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Damn, great job on the times though :) Hopefully you get the flywheel sorted soon.

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Took the transmission out yesterday to inspect and the flywheel loosened up messed up my crank and flywheel. So now I’m in need of a crankshaft and new flywheel.

This first plot is of the car running good notice the knock level. This was from my “moderate” test run #3 and it was a 10.0 run at 127. Then on the last run when the flywheel is loose, this run was a 10.0 at 150mph.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...EE/3rdpass.jpg


http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...EE/6thpass.jpg

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Shitty. I almost didn't notice the difference until I looked at the scale on the left, goddamn! Hopefully you can get it back together by Proving Grounds!

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Ugh, i know your pain. God damn clutch bolts. Maybe try safety wiring them too!

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I should have no problem attending the MAP event with the car. Thanks to MAP for getting me a QM flywheel with ring gear installed asap and to 95Talonracer for the crankshaft! I ordered all of the necessary parts when I finished the diagnostics. It also damaged the main timing gear and the factory crank dampener too. I took the old crank out yesterday and installed the freshly balanced and polished OEM crank. The old crank doesn’t look bad, it could be used again, but will need some rnr to true up the end surface. I came to find out that the crank press pin that I ordered from Mitsu was incorrect….So I need a crank to flywheel pin before I can get the car running. I still put the motor in today, with no trans. It will be easier to correctly torque the flywheel with the motor in the car. I just hope all goes well this week!

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The car is back together and running, I checked the tune too. All is good. Got my NHRA license in the mail on monday. See everyone at the MAP event!

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Great, can't wait to see you run

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Nice to hear!

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With your Magnus V3 or without? :-( Mine still hasn't shipped.

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You are a fukin rip! I'm very very impressed how you got everything back together so quickly, nice work! Got any carnage pics?

Also, did you have to yank the motor completely apart or did you just yank the timing components, pull the oil pan off and leave the pistons in the block?

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Nope, I wish I was. They said that I will get it next week, again.

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Just took apart what I needed to. The oil pan came off, removed the front case/oil pump, and unbolted the mains and rods. Remove the spark plugs and then pushed the pistons down in the bore. Then I just swapped out the crank. It was about a 3 hour process with the motor out of the car, cleaned all the main and rod caps, gasket and bearing prep, and installation.

Kind of cool, I primed the oil system with the engine on the stand, using a drill on the oil pump with the pan full of oil. I keep the turbo drain line on the pan so oil didn’t leak out. To my surprise the drill on high speed was not enough to prime the system. The oil filter was too much of a restriction to pull oil into the pump. I removed the oil filter and spun the pump and it pushed oil out of the filter housing, spun the filter on and continued spinning the pump for about 3-5 seconds until I saw oil coming from the turbo oil feed line. Primed. So I doubt that the oil system will prime on a new motor from just turning it over, like people think it does. My drill spins the oil pump much faster than the starter does turning the motor.

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Only made one pass had a BOV weld/material fatigue issue. More than likely due to my welding, did this like 6+ years ago.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...625_150407.jpg



Lost some boost to a leak, assuming this started to crack in 3rd gear. Then at the 8K mark in 4th gear it let go. It was still was a great run. The launch was a 1.61 60 foot. I was very happy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5qpC65rnfg&hd=1

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Congrats mark on another rippin pass! Thank you very much for all the advice and good stories this weekend!

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Thanks! My wife and I had a great time this weekend. I knew you could get that 11 second pass! I was not around for the final. I passed the green party machine on the way home, I ended up calling Jim. If I'm not mistaken he told me that you won the stock appearing turbo class. FTW, Great job!!

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Nice work Mark! Cannot wait to see what it runs with that intercooler pipe fixed!! Nice Seeing/chatting with ya again this weekend!

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Yes always a good day to get into the single digits, and hang out and BS all day.

