Red Rattler Revamp

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Red Rattler Revamp

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Back into it today, giving it every chance to be the best it can be- put some foam between the edge of the fan housing and the core - bolted it all back together and kicked it in the guts - got up to 85 and the fan kicked in - worked like a bought one ImageImage plenty of air being pushed through the core now , way more than the 14” jobbie that’s now in the bin ImageImageImageImage
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Thought it was going too well - was happily refitting the grille and nek minnit -
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Never seen one do that.


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Errol62 wrote:Never seen one do that. Image


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Had a couple of blow ins turn up yesterday- they made me go to the pub after a short shed tour
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Must have been on their way to Summernats.


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Errol62 wrote: Sat Jan 03, 2026 8:27 am Must have been on their way to Summernats.
If they are , they are terribly lost ! Well, we call him Wrongway Roger for a reason I guess ......... :ebiggrin: :ebiggrin: :ebiggrin:
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Well , after having been left high and dry by the bloke who was doing the tuning on this thing I have found another fella who is willing to give it a go - the first guy has been MIA since Christmas and I finally got hold of him 3 or 4 weeks ago and he basically told me to piss off and find someone else to tune it :thumbsdown: :evil:

Just got off the phone with another bloke and he is willing to give it a go so fingers crossed :thumbsup:
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Hmmmm….. that’s a bit rude. Best of luck with the next tuner!
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Booked in for thursday :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Sounds like your first "tuner" had no idea !

Anyway good luck with take 2.

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Well it’s FINALLY tuned and ready to party 🥳
Took it down to the timer in Bunbury yesterday, he reckons it would be far better with a Haltech computer in it rather than the EMS but it’s done now and will give it some time and see how it behaves.
Was a little disappointed with the horsepower number- I was hoping for 300/300 flywheel horsepower/torque , ended up with about 240 hp but was happy with the torque - it’s around 375 which is a nice bonus 😎👍 The blue lines on the pic below is what it was making at the start of the day, the red line is the final pull.

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It’s only making about 8lb of boost which is probably hurting the hp numbers
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Hi Blacky I think it is MACE that make the pulleys, I look at them when I had the L67 Monaro you can get up to 20 psi by changing pulleys
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FireKraka wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2026 12:35 pm Hi Blacky I think it is MACE that make the pulleys, I look at them when I had the L67 Monaro you can get up to 20 psi by changing pulleys
Yeah you can - I will have to check what the ramifications are with upping the boost regarding the tune - the bloke I bought the kit from told me there was 2 different sized pulleys available from him and we agreed to start with the bigger one - he stopped answering his phone a couple of years back, he has probably died of old age by now its taken me so long to get this thing going ...... :esad:
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