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by brendan
Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:16 pm
Forum: Drivetrain - Motors, Turbos etc..
Topic: car idle
Replies: 5
Views: 5321

car idle

i have just started to have this problem with my piazza, every time i put my foot on the clutch after driving the revs stay up around the 1500rpm mark, sometimes higher and sometimes lower, but if i just pump the accelerator the revs return back to 800, at first i though the butterfly was sticling a...
by brendan
Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:27 pm
Forum: Drivetrain - Motors, Turbos etc..
Topic: Any ideas?
Replies: 8
Views: 7897

i am having lots of problems with my fuel pump atm, kinda the same thing the car hates idleing at the lights and if you do for more then 5 mins the idle will go down and the car will stop, when you try to start it again it seems to flooded and you have to rev the shit out of it to keep it going. tha...
by brendan
Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:15 pm
Forum: General Tech
Topic: 1/4 times??
Replies: 13
Views: 11596

where is youe gemini, ill take it down, go the piazza
If i had spent the money on my piazza as you had on your gemini i bet it would win. my piazza is basically stock. once i get some real mods she go hard!!!!!
No offence but gemini :butthead:
by brendan
Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:21 pm
Forum: General Tech
Topic: 1/4 times??
Replies: 13
Views: 11596

i have run my piazza twice down the 1/4 first time no mods i scored 16.875 @ 129.8km's the second time just a week ago i run 10 psi boost and a pod airfilter and got 15.660 @142.57 i plan to run eastern creek again in 2 or 3 weeks once i get my fuel pump beacause the one i have now is playing up and...
by brendan
Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:37 am
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Drags at Calder park in melb
Replies: 21
Views: 22792

good luck mate, what mods or you running, do you think you can beat my times?
by brendan
Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:32 pm
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Piazza Cruze in Sydney
Replies: 25
Views: 25732

the oringal guage will work but i cant get the right temp sender for it, and holden does not produce the temp sender anymore and because my car came with custom guages the person removed the oringal sender and put this new one in
by brendan
Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:53 am
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Piazza Cruze in Sydney
Replies: 25
Views: 25732

as for mods on that run i just had the 10 psi pod air filter and on the weekend before the run i bough those super 4 bosch plugs new exhaust sensor and removed the injectors and had them cleaned On the night it was pissing my off, the car was not running right and for the first two runs the car woul...
by brendan
Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:23 pm
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Piazza Cruze in Sydney
Replies: 25
Views: 25732

had a great night. best run was a 15.660 at 142.57k's i know the car can do better but i was having lots of trouble getting power down. that was running 1o psi and when i turned the turbo up to 13 i couldnt get the car to grip the track, need better tyres. here some links to some pic's taken on the ...
by brendan
Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:04 am
Forum: Show room
Topic: My stock black one
Replies: 15
Views: 20788

just wondering if you bough the dash mat or made it yourself, i really have to do the same to hide all the cracks in my dash :silent:
looks good but i reckon a set of rims will really set off the black paint
by brendan
Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:01 pm
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Piazza Cruze in Sydney
Replies: 25
Views: 25732

car is all ready to go now, just filled it up with some 98 petrol and added some octane booster which should take it up to around 105 octane. i noticed with the higher octane the car is reving cleanly and all the way to 6300. normaly the car will not rev that high just wondering how other people's c...
by brendan
Fri Aug 19, 2005 5:09 pm
Forum: Australia - Events: Past/ Present/ Future
Topic: Piazza Cruze in Sydney
Replies: 25
Views: 25732

I am taking my beast back to eastern creek this wednesday (24/8/05) Really hoping to get into the the 15's this time. last time i ran 16.875 all stock and thgis time i will be running 10 psi boost pod air filter and i have had the injectors cleaned and exhaust sensor has been replaced. I am supposed...
by brendan
Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:37 am
Forum: Show room
Topic: My Baby From when i got her to this day
Replies: 37
Views: 30131

I think i got ripped off abit, but i took the diff banjo out and gave it to the diff shop and they replaced all the bearings and serviced the lsd. It was only meant to cost 500 but the diff shop told me that they had to machine speedy sleeves in because the stuffed bearings had worn groves into the ...
by brendan
Sat Aug 06, 2005 6:05 pm
Forum: Show room
Topic: My Baby From when i got her to this day
Replies: 37
Views: 30131

i bought mine untested and i had a stuffed diff which set me back 700 before i could really even drive the car
by brendan
Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:00 am
Forum: Drivetrain - Motors, Turbos etc..
Topic: Short Shifters
Replies: 7
Views: 7328

all i did to make my short shifter is un screw the gear extension bit and then put my gear knob onto the next part of the shaft down, works fine but my gearbox it old and worn so it can be a bitch to get gears when it is cold
by brendan
Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:58 pm
Forum: Show room
Topic: My Baby From when i got her to this day
Replies: 37
Views: 30131

this is how that centre plate looks

Engine lr9
Trans m78
Grade rbd
b.colour/trim 826/106
opt c61 dg7 g80 k30
n40 p34 x60 26y

that is what is written, if you can make sense of it