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I've been meaning to update this, but I primarily track my build a local forum...which as of next week is going to be shut down. Its sad, I hope the thread gets archived at least as it was awesome.
The last I posted in March the motor was in the car and I was finishing up a bunch of small details, which ended up taking longer than I planned. I got the car fired up and running mid April, but spent a few months chasing electrical demons.
The BIGGEST pain was that I couldn't get the car to idle much below 2200 rpms and it was sketchy at best even then. I initially attributed it to the motor itself being so wickedly nasty beyond anything I had previously tuned but the more I fought it the more frustrating it became.
I gave up on idle being lower and started cruise and low boost tuning, only to find I was getting what felt like massive aggressive ignition breakup and weird vibrations across the whole car when I went into boost. In chasing that issue I came to find that 2 of my 4 spark plug wires were toast and reading NO resistance when tested...which also explained my idle issue.
I had been running on L1 and T2 only. At the time I had been running no split at idle as split caused things to get unstable quickly, and the split map had it splitting the spark right when I was going into boost...hence my break up. After making new wires...presto...she idles happily brapping at ~1750 rpms and the breakup was gone.
Somewhere in there I sold the PS1000 and upgraded to a Haltech Elite 2500, which is awesome.
I'll update with progress pics when I can, but to cut to it below are links to some hood dump 2200 rpm semi port brapping!
Since then I've put a full exhaust back on the car with a resonated midpipe so as to quiet it down. I'm probably going to just reserve the hood for the track or events where extra-obnoxiousness is required. The car has been street tuned to 20 PSI, where it will be staying until I can find a dyno to push it further.
Upcoming work includes installing the kaaz differential, completing the tan-to-black interior swap, lots more haltech CAN gadgets and hopefully some 30 PSI dyno numbers.
09-21-17, 11:55 AM
