6A12TT Help Required

[Goku]

Yes, the sports GT just has a different body and thats it, everything else is the same

[Tippmann]

sweet

Car needs a service, What Spark Plugs are suited to these engines, will 2.0 NA ones work ok....really dont want to spend bega bucks on this

Oil Filter is the Same as a 2.0 NA Galant/FTO too right?

Gonna change the oil too using Castrol Edge 0w30w stuff too

[Goku]

You have to use iridiums in the rear bank BKR6EIX

you can use normal ones in the front bank BKR6E but I'd just go iridiums all round

[Tippmann]

so use Iridiums BKR6EIX all around?

[Goku]

yes

[Tippmann]

can someone please tell me the mm of the standard disks please? (sports gt)

[fuel]

276x24mm - same as E39A Galant VR-4 (the ones with twin pots at least, anyway), and Lancer Evo1-3.

[Goku]

That's only the front ones though

[Tippmann]

cheers guys

[Tippmann]

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php?show=49726

those the puppies?

[Goku]

Yes, they should be the right ones.

[Tippmann]

bloody hope so, as another place wanted £180 odd for a set (80 pound a Disk!)

[Goku]

thats a bit on the expensive side

[Tippmann]

owell, ordered now, should be here tommrow, fitted tommrow aswel with any luck & MOT saturday :)

[fuel]

rears are 284mm by 18mm from memory

[Tippmann]

right, next question is...rear brakes, the pads, what are they the same as lol

if the front brakes are evo brakes, what about the rears, are they just normal standard galant items?

[fuel]

they are DB1238 pads, fronts will be DB1223. Unsure if the DB numbering scheme is used outside of NZ. I think some model Diamantes use DB1238 as well as 8G Galant/Legnum VR-4.

Normal N/A Galants use DB1239 pads for use on 266mm rotors, while the DB1238s are suited for the larger 284mm rotors.

[Tippmann]

mate, i live in the uk & getting hold of parts for this car is not excatly easy!

hence had to order evo 3 front brakes which are now fitted, only want a rear set of pads, not many have a 1994 galant vr4 on there data base, so if we can get away by getting a set of pads that are for a 2.0 na galant which are the same, were laughing

[fuel]

The rear pads on a 2.0 N/A Galant are NOT the same - as I said above there's a big difference in disc rotor size on the rear - 266x10mm (solid) or 266x18mm (vented) for non-turbo, and 284x18mm vented for VR-4 turbo. The calipers are different and therefore the pads are different too.

The pads you need (DB1238) are the same used on the 8th gen VR-4, as well as the GTO (3000GT) which doesn't have twin pots on the rear, Lancer Evo4, Lancer Evo5+ RS models which don't have Brembo brakes, as well as some Diamantes and Magnas but I don't think you'ld see many of them in the UK.

[hk20000]

while you guys are here I have very much difficulty passing my 6A12TT powered VR4 for emission testing over here in Canada.

The test is a simulated driving test and it's an ass to pass. The things I have done:

1) new catalytic converter (marginally better, so my old catalytic converter should be salvageable)
2) new plugs
3) new fuel pump
4) new fuel filters
5) new air filter

and it epically failed. the HC is so freaking high that it was over 10 times allowable. So I did these:

1) disable 1 cylinder (unplugged the injector harness so it's running on 5 cylinders, with the 6th act as a big air pump heating up the cat)
2) mix methyl hydrate with 1/4 tank of gas (20L + 1L of methyl hydrate)

and the result is still a marginal fail. But it is VERY close.

I'm thinking of unhooking my turbo pipings altogether so they basically test a 8:1 compression normally aspirated V5 and see if I can go from there.

NOx is irrelevant in my case, the man at the station says, because my car is a parallel import. So with that I'm thinking of even disabling TWO cylinders to get it run squeekly clean.

What else do you have in mind?