Ill check it out when I get home. Thanks


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Fixed a few things on the Z today. One of which was the alternator wire was to close to the exhaust and wasn't tucked nicely. Heres a pic of the pass side with the wires tucked away again.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7338/9...b7df8800_z.jpg
IMAG1630 by Gorillazfan, on Flickr

Also fixed an exhaust rattle, and a small electrical issue where my lights were turning on automatically.

Also found myself in traffic...sat in bumper to bumper for 1 hour. Had ac on the whole time with windows down. Coolant temps were good, oil temps were good, afrs stayed where they should be. Very good considering the heat soak.

:tup: man, I look at the picture above, and im like.. aww it's so cute! look at that lil guy :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl: can't wait to see your next evolution

Hahaha that little guy knows how yo put that power down though. Uhg can't wait to be fully tunes so I can go WOT with boost.

:bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl: I know what you mean man
I think it would be fun to do a mile race... see who would win between the two cars :stirthepot:

I only say mile because with the wheel spin, we need more distance

Haha I'm down. Keep an eye on my YouTube Channel. I should have a few videos up soon once it'd tuned. We have a dude with a ZR1 and a 458 Italia I'll be running against.

:yum: I can't wait

Very impressive. My car would overheat in conditions like that, but my turbo was in the worst spot possible.

Thanks! :tiphat:

That's pretty much always going to be a problem for us top mount fellas. I really cant wait to see the results of a full wrap in my bay with the air ducts. I really wish all of you guys were closer :? We really could've had some awesome Z meets that's for sure!

probably have the best running Zs too! lol

Haha I would like to think so. Seems like most of us in a way had to go the custom route for this sort of thing. So its atleast badass if not fast as hell.

Honestly I really thought the car wouldnt feel "stock" after a turbo build. But honestly as long as you aren't pushing too hard it feels barely different. Im really digging it.

:iagree: the fact that you can drive around town, out of boost is a blessing!

back in for dyno results

:iagree:

I am definitely paying attention now..............

I need to do this. I have wires everywhere now.

It takes probably a solid day, less if you have two+ motivated people. But it's fairly easy.

Found my new turbo blanket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBVF...e_gdata_player

thats one hell of a blanket lol you see their same test with a temp gun? it moves from 104 to 107 thats it lol following run back to back i think it maxed at 110

Talk about quality. Not sure how long it will hold up but at $99 from the actual company Ill be happy even buying a new blanket every year.

yea $100 isnt a bad deal. i'm sure it'll last more than a year.....hopefully? lol

Idk ive seen guys go through the DEI turbo blankets that are twice the cost in about 2 years. Its all subjective to driving styles however.

well for $100 i guess its not a big deal to test it out see and what happens

Honestly if it can last a whole season (March-September) ill be pleased. Still waiting on a more complete tune so we can actually make better and safer use of boost....im mildly dying inside from all of the anticipation. John knows his stuff but communication is a struggle at best.

haha yeaaaaa he has that issue with more people than just you.

Good find on that blanket... add it to the list of stuff for the RB we're building.

I think the "issue" is that he has big clients. Like Crawford performance and other big names I cannot recall at the moment. Pretty sure his "etuning" takes a back seat which is fine when you have high paying customers actually sending you cars from a great distance. It is just frustrating. All I need is an ETA or a "im working on some adjustments" heck even a go eff yourself would be good so that I can make arrangements elsewhere.



His last response was..."Its time we meet up and tune for real power on a dyno"...he then asked some additional questions.

He hasn't responded yet so I am dead in the water wondering if I will get an etune for full throttle and boost or if im going to have to wait for him to come down here and dyno tune for it. I do NOT care either I just want to know what to expect.

RB build? I can haz link? Love me some RB builds.

yea i understand he has big name clients but if you're soo busy with that why take on etuning? i mean i know he's really good and i've met him and had lunch etc etc he's a great dude dont get me wrong lol

i honestly would have just stuck with uprev if i went boosted since a. i already have my own personal tuner kit and b. there's plenty people with experience readily available to tune it asap.

Yeah honestly if Ecutek wasn't going to be so feature rich in the near future I would've went with Uprev. We could've had the car tuned ourselves since Pat has tuned his own standalone megasquirt ecu he is pretty good with doing it. Wouldn't be perfect but itd be good enough to have fun and still go get a pro tune later. Also I got the HOOKUP on pricing with John which really made the choice unbeatable.

understandable but i'd be going nuts not being able to put my foot down after you did allllllllll that awesome work to get this done.

Yeah we usually bitch about the situation via text ATLEAST 3 times a day currently haha.

yea i would be going insane......or just went and got tuned on uprev. actually yes i would have got a tune already to drive it lol

No link, I should probably take pictures next time we're working on it..

At the moment we've got the head off, everything taken off the block except the rotating assembly. Going to de-grease and flush the bottom end but not remove the rotating assembly (no reason to think it's bad so we're gonna leave it alone).

I'm going to be disassembling the head, completely cleaning that, doing some minor re-shaping on the exhaust ports (they have a big lump that intrudes into the port) giving the valve seats a quick polish and new seals.

We haven't decided if we're gonna slap cams on it or not...

Anyone ever see this? Car functions as usual. Came on while driving to lunch.

Fluids are good. Reset battery and it came on again right away. Scanning cels soon.

Is the plug for your sport mode button unplugged?

Holy crap! That's freaking awesome. Looking forward to some progress on that one. What are you going to put it in?

i got a 7AT so i'm always in S-mode lol

Ill check but I could still turn it on and off. Error would go away when off.

That's odd maybe there is a problem with ur sport mode if it goes away when u turn it off maybe a tuning issue. Did the tune u did effect your rev matching?