And the hits just keep on commin.

[Sourbastard]

Well yesterday I dropped my car off at Modbury Automatics to have a look at my transmission, and give it a service, and to have a look at some kickdown problems I was having with car during very hot days (35C+) when using light throttle pressure at low speed.

They were lucky in that Morpowa, a mob across the road from them had an AU2 Falcon ute in their yard to compare with, and Modbury Auto did a 2 hour diagnostic (all for 70 bucks!) with the Morpowa guys for free.

As soon as they drove it they thought that there was a problem with bottom end power getting to the ground, and could find no electrical problems with the transmission themselves, leaving the following possibilities.

Cam Timing may still be wrong
ECU & Chip arent working together correctly
Cam Profile after regrind isnt right
Lack of converter stall.

My thoughts, ECU & Chip were working well before Cam install, You guys arent having problems with the standard converter stall(Is the stall different between a standard 6 and the xr6?) and almost all of you are making more power than I, which leaves me with two possibilities, that being the Cam or the timing of the cam.

Simon from Morpowa has offered to liase with Lachlan to try and sort out the problems and if required, reflash the chip. So my plans for the moment are

Get Morpowa to do a power run and tinker with the timing to see what they can yield from it. If possible to find out exactly what the chip is doing. If this doesnt yield results, maybe a cam upgrade to a JMM dev4 with some new valve springs thrown in at the same time.

Essentially, this is a total balls up by Road and Track, and I wouldnt recommend them to setup a Victor Lawn Mower and expect them to get it right. For those who havent been keping track of my adventures, the following sums it up.

The Road & Track Services Saga
Go in for chip and cam
Chip gets installed, cam is not as the mechanic believes the Heel of the Cam lobes will do damage to the engine. This is apparently blamed on a screw up from Crow.
Cam comes from queensland where it is ground proplery from a blank billet.
Cam arrives cracked, cam doesnt go in.
Cam is ground again in queensland and goes in, fuel usage goes through the roof.
Car goes back in for diagnosis, mechanic recommends vernier gear to fix it.
Car goes back in for vernier gear fitment. Car is backed into something while in their yard.
They fix the damage (new bumper, poorly fitted and not colour matched properly), then leave my radio code locked and unconnected to the arial.
Car goes back in to get the radio fixed.
Car goes to Modbury Automatics to have diagnostics.
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