DavidJ
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Thank you
David
David
Fitting Charge Pressure Guage kit to KAD42
- Thread starter BruceK
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CLB
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Come on Farsco, pull your finger out. We are all waiting with baited breath to see if they work. I can't believe a few days of F8 ish winds is enough of an excuse not to get out and try em 
BruceK
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It just may work out that I get my obsolete molex plug on the slow boat from America for my traditional VDO gauges before you get the chance and actually beat you in this race 
vas
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It just may work out that I get my obsolete molex plug on the slow boat from America for my traditional VDO gauges before you get the chance and actually beat you in this race
how about you putting back your engines/drives/steering together (with no leftovers!) first and then think about this molex plug (which as I mentioned is not needed anyway
)A decent advantage of shaft boats is that you can do all your servicing in the water. I'm finishing my stbrd engine (oil/heat exchangers/filters/coolant etc) tomorrow.
OK, cannot do the trim tab rams in the water, but no big deal...
V.
PS. t-shirt season is officially on down here
Mr Googler
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Come on Farsco, pull your finger out. We are all waiting with baited breath to see if they work. I can't believe a few days of F8 ish winds is enough of an excuse not to get out and try em
I’m trying!
Wind hasn’t been under 30 knots for 2 weeks!
Tides, work etc...have all been against me. Fingers crossed for a run Thursday or Friday this week. Spring needs to hurry up.
Mr Googler
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BruceK
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BruceK
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how about you putting back your engines/drives/steering together (with no leftovers!) first and then think about this molex plug (which as I mentioned is not needed anyway
A decent advantage of shaft boats is that you can do all your servicing in the water. I'm finishing my stbrd engine (oil/heat exchangers/filters/coolant etc) tomorrow.
OK, cannot do the trim tab rams in the water, but no big deal...
V.
PS. t-shirt season is officially on down here
We get to drop in on April Fools day.....watch this space!
vas
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You can go off people you know
I was thinking the same
guys, don't forget I'm paid by the Greek tourist board, I have to do my best to shift as many of you as I can down here.
in hindsight, your government is doing a sterling job atm, I could just sit under the sun and watch you lot evacuating the country
Bruce, 1st of April is a bit of joke, cant you do 2nd?
V.
BruceK
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Yayyyy my Molex connectors arrived. Bgr the connector doesn't include any crimp pins :disgust: The race is still on. :encouragement:
Mr Googler
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Mr Googler
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Success!
Worked like a charm. Stayed on all the time. The only annoying bit is when you throttle down to idle it will alarm. You only have to press the button on the side to stop it so not the end of the world.
The boost at 3100 revs sat at 1 bar for the engine with a new turbo and 0.7 bar for the engine with a rebuilt turbo.
Another thing to worry about!
Sensor Temperatures both sat at 45c
Worked like a charm. Stayed on all the time. The only annoying bit is when you throttle down to idle it will alarm. You only have to press the button on the side to stop it so not the end of the world.
The boost at 3100 revs sat at 1 bar for the engine with a new turbo and 0.7 bar for the engine with a rebuilt turbo.
Another thing to worry about!
Sensor Temperatures both sat at 45c
julians
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Good work!
The pressure difference between the two turbos might just be inaccuracies in the sensors. Have you tried awapping the sensors over to see if the boost values change?
The pressure difference between the two turbos might just be inaccuracies in the sensors. Have you tried awapping the sensors over to see if the boost values change?
Mr Googler
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No but great idea and easy to do!
bowler
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Nice work - time to order!
Did you see a performance difference between engines in any way before before the guages said so?
Did you see a performance difference between engines in any way before before the guages said so?
Mr Googler
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Not really to be honest
bowler
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Be interesting to see what happens when you swap them. A great idea regardless.
BruceK
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Something doesn't gel with me. In the book of words is states the following figures:
RPM KPA Bar
1800 115 1.1
2500 145 1.45
3800 175 1.75
RPM KPA Bar
1800 115 1.1
2500 145 1.45
3800 175 1.75
Mr Googler
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Atmosphere temp difference? There’s a conversion graph somewhere. The engine bay temp was 44c ish at a guess as that’s what the sensor temp reading was.
I’m sure they are not as acurrate as your proper gauges will be.
I’m sure they are not as acurrate as your proper gauges will be.
vas
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I forgot to ask about that as well when I saw your pic FARSCO, but I don't know volvos and I already suggested checking oil pressure on a manual Volvo box yesterday so don't want to make more silly suggestions
FWIW (not much) my IVECOs on boost are stuck at 2bar (for a petrolhead that's an impressive value and the main reason for fitting boost gauges tbh...) the 1bar looks little.
Now, if at 1800rpm you see .5bar and at 3800rpm you see .8-0.9 then the atmo pressure thing may be right. If not, there's something else to search, although tbh these gauges are mainly tools to check discrepancies and issue early warnings that something's not right, nothing more imho.
cheers
V.