can't believe its 2.49 here and I don't need any!
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can't believe its 2.49 here and I don't need any!
I received my new valve stem seals from another member here. Now I just need to figure out when I can find the time to get them and the lash adjusters changed out.
Pulled out another 20lbs or so.
Pulled out these:
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Replaced with this:
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Uh ohh...looks like the weight reduction bug has hit someone...
I know, first it was the mod bug, now I'm thinking more and more about what I can do without in this car lol. Maybe just AWS delete, small battery, hood, and racing seats...that's only 3 more things than what it was a week ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by NOMIEZVR4
Last night I got it back together, was chasing a phantom oil leak. Looked like it was coming from behind the timing covers, but didn't find anything. Undeleted the AC compressor and lines, relocated my FPR, and installed the ARC2 with 680cc injectors. Also just put in new drivers side axle, the old one apparently exploded on my way back from NG (Made a hellacious mess all over my pretty engine bay) as well as new water temp, oil temp, and oil pressure gauges (dash vents too while the dash was out). Started it up for the first time after NG and sounds like a midget in my crankcase with a hammer. I didn't have the pan off so I don't think that's possible, I'm thinking it's a spun bearing :-(
I was looking forward to some trouble free driving for a while mixed with some e85 to see what 9bs on 9:1 cr would do. So now I'm trying to decide what my new set up will be.
Ugh, sorry to hear. Fingers are crossed here.
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Did some tuning on AEM. Idle is damn good. Trimmed rear bank to even out o2s. Gave it a lot more timing control at idle to hold idle steady instead of relying too much on IAC. Sometimes fueling is off depending on intake/underhood temps so still need to figure out how to tackle that, but it still holds idle pretty steady.
Also did a 3rd gear knock cal run to 7400rpm. Little cleanup to do on fueling and then will try +1,-3 on cam gears (which will then throw off my fuel map again:))
Chasing some wild bank to bank fluctuations in vac at 14-1700 (rear way lean, front good) 2500-2800 (rear way lean, front good) and 3400-3700 rpms (front lean, rear good). Added a bunch of timing and it pulls much cleaner, but still have the same swings.
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Not much yet!
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Nope, still nothin!
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That's nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by CoopKill
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Uhh I think you have a ground short in your outside temp circuit. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
No, I live in a desert. Our record temp here is 122*Quote:
Originally Posted by TwIzTeD_3kGt
Can you even go outside for more than a couple minutes in that?
122* desert heat isn't as bad as 90* with 100% humidity.
Whoever told you that was lying.Quote:
Originally Posted by stealthee
I moved back to Ohio for a year, and worked outside every day removing trees from underneath 500kv transmission lines. When it was 97* and humid, I was laughing at everyone who was complaining about the heat. I was wet, but not really hot.
Picture this. The difference between 60* and 90* is the same as the difference between 90* and 120*.
115* and higher is truly a different level. Working outside in Arizona is very different. If I set a ratchet down in the sun for 2 minutes, it's impossible to hold in your hand. A breeze feels like a hair dryer. Any public business in Arizona must provide water for anyone who asks.
I paved roads in Arizona for a couple years, and have never experienced anything close to that level of heat in my life. I now consider anything under 110* a walk in the park.
I lived in Vegas for 4 years. I will take 120 desert heat over 90* and 100% humidity ANY day.
It was 92 with high humidity the other day and it was fucking miserable. I used to play outside in the Vegas heat without breaking a sweat.
Both are miserable in their own ways IMO, BUT I can't stand people who use the excuse that it's a "dry" heat to describe AZ and NV and such. The oven at 350F is a dry heat, but it's still hot as fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
I grew up in south Texas, moved to the Hudson Valley in NY and now live in the Tennessee Valley, and all of them suck in one way or another. High humidity makes it feel like you just can't cool off and you're soaking in sweat in minutes, no humidity and ultra high heat just feels like being in an oven out in the sunlight but the shade is generally alright. So kind of a wash IMO.
I will say, currently I work on my car in a wood shop with a metal roof, and it gets up to about 110-120 during the heat of the day AND it's humid. After I wrap up this rebuild: Never. Ever. Again. I'll burn the fucking car down before doing it like this again.
The description I give is this. At 90 and humid, the heat comes from inside, your body doesn't cool properly. At 120 and dry it surrounds you, and feels like your being burned by a heat lamp.
When you lived in Vegas, did you work outside in direct sunlight?Quote:
Originally Posted by stealthee
^This. Under 105 in PHX, tolerable. 105-110, HOT. 115+, f that. And that is air temp in the SHADE! Put that thermometer in the sun and it shoots to 135+. Then touch stand above blacktop or anything around you radiating heat at you. It's hot!Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
The one good thing about the heat....Mosquitos fry and other than pools, no standing water for them to breed.
I was a kid when I lived out there, but we played outside in direct sunlight every day.Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
Installed adjustable control arms on the VR4 and crank sensor on the SL :).
Ahh how good is to live in good ol southern cali :coo3l: lol. Perfect weather for the most part.
We go to San Diego when we want to feel...... Perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by ReddVR4
Heh, I go thru hell every summer here...I deal with hot cars and sometimes we do them on site in the customers driveway, where there is no escape...but thats nothing...I also get to deal with attics in the summer too...bottom line is 150 degrees and dirty and dusty ontop of it. Every year I say that I have had enough and want to move but here I still am.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
Planning on setting up shop there sometime in the next two years....so tired of extremes.Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
I agree, I have lived in AZ for 10 years and the heat is just different, 115 is like being cooked from the outside, and it sucks but theres ways to deal with it. But I went to Georgia on vacation one time and it was 100 degrees and 90% + humidity and just plain sucked and you cant escape, I felt like was smothering, that was the single hottest I have ever felt in my life... I would take dry heat over that any day. Our hottest day was 119 this summer, which at that extreme I just avoided the outside because you just cook. Here the perfect temp is 90-95.Quote:
Originally Posted by stealthee
Set my cam gears to +1-3 today which increases overlap. Pulls less vacuum by quite a bit at idle. Butt dyno in 1st and 2nd says that boost comes on all at once and tq is a little higher in mid range 4-6k. Too much traffic to 3rd gear log this evening. We'll see tomorrow.
i've been to asscrackistan. 120 in the shade. let me tell you about what it's like to be cooked.
New clutch and new flywheel finally :)
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^^^
they told me i can't use them .... but why ???????????
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http://s21.postimg.org/3rv4fd783/IMG...174413_907.jpg YAAAY all done
Thank you Jeremy and Dmitri, without you guyz it woulda take me 2 weeks by myself :P
Removed a stupid aftermarket keyless entry/alarm that was on the fritz in the SL. What a pain in the ass. Whoever installed it should be punched.
Had a starter kill and was tied into the ignition switch, would randomly decide to arm itself and kill power going into the car. All back to stock now. Now to find a replacement factory remote.
Drove it to the office today....:)
Nice!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
Same here :DQuote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
FML, mid pipe came off.. wrong (new/used replacement on the bottom)
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Hmmm... your rear portion of the exhaust won't line up with the midpipe I gave you? I should have just brought the whole exhaust LOL
It'll line up. The pipe broke when I was removing it. I have 10" or so still left on the car. ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by DK77
Ah, well I don't envy you trying to get that last section out especially since I'm sure it's all rusted together. Good luck.
Put 2G brakes on the Stealth.
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