91 is fine, I am lazy so I have my car tuned on 91 so I didn't have to go searching for 94 everytime I needed to fill up. Then just add the meth. I would get a 91 tune down pat first though then add meth.

Let a welding table be your first welding project

I thought welding cart modifications was the first welding project?!!!

Ok. Table too.

Done!

Yeah once I get gas welding cart will be one of my projects I do.

I took her out last night and all was good in the world. (granted, I forgot how laggy it was)..

Today went out on my lunch (25degrees) and all was good but at stop lights or after a pull and slowing to stop, check engine would come on (overtemp. 223F) It would eventually get back but this year, shifting priority.

I MUST concentrate on cooling system. I just hope the pump isn't going.

I can throw 70/30 + WW into it a be ok.. but when temps drop on cold nights, engine start to run in the 150-160s at highway speeds (little too low)

P.S. The aggressive people are back. Tailgating. Taking off peeling from a light if I am next to them. Black Talons are worse than other color talons. My buddy Tom had borrowed my car (he had a green one).. A truck attempted twice to run him off the road. Never happened in his green one. >.<

Yeppp... Out in full force too.

What lane are you in when they are tailgating?

In Germany, that is how you tell the car in front of you to move over, although they rarely need to be told. Other than Mercedes drivers, who feel they own the road, they generally pull over on their own if they are in the left hand (passing) lane and see anyone in their rear view mirror.

And yes, let's set the record straight...the left lane is not the fast lane. The fast lane is a drive through lube thing at a Ford dealership. The left lane is the PASSING lane. If you are not passing anyone, get the F___ out of the left (passing) lane!

Yup, very true. The I see less of them seeing as I'm on the road at 3-4am and back on around 2pm.

It does get annoying (tailgaters), especially when you're in the right lane. That and way more people on their phones not paying attention, even though that's illegal now.

Phone thing really pisses me off now, at least when it was legal you could kind of watch the road now they have the phone hidden so they aren't paying attention at all.

I am generally tailgated from lights as I accelerate. Merging on to the QWE, a van was tailgating me before the apex. After the apex, he wasn't able to keep up.

Again this afternoon, I caught up to someone in the PASSING lane who was doing 105 for a good 2 kilometers (while he was "passing" people"). When he moved over for me, I gave it a shot past him and settled at 120. He pulled back out and tailgated me @ 120. (funny, 105 was his speed before I passed him)

The story about Tom. Two lane highway at a light. Tom in my car left lane. Truck in right lane. Light goes green tom bangs through gears up to 130 and then backs off to 120 and moves into right lane. He sees the truck coming up fast. Truck moves left lane and starts to pass him. The truck then pushes him onto the shoulder and almost into the ditch. Tom powers past him and gets back in front. Guy does it again! Tom once again avoids it and flies through all the gears to get mass distance on him. Truck is coming at mach 10. Tom jams the brakes and the truck locks them up cause someone out in left lane. Tom back on the gas to get away. Truck is coming again. Tom has had enough.. opens the sun roof and as soon as the truck seems like he is going to rear end tom, he throws his Full Bottle of pepsi out the sunroof and hits the guy in the grill. The truck let off after that.

One time Tom and I gave the talons a little rip down a backstretch. There was a van behind us. By the end of 4th, we let off. That van should not have caught up as fast as he did. he pulls up next to us. Some guy with wife in front seat and 3 kids in the back. He is yelling at us saying if he had a sports car he would have been faster. We reemed him out for doing over 180 in a minivan full of kids. There is a time and place to have fun! Not with your kids in the car!

I HATE when people do this. You were going slow and blocking the way for ages and now all of a sudden when you get passed you're a speed demon? The best is when you move right again they don't pass, they just kinda stay a bit behind you, as if you being 5 feet ahead is going to make make you the preferred target of any cops out there.

Even worse are the people who don't move under any circumstance but when you go to pass them (sometimes on the right, if need be and depending on the roadway) they speed up to block you.

As Ziggy said, the left lane is for passing and nothing but...

I need to build up an old Humvee and use it to knock cars out of the left lane

I always thought it would mske more sense to have everyone drive on the left lane. The right lane would be for any other manouvers... such as ovrrtaking and merging off and on the highway.
You wouldnt be able to overtake during merge sections... and merging vehicles would have alot more safe space to catch up to traffic.
Obviously this would only work for 4 lane highways.

That and have the 3rd lane on the left for 120+kms madatory on 6 lane highways.

This is why when I make a lane change, I don't signal until I am 3/4 of the way into the lane. I also won't signal a lane change if I am pulling in front of someone I had to pass on the right. I figure they are too stupid to do anything with the information that I am making a lane change anyways, and they don't DESERVE to be signalled.

+1 I do the exact same thing.

Little experiment I did for fun... In all seriousness, between the 5% tint all around and this a good 80-90% of tailgating stopped.

I would love to rock one of these on my windshield

LOL Lucian, is that the elantra?

Something like this?

https://www.rtmracing.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16339&page=3

Would have loved to get the plate

R3V0 3V0M

Absolutely

Ok. So tonight I went to install the AFPR. Everything was going smoothly. I was happy! Until... I go to assemble the AFPR.




Now.. I triple checked to make sure I wasn't crazy.. but was I sent the wrong fitting for my rubber hose return line? The male to male is supposed to fit into the male to barb correct?! It's too small.

Can RTM or someone chime in to confirm I am not crazy and got wrong part?

Here what it should look like. You got the wrong fitting

Abbas sent you the wrong fitting, I told him to get on it and send you the correct one

I am on it. Very sorry about this. Get you the right one out asap.

Thank you both and wish I could make it to DynoTune day.

Today was proof that my work guestimates.. are never accurate.
1 AFPR hour job turned into 13 hours and a fenderless car.




Changed to proper width coupler for intake to turbo.

Installed AFPR w/ issues

After the AFPR install (talk about no room to work with), I attempted to fix my HID going out problem (it was the bulb. I swapped ballast sides and the same one went out. Being in the power steering side of things, off came bumper and fender.




I removed the light, put new bulb in (had spare 8K's laying around).. now it won't light up at all. (high beam works). Put old 5k flickery bulb in. Nothing.

12Volts to the input of Ballast. Didn't measure output (didn't know voltage).

I swore. Then shut everything down. Gonna ditch the HID and put in some Sylvania SilverStars 9006 for now

Does any DSM project ever respect a timeline? lol

Get yourself some PIAA bulbs, better than the SilverStars, little pricier but brighter and whiter.

Don't measure the output, it's quite high (50k volts IIRC) and can hurt you. Swap the ballasts around and see if the problem follows it, it can be a ballast issue too.



Never.

What Anthony said.....ever seen a voltmeter explode? Lol

I also ditched the hids for Sylvania.

Far too many issues. I literally own over 10 kits.

Some would only last a few days, others, months.

Electrical was the only course in highschool hit high 90s in. I knew the voltage was high and I knew I wasn't going to measure it.

Though I did open up the Ballast from the HID that was flickering / going out. Found a capacitor free floating inside. Removed it, Sealed back up. That ballast works great now. It was the non problematic ballast that just stopped working. >.<

I opted for Sylvania Silverstar Ultras to save a few bucks.




PIAA or LED when I look at replacing the housings.

Was going to steal the ballasts from the 300C when the car dies.

LED have the same issue as HID's in a halogen housing, they don't cast the light correctly and piss off all the oncoming drivers.

AFPR in. Everything buttoned up..

Take her out. Mash throttle. Pulls nice till about 12-15 PSI then nothing. Just holds 15psi and is forcing to accelerate. She is making tons of noise.

I will need to check for boost leaks again (I checked up to 10PSI. I am scared of my BLT :P). Though if it was boost leak, AFR would read Rich. Not Mass Lean. As I get closer to 15 PSI.. AFR numbers go up and then to ---.

I suspect I just need to retune now with proper base fuel pressure and she is so lean she can't make power. I dunno. Hopefully not faulty AFPR. >.>

I just want to put old FPR in and drive

Update: Boost leak tested up to 20 PSI. no leaks. (other than my tiny throttle body one)

And extra note. The low end when driving around is smoother since the AFPR.

Ok. It's that time. I had an hour tonight.. so I went out.

I first idled. Got my idl CombFT to between -3 and +3.
I then got my airflow between 0.23 and 0.26

I adjust the OpenLoopThreshMax Table to 1.1 across both top two lines and went for a drive never going more than half throttle.

Car is starting to feel great just cruising. Except for one issue.

When I get on the gas, AF's shoot through the roof. (18,8) the car hesitates and it will slowly correct and come back. It happens when I get on it quick.. or sometimes.. I tip in, hold at 20% throttle while I get going.. all of sudden, drop in power and AF's just climb.

I attached a short log. Any thoughts?
I cranked the tip in. It helped a bit up in the higher rpms shifts and getting back on.. but down low.. no diff. Weird how I held a certain pedal pos and AF just kept climbing even though TPSDelta is 0.



ECMLink Log

Base Tip Ins

0 7
1 23
2 46
3 59
4 67
5 74
6 86
7 97
8 117

Ignore it. Solved. Just talking to myself

Let us know how you fixed it so others will know too!! I assume you adjusted your tip in settings.

Honestly.. patience and not rushing it

I got frustrated too quick and cranked the TipIn. I suspect tipin was way too high. So it gave so much gas it was drowning everything and making the car lean out after trying to recoup.

So I had already done this:

CombinedFT (-5/+5) (Adjust Deadtime)
Airflow/Rev 0.25 (+/- 0.05) (Adjust SD Table)
OpenLoop Tune Non Wot.

I ignored driveability and kept going.
I reset Tip In and just continued with rinsing and repeating the following.

--LOOP--
Half Gear WOT pull @ 10psi
Adjust Global Fuel to either lower or increase WB closer to AFREstimate.
CombinedFT (Adjust Deadtime)
--END LOOP--

Once AFR (WB) and AFREstimate overlapped I stopped.

I went from
Global Fuel -39.7 to -25.0
Injector Deadtime 340ms to 280ms.

I still need tweaking in SD table but driveable. (Still a minor hiccup, but I can tune that out) I turned the boost up to 20 and almost exact same AFR. Sweet!I have noticed that I am running between 11.6 to 12.3 AFR into the higher boost. But there is no knock. I suspect my Wideband being installed in rear is causing a lean reading when in fact its rich or stoich). In my previous tuning sessions, I found 11.8 to 12.3 to be a sweet spot for no knock and mass power.

Side note. I brought the car to work today to store it as I need the garage to get winters off the daily's. It's raining. I never take her out wet.

I leave a light, get into 2nd and mash it. I thought my clutch was slipping until the back end started hanging out to the left. All wheel spin! (Crap tires and I am making more power than my old talon did). That was fun. No more rain for her.
She is so much more behaved during light to mid throttle. Loving it. Next few months, get TB leak and Exhaust Leaks fixed.

I ended up getting two side jobs that are paying ludicrous money. That is my priority right now. Day Job + Side job = 80-90 hour work weeks. but side jobs pay 3 times more than my well paid day job for same amount of time.

Ah ok, I am hoping the car won't need much tuning once I get on the road but I imagine that won't be the case so good to see what others are doing.

Does your est and actual over lap during idle? what size injectors you got there?

Now I am curious as to what this mystical side job is!?

They are close and cross each other. I am running (guessing here).. 780cc PTE Injectors. I didn't install. previous owner did and I don't bug him anymore with the car stuff.

This is suggested:
PTE / Delphi 780cc -38 Global 315 Deadtime
Modified GM Rochester 17113742 injector. Actual flow: 748cc
and this was very close to what I was running when I was overflowing regulator.

As for side job: over the past three years, I developed my own "framework" in php. It's pretty basic, but it works very well. It's the same framework I was build our DSM Bible site with.

I have 1 client who I do work for that pays ok and it's just wordpress stuff.

The other one is developing a fully customized web based financial reporting system. I am basically trying to automate a person's data gathering and reporting and display reports through a dashboard to all partners of a firm.