Ricks project AE85 (Back together with dyno results)

[Rick]

I got the diff head rebuilt and ended up using the earlier model LSD as they have more clutch plates in them compared to the newer ones. Filled it with the Redline oil which I think is the same price as gold, cost me over $100NZD to fill a 2.8L diff



I got the manifold back from the painters, looks good hopefully the paint will stay on there.



I also took the car if for a dyno power run. I went to ST HI-TEC LTD, professional looking work shop, had a few hundred thousand dollars worth of GTR Skylines being worked on when I was there.





I dealt with the Managing Director Soichi Tate (Japanese) top bloke.

I explained to the guy would it be alright for me to leave the car running while it is hooked up to the dyno as if I turn it off and back on again it has a power cut at around 5000rpm, he wasn’t happy with that, so when the first power run was done the power dropped off just after 5000rpm. I explained further to him that it’s a common fault with these motors and after a period of time the fault clears and it makes power all the way to the redline, he persisted and after ten or so runs to the redline and over 20kms clocked up on the dyno the fault cleared and it made 111.5kw’s at the wheels. So I was quite pleased with the result and if wasn’t for Soichi perseverance I probably would wouldn’t have got that result, it also helped that he owns a AE86, good man.





The dyno graphs below show the power cut runs in RED and the run without in GREEN.