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Just took the colossal caravan up the big radiator test hill and was impressed.
tandem axle 1.9T, Water temps 90 and EGT's were 350. Not a hot day today though.
Nearly cleaned up a motorbike. Turning right into my street from the main road, had my indicator on, just about to turn in and saw a road bike flying up past me, slammed the brakes on.
He must've thought I was signalling him to overtake me, bloody dangerous, just missed him!
Near big mistake on his part(if it was not F/M on bike). One should look/see and trust ones self.
@ABQuote:
Originally Posted by AB
I gave up smoking about 8/9 years ago after being put on Zyban by my Dr.
Gave up 3 days after starting the course with NO WITHDRAWAL SYMPTONS.
It is not for everybody as it messes with your mind a bit.(Some might say my mind was a bit of a mess anyway LOL)
Was a 30/40 a day smoker. Next time you are at your Dr's ask him/her about it
Interested, what is your eng build/mod and approx eng load/boost/rpm (say 3/4 up the hill, not when in wipe mode with indicator)?Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
It's a TD42TI in a GQ wagon with Borgwarner 6758 turbo running 3" pipe to front mount wrx intercooler, 3" straight through exhaust, 4" snorkel, also running 35" tyres.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidja
I was only sitting in 3rd the whole way up roughly 2500RPM and it was about 12-13psi the whole hill. I think my tune is around 22 psi from memory.
Actually I did drop it down to 2nd at 3000RPM around a switch back. The hill has 2 to 3 big sweeping corners, long steel hill climbing from valley to the hills.
AB, Sounds like it runs well, solid haul there. Imagine the torque band available is a pleasure. Thanks mate for the info share.
It's a good set up now thanks mate, I forgot to mention a well built 12mm pump too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidja
I couldn't believe how well it towed to be honest. Back when I had the standard 10mm pump running the HT18 towing the old 750kg 80's pop top camper felt the same as towing the near on 2T caravan.
Torque is mid range at 700NM I think down low at 2100 RPM which is a huge winner for me!
Mine, GU CRD max boost 21-22 psi & remapped ECU, NADS manual boost 3" pipe, snorkel, stock turbo. Must say my interest is growing towards turbo upgrade down the track. Bought the veh new 08, shame Nissan stopped using 6 cyl diesel (could have put as bit more effort into R&D to meet pollution requirements).Quote:
Originally Posted by AB
Must say, am partial towards low rev/high torque engines. In the early 80s, had a 76 swb Landcruiser and replaced the 2F petrol engine with an old 4 cyl B diesel (24 volt start). Used a series parallel switch, chg on 12v and 24v start. Eng was originally used for an irrigation pump installation. It was a low rev/high torque eng (non turbo of course) but made the SWB into a great workhorse. Certainly not equal to your build but it was good plugging along, a lot of the mountain track were open for access back then.
I had a 2F petrol and from factory it was one of the more torquey petrol engines floating around that's for sure.
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Happy today to have finally cheaply purchased a real solution to my oil cooling issues thank you @PeeBee mate!
Now I can finally with confidence put my 6.5L slow as hell reving beast boot into it and fully dack the local 4.2D club off the road to shame :-)
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