I'm depressed, 2 hours of dyno time for nut'n....., Ignition cr@pped out, wouldn't restart:( |
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I'm depressed, 2 hours of dyno time for nut'n....., Ignition cr@pped out, wouldn't restart:( |
Mueller |
Nov 1 2005, 06:12 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
What a waste of a day off.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)
I knew it was going to be one of those days when my laptop wouldn't communicate with the Link ECU, luckly I brought a back up unit that I normally use, it's just that the 1st laptop I had was way, way faster...(normally) Mark D (McMark) showed up and helped stomp on the gas while I played with the laptop, we started @ 1000rpm and went up in 500rpm increments...strange feeling with the pedal @ WOT in 4th gear and the motor would not go over the set load... I kept hearing a misfire and then all of a sudden under load it got real bad, we changed out the distributor cap since the original one had some viewing holes cut into it for timing....it just got worse...then I noticed the air intake elbow was a little loose so I fixed that...I was hopeing that was it...nope still really bad misfires coming out of the exhaust....finally I load a new MAP setting and the car seemed to be idling better, then all of a sudden the car dies..."hey Mark, did you turn it off???" "nope" "oh $hit" I get out the voltmeter, I have voltage like I should, no apperant spark.... So, it's one of the following I think (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) a bad MSD box, a bad optical sensor in the dizzy or the Link is messed up....I have a check list of items to go over before sending the Link back for testing.... I think i want to replace the optical sensor within the dizzy with a hall effect unit, any leads or ideas? McMark dyno's his car, I'll let him tell you about it...he had better luck than me |
McMark |
Nov 1 2005, 06:51 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 20,179 Joined: 13-March 03 From: Grand Rapids, MI Member No.: 419 Region Association: None |
Yeah, it was a major bummer for Mike. We started to Jerry Rig something and the dyno operator told us we'd be better off just leaving it and coming back. He was right. Better to fix it and come back later than to burn time fixing it in the room. I hope it wasn't rude of me, but I jumped my car on the machine and bought up the extra hour. I was able to do some idle tuning and get the full throttle tuned in. It was nice, but frustrating not to be able to tune the full table. He said it would take two more hours to do that. Next time, I don't think I'll be there. I'll just drop the car off and let them do it. But I am making 86 hp and I think 99 ft/lbs. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/boldblue.gif)
Of course, I had my share of bad news as well. Right now my car is sitting on the side of the road just outside of Napa. I did a little side of the road trouble shooting and the fuel pump is blowing the fuse. So I'll tow it home and check that out. It's been a real good news/bad news day. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif) |
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