Turbo upgrade on RV8
Discussion
Quietlybonkers said:
Bassfiend said:
There's a Tescos Extra 2 minutes from me - drop in for a coffee on your way there. 
Thanks Phil, that's very generous.....
If I can just move Wiltshire to be next to Norfolk, then that would work a treat!
If I could persuade Erin Doors, my better half, to make the trip in Niggles to see the rellies in Sarf Wayels this Christmas.....
......trouble is she seems to prefer the electric seated, 6 speed seat-heater, luxury of the Audi A8 for long journeys. Something to do with being able to recline her seat right back and sleep in comfort, thanks to the air suspension.
I keep telling her it's more fun with the wind whistling around the hood, no seat heaters, no chance of reclining the seats more than two inches, rubbish headlights, ineffective screen washers, and feeling every bump in the road. So far I have not yet won the argument, but I will keep trying. Maybe I will stand a better chance on a warm summer's day. She did come with me as navigator on a five hour PH run around East Anglia this autumn, and said she thoroughly enjoyed it, but I suspect it was a day away from the kids and grandkids that was the deciding factor!
......trouble is she seems to prefer the electric seated, 6 speed seat-heater, luxury of the Audi A8 for long journeys. Something to do with being able to recline her seat right back and sleep in comfort, thanks to the air suspension.
I keep telling her it's more fun with the wind whistling around the hood, no seat heaters, no chance of reclining the seats more than two inches, rubbish headlights, ineffective screen washers, and feeling every bump in the road. So far I have not yet won the argument, but I will keep trying. Maybe I will stand a better chance on a warm summer's day. She did come with me as navigator on a five hour PH run around East Anglia this autumn, and said she thoroughly enjoyed it, but I suspect it was a day away from the kids and grandkids that was the deciding factor!
TUS4CHIM said:
I am thinking about getting a RV8 Turbo upgrade kit fitted on chim 400, has any one had this done yet ? What are the good and bad points of the turbo upgrade kit
I ended up going for the RV8 Turbo kit install and what can i say it's great and a very big thanks to Eann Whalley for sorting this for me. 
TUS4CHIM said:
I ended up going for the RV8 Turbo kit install and what can i say it's great and a very big thanks to Eann Whalley for sorting this for me.
That's awesome, I just need to find a new home for my vaporiser & 'Ol Gasbag' will be getting the same.Please keep us updated Phil, congratulations on a fantastic job I bet it's incredible
domV8 said:
Assuming you have an intercooler..?
Have you routed the piping through the wings to the intercooler..?
Dom
Yeah dom i had a Intercooler and a oil cooler installed in the front end of chim.Have you routed the piping through the wings to the intercooler..?
Dom
I also up rate to AP racing front brakes with 328mm discs
And what made the biggest difference was a roll bar from the rolling road Center photos to follow
Glad the conversion worked out well for you. I spent the same week in TrackVroad doing some jobs on Kate and stood in the workshop doorway when your car went out for it's first test drive. It sounded great! TrackVroads' Ian and Matt worked hard on it, looks like everyone did a good job 
Looks like you are still using the vacuum advance hole on the plenum, presumably for the distributor vacuum advance? If that is the case then ideally you want this vacuum advance to work in the opposite direction direction so that when you open the throttle you retard the ignition when under boost rather than advancing the ignition when you open the throttle as you have it now. This is why on the SC powered cars the take off for the dizzy is from the pipe by the stepper motor which is the other side of the butterfly valve. The idea is that on tick over when the butterfly valve is closed the dizzy is held under max vacuum advance, opening the throttle means the dizzy vac sees boost and retards the ignition. It is very crude but better than nothing at all and better than having it run the wrong way around.
on someone else's behalf 
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