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No News is No News. Not much news to report. The cylinder head combustion chamber machining is complete - the 'best' way to lower compression. All I am waiting for now is the Cometic head gasket to put it all together again. My impatience grows. I am off to Lopburi (100k north of Bangkok)...

The stock head gasket is 1.3mm. I ordered a 1.3 head gasket. Compression was lowered by machining in the combustion chamber, a not uncommon procedure on 1UZ high performance engines (www.lextreme.com/cr.html). Yes, at the start of my project I was using a thicker head gasket, but not now...

Thanks for your concern. There is a real war raging in downtown Bangkok at this very moment . . . but I am a couple of miles from the city center. I hope today is the end of it. Yes, I made custom aluminum washers (top and bottom) and found "perfect" rubber seals to assure injector seal. All...

Rebellion Causing Project Delay :eek: A small rebellion is going on in my home town, Bangkok, at the moment which is delaying my 1UZ racing project. I do not want to contract 45 caliber lead poisoning on the way to the machine shop, I think you would agree. Can't these people see that drag...

SuperRunner, thanks for the good and useful ideas. Even though I am loathe to admit it, there could still be a leak -- in fact, deep down, I hope there is a leak. I like your clay idea and will do it. I am still degreeing the cams . . . as this should have been done in the first place...

But, of course, we could have missed something.

Thanks guys for your helpful tips and good ideas. I understand your feelings that it MUST be a leak. But it is not. Yes, this is counter-intuitive: It runs with the throttle completely closed and blocked off. The intake has been off three times and proper gaskets and proper sealant used...

There are NO LEAKS For the last month I have been chasing issues related to the race 1UZ not idling below 3000 rpm at start-up. "There MUST be an air leak" has been our guiding principle. But . . . after taking off the entire intake track and checking EVERY place air could possibly be...

I finally found a 1/16NPT fitting in Bangkok and got my NOS tank filled. Well . . . I didn't get to the dyno: the motor starts immediately . . and immediately goes to 3300 rpm (on all cylinders). We are guessing a combination of a vacuum leak and the wrong map in the ECU. It is very strange...

Thanks JustinGT8. The "tough" is in the pudding, however, so let's see if it holds together on the dyno . . . and can run some numbers on the strip with consistency and with reliability. I'm a racer, so I do not like all this shop [delay] time; I WANT SEAT TIME!

I made it down to the race shop in Pattaya yesterday. The work is more-or-less complete. Just the unavailability of a 1/16NPT tap is keeping the thing from being 100% ready for the dyno three days from now. The motor starts immediately, but still revs to 2500 at idle . . . . we determined...

The race truck is finished (knock on wood) and I have an all-day dyno session booked for this Wednesday (March 5, 2010). I have installed a smallish dry NOS set-up (one NOS fan nozzle + .021 flare jet in the intake piping after the intercooler . . . and one NOS fan nozzle + .021 flare jet...

I've been busy with other things: I am just back from the F-1 race at the Sepang Circuit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Massa qualifying in the wet! The qualifying was the best part of the race week-end, after the sound of a N/A V-8 at 17,000 rpm!

Yes, I have "solved" the bell housing issue by extending the mounting pads (stands) on the ring gear so the torque converter splines match the input shaft splines perfectly. I also added gussets on the stands for strength: Only in Thailand: some of the other jobs going on at VooDoo Racing in...

Not too much to report . . . . except that I am not racing yet. We have solved the torque converter mounting/mating problem by welding some gussets onto the mounting stands . . . and checking the balance and true-ness of the flex plate. No problem. Then it wouldn't start again . . . after...

A little flick made yesterday: A video tour of my supercharged 1UZ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZBNf8i2gA

To comment on a previous entry and member question: the 565 Subaru pink injectors are a "drop in" . . . but you have to sort through some different 'bottom' (injector to manifold) rubber grommets (that seal) . . . and that will work with race gas. My Subaru rubbers became very swollen the...

It was good to see the race truck again after so much travel over the past three months. I have time to devote to it. If the torque converter "issue" is settled by next week, I will throw it on the dyno. Wish me luck.:rolleyes:

I was at the shop today . . . instead of tuning for the annual "King of Truck" race this week-end in Bangkok. I was hoping to get this project finished in time for the race. I was "Prince of Truck" (3rd) a few years ago. Oh well. I am not going to be using the "doughnut spacer" after all...

Oh, OK., point well taken. I am looking into a race 1UZ torque converter . . . . . but in the meantime . . . . . I want to race.