Hi Mikey. Sorry I didn’t make it out your way this summer. My wife and I were busy dealing with our daughter who was going through some health issues (she’s doing better now) and I had surgery on my left foot in August. Couldn’t drive the Cobra with the clumsy post-surgical shoe. We’ll get together next summer. Back in Florida now until April. Rick
Sorry to read, you and your family had a rough summer. Hope everything is better now.
There were some flurries flying around yesterday so it appears you escaped the Northeast in time. -Mike
Last post by gtbird -
Hi Mikey. Sorry I didn’t make it out your way this summer. My wife and I were busy dealing with our daughter who was going through some health issues (she’s doing better now) and I had surgery on my left foot in August. Couldn’t drive the Cobra with the clumsy post-surgical shoe. We’ll get together next summer. Back in Florida now until April. Rick
Last post by Chuck W -
What are you doing to these poor starters? Lol
Does the PimpX include any turbo control routines? What are you currently running? I know my T3 with the GN cold-side would definitely benefit from something besides a spring/ball manual regulator.
I know after messing with tuning on my Volvo 850 with the turbo control routines in the stock software, it's pretty easy to improve the drivability of a potential over-sized turbo.
I haven't dug into the Pimp stuff, as I just do the MegaSquirt stuff (And my current ones are too old.) so I don't know what he's got built in.
Last post by Mikey97D -
I've gone through two starters this year and need to change it again.
I collected a bunch of parts this summer, but also took over new responsibilities at work so not much extra time of late. Hopefully things will become easier with time as I get used to the new responsibilities.
Never got to see Rick this summer.
I did get to experience Limerock in my friend's Corvette Z06 with the instructor driving.
SoO on the plate: PimpX Larger Injectors Smaller Turbo (Chip's IHI Plus Turbo). The T3 Upgrade has too much lag for my taste and back roads here. Ported Exhaust Manifold Ported Lower Intake
Last post by Chuck W -
Yeah, I think everything will clear just fine with the stock spacer, and I shouldn't need any intake spacers.
I also have some downtime coming up this week that'll slow things down. Got to have cataract surgery on one of my eyes later this week, so that's going to limit me for a short bit. Hopefully I'll still be able to work on some of the underhood wiring.
Last post by EricCoolCats -
Nice little progress, that's always so satisfying to bang out all the details in a row.
On my car I had to slot the throttle cable bracket to move it upward and get clearance over the valve cover (Cobra intake, tall valve covers, 1" phenolic spacer). But all that did clear the adjustable FPR. It's not uncommon to need to adjust things. The EGR spacer will do the trick though.
Last post by Chuck W -
No time to get on this until today. Of course it's the day the weather decided to take a turn and get cold and blustery.
I needed to get the driveshaft back into the car, but I needed to replace the u-joints first. During the RnR of the U-joints. One of the balance weights got knocked off of the shaft, so I welded it back on.
Got that knocked out and got the unit back into the car.
I did pick up a new rear sway bar for the car too, so I got that swapped in while I had things up for the driveshaft install. Went with a 24mm one over the 21mm that was in there. The 21mm will wind up on the wagon. (Unless I buy another larger one for it )
The next, tedious task was to replace the bad trans cooler lines. Which took much longer than it needed to. Just used a Classic Tube set.
By this time, the temps had dropped quite a bit, so I was done for the day.
Following up on the throttle body spacer clearances.
With the thinner aftermarket spacer, it clears the valve covers and such just fine. What doesn't clear is the throttle cable bracket. It hits the FPR on the rail. I'm probably going to just go back with a modified stock EGR spacer instead. It'll give me the clearances I need.
I need to get back under the car and reinstall the shift cable and the the TV cable.
I've also made the decision to just mod the stock Y-pipe to fit the factory headers and build the new Y-pipe later. Not what I wanted to do, but I'm just running out of time before it gets generally miserable outside.
)
