Dave's Evo X Build/The Life of Dave blog - Page 12

**Murlo26** · 03-17-2010

Well took my car to Brookdale mits over lunch. They ordered in the sealant and a new serpentine belt (i guess mine was starting to fray a bit) and are repairing my leak under warranty. Mits customer service ftw! Getting it fixed next tuesday, woo.

**Kracka** · 03-17-2010

Glad to hear it! I know a lot of people complain about Mitsu's warranty coverage but I've had good luck with it too.

**Murlo26** · 03-17-2010

Yea, so far so good for me. It is totally dealer dependent.

They had a nice white 9 there too, looked like they just got it and were taking pictures of it to post online or something.

When he gave me my keys and said he ordered the stuff in I made sure to ask...this is covered under warranty right and he said, yea your miles are low enough, lol. So I don't think they care about the mods.

He told me about the TSB so that is probably why its all good.

**Kracka** · 03-17-2010

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It is totally dealer dependent.

Regional actually it seems; coverage is pretty much determined by the regional claims rep. Dealers will generally just initially OK stuff if they know s/he won't have a problem with it. My dealership was questionable on it due to my mods so they had to wait and hear back from him before giving me the final OK and ordering parts. They didn't want him to see my actual car though so they just took zoomed in pictures of my rear diff making sure not to get any of my bushings, bracing, springs, brake lines, removed emissions, or anti-sway bar in the background

**mlomker** · 03-17-2010

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Mits customer service ftw! Getting it fixed next tuesday, woo.

Eh, it's mostly stock.

I'll certainly be using Brookdale when I go in for the air bag recall.

**Kracka** · 03-17-2010

What's wrong with the X airbags?

**Murlo26** · 03-17-2010

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What's wrong with the X airbags?

Another salt state problem, the front sensor was getting corroded and "could" cause the airbags to not deploy. Mine got fixed long ago.

**Murlo26** · 03-17-2010

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Eh, it's mostly stock.

I'll certainly be using Brookdale when I go in for the air bag recall.

Damn right it's mostly stock

Kevin 1G Drummer · 03-18-2010

My dad had the same airbag recall with his '09 Nissan Frontier. Maybe they use the same type of sensor?

**Murlo26** · 03-18-2010

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My dad had the same airbag recall with his '09 Nissan Frontier. Maybe they use the same type of sensor?

Quite possibly, who knows. Every recall I have had, aside from the fuel line one, I think is a salt state one. The northern states always have more, salt rapes all.

**Murlo26** · 03-22-2010

Maybe I will have better luck posting this here, what do you guys think?

So I am going to get a wideband and I need a new boost gauge too since I am already running over 30psi..and after looking at prices, I figure around 200 for the widband and 150-175 for the new boost gauge, plus I can sell my current one.

I saw this and it looks like a nice setup.

http://www.zeitronix.com/order/order.htm

I know people use the zeitronix stuff quite a bit, is it truly good stuff? I was thinking get the Zt-2 wideband kit and get the MAP sensor for 35psi and hook that up to the lcd display. The pricing would be the same and I could find a better spot to hook it up and I could add egt later too which seems nice and log the data easy with their software.

Does this wideband need to be calibrated does anyone know? Is this good stuff, I am not sure what to get but this seems solid.

I would mount this under my AC controls I think and would be able to see my gauges again.

**scheides** · 03-22-2010

From what I've seen, its pretty decent. I haven't used one personally (I can't remember what I had on my 2G, I don't think it was a z) but they are pretty widely used and that combo gauge seems pretty nice. My only reservation is analog vs digital gauge, it's not as easy to watch a digital gauge when you're WOT with the glance of an eye, so just something to keep in mind.

**Murlo26** · 03-22-2010

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From what I've seen, its pretty decent. I haven't used one personally (I can't remember what I had on my 2G, I don't think it was a z) but they are pretty widely used and that combo gauge seems pretty nice. My only reservation is analog vs digital gauge, it's not as easy to watch a digital gauge when you're WOT with the glance of an eye, so just something to keep in mind.

True, but it's tough to watch any gauge aside from the tach when WOT too.

I should have something, but mounting options are terrible for the X for gauges. I am just running the 20 dollar universal mount for a 52mm gauge bolted onto my steering column. It works, but i can't see my speed under 40mph, lol. I am debating about getting an A-pillar mount since it does make it nice for viewing, however the X has a poor field of vision already. So then i was going to mount stuff under the AC control, where I won't be able to read it anyway, so who knows. Maybe I just buy evoscan instead with a tactrix cable and just do logs every once in a while. I remain confused on what to do.

**Kracka** · 03-22-2010

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Maybe I just buy evoscan instead with a tactrix cable and just do logs every once in a while. I remain confused on what to do.

This.

**scheides** · 03-22-2010

+1, by far. There's no ecu-integration yet but I'm sure that's not too far off, otherwise a serial cable will work dandy. Logging > gauges IMHO.

**Murlo26** · 03-22-2010

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+1, by far. There's no ecu-integration yet but I'm sure that's not too far off, otherwise a serial cable will work dandy. Logging > gauges IMHO.

Gauges are great, but I typically can't watch them anyway. Knock CEL is coming from Tephra so that will help a lot, hard to miss a blinking light, but gauges aren't too practical to watch during WOT and watching the road and your shift point. I still think I am going to get some new gauges as a WB isn't a bad thing to have but maybe I will wait a bit on that.

So these two things right?

http://www.limitless.co.nz/

http://www.tactrix.com/index.php?pag...mart&Itemid=53

**Kracka** · 03-22-2010

Yup. You can run the wideband to the laptop with a serial cable for now until someone figures out how to wire the wideband directly into the ECU for logging through EvoScan.

Is EvoScan able to log boost since you have the stock 3.3-bar MAP sensor?

**Murlo26** · 03-22-2010

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Yup. You can run the wideband to the laptop with a serial cable for now until someone figures out how to wire the wideband directly into the ECU for logging through EvoScan.

Is EvoScan able to log boost since you have the stock 3.3-bar MAP sensor?

I thought it could but I am not positive, i haven't played with it yet as I don't have it.

I just bought an OMNI 4 bar now though, so not sure if that will affect it or not.

**scheides** · 03-22-2010

^Good call, should be able to log up to about 32psi pretty easy....if you're over that though, won't help much

Do they have support for running different MAP sensors on the evoX yet? That would be the way to go (I run a PnP OmniPower 4-bar).

**mlomker** · 03-22-2010

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So these two things right?

Yup, I have those...along with the AMI A-pillar (not installed yet). Rexpeed now has a "stick on" a-pillar that's a lot less expensive.

Keep in mind that you'll want a wideband anyway. You'll just feed the input into a serial port on your laptop when logging and leave it headless the rest of the time if you don't want a gauge.

Tephra recommends the Zeitronix so it should be great for that purpose.