Its been a little while again, had to go through a few pages in order to get to here
Completed another service on the car today: full oil change, oil and air filters, new wipers and new air freshener
I've been running Penrite HPR 30 in the 4AC since the last change, and decided to stick with it because it seems to provide good lubrication and makes the car run well. Its been nearly 3 months since the last time I did a change (including one track day and a cruise), so the oil was pretty black, but nowhere near as bad as when I swapped the Motul out of it last change. Still had enough viscosity in it when I pulled it out, which is good to see. Hopefully the smaller interval between changes will have cleaned the 24 years of gunk out a little
Also had a bit of a play with the carby, using some of the instructions from my Toyota service manual. I need to learn a lot more about playing with mixture settings before tuning it properly, however what I found was that the fuel level in the carby was very high, right to the top of the sight. I knew the car was running rich, but I didn't think it was that bad. I will have to check it out further, and see if I can lean it out a little, I have a feeling that it will increase power a little and drop my fuel consumption.
Finally, pumped the tyres up to where they should be (40psi each wheel). I might (if I find time) drop the pressures on the front a little, during the post-service strap around the block the car was understeering a little too much for my liking. With the tyre pressures down, the car had some more grip, but could be sluggish and also 'walked around' on its tyres a fair bit when pushed hard. I guess its one of those things that I need to play a fair bit with to get optimal results that I am happy with.
Nothing else is new, no new photos, car sounds awesome with the exhaust work done on it a couple of months ago, no flat batteries (touch wood) Hopefully suspension mods will happen in the new year (assuming I can afford them... lol), need to get RCA's on the front to reduce the understeer feeling, plus camber adjustment to cancel out the difference in camber that I have at the moment. And an LSD, I am really over having an open diff, and the resulting lack of good slides that can happen. I am thinking a 2-way diff will go in there well, gives me a certain amount of future-proofing as well when I get to do an engine conversion on it... but that is just a pipe dream at the moment
Oh and the Car PC idea is still on my wishlist, we will be Telstra dealers at work soon, and with Winamp's new Remote feature, I (hopefully) can stream whatever music I want from my PC at home over wireless broadband, without it actually being in the car! Found a nice area for a card reader to go in too. It will cost a fair bit of money to buy the gear and get it installed, and I am still yet to play with Winamp Remote to see how well it works (and I am very much aware of all the limitations with Wireless broadband, no matter who the provider is). So it will still be a fair way away, as I have other priorities (a lot of them not having anything to do with the car), but it is something that not a lot of people do, and if I can do it right I will be happy
Hope to see some of you guys on the upcoming cruise too :2thumbs: I haven't had a real long drive in the car for a long time (including the last drive, that turned out to be :fap: ), so it will be great to get some high mileage on the car now that it is serviced and happy again
