials so hard to come by, or just maybe so expensive, for Imprezas?

A quaife 6sp sequential for our Skyline is 'only' 6.5k new.

andyscoobym3

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my mate runs one in his evo, edmy fitted it and said it was quite straight forward on that, however i believe a subaru is a pig to set up, very impressive with a led gear indicator on the dash thow

MAGNUM Type R

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I run a HKS sequential in my old RX7 it was the nuts, I did go the wrong way up he box once though lucky the RX7 could take the revs .
Don't think I could justify the money for one again rather spend time and money on suspension setup

John Stevenson

Certainly wouldn't pay 'new' price. It wasn't a bad buy at all to be honest

172sport

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Maybe because the "works" cars never used them?

John Stevenson

Other side of the shifter mech showing the Switch and CAm arrangement to trigger the Syvecs for gearcut to enable proper flatshift.

P20SPD

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It took you all night to post that pic, i dont know

John Stevenson

Been at the fettling again. Shame to butcher the Lateral headers and up pipe, but necessary.

Cut of the Lamda boss on the collector and started fettling with the die grinder to fit a 1 3/4" stub pipe to fit the Tial MVS Wastegate.

This means that once target boost has ben achieved the Wastegate gasses don't need to go up the up pipe meaning a smaller one can be used to aid spool, rather than most conventional installations where the up pipe would have to carry both.
The Lateral uppipe is deceiving in that the bore initially appears HUGE at 63mm, however there's a clever secret inside in that there is a venturi in there throttling the internal diameter down to speed the gasses up as they enter the turbo.

After tacking the tube and Wastegate flange on I bolted a spare up pipe on and the wastegate as well to stop any distortion of either flange during welding.



Learned this the hard way last weekend when making the up-pipe with KennyS and the heat bent a 12mm thick stainless flange like a Banana. Had to start again with another Flange bolted to a GT35 exhaust housing this time to keep straight and soke the heat away into the housing.





Next had to sit and fettle the inside to grind where the tube protruded inside the collector to smooth it back flush.

MAGNUM Type R

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what sort of spool gain did you get from placing the wastegate there john, as you had it there in your old setup right ?

You expecting better with new stuff

John Stevenson

Recent Events, notably Elvington the other week made me feel the need to read this through and pop it up, remembering my good friend Si

Good times

Lots of old faces and friends pitching in here and there,



Mark A, 911, KevBev, Wallis, Alan Garrod, Paul B, Andy.F, Andy Smith, T'Darley, JohnS, Tim W, Graig (seafar), Stu 666V RA Dunk, Carl Davey, Justin, MEF, Peter Lee, Dynamix, Banny, Frayz, Arch etc

gussy

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Good read John forgot have much you had put into this car and the people you turn to for help and advice along the way…… speaking of which will give you a bell later in the week about sensor connectors

Fai17

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That good days.

mickywrx

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I was just wondering today what Graham(911) was up to these days.

trails

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It was a good day...although i should have introduced myself to you when was speaking to Steven...I guess I was either star struck or being socially awkward

trails

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Building proper hill climb cars still I hope

John Stevenson

Get on yer Bike LOL

banny sti

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Really good to see you again John

John Stevenson

Aye Banny, not talked/seen you in a while, we need to talk about my power to weight obsession, you're getting it wrong, and then there is the car LOL

trails

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Always rather be on me bike John, thats just a given...as a proper Scotsman surely you can appreciate how cheap bikes are to run

banny sti

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P20SPD

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He's on Uphill Racers quite a bit, still racing his Lola thingy.

mickywrx

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John Stevenson

Had car out at Golspie ((very North Scotland) this weekend at Caithness Car Club Sprint. New suspension setup from Graeme at Whiteline and a couple of his Gucci bits added Car felt really good, first practise was ruined, but not in a bad way by the Syvecs engine trips trying to make sure I didn't kill my engine. After tweeking that to suit the tight but long 180 deg bends there, second practise was well under the course record, so things looking good. Weather was changeable with showers rolling through, but in the end still managed to take more than half a second out of the record. No one else in the class so was just racing a time, difficult to get motivated sometimes when it's like that.

Sunday, different Circuit, Dry practice, 0.01 off record, rained like **** so second practise was well weet. First timed run was a bit compromised but by second, all was good and dry and managed to take record by half second again.

So all in all car feels great, it's fast, chassis feels good and new tyres are working well, now looking forward to Doune in two weeks !! Woo

Mad Hammer

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Nice one John!

AS Performance

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nice one John, good to see the hard work paying off........

gussy

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Spot on John sounds like you have got your head round the box now, going by your times

banny sti

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Good going John, look forward to seeing it go at TOTB

Jay m A

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Nice one John