Im in desperate need of someones help. I recently sliced the back of my single seater off and rebuilt it and now decided i wanted to run sea lake. I am pretty close to being ready but only got my engine started tonight and need a Haltech computer program to run it.
The engine is a stock Toyota 4A-GE (16 valve) and i really need a program I can load into my computer and get it to run properly. I wont have time to dyno it so I need to just load it up and go. I hope someone out there can help asap.
Thanks a lot Wolf. I hadn't even thought of that one. I will email them now. It has a program already on it for a hot 16 valve and it is not running well with the stocky.
EMS are happy to provide 'start me up' maps for pretty much any engine. They did with both our 16v and the lexus motors. I can only assume haltech will do the same. Let me know how you go.
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Green Sally up. Green Sally down. Lift and squat, gonna tear the ground.
Thanks everyone for your replies. I phone haltech and they wouldn't supply any maps because the computer is so old so they said it must be tuned. I am not sure the difference between the F3 and the F9 so i might have to just wing it for this weekend. I also visited the hitman site but there was no luck there.
FYI... if you know someone with a gas analyser we once did a dodgy tune in the back yard by sitting the rear end on a some tyres, dropping it in second gear and using the brakes to load up the rear... I wouldnt recommend it though! Mind you, we came 2nd outright on a club weekend the next day! haha!
We got it on the dyno a week later and aside from a hole at 2.5 to 3.5k the dodgy bros tune wasnt too bad.
If you wing like we did, the guy who did our dodge tune ran it slightly rich... just in case...
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Green Sally up. Green Sally down. Lift and squat, gonna tear the ground.
Thanks for that wolf. Sounds like it would have been good to watch actually.
I ended up just running the original program in the computer because I only got it running 11pm thursday night before a friday morning departure. The engine had a flat spot from idle to 7500 rpm but besides that it was ok.
Thanks again for everyones help trying to get it sorted.
Thanks dre. Yeh i was heaps happy to get there and to actually see a whole lap was great. It is a frame i built myself and recently removed the motorbike engine and put the 16 valve in. I called it a Matrix frame. It was great fun to drive and as always, sea lake was fantastic.
In my personal, humble opinion, Sea Lake would have to be one of the best tracks in Australia... I loved driving around there. Not as much fun that I now drive around the outside of it to get to different locations for pictures, but it is still a very enjoyable race.
Thought it was a one off frame. Love seeing guys making thier own frames to race, goal of mine down the track.
How did you go about designing the frame, did you have any set ideas as far as suspension geometry and stuff like that to start with, or sort of just made it all fit as you went?
Wolf - Im hanging for pics too but haven't seen any
Sean - Sea Lake is right up there with a couple of tracks over here, but close to the best i have raced on. I shit a rear main seal pretty bad. Just one of those things i should have changed from the wreckers but slipped my mind in the rush of getting it ready. Also split my fuel tank so i was nackered anyways.
dre - I sat on the ground and got my girlfriend to measure around me, and that was the basic roll cage done. Then i put it on a CAD program and braced it all up. The front suspension was my final year of university project, so i had to have full CAD designs/fatigue tests etc. I had an idea of the size of car i wanted so i just worked off that. I originally had a double A-arm rear end setup but found this didn't work very well so i cut it all off 5 weeks ago and started again. This was a heaps better idea. A lot of it was just workout and fit as i went.
I will have pictures from Sea Lake up hopefully late tonight or by tomorrow night at the latest. I spent most of Saturday night working through them, and also some today, so I have most of them done. I couldn't work on them yesterday as I was in Sea Lake on my wifes 30th birthday so I had a late party for her yesterday.
Is that the picture with the flags either side of him as well? If so, I was pretty happy with that one, it came out pretty well. It was the jump at the back of the football oval at the start of the last lap. I was a bit surprised, as I hadn't seen anyone go over that jump at all, so I wasn't really expecting the cars to hit it quite so hard.
G'day riv, Nah I managed to get the whole way around and pulled into the pits so i could have a steak sandwich. I saw your car had a nice dent in the front now. It passed us leaving the track on sunday. Repairable??
I have a couple of nice pics of the front of the Riv on the trailer at the end of the day, big hit.... I bet you were sore for a few days after that...
Not at present, I wasn't sure how happy the owner of the car would be if they were up on the site. If they want them put on, I can do that no problems, but I am not too sure that they will want to be reminded of it by having the pictures on there.
Oh ok. Yeah it was a big hit, and me and my dad were and still are dam sore from it. yeah the damage wasn't as bad as we first thought. going to need new front tubes and the front bars need a bit of repairing. other than that all the good stuff such as the hubs and stubs and even the arms were fine. yeah i would appreciate it if you dont put the photos up. Im going to be seeing a lot of the front end in the next few months anyways.
