Dave's Evo X Build/The Life of Dave blog - Page 68

**scheides** · 02-15-2011

Sweet

Stay in touch with me on your schedule, I'll help out however I can! Just keep an eye on the AFRs and I'm assuming you have knockCEL right? These are the most obvious things to watch. We'll see if we can get some consistent dyno testing done though, I am excited to lend a hand.

**Murlo26** · 02-15-2011

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Originally Posted by scheides

Sweet

Stay in touch with me on your schedule, I'll help out however I can! Just keep an eye on the AFRs and I'm assuming you have knockCEL right? These are the most obvious things to watch. We'll see if we can get some consistent dyno testing done though, I am excited to lend a hand.

See, that is one thing I am worried about. MAP's dyno always seems to read almost a full point leaner and Shane for whatever reason said theirs reads differently.

But I do have KnockCEL, so that makes me feel better.

It's hard to see but you can see it is showing rather lean on MAP's dyno.

And if you look here...almost no knock at all the three runs. (minus the spool up knock, which is probably what I am seeing on the road).

And for comparison, my AFR's on DB's dyno.

**cmspaz** · 02-15-2011

Let me know when you guys are gonna be at MAP, I'll swing by.

**scheides** · 02-15-2011

Hehe spazzy wants to help swap more manifolds! I thought I wore that out of you

Do you have a wideband, or is that just from my logger thinking you did and reading your stock rear o2 sensor? Def something to invest in to protect your much larger investment.

**Murlo26** · 02-15-2011

Nope, sadly no wideband...its on the top of my list now though...first was manifold...then wideband..then new boost gauge that reads above 30 and then something to lower the car.

Honestly up until this point as I have told people, my car has been on the dyno every few months and I have been changing setups where it didn't seem worth it.

The modding is slowing now though, so a wideband is in my near future, possibly very near.

Tephra's knockCEL has made me not want it as bad though, just because that in theory will help just as much from a sudden catastrophic deal. The wideband will just be nice to make sure the afr's are staying where they should be.

Oh a tactrix cable for logging, that is also in there after the wideband.

**Murlo26** · 02-15-2011

And Spaz, I will post up here when I figure out the details of when the testing is taking place.

It sounds like Chris is getting an FID one for this as well...meaning it could be a while before it happens. I Just wanted to get my car there while it was nice out and make plans from there when MAP is ready to test.

**cmspaz** · 02-16-2011

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Originally Posted by scheides

Hehe spazzy wants to help swap more manifolds! I thought I wore that out of you

LOL, I'll just stick to bringing chocolate milk this time.

**scheides** · 02-16-2011

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Originally Posted by cmspaz

LOL, I'll just stick to bringing chocolate milk this time.

Hahaha you have no idea how epic that chocolate milk was! If I just could have had no issues after that it would have truly made my night.

**Murlo26** · 02-16-2011

Man, I haven't had chocolate milk forever.

**Murlo26** · 02-17-2011

Well picked up the new AMS battery from MAP on my lunch break...ran it home...checked the voltage on it for fun, just under 13V...threw it in...started right up...YAY!

No more weird check system codes..all gone. Tested my MAP switching, still worked.

Let it warm up/idle while i shoveled down lunch...ran to get some new E85 and strangely after the new E85 I put in, the car didn't want to stay running, had to rev it. Not sure why, but it still drove fine, just at stops it didn't feel happy I guess. With just my old gas it was fine though. Probably needs some minor tweaking, maybe just the climate, who knows.

Anyways, drove it to work and its here now. Stopping and dropping it off at MAP on my way home and then I will try to talk with Chris on a schedule for the testing. Man i forgot how a car that handles feels...it was pulling every which way on the shitty roads.

i also threw it in fifth and gave it some gas at a lower rpm to see if KnockCeL was still working good and it was. I am paranoid about that stuff because my battery died all funny so wanted to make sure the Tephramods were still working.

Made one quick pull near work on the DD tune...still feels awesome!

More to come in the next few weeks

turbotalon1g · 02-17-2011

Like.

**Murlo26** · 02-17-2011

Oh, one thing I forgot, my center display said my key battery is low.

Anyone replaced theirs yet? Dealer visit or is it non-volatile memory so i can do it myself?

**mlomker** · 02-17-2011

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

Anyone replaced theirs yet? Dealer visit or is it non-volatile memory so i can do it myself?

DIY.

http://www.evoxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40101

mike55112 · 02-17-2011

Saw this getting to map this evening, was with a buddy test driving chris's evo. The car is looking good

**Murlo26** · 02-17-2011

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Originally Posted by mlomker

DIY.

http://www.evoxforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40101

Ah, excellent, easy enough, thanks!

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Originally Posted by mike55112

Saw this getting to map this evening, was with a buddy test driving chris's evo. The car is looking good

Yea Chris said some friend of a Primo guy was going to buy his car, haha. Good pickup on that

Now he gets his Evo X and hopefully MAP can develop some cool new X toys.

Anyway, dropped the car off at MAP.

The bad (kinda) got a CEL on the way there. I am hoping its a random misfire or something stupid. My idle was horrible, hopefully from the car relearning the fueling and idle, I should've let it idle longer, but the car wouldn't really stay running while stopped so i revved it to 2k to keep it running at a light. While I was doing this I got a code.

Jordan is going to scan it tomorrow and let me know. /pray its something minor, should be the car felt fine otherwise.

Chris is planning to get another short runner tubular manifold to test as well so the test will contain more data then just the FID and MAP.

Really it will baseline my car with the ported stocker from MAP, test the MAP tubular, the FID tubular, and some other short runner tubular that MAP uses on the 8/9's that they think is a very good product (they already have two of these that Chris bought for this).

It will probably be a few weeks before the test but I will update as we progress. I am excited for good results.

Chris said if his mani doesn't come out on top they will redo the MAP mani I am buying from Scheides and redesign it into something that does win

Here's to some more ponies, should be a good time

Constant_Project21 · 02-18-2011

I say screw all this 4 clyinder stuff hehe

Spotted this pile coming into work today

**Murlo26** · 02-18-2011

RAHHHH, monster truck evo!

If I could swap in a v8 or I6 easily, I totally would've done that by now!

turbotalon1g · 02-18-2011

That would be sick.

**Murlo26** · 02-22-2011

So Chris just sent me this, Jordan was kind enough to pull the code i got on the way to MAP. Here is what happened.

While i was revving it at 2krpms (holding it because my idle was going super low and the car died once), just holding it I threw a code and this is what MAP pulled off it:

[2:50 PM] Jordan: P0300 random misfire on murlowski's car.
[2:50 PM] Jordan: Random/Multiple Cylinder Misfire Detected.

Do you think this is from leftover old E70 with some condensation? Any thoughts? Just clear it and let it idle a while to relearn all the trims? Hopefully

311evo · 02-22-2011

Could def. be from it sitting for a while. Or a blend change, both combined.

If it's idling fine now I wouldn't worry.