So last night was spent doing the wiring for my A/F gauge and fixing a boost leak. I have some pictures of the the intall, the first is how I attach the connector to the hanger, second is the connector being birthed into the cabin of the car and the third is the gauge in the pod. I have yet to connect the wideband because I ran out of time. I have the wire diagram I linked earlier so I will cut that wire and run narrow band sim in Link. Oh and I forgot to add that my laptop screen showed up tuesday so I installed and now I have a laptop for link.

So today was pretty productive, I finished my install of my AF Gauge and hooked up Link. Also did a few logs so I will probably take a look at those tomorrow or something. NB sim is working flawlessly.

Unfortunatley this happened when I was fixing my lines on my AFPR so was no too happy about that, going to see if I can find some one local with a replacement.

Is That a spiderman blanky Bryan?

Not a blanky just a small carpet. It's spiderman crouched on the b train. The wife doesn't think it belongs at the front door so I keep it in the laundry room where I do some of my less dirty car stuff.

That sucks

LOL, it was there for a while.

Alright so tonight I finished SD install, not even sure where to start with tuning it. I did the CombinedFT and it seemed to do ok, didn't really go for any big pulls, car pulled well and creeped on me once. I have since put the new intake back on and have shortened the hose on the MAP, will have to go for a spin later. Also not sure how to fix idle, the idle is currently low and I have compensated with backing out the biss screw, still struggles a little to hold a solid idle. Hoping that the shorter hose will help, plus it is straight now and not curved. Anyways enough with the chitter chatter here are the pictures. Did some quick work on my AFPR line so I threw a picture in there too. Oh and as for the IAT, I asked him to weld it lower then that but unfortunately he did not.

Any pictures of your MAP set up ?
It is realy important with SD set up

LOL, I know that! If you look to the right of the TPS it is hiding under those wires.

I also have to give Kent a thank you, he was the one that pushed me to get SD, tonight is my first long cruise with it in so I am curious to see how she does. Question though, should I reset my SD table to the default or should I keep what was created and keep working with that?

I have my map directly from a vaccuum port on the intake plenum there shoul dbe one near where the pvc is connected to it next cylinder over to the drivers side. Cant get more accurate then right in the manifold

mine uses the PVC port.

Jason you using the one on the right there?

So Mr.Stacey and myself met up a few weeks ago and I was telling him about how my progress on my car was being held up because I didn't have a non cruise cable. He had mentioned that he made his own from the cruise stuff, but recommend I don't risk it on my box incase I screw it up. A while back Joe had given me a box of free stuff and it had a 90 cruise cable so figured I might use that. I had been waiting on a non cruise cable from someone but was tired of waiting and decided I would give it a go. I called my boy Chris up and we got together and created a non cruise cable from the two cables that came off the 90 cruise unit, here is the out come below, because we didn't want to fabricate too much the cable will do a loop to make it back to the intake. I will take pictures after the install on sunday probably.

Yes sir thats the one!

What is your Fuel Pressure regulator using?

Here are the before and after of the cruise delete, I know need to figure out where and how I am going to mount my AFPR, any tips would be great!

So yesterday the 3" Exhaust went on, headed over to zoro and they put everything on, the pipe that had the cat on had to be cut so I decided to get them to put it on. I unfortunately forgot to take some pictures when it is still up on the lift but I have to say, this car is a beast now. I have never spun the tires and first but now as I hit boost the tires chirp for a second and it is an insane feeling, I definitely couldn't be happier with the upgrade!

..and the beast grows stronger.

Just wait until the rest of the goodies go in and you start tuning on link!

But yeah.. no pics is fail

L shaped peice of sheetmetal. self tapping screws into the firewall- done

LOL yeah i know, I have started to play around with tuning, mostly just idle tuning and the open loop tuning for SD. Soon I will start the WOT tuning, as soon as the injectors go in!

Thanks for the tip Luc, I am going to see if I can find something like that at home depot or canadian tire.

Sorry dude, I use a split off my boost gauge for my fpr. I am also having issues still with my FPR so I have to look at replacing it

Still want mine? As soon as I get the AFPR on I will be going to get rid of it as well as the solenoids.

