What did you do today to your 3/S?

Got a crap ton of parts posted on the 3S Facebook groups to try to get money together and clear space at the new house. Cleaning the garage out and trying to get room to store everything.

Trip to NC this weekend, and a stop in SC to see the Ninjas, and when I get back I will hopefully be towing up a 3000lb lawn ornament ;)

As well as shelving and several more boxes of parts to try to get sorted and sold. Thankfully I have a spare room to fit them all for now.

Still waiting to hear back from the machine shop on cost for the machine work, need a new Ds rear trailing arm, and lots of new hardware for suspension and subframes and stuff as mine look exceedingly awful but that's the bare minimums necessary to reassemble and get it running if I want/need to. However I will likely go ahead and do a wire tuck and replace connectors and such as mine is showing every bit of its age.

You have a game plan on the wire tuck? I keep thinking about it (and delete wiring from all removed systems) each time I tear into the engine bay but it's overwhelming for me so I just skip it and put it back together as is. Where would you put fuse box? Fender like I've seen some do?

Probably inside the car honestly, inside where the airbag would otherwise be on a 2G dash.

Game plan is still being formulated. New connectors from Sheridan Engineering and running new wires that won't crack and corrode. Milspec bulkheads around where factory fuel filter mounts to make quick and easy engine and trans removal and install. Just undo those connections to pull and allow harness reinstall on the stand.

I've been chasing a bad parasitic drain problem since I've owned the car, as well as problems with the always on battery voltage to the cabin being intermittent. Has caused problems trying to flash ecu, as well as trim resets with the stock ecu. Hell even getting the radio to stay going has been iffy. So redoing the wiring and grounds has been on to do list for a while. Especially for the engine bay and ECU stuff. Throw in a planned Diamante DCC swap, and many broken wires and it just makes more and more sense to make a whole new harness.

I admired a lovely ding in my rear quarter that pdr can't get to. super excited

Hey Forest did you ever get the MAFT dialed in? Any differences in driveability/power?

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Originally Posted by Forest Gump

I admired a lovely ding in my rear quarter that pdr can't get to. super excited

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My pdr guy drilled a hole in the fender well to get one they couldn't reach. Plugged it after. May be an option if it's a bad one.

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Originally Posted by Toni

My pdr guy drilled a hole in the fender well to get one they couldn't reach. Plugged it after. May be an option if it's a bad one.

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I thought about that, its right on the fender lip where the pieces come together. It isn't terrible, but it catches my eye. I'm worry if they tried drilling in that spot it could rust later. I may get a second opinion though, thank you.

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Originally Posted by NOMIEZVR4

Hey Forest did you ever get the MAFT dialed in? Any differences in driveability/power?

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its dialed in about as well as my evo maf tune was. Really barely had to do anything. Pulled one click from the mid and it drives great. base settings for the other settings. WOT is somewhere around mid 11s, I haven't taken a day to really go out and do some 3rd gear pulls, but all my 2nd gear pulls look great.

It may have picked up a little power, but it is hard to tell as it has been pretty warm most of the time I've been driving. It hasn't picked up as much power as it should because I've hit the next load cell and in my timing map I'm running one less degree there. I'm not going to raise the timing until I take a day to do some full 3rd gear runs and for now I'm just enjoying it. You may not see a whole lot of power posts from me until the fall, I don't really know. It makes me smile as is, so I want to enjoy it for a bit. Getting another blackstone lab analysis at 1500 miles would make me feel better too. Only have about 900 right now.

I also found a spare sl ecu that I'm going to burn a tune on to and make sure the car runs on that. I want to leave it in the car, ready to run in-case I ever have a flash go bad and I'm away from home. Would be a stupid reason to need a tow and I tune about an hour away from here most of the time. The current ecu is on about 100 flashes, mostly messing around with startup, lol.

The driveability is 100% stock. No issues whatsoever.

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Originally Posted by Toni

My pdr guy drilled a hole in the fender well to get one they couldn't reach. Plugged it after. May be an option if it's a bad one.

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I would avoid a PDR place that drills any holes, just my opinion though.

Dent Central

Yeah, it was a tough call, I don't have many options around me for PDR. They did confirm with me before drilling any holes. I thought long and hard and decided to just go for it, that dent has driven me nuts for years lol.