Update time.
Transmax Z fluid in the gearbox. Check. Much quieter and smoother changes. 1st to 2nd can still be a bit of a pig though. I'll give it a few miles to see if I get used to it or whether it's a genuine problem. Thanks for the heads up Walt.
Decent fluid in the clutch. Check. The old stuff was black within 200 miles. Clutch is noticeably better but still not right - see below.
Samberg rad fitted. Check. What an awesome bit of kit. Aside from looking beautiful it's also upped my dyno numbers from 427 ft/lbs to 477 ft/lbs and 395hp to 464hp!
Exhaust quieter. Check. Had a new system made up from the Y-pipe back. 1 mid-car silencer and a big one with twin 3" pipes at the rear. Sounds fantastic. Very quiet at idle and a lovely sound on throttle. I'm very impressed with it. It was made up by a local firm a stumbled upon while trying to find somewhere to fix a slow puncture one Sunday morning.
Problems:
The clutch is letting go at higher revs on the dyno. I'm not surprised really given the numbers it's now putting out. We couldn't really do any tuning today because of it. I'm going to order up an LS7 kit from sdparts. I could get one over here but I'm looking at nearly ?900 ($1440!) for the kit and a slave cylinder. Daylight robbery.
The front suspension camber plates are moving around under load. My subframe is one of Justin's originals with only one camber plate per suspension bolt. It's just not got enough clamping force to cope with the loads imo. I've ordered the extra camber and U-plates from Justin so hopefully that'll fix the problem.
All in all I love it. It's so much easier to live with than the rotary and the change in character from relaxed cruising to all out attack at the flex of an ankle is amazing. I find myself only using half throttle most of the time as frankly, full throttle scares me at the moment. A few more miles and I'll be asking about turbo installs no doubt