Yeah if you dont mind I can send you my contact info and what ever costs associated with it

Post some pics of the front end with the bumper put on! I wanna see her new teeth.

Hey sorry about the wait, I have been busy and keep forgetting to take pictures, I will take another when I go out next time, for now this is one in the garage. I am also having issues with starting after the afpr install so that is really annoying.

Glad you went and tried the cruise delete your self..

I threaded my fuel rail ends to 3/8s NPT

Used a male 3/8s NPT to male 10-an fitting adapter,

Threaded my Aeromotive afpr straight onto the 10-an adapter.

This was done on the other end by the TB... then ran a braided 6-an line from the filter to the end of the rail where the stock fpr used to be.

Ya thanks again for the tip Jay. Interesting setup, I am not sure when I will start looking into redoing lines, next step is to do the pump which I hear is exciting! Probably look at taking that on next week.

Make sure you have a GOOD set of NEW vise grips! and plenty of PB Blaster! I ended up cutting the trunk pan around the pump to get a better grip on the nuts.. and after spouking them for 5 days, I still broke 3 of 6. I was gonna just make my own plate to cover the fuel pump that was bigger to compisate for the bigger hole!

But I scrapped the car instead.

If I ever have to swap pumps in a 1g again, I think ill just drill a hole thru the sender thread in a pick-up tube. Then runa an external walbro

LOL that is any interesting way to do it.

Also I got some fancy penetrating oil from chris so I am using that and supposedly it is really good, I have soak it a few times already but not any time recently, my plan was to hit it a few times before I actually go in so probably all weekend then hit it on monday.

coke works really well too, But I try to stay away from wd40, it stripps the oils from the metal and actually premotes rust.

yeah this stuff is called kroil or something, I definitely wouldn't use wd40, supposedly there is an oil based version called wd49 or something like that.

Kroil info:

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/005279.php

Glad to see she's coming along

Thank you sir! I am taking the fuel pump thing slow, I don't want to muck up anything

So small update. Got a aluminum rad yesterday put her in with stock fan, unfortunately it is hitting the j-pipe coupler so it doesn't seem to sit well, was only able to get one bolt in each of the brackets that hold the rad down.

I'd just mark out the area that's interfering, them pull it out and trim it out.

Then you'll be able to tighten all the bolts

yeah i was thinking that too. those supports that are on the outside of the shroud i will cut off. I haven't put coolant back in so I think I will pull it today and then trim and try again.

Alright done! Took it back off, die grinded off the support piece and she slided in nicer. Still needed some muscle motivation to get both bolts on but at least it was doable this time.

My temperatures on the trip home from the invasion were up around 215, so I am hoping that this aluminum rad will cool it down. Also planning on putting in a slim fan on the A/C side.

A new rad with two good fans will definitely help, but on the highway my temps are always very high because even in 5th gear it sits at a high RPM and, especially with the 14b, it's always on the verge of boost (we're talking ~125km/h).

But, I can happily say in stop and go traffic and any other driving than highway driving I never have heat issues anymore, unless I'm into boost a lot. But for *normal* driving, you should be more than golden.

Next for me is to start doing ductwork for the rad.

I want to section off my intake or put the intake in the bumper, but I don't have a splash gaurd yet so until that happens it stays where it is.

Duct work is definitely the way to go, unfortunately I don't have the patience to do that sh!t.

I forgot to upload a picture of my current intake setup, so here she is!

So today I started off the day not feeling so hot so I took the day off, when I felt better in the after noon I got some work done for the car (it's not on the car yet). First thing was last week I put my new to me fuel sending unit in a nice evaporust bath and let it sit in there for two days. Brushed it to get some of the left over rust and got it to look like this.

Today I spent the after noon drilling for the bulk head fitting and then painting and putting the pump in. I enjoy painting stuff with bed liner because it does a good job at keeping out moisture and it looks pretty good. I also cut some line for the fuel filter to the rail but I will wait till that is in to take pictures. Here is the finished sending unit.