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Orger engines in Bayswater, VIC have one, they have done all my machining work. ( I send it over from TAS)

Very high quality of work, and great to deal with.

http://orgerengines.com.au/

Thanks for the pics of the Kazz unit EVO-00X looks interesting. 

My mate here in TAS has an adelia in his EVO 1 rally car, so that's another one.

When using a steel head gasket, and some head studs, once you give the final torque that should be it, just a regular check for tension, with a steel gasket, don't loosen off and re- tension, that may be the case with a graphite gasket but not with MLS.

And you may as well put a set of ARP head studs in, they are cheap for preventing more issues.

Hey guys.

I'm in the market for a new radiator.

I was looking at the ones on E bay, there very cheap but has anyone used one?

As the cars use is full competition I would hate to reduce the cooling.

So just seeing if anyone has had any prior experience with one.

Hey guys Have a bit of an update,

While I was home I got the car very close to fully finished for the next event in August.

There were a few jobs to get done, with some new parts arriving.

I received my Fluidampr it looks good, is slightly heavier than the stock unit but seems like a lot better unit.

Reason for replacing  is after I noticed my factory one starting to separate at the rubber.

The next thing I had to do was modify my breather set up, the engine was still running small 8mm ID hose and it was causing too much pressure in the line and pumping out oil.

I increased it to -10 size.

I removed the internal baffle on the cam cover so I could clean it out properly after all the swarf was in there.

I chose to use the existing baffle but cut down.  I drilled and taped into the existing mounting points, then using small button head screws with loctite to hold it in, meaning it can be removed for cleaning.

Cover completely sand blasted after welding.

I decided to paint it a slightly more charcoal color and i was very happy with the result.

The Next job i had to do was just give my front dampers a quick check over and service.

Really it just involves pulling them down, re-greasing them and re assembly. 

These are a Proflex unit with full roller bearing. Which are very nice. 

Next time I'm home ill be running the event.  New tyres are to be fitted and a couple of other jobs and its ready to go.

Hey guys.

Just thought I would put up my EVO 3 rally car. 

I have owned it for around three years and I have done a lot to it since I have owned it.

It main purpose is a gavel rally car but it does make an odd appearance on tarmac.

It has a good history and is still going strong, for hopefully many more years to come!

I believe the shell is a Tommi Makinen recce car used for rally Australia back in the day.

Ill update with ongoing maintenance and future developments on the car.

Hear are some basic specs and pictures of how it has progressed so far,

The next things to happen is changing over to E85, and lot's of general maintenance for the next event on August 16th.

Fitting of a Fluidampr crank pulley, new under body protection, all oils changed, brake pads replaced.

Ill have a bit more to update when I'm back with the car.

-Body Shell

Full chrome molly cage tower to tower.

Fully seam welded and foam filled.

-Suspension

Proflex 55mm bearing type dampers.

Ralliart bushes throughout.

Rose jointed rear links.

-Gearbox/Differentials.

Ralliart front and rear LSD's. 

Extreme heavy duty clutch.

Brand new EVO 3 gearbox.

Brand new Ralliart VCU

-Brake

AP racing 4 piston calipers front and rear. 

AP racing discs.

Front/Rear bias adjuster.

-Engine

Fully built EVO 3 engine

Fully forged, blueprinted balanced.

Coated pistons and I/C piping.

And a lot of other stuff!! I really could go on for ever!

75mm Exhaust, and dump pipe.

New turbo with enlarged waste gate, fully HPC coated. heavy duty bearings.

Motec M4 ECU, with all options.

Motec dash display, with all alarms.

Car makes 190kw with a 34mm restrictor.

More new parts to fit in the coming weeks. hopefully the move to E85 will give some more power and torque. 

Here are some pics of its transformation. 

A good test to make sure it is in fact the waste gate size being the issue,

Disconnect the actuator arm from the waste gate and tie the waste gate flap so it is fully open.

Take it for a drive, bring up the RPM's, it will be fairly sluggish as the waste gate is open fully.

But if it starts to over boost you know its the waste gate size restricting the air flow, and causing the boost to creep.

It's surprising how much the surfaces can warp.

Every time I have had my turbo off or every 1000km I have had to get both faces re surfaced, you could probably get a few resurfaces from them,

before replacement for a new one.

Could be a possible caused as previously mentioned. 

Or the tiny hairline cracks.

Not leaking around the dump pipe to turbo?

Shame to see, especially a Local company.

But there are other bearing manufactures out there!

For me ill never use ACL again after a bearing related issue I encountered with them.

I would put Cleveite 77 bearings right up there, I think they are a lot better in design.

They seem to wear better than the ACL.

But its surprising to see a fairly popular and well known company come to a close.