~John

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I had a chance to peak at John’s logs at BIR and noticed that his 2.0 spooled a non BB 4202R faster than my 2.3 powered PTE BB 4276R, it also had better boost recovery between gears. Now thinking something was incorrect with my setup I built a boost leak checker, fixed the IC pipe and tested the system. The throttle body leaked so bad I could not even build positive pressure in the system!
So now for my update, I ordered a Magnus manifold months ago, it arrived about 2 weeks ago and I immediately started fabricating new piping and others. I could not fix the boost leak in the TB so I purchased a Wilson TB and welded my v-band to it. The car now spools the turbo over 500 rpm quicker. The power comes on very hard and the recovery is better between gears, still not as good as John’s, as I have lots of IC piping and a 6” thick IC to fill up on every shift.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...726_193702.jpg

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Looks great! Do you plan on making any more passes this season?

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Looks amazing Mark! Cannot wait to check it out in person!!

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Always in awe of your awesome car!

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Yep I plan on runnning it more, rockfalls has a SC day in Sept. There is the midway shootout at cedar falls, I think in Oct. I might take it to the dsm/Evo shootout this month.

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Thanks!

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Holy hell! Boost leak city between that cracked BOV flange and the TB! With that IM you should make some even more epic power and faster times (I hope!).

Hope to see this out at the fall dyno day again ;)

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Nice I hope this means some new personal bests the next time out!

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That is great you finally have that intake manifold, and found some issues along the way.

It would be a cool thing to do over this winter, figure out volume from the turbo outlet to the throttle body and figure what the difference is.

But I say first off get that thing on a dyno and see if you are running as much timing as you can, and that the A/F is dead on.

I hope you did not look to much at the ignition timing in the logs, but hey I am glad you were able to pull good info from it.

~John

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I don’t know about the dyno yet, my AFR’s are consistent, but I know that the ignition timing is conservative. I like having some extra safety margin.

Yep, I did see your ignition timing, no worries as it is your tune and I would not divulge the specifics to anyone. However it means nothing to me since our setups are vastly different, from IC, to engine, exhaust and turbo. My main takeaway was the turbo responce characteristics.

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About 4 months ago I pinched the IAC wire when I was installing my Magnus V3 manifold. It damaged my EMS. I opened the AEM to diagnose the issue, indeed the low side driver was blown. I replaced the driver and it didn’t fix the problem, so the AEM came back out and I determined that the output from the microprocessor was bad. I drove the car like this and noticed some strange behavior. I ordered the processor but was not confidant I could replace it, since it was a decently high density part, 144 pins to be exact. I called AEM and they told me that they would not replace the processor but the entire board $$$. The AEM finally died the morning of the MAP dyno event. So now I had nothing to lose if I failed to solder the part correctly. With a hot air gun, BGA rework flux and a soldering iron I replace this (The pins are all bent up from me handling it for a month now):
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...E/IMAG0029.jpg

I had to take pictures with my SLR camera to verify the solder joints were correct. The car started and has been running great ever since!

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^Thats pretty sweet.

Not cool that the board was toast, but it was good that it gave you the opportunity to attempt this with nothing to lose and now you know you can do it.

Would you do it again on a good board?

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Wow, that's a precise solder job. Congrats on the progress!

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Badass! Reminds me of doing TMO mods on 1G's back in the day :D

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Props and I agree! How you did not have a cold joint, lifted a pad, broke a pin, or cross soldered joints... mind blown!

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Now thats some high tech electronics diagnostics! Are you an EE or something?

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Yep EE.

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Holy hell. nice work!

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Some new pics with the carbon fiber fenders, I don’t know the photographer but they look great. This was the last sport compact day at rockfalls.

More updates to come from this car! I need to start getting it ready for this race season!


http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...rockfalls3.jpg


http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...rockfalls2.jpg

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/p...trockfalls.jpg

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Car looks sick! You still plan on paiting the fenders?

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Nope, I no longer have any plans to paint the fenders. The look grew on me! The fact is you cannot hide fast 1G's anymore so it might as well be in your face now...

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Your shoot/slicks doesn't help either:hah: I also like the look. I just remeber seeing you planned on painting them.