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by brichman
Fri Jan 08, 2016 10:31 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: VGJONO's 1976 GD Galant Daily
Replies: 403
Views: 5206101

Re: VGJONO's 1976 GD Galant Daily

This build makes me want an old mitsy so badly :( my GN sigma wagon is way too new :P
by brichman
Fri Jan 08, 2016 8:45 am
Forum: Galant's Garage
Topic: Unite all Galant/Sigma Wagon drivers Facebook Group
Replies: 3
Views: 2452

Re: Unite all Galant/Sigma Wagon drivers Facebook Group

Got a wagon..but no Facebook account..and you cant log-in without an account. I had a Facebook account once..but it seemed to be collecting a lot of private information to use against me at a later date. ;-) Make a fake one then! A lot of my friends use fake, empty profiles to play games that requi...
by brichman
Mon Jan 04, 2016 3:36 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Well, she's off to go get finished off a Graham West Automotive here in SA. Should be all tuned up and completed in the next week or two!

I'll post results when I get it back :D
by brichman
Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:22 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

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Getting there :) It sounds absolutely amazing!
by brichman
Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:53 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Awesome! That's something I can follow up. Cheers once again guys!

I also need new front shocks, I reckon i've read somewhere that early commodore ones fit with some minor modification to the existing towers? If so, that's awesome!
by brichman
Thu Dec 17, 2015 8:15 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Alrightey, so things are going well and the car isn't running too bad. The new exhaust has made it sound so much tougher! At the moment it's running the wastegate pressure (5Psi), and i'm getting pininging under load at 4k revs. I've richened up the fuel mixture a bit, and I've decided that this mea...
by brichman
Wed Dec 16, 2015 1:49 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Just got a call from the exhaust shop, she's ready to be picked up! Saying that i'm excited to pick it up this afternoon is a massive understatement!

:D :D
by brichman
Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:27 pm
Forum: Introduce yourself!
Topic: New Here But !5yr Vet Owning a Conquest TSI
Replies: 2
Views: 714

Re: New Here But !5yr Vet Owning a Conquest TSI

My life goal is to own one of these cars, they're ridiculously rare here in Aus... She's a beauty :)
by brichman
Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:44 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Sweet! Cheers guys :)

Some more updates / progress photos

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by brichman
Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:14 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Thanks for the help everyone :) As you can all see, i'm still learning about all of this.
I'll upload a photo of the sump when I get it back from the welder guy!
by brichman
Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:55 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Also, a question for y'all: I took the sump off and measured it, and its 260mm wide. Does this mean its a narrow block? If so, does that mean the engine's been replaced? I thought that GN sigmas with 5spd's were all wide block. :p I purchased two gaskets, a 260mm wide one, and a 280mm wide one. Simp...
by brichman
Fri Dec 11, 2015 9:24 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

My efi N/A 4G54 makes 93rwkw, you should see a healthy 120+rwkw from a turbo motor on a daily tune :thumpsup: Awesome! That looks very promising :D So i've taken the sump off, and bolted things together. The sump is off at a shop getting a bung welded into it. Turns out my sumps got custom baffling...
by brichman
Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:30 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Scorpma82 wrote:In any case....I hope it goes well and you get more than the 100rwkw.....safely
Thanks mate, gonna start it off at 10psi or so, and see how we go from there. Will post on here the results :)
by brichman
Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:10 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

I honestly have no idea, I purchased the car in exactly the way my first post showed! I'd say it would loose around 20-30% of the power figure from the use of LPG. Stock standard back in the day was about 83kw at the fly, so about 75kw (or less) at the wheels. So I was pretty happy with my figure of...
by brichman
Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:11 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

More updates... Rebuild turbo and restored dump pipe / intake manifold. Should be ready to go on in the next couple of weeks! http://s16.postimg.org/5ajvrexdx/Photo_8_12_2015_8_10_07_pm.jpg http://s16.postimg.org/jsh2zeop1/Photo_8_12_2015_8_09_37_pm.jpg http://s16.postimg.org/t2xsgoosl/Photo_8_12_20...
by brichman
Tue Dec 01, 2015 4:43 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Spare wheels are dead weight anyways :P You use the LPG tank everytime you start the car.......you use the spare tyre when you get a puncture Would the factory spare wheel get over the front brakes anyway??? they look quite big for a std wheel Couldn't have said that better myself :) Nope, no stock...
by brichman
Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:28 am
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Sigmaproject wrote:So where is the LPG tank located ??
The gas tank is located under the car, as a replacement for the petrol tank. Unfortunately that means that I don't have a spare wheel :(
by brichman
Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:44 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Turbo is rebuilt.
Manifold/Dump has been dipped and painted.
Balance Line kit for the LPG bought.
Oil feed/return lines on the way..

... not long now :D
by brichman
Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:36 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

A picture from a little hills run I took the sigma on

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Some more goodies for the near future :D

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by brichman
Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:01 pm
Forum: General/Technical Chat
Topic: Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on dash
Replies: 5
Views: 3130

Re: Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on

Where are you based? I took my old XB Pano to a local LPG place and they wired the tank up to my factory XB GT dash and it was spot on! I'm based in SA, I think there is a mob called ProGas that might be able to help me out! Most of the older aftermarket LPG guages I have seen use 2 variable resist...
by brichman
Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:29 pm
Forum: General/Technical Chat
Topic: Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on dash
Replies: 5
Views: 3130

Re: Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on

Whoops, buggered that one up, sorry! The tank sender is 282 ohm (empty) to 40 ohm (full). :banh:
by brichman
Tue Oct 06, 2015 10:27 pm
Forum: General/Technical Chat
Topic: Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on dash
Replies: 5
Views: 3130

Fuel Gauge Resistance - LPG showing incorrect levels on dash

Hi Guys, My apologies if this question has already been asked, but I did my best to have a look and I couldn't find anything! :( I've got a GN Sigma wagon, its on straight gas. Its got an APA industries tank with a 40(empty) to 282 (full) ohm fuel sender thing. It has been retrofitted into the dash ...
by brichman
Sun Sep 27, 2015 12:04 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Well I've found some venetians and a sunvisor, and here are the results :P http://s10.postimg.org/vjbrs4pbt/12041875_744923208946695_309344376_n.jpg http://s10.postimg.org/9hlhi34u1/12032501_744923298946686_2070640427_n.jpg http://s10.postimg.org/ehixq1agp/12032537_744923295613353_134897191_n.jpg
by brichman
Wed Sep 23, 2015 5:33 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

^ Thanks mate! I'll keep them in mind for the next time I need something done. I have been recommended them once before for my VR4, as that also runs on LPG its difficult to find someone that would take the time to get it right. Adam from AT Performance & Fabrication recommended them to me when ...
by brichman
Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:18 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

So I thought i'd update this just in case someone else has the same issue and stumbles along this page. All that was needed was to bring the idle down, to stop overrun upon turning the car off, which was causing the backfiring. It now idles around 800 rpm, and behaves perfect :) Next up on the list ...
by brichman
Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:08 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

So I had a bit of luck at u-pull-it here in Adelaide, and i've found some Aunger headlight covers for $5! Winning :D
by brichman
Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:35 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Re: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Thanks everybody :) I think i've picked up a good one!

The backfire is out of the exhaust. Its getting a tune this weekend coming so that should solve the issues. Its either a timing or mixture issue i think.
by brichman
Wed Aug 05, 2015 11:00 pm
Forum: Members Rides
Topic: Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)
Replies: 50
Views: 32793

Ben's 87 Sigma Highroof - With Mods! (Pic Heavy)

Hi all, My name is Ben, and i've recently acquired a 87 highroof sigma wagon as a daily driver, something a bit cheaper to tun than my twin turbo galant vr-4. I came across this car on gumtree, and ended up purchasing it for $1800. It has absolutely no rust. It also has a rather large list of mods, ...
by brichman
Tue Aug 04, 2015 12:14 am
Forum: Introduce yourself!
Topic: Ben; 87 Sigma High-Roof wagon, with mods! (Picture Heavy)
Replies: 0
Views: 7966

Ben; 87 Sigma High-Roof wagon, with mods! (Picture Heavy)

Hi all, My name is Ben, and i've recently acquired a 87 highroof sigma wagon as a daily driver, something a bit cheaper to tun than my twin turbo galant vr-4. I came across this car on gumtree, and ended up purchasing it for $1800. It has absolutely no rust. It also has a rather large list of mods, ...