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Sweet, thanks for the update. There was a good period there when Jeff just.. disappeared, and everyone here was pretty worried about him. Makes me glad to see that you were able to keep it in the family, because one thing I can say is that Jeff poured an insane amount of time and money into that car when he was first building it. It's a sick car, about as nice as any I've seen, so good on ya!
I just looked at when this thread was started, I remember it like it was yesterday, but it was more than 10 years ago. Time's a cruel bitch. Hope all is well with Jeff nowdays.
I know a lot of you were/are friends with Jeff. I hope all is well with him. Time indeed does fly and the disappearance is felt in a lot of spaces. I don’t have any answers either. The car has a new lease on life and hopefully is a metaphor for others as well. I’ll keep updating here if that’s ok.
Yes. Please keep updating.
and wherever jeff is, i hope he has found peace and joy and freedom. Interspersed throughout the thread were nuggets of his struggles. I truly hope he is well, and is coming out the other side.
I just found this thread and I'm mesmerized by the story and the work done by both of you. It's great to see the car is still being driven/upgraded. Best wishes to you and Jeff. If you have any questions about the Link feel free to shoot me a PM, and the Link forums are also a gold mine of information and assistance.
Link ECU G4X
new wiring harness
new fuse block
Drive by wire throttle body with a Honda fit pedal (lol)
new fuel lines and filter
flex fuel sensor
Link MXT Strava 10” dash
gps module for speedo
speedo cable delete
400hp on e85
320 on 93
I drove it to a cars and coffee with my buddy in his 69 Camaro had a great time.
Potential big problem. Oil started spraying out of the turbo inlet sufficient to sprinkle my windshield in a fine mist. Plenty accumulated in the engine bay. Especially bad when I really got on it and it was visible out of the hood vent like ol’ faithful. It’s a BW 6758 which doesn’t really use seals but more of a concave seal design kind of like the sling bearings in a vw engine. It didn’t do it before the new tune and mechanically everything is the same. Any ideas on that? Really sucks.
pics for celebration and sorrow at the same time. You couldn’t have a more diametrically opposed set of cars between best friends. This color is insane in person. Danger to manifold Drive by wire is neat. Oil all over the ******* place.
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have a new set of R888Rs coming. These ones are seriously the same tires Jeff was on and are petrified rubber at this point with a build date of almost 10 years ago
reconfigure and relabel the inputs for the dash display
figure out why lights and brake lights don’t work now
turn signals work just fine and display on display
figure out why turbo is shitting itself Dino juice like a coffee slurry.
Damn. Car looks great and great numbers. Bummer about the turbo. All that oil came out of the compressor inlet and out the air filter?
Thanks! I couldn’t find the inlet air filter the night before driving it so I sent it. Even if I had put one on and inspected it after it would have been like a twisted self lubricating K&N filter ever.
It was a lot of oil. I know how oil spreads but oil shouldn’t be sprinkling my windshield at cruise under no boost at 70 mph.
give this man more likecats you ungrateful bastards
As for the oil mess, where is the PCV returning? Any chance this is mess blowing in there from valve cover baffles not being properly sealed or similar?
Best part about that Miata/camaro pic is that the Miata is almost certainly much faster haha
Posted a semi-helpful response in my EFR thread, but I'll write some more here.
Post a pic of your crankcase venting setup, a larger, zoomed out engine bay pic would suffice.
Also on the Aim: badass. We had to do a custom so all indicators were visible. You can also go through the config and change all the CAN protocol from the ECU to not say "ECU" in front of everything. It really cleans up the dash.
give this man more likecats you ungrateful bastards
As for the oil mess, where is the PCV returning? Any chance this is mess blowing in there from valve cover baffles not being properly sealed
Best part about that Miata/camaro pic is that the Miata is almost certainly much faster haha
Bastards!
haha yeah the Camaro isn’t even in the same league. But around the Detroit area here he breaks necks. I just break necks with
acceleration.
As for the valve cover etc this is why I’m so confused because I haven’t changed a thing since the last tune as far as breathers/catch can etc. so why now am I suddenly getting oil out the turbo?
Posted a semi-helpful response in my EFR thread, but I'll write some more here.
Post a pic of your crankcase venting setup, a larger, zoomed out engine bay pic would suffice.
Also on the Aim: badass. We had to do a custom so all indicators were visible. You can also go through the config and change all the CAN protocol from the ECU to not say "ECU" in front of everything. It really cleans up the dash.
DAYumn! That’s a sick interior. Yeah I saw your response on the efr thread thank you sir.
as far as the aim yesssssss its so sick. I love it. I downloaded PC link as well as race studio 3 to play around with it today so I’m learning that side of it.
here’s a pic of the engine bay and setup. I’m confused because I haven’t changed anything on the mechanical side to induce a change in crank case pressure since the last tune that I put 1000 miles on with no issue besides the DBW setup. Is that green/white thing the pcv valve in the middle of the intake? I know it’s kind of hard to see.
That's just a little check valve for the VICs manifold. No idea if it's actually necessary, but I also keep it on any VICs install I do. That's another reason I like the square top, it has a much simpler vacuum system, and you don't have any butterfly mechanicals. But as you've discovered, they're not necessary for high power.
I'd be looking at engine health first (leak down/compression tests), and see if your PCV valve is still functioning. If you don't find anything wrong with either of those, take the compressor housing off, make sure nothing is touching your compressor wheel, and start the car, see if it's just pouring out of it.
If I'm being honest I don't think I even have a pcv valve.
I do have a compression tester I'll try that first. Then (and this sounds wild I didn't know you could do that) I'll try the startup with the compressor housing off.
Yup, it's just the giant v-band and wastegate. make sure to safety wire the wastegate arm closed, it can hit the turbine wheel if you don't.
Yeah, post #1 from my leak thread, I used a oil pan bolt to hold the wastegate shut, since the brackets still there.
So the barb off your valve cover is just a barb? Makes sense since it's not routed back to the intake manifold.
Yeah and furthermore it's a protege valve cover. There's a point at which there are so many parts from so many years cobbled together to get a functioning thing that I'm starting to get lost in all the variables.
Personally that VC venting doesn't look like even remotely enough for a higher HP turbo BP. It's about 1/2 as much flow as my setup needed at 300whp.
That said, I don't think that is causing your compressor oil leak, especially if it's happening in cruise. Hope you get it nailed down!
Even knowing it wouldn't solve it what route would you go from that pathetic catch can/venting situation? Like how should I pimp my ride? also I know there is a search function and I will use that in the coming days.
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