Make slowboy not so slow

[A//// Guy]

Yea it all looks good. You need to stop at mitsu and get a new dipstick though. lol

[craig]

good to see my old tial 40 gate is seeing some use.

[asshanson]

My car idles a lot differently now, it used to be around 20 vacuum on the boost gauge, now it's around 10 vacuum. Also, it used to idle around 40hz, now it's around 70hz for airflow at idle. I guess it makes sense that these two would rise together, but why the change? Just the cams made the difference?

[Kracka]

Aftermarket cams will idle with much less vacuum, 10 in/hg sounds about right.

[craig]

thats where mine idles with bc 280's in it

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

I just put HKS 272's in mine, and I'm seeing between 8 and 11 in/hg at idle as well.

[asshanson]

I picked up a Buscher FPR and Walbro 255 hp pump today from Jakey when I was driving through Ames on my way home this evening. However, it's missing the fitting for the fuel return line, hopefully I can get Buscher to sell me just that, or maybe I can rig something up myself.

Also, I had a really great opportunity to learn about ethanol in Iowa. Since Emily's family farms and her brother works for the Iowa Soybean Association, we went to this banquet and there were several speakers, including the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. He said there are 81 (I think) e85 pumps in Iowa right now, and there are going to be at least 50 more put in this year. I found several along I80 and I35 already, so I could switch and be ok for my trips to Iowa. I also found a couple stations on the way to my hometown, so I'm seriously contemplating switching.

Anyway, the most interesting part was talking with Secretary Northey afterwards. I asked him about the new "blender" pumps they are using in Iowa and southern Minnesota, apparently you can choose the level of ethanol in your gas, and the price goes down for more ethanol. However, he was unsure if you could still get the full e85 blend in the winter. Currently Iowa follows the same dates going to the winter blend as Minnesota, he said the lower ethanol content was for cold starting issues in the winter. Hopefully these new blender pumps allow you to get a full 85% in the winter, since apparently they are mixing the gas at the pump.

He also thought it was interesting that people would convert their non flex-fuel vehicles to use e85, he hadn't heard of it before. I guess he is looking for more ways to push ethanol usage in Iowa, and wanted to use more examples when promoting it.

[asshanson]

Got my gauges installed, they look great. Now I just have to figure out a third gauge for the pod. I took pictures of the gauges off, then with the lights off, then lights on.

I should have everything else installed by the end of this weekend, and I have tuning scheduled with Shane on April 11th. I'll be all set for the cruise.

[craig]

super, looks good.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Awesome! Seems like more and more people are actually getting their cars tuned, rather than throwing a bunch of parts on them and just tuning them enough so they run.