no column its a spear spec 69 , reminded me i must change that too!

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06450-H LOTUS WHITE 69 1600

Ooh ok what's that part above the steering column , between the dash ?

the column shroud ?

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Hey All been slowly tinkering away over the last 6 months , was really crook up until nov and employment dramas killed alot of $$ availible for the car

First off I had a few dramas with my old crow cam (was bigger than a 76 deg) resulted in a purchase and fitment of a new wade 72deg cam refaced rockers and lashpads , then I removed pacemaker headers and replaced with factory setup feeding into the exsisting tailpipe and resulted in it being bit quieter , alot less bay heat and ofcourse better low end torque. Just need to get the factory front pipe remade as I did a patch job on an old one with my oxy to get it road going.
Ive spent hours and days double checking the cam timing and playing with ign timing to get it to run/idle half decent , running a stock elec dissy for now without vac advance as the cam was causing it issue with the map load being low and erratic. now running around 14-15deg @1100-1200 idle

I have also tried a few different heat shield/filter/trumpet setups and have settled on a basic home made metal airbox , I felt 50mm inlets without filter would be a bit much for a tame L16 not to mention inlet temps I was getting
I bought some cheap bike filters and the rubber mounts for them have 50mm to connect to the TB's but the other end is around 40mm and nice restriction . tried the filters with a shield below and still got to much heat and scratched that. I made a box up as best I could with tools at hand and used the mounts to hold it to the Tb's. Put a 40mm feed and one of the filters for the box inlet with daul 50mm coundiut running from behind the front spook up to the filter. Dropped inlet temps by 20-30% also gives the inlet a higher idle vac load which is always good. also bought a new autometer digi tach , mounted it up on column, made a box for the ign barrel and start button to sit in , got a old shiftlight mounted for a oil warn lamp aswell , got a cardboard tube wrapped in tape to hide indicator switch guts , looks decent and fuctional plus can be removed without trace and returned to stock

Took for a quick spin yesterday and was happy and suprised at the results , runs quite well compared to the previous su setup clean pulls from low down to 5000+ I wasnt game to push further
It sounds fantastic on WOT (Ill try and get a video asap) quiet on light cruise
Im still unsure if Ill get it dyno tuned as power isnt really a concern with it being an old 1600cc might just keep tinkering away on tune and see what i can do myself with the wide band.
Might need a hand from an Ozdat accreditted driver/tuner to assist (apply here)
next time I take it out ill video it

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http://youtu.be/onyjbMhPXUI , about to go for a spin and took a short vid on the phone of the throttles being cracked open
sounds arent the best but gives the idea ,enjoy

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Nice work there Joel, will you be bringing it to Datnats?

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1600 Build: http://ozdat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=22694

Cheers Trent , datnats is unlikely atm but hoping things may change.

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Good to see the itb setup running in the video.
I was interested in how they would go ever since seeing them advertised for the first time.
Have you considered a larger air filter and to neaten things up mounting the air sensor on the plenum somewhere out of sight?

Cheers Nick and yes the current box was something knocked up and I did look at putting a efi hardware one in there but $350 is just rude for a FRP box. I will eventually get it redone in ally and have it 2 piece so I can remove the outer for no restriction and prob use 75-80mm inlet/filter on the other half and bolt it together for the road.
I need to throw some $$ into a bottom end rebuild and flat tops to give it some real poke , hence me restricting abit atm cause all it does is use excessive fuel and heat buildup.

The air sensor was mounted to that filter when I had 4 of them unboxed just leaving it for now, as theres a few other things to tidy up

Took out yesterday managed about 20kms test run without any issues , tune is basic Idle/Load map using Tps as Load with only pump settings played with to prevent lean on throttle openings and then I just play with mixture trim and some points to keep it below 14.7 , still have to do all the compensations etc

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Sad day today , I parted ways with this thing its off to country vic to a new female owner.

Now to find another shitter to play with

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Oh that is sad but new toys always good. Hope you kept some spare parts for the next one

She's gone to a good home mate.... This is MS1600's new ride.

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