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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.
I know this car/thread doesn’t do well over here but I got (another) bumper so here we are. I'd trimmed the eBay GV rep to fir the headlights and was liking the direction the car was taking.
It was starting the resemble the vision I'd had for the car for a while, nothing crazy but for sure more aggressive than a stock bumper and GV canards...
Then the (my) holy grail popped up in OR and I had to jump.
Working on getting the larger flares for the car and then probably start prepping for paint. I love the new front end, AFAIK it's the only GHO Wide with Jetstream headlights (I