Build Thread?

[Earl]

Glad the head wasn't a worry this time around=)

[GunMetalGrey]

Snap said:

85# injectors!!?!

RIP smooth idle

They are known to atomize better than stock injectors, so that's a thing? I was running them the last time the car ran and it was fine! 
It was 65 or 85, and 65 was a bit low if I decided to do other fuel sources, so 85er's it was!

[GunMetalGrey]

Earl said:

Glad the head wasn't a worry this time around=) 

I haven't actually had head issues before, it was always block related stuff. But that was decked when I first put this engine together so we are good to go!

[B C]

The idle characteristics of an injector depend a lot on where the non-linear flow region is. Once you start running in the non-linear range of pulsewidths then you run into trouble. Glad they arent a problem then

[HipMF]

doesn't MS have a compensation for that? Seems like flow-testing the injectors an punching the numbers in a LUT would be an easy-peasy solution...

[B C]

You can enter in values for non-linear injector latency vs. voltage which would help with that especially on a car with a light flywheel and big cam/itbs.

[Daggerty]

Ill be switching to hundoes eventually.

85s for e85.

[GunMetalGrey]

Crappy pic, but it gets the point across.

Struggling to figure out a coolant expansion tank, and may resort to just putting one back in the stock location and making some brackets for it. 
I also decided to move the oil cooler and that has been providing an equal amount of headaches. 

In good news the everything else is taken care of, and the ECU seems to be working well and I feel confident that once I get the oil and coolant situation figured out it should fire up first go.

[GunMetalGrey]

Got it running today, with minimal resistance. 
Now to get the coolant expansion tank in place and do some driving!

[Daggerty]

Burnout vids

[GunMetalGrey]

Not a burnout vid, but a short video of lightly getting on the throttle and popping my intake coupler off!

[B C]

Celebrate the small victory of getting it on the road with a steak dinner tonight

[GunMetalGrey]

^ I had a late lunch with the family, so I don't think tonight will be that night!

In other news, I replaced all of the soft brake lines with braided stainless ones and also replaced all of the brake hardlines over the past year. Holy crap is the brake pedal awesome now! 

I'm doing some non driving tuning right meow and hope to be able to give it another test drive soon!

[Jdesign]

New hardlines you say. Were the old ones rotted?

[GunMetalGrey]

Jdesign said:

New hardlines you say. Were the old ones rotted?

I needed to replace the soft lines in the rear at the caliper, and the nuts were gross so I figured I may as well replace them. 
The ones above the rear subframe were gross and I did those when the subframe was out this winter. 
I had done the front's when I deleted ABS.

[Jdesign]

Ahhh. Yeah I did all the same lines when I did my suspension a few years ago.

[GunMetalGrey]

Typical summer build thread for me, never being updated. 

I had my plugs gapped way too far and was blowing spark out at full boost, brought them down but may go a little further yet. 
Tuning takes a lot of time and is tricky, getting annoyed by it.

[HipMF]

Daggerty said:

Burnout vids

[straight6pwr]

HipMF said:

Burnout vids

[B C]

And now you understand why cars come with the smallest possible injectors from the factory instead of just sending everything out with 42#ers. Big injectors make tuning more cumbersome.