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Did another test day at our local track, beat (or came close to it?) the standing lap record for the class I'm building the car for. Var was mostly fast overall but it had this weird, SUPER intermittent "hiccup" or "stutter, almost like a soft rev limiter that would only surface on-track.
Some track-side googling showed me that I likely had my FF pickup 180* out from where it should be so I went to fix it track-side and found this hot bullshit. We later ended up draining the tank and blowing a whole lot of this **** out of it.
The hiccup remained.
Took the car to the final event of our season and it went real fast. Breaking the standing record by almost 2 full seconds.
Took it to the following year's season opener and blew it up. I didn't have a functioning temp gauge (or any gauges, really...) and the car got hot enough to blow a freeze plug(?)
Let it sit for a while after sourcing another junkyard longblock.
Around late Sept. or '22 I got the car down to work to start swapping engines.
There it is.
Yanked.
Thought it would be a great idea to test the car out at our sister time attack series up in ABQ (3 hour pull) so I pulled a 54hr stint and got the car running 4 hours before it was time to load up and head north.
Surprisingly, I pulled it off and had a great time running a track I'd never driven with a bunch of local track friends who all made the trip up North. (New 111R aero pieces)
Pushed a little too hard on cycled out RRs in the last session, ran out of talent. No damage other than my ego, thankfully.
Car ran great all day but in the last session I felt the hiccup again. By this time on on a whole different engine, had replaced cam sensors, crank sensors, remade my VVT patch harness 3 times and was really at my wits' end with this ****. I was 95% certain the issue was with wiring, be it mine or something in the factory harness so I started acquiring pieces to just redo the whole ******* thing...
Current plan is MS straight to bulkhead connector, new engine harness from scratch (I'm in waaay over my head) and minimizing body harness down to bare minimums. I got on eBay 8 gang switch panel, a Blue sea Fuse box and a dream.
I'd like to say I have good help but she doesn't know what the **** is going on either.
Sweet updates man. I'm not jealous of the wiring job you are taking on, but interested to see how it comes out. Hope to make it down your way in the fall! Without a tow rig that 6 hour drive is gonna hurt a little, but my cars still pretty streetable still.
I want to keep this thing current but I'm really bad at forums (and progress) these days. 50hr work weeks, two young kids (one in travel baseball) and not having a garage at my house (previous ******** owners converted it) means I'm rarely wrenching anymore. The car is currently at my buddies house/shop as he's just up the road and kind enough to let me take up some space at his place.
Since the last update things have changed a bit. I picked up a Haltech PD16 and am planning on rewiring the car completely, so now we'll be making an entirely new engine AND chassis harness. I also scored a ridiculously complete JRSC setup (old school timing box and all) as well as some exterior goodies. My friends and I have always gravitated to the Japanese time attack styling so I'm pretty pumped to finally be addressing the exterior, even though there's still a **** load left to do as far as wiring goes. GV knockoff front bumper, Jetstream headlights, VIS sideskirts and GV LED rear finish panel are all making their way onto the car and we'll be pulling the wrap and painting the car Voodoo Blue at some point here in the coming months.
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