Paradis' Red Hot HCR32...2007

[Paradis]

well i've finally crawled out of my hole after a 3 month depression. :-( ,
My engine went kaput back in september on the dyno. I went back for a few pulls to fine tune my a/f ratio and try to pull out few extra ponies from my previous 325whp and walked away with no compression on cylinder #3.
There was a lot speculation on how and what but my guess is i blew a valve seal. It would explain a few issues i was having prior that.
Won't know for sure until i take the engine out and uncork the head.

Already picked up another RB20 from Jay, and gonna look at doing the swap over the winter, throw in a new clutch which i desperately needed to do anyway. Think i'm gonna turn it down to 16psi and keep it at 310whp for now. can't afford be doing this again with me going back to get my teaching certificate next fall :-P

[DrMango]

Thanks for the news you lazy sob still rippin the Hilux?

Kyle

[Joker]

Gotta be ready for another Sylvan meet in the summer 8)

Glad to hear you are part of the club still!

[mattEG]

Do you have any more shots of the intake manifold?

[Paradis]

You bet i'm ripping in the hilux! :-P . ya i should be all set by spring. with any luck i'll have a garage to work in starting next month and will take my time over the next 4 months doing everything piece by piece, step by step. Sylvan will go time! and i say we do a Jasper-banff-calgary trip this year too.

I might have some shots on my PC somewhere, what are you looking for?

[Paradis]

.....

Here goes... tonight. one show only.

I've got a couple members from the forum, plus a couple more. + shop space with all the tools and goodies to do the following between 6pm, and 3am..

Rb20 swap
Clutch
Timing Belt & Tensioners
Remove that monstrosity of plenum and throw it on the new engine
and of course all the fun that comes with it..

And i get to work at 9 am the next morning.. Sweet Red bull.. oh sweet red bull

[mightyrocker]

join the club,

thats tomrrow night for me


i wish you luck!

[91SkylineGts-t]

Hey man how did the swap go? Sorry i didnt make it down, My buddy was moving to Sylan the same night so I didnt get a chance to make it down. I hope everything went as planned.

[Paradis]

What a weekend.. phew

Didn't quite rap it up on friday night, that Plenum and a few other parts that we had to swap from engine to engine carried us over into the next day, for an extra 6 hours or so.
But, saturday at 7-8 ish all was done. Have to do some remapping now and tuning, but turned the engine over and no big red flags came so, cross your fingers.

Hopefully within 2 weeks i'll be back 300+whp and ready for skymeet!

[Paradis]

Also a big thanks to Jay & his brother Tom and Mihai (turbophile) from the board. I would be nowhere without those guys.

I'll post pics a little later. took a few candid shots on friday night

[Paradis]

[BenC]

Looks like a good time. Haha Jay and his brother are hilarious

[Paradis]

I love those boys!

[-Jay-]

Looks like a good time. Haha Jay and his brother are hilarious

I hope thats a good thing

I didn't do too much saturday, I'm not used to working until 4:30am, thank christ for red bull.

Anyone in the Calgary area want a swap doing just contact me and we'll work something out.

Chris let me know when you get that thing tuned, can't wait to see it go.

[Paradis]

yah I'm just waiting for injectors, as soon as those are in, i can start a proper tune

EDIT, got it running today, just swapped in a 270cc chip for now. it'll last me a week or two before i dyno tune with the new injectors.
Skymeet... here i come