Build Thread?

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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.

[GunMetalGrey]

Snap said:

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.

I am not 100% sure that everything is coming down to that, but I'm sure it doesn't help a ton.

[Bassboy3313]

just get it dyno tuned and done

[GunMetalGrey]

Bassboy3313 said:

just get it dyno tuned and done

Any localish places that you would suggest that will play with megasquirt?

[Bassboy3313]

I am pretty sure LMT does. @DrLeadFoot would know better than I would tho. I was planning on taking mine there when that time comes.

[KaiserRolls]

GunMetalGrey said:

Bassboy3313 said:

just get it dyno tuned and done

Any localish places that you would suggest that will play with megasquirt? 

DB performance in MN, would would require you to come visit

Shane does most of the Megasquirt there as far as I know. Did Brooke's car. It was neat.

[Daggerty]

Snap said:

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.

100% duty cycle or bust.

[GunMetalGrey]

Switched to full sequential the other day and also changed the req_fuel to reflect the new information in regards to the injectors (they were rounded for lb/hr and also rated at 3 bar) and suddenly this thing is a different animal. 
No burnout vids, but there has for sure been some tire spin. 

Oh, my starter solenoid did start acting up hard today. Had to have a friend hit it with a screwdriver while I held the key over. Grabbing a new one today to fix that. Luckily it didn't start when I was at a friends house instead of a gas station or somewhere random.

[Jdesign]

I just see excuses for no Burnout vids.

[GunMetalGrey]

I have to hit my starter with a screwdriver to get it to start lately. That's fun. 
Still trying to track down an 10+PSI breakup. Hoping to do a bit of logging this weekend and really pinpoint what's going on. 

Got sideways on a gentle bend at about 60mph from rolling on the throttle, didn't expect that to happen and it was amusing to say the least. Stayed in it and just powered through, worked out fine. It just so happened to be when I was giving my dad ride lol.

[Daggerty]

What plugs and gap are you running? Air fuel ratios good intake it?

[GunMetalGrey]

Daggerty said:

What plugs and gap are you running? Air fuel ratios good intake it?

NGK BRK7E at .022"
Ratio spikes rich now, but more on that in a second.

I was having a hard time keeping all 6 cylinders running due to a plug on the high current side of the coil drivers and I got around to changing that plug this weekend to something more robust with better contact. Boy did that make a difference! I still have some rich spots that cause breakup but I'm working on smoothing those out. The car moves very well now, and I had my first run in with the police for the year! No ticket, just a warning or two. 
 

Traction in second gear has become entirely optional, my tires wont be lasting long.