It's 04:13 in the morning and I can't sleep
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Missing update - Rebuilding DSG
Whups! I had totally forgot to add the the rebuilding of the DSG in the fall. As there was growing need for more space, which is rather limited, we decided to reorganize everything.
Widric is the king of organization, so I give the props for him :) I was merely there in a role of an assistant. :D
The whole project took us about a week. Full working days probably 2 or 3. It's including cleaning most of the old shit, the shit we will ever never need, away and carrying stuff in/out, modifying the shelfs to fit and sit straight (the floor is not straight and the shelfs needed to be cut in order to be used).
Here you can get the picture of the amount of the stuff we have in there :D Note, the CR-X is also stuffed XD
Plus two cars, as one can easily see in the final picture :)
Here it is "ready", before organizing all the shelves and this and that. Plus the things we had not done at that point. plus this and that :D
M
Widric is the king of organization, so I give the props for him :) I was merely there in a role of an assistant. :D
The whole project took us about a week. Full working days probably 2 or 3. It's including cleaning most of the old shit, the shit we will ever never need, away and carrying stuff in/out, modifying the shelfs to fit and sit straight (the floor is not straight and the shelfs needed to be cut in order to be used).
Here you can get the picture of the amount of the stuff we have in there :D Note, the CR-X is also stuffed XD
Plus two cars, as one can easily see in the final picture :)
Here it is "ready", before organizing all the shelves and this and that. Plus the things we had not done at that point. plus this and that :D
M
More GC8 upgrades!
Widric has been doing massive upgrades for his GC8, which btw is real JDM STI.
It has had bad issues with running on boost, and lately the running issues has gone so bad, that it barely idles well. It spends fuel and soaks oil with it. Reasoning was, that MAF is possibly causing this, so it was decided to be replaced. And no, we shall not settle with low capacity OEM MAF, we use one from Z32 Nissan! :D
So Z32 MAF was ordered from JDM Factory, but unfortunately the Japs forgot to attach the connector to the package. And this is where the interesting part starts ^_^
We disassembled the old MAF, suspected to be broken, and looked how it was built. And what did we discover - it is disassembleable :D
Plus it happens to be same size as the new one.
Wihii! Disassembling the new one too, we noticed that the basic body of the MAF electronics is same as well, so it may be possible tho change the connector in the MAF,
and that is exactly what we did :D
_Smooooooth_
And since the MAF is totally different in electrical values (Air flow vs. Voltage), the ECU must be fooled to work with it. We decided to use this GC8 as a test ground for AEM F/IC (Fuel/Ignition Controller), from JDM Factory of course :) The F/IC is cheap way to tune the fuel and ignition maps to your tune level. Some serious wiring is only needed, but that has never been a problem to us. As Widric had all the wiring diagrams ready, and mad electrical skillz were sizzling with energy, he did the installations in record time :D
Unfortunately we didn't have The AEM UEGO wide band lambda installed on the GC8, so we did not start tuning yet... Maybe tomorrow :)
M
It has had bad issues with running on boost, and lately the running issues has gone so bad, that it barely idles well. It spends fuel and soaks oil with it. Reasoning was, that MAF is possibly causing this, so it was decided to be replaced. And no, we shall not settle with low capacity OEM MAF, we use one from Z32 Nissan! :D
So Z32 MAF was ordered from JDM Factory, but unfortunately the Japs forgot to attach the connector to the package. And this is where the interesting part starts ^_^
We disassembled the old MAF, suspected to be broken, and looked how it was built. And what did we discover - it is disassembleable :D
Plus it happens to be same size as the new one.
Wihii! Disassembling the new one too, we noticed that the basic body of the MAF electronics is same as well, so it may be possible tho change the connector in the MAF,
and that is exactly what we did :D
_Smooooooth_
And since the MAF is totally different in electrical values (Air flow vs. Voltage), the ECU must be fooled to work with it. We decided to use this GC8 as a test ground for AEM F/IC (Fuel/Ignition Controller), from JDM Factory of course :) The F/IC is cheap way to tune the fuel and ignition maps to your tune level. Some serious wiring is only needed, but that has never been a problem to us. As Widric had all the wiring diagrams ready, and mad electrical skillz were sizzling with energy, he did the installations in record time :D
Unfortunately we didn't have The AEM UEGO wide band lambda installed on the GC8, so we did not start tuning yet... Maybe tomorrow :)
M
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