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Will have to get someone to help me do that unless i go out and ghost ride the whip lol if stars align, i may take the car to the track friday night, run it for the first time with the 8 pic of the car this morning, beautiful sunrises this week http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q36/beercandrifter/2...

i used the ultralite 2 autometer 30psi gauge, worked well for me. sounds like you are trying to get away from autometer though.

would love me a defi boost gauge when i can use a boost gauge again. They are just beautiful gauges

so i got all my bends in, took them to the local exhaust shop. They took my 2.5" mufflers off and just did 2.5" pipe to a y pipe to my apexi catback. They said i had something loose in my header under my heat wrap that i should figure out what it is when i get home. fired it up, was loud, ...

Why not build a turbo manifold while your at it. have a spare set of the truck headers sitting in my garage for if/when that happens. I do have some foresight =) really dont want to pull my motor to put on a new clutch right now though on another note, seems im not getting my 45* mandrel bends in b...

pulled the trigger and ordered some stuff to fab a new exhaust yesterday. old one kept hitting stuff and popping off my vband clamp on the drivers side. old setup was dual 2.5" mufflers merging to a y pipe going out to the back half of my apexi 3" exhaust switching to dual 2.5" straig...

Good to hear man. Summer is almost done. Then you can really dial in on the cold start. Have you played with the idle advance option in TS? This helped stabilize my idle and warm up. have not played with the idle advance, did mess around with the timing tables a little bit in the idle range. let me...

it's bad because once you start scratching it...it won't go away. Should probably get that looked at =) I should post some videos or something, have been daily driving the car to work for months now. anyone for a cruise? I need to redo my exhaust, have some clearance issues (like i hit my exhaust g...

modulation wrote:Was NA, have 2.5" monza pacesetter exhaust (hey it was cheap.)

Now that I'm turbo with only a t25 will I see any gains or faster boost building if I upgrade to 3" exhaust?
Will it still sound like rice?

2.5" is sufficient for a t25

it will still sound like rice, slightly quieter

That's the fix for the injectors. You can use washers to fill the space that the spacer doesnt cover or mcmaster carr also sells spacer material by the foot if you need to make a custom one.

Ok so ill start by saying this is the first time i have asked for help on a forum so excuse me if i did it wrong. my 2 main issues and ill post my setup below 1, i have aem fuel rail, xcessive intake manifold, and deatschwerks 1000cc injectors, i keep having fitment issues and cant get it to sit ri...

Your motor won't built too much longer if you keep running that much boost on pump 93 octane. Its been tried and every time it ends up with a motor rebuild. +1 Speaking from experience was able to get to about 22lbs on my setup, ran 25 at my last track day on that build and messed up the pistons. R...

me? I would get an s15 shell, put an ls3 crate engine in it with a cam/intake upgrade on it paint it drive the car i have nothing against the turbos, but N/A is so much nicer for maintenance, and cooling. granted you can just use an lm7 like supa suggested and toss a turbo on it. heck, my drivetrain...

alot of the people doing dyno sessions were using whites automotive here, not sure if they are still open. You can rent dyno time from trickpro, although its a bit pricey. Spend the money and buy the VEAnalyze functionality of tuner studio, you can tune your own car very easily (and on the road whil...

thanks was looking through an issue of superstreet the other day and found some cobeau seats in a black/grey pattern with reclining that caught my eye. might try to save up for a pair of those for the 240 since i have a grey interior. http://corbeau.com/reclining-seats/a4.html 2nd one from the right...

not sure who answered you on reddit saying an hx35 wont spool. they spool just fine and will easily put down 400hp. plenty of us have run the hx35 with great success and it fits your goal of not having it spool on highway driving (still was able to get 20psi on that turbo before 4k rpm), its not rea...

Beercan, after our pm's I did a search and found this. You probably read it. http://www.diyautotune.com/tech_articles/megasquirt_idle_tuning.html Anyways, I bet your sequential but I am still on batch and ran richer idle afr's and pretty smooth now. I do not have an IACV on either. I know I am goin...

somehow I hit the top right cell in my fuel map during tuning =O think its time to hook up my tacho output from the ms3x and run the vss input to ms3 cant for the life of me figure out the closed loop idle settings. i thought setting a target curve would make the ms3 unit hunt for the iacv step valu...

I think my car came with those same exact indiglo face plates on the gauge cluster!

You have done a nice job on the car so far. The tablet is such a nice feature of the megasquirt units, don't you think? i love using mine in the car

really enjoying looking at some more people doing fab work. Car looks nice man, always enjoyable to have the wife help out too =)

So, the VSS input code seems to have greatly improved since the last time I looked at it. Has anyone got their VSS working directly into MS3 yet?
I am curious if it can support the gm t56/4lg now (few more pulses than the ka/vg vss). I wonder, Matt, did you try it on your chevy motor swap you did?

a tune that controls both spark and fuel would be pretty important at that level =) add a coolant temp gauge to your list, you can tap the sender right next to the bleeder screw on the manifold and it will save you a block or two some TC Rods will help you immensely if you still have the stock ones ...

Got my sticker in the mail today http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q36/beercandrifter/240pictures/lsxswap/IMG_20150221_173514.jpg figured I would toss it on the top of the rear window http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q36/beercandrifter/240pictures/lsxswap/IMG_20150221_173446.jpg borrowed a buddie...

its the 4.8 longblock, 180k on it. thing looked brand new when I took it apart to inspect it it doesnt look like a compression issue with the valves, i was going to compression test to find where the seal break is in the head gasket so I dont have to pull 2 heads. buying new head bolts and head gask...

If you are tuning your engine N/A before tossing the turbo on, your AFR's change a bit from a boosted setup. i.e. the sweet spot for N/A is roughly 13 AFR for peak power, going up to ~15/15.5 for peak fuel efficiency The graphs on msextra have a great description of the AFR ranges and how to work on...

Do you use a hydraulic vehicle lift to help you remove the engine? sounds kind of fast. I use a harbor freight 2 ton cherry picker. It has got its use =) With as much as I have pulled my engines in the past, I have learned to make things easy to get at and disconnect quickly. Heck, i have already h...

meh, i really want to have this going. Pulled the block yesterday. Turns out the hole for the truck dipstick (theres a hole for the truck location and for the car since the block is used interchangeably), the hole I previously plugged, was unplugged. guess the oil churn at higher rpm was forcing oil...

just watch your coolant temp gauge on the trip, shouldnt be any different if the tune is ok. just stay out of high boost on the trip to avoid problems (like breaking gasket seals and such)

really love the gauge setup on the dash =)

summitracing sells prefabbed lines and stuff to make custom ones too. Think the only thing they dont sell that i use with my vehicles is beer. I bought my clutch lines (short brake lines) from them, 3AN ends and then just bought the adapter pieces to fit with my stuff http://www.summitracing.com/sea...

well, found the culprit to my idle issue. was a hole where the map sensor on the oem manifold is. couldnt see the hole on the black manifold. just need to figure out how to get my start up idle settings right in tunerstudio now. have the closed loop idle curve set up and that seems to be working ok....