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AVR in Palmerston North
AVR Performance spent a week working in Palmerston North recently doing some wiring & tuning on several race cars.
Malcolm’s FD3 race car received a new wiring loom & a tune.
A full new vehicle & engine loom was made to incorporate a range of new sensors including 4 wheel speeds, oil pressure, fuel pressure, front & rear rotor exhaust pyros, boost hi/low switch, pit lane speed limit switch and brake switch for logging. The 13B REW is fitted with a GT35 turbo, stock inlet manifold, & a V-mount intercooler setup. Running 98 pump fuel it made 410hp at the wheels at 18psi. See a dyno tuning video here
Malcolm had also completed a lot of other redevelopment work with the car and after a long break since the last outing he was well pleased to get back out on the track again. The event was round-2 & 3 of the Road & Track series held at Manfield. He was pleased to be able to match his previous fastest time from two years ago straight out of the box & achieved some good results for the week end emerging 2nd overall in the series standings.
One of the other cars worked on during the trip to Palmerston North was Alan Montgomery’s RX7 FD3 race car. The work involved a couple of days of dyno development work trying out some different widgets & ideas.
The video shows Monty's FD3 race car during some of the early power runs.
The 13B peripheral port PP turbo made good progress with the tuning making some good gains in power & drivability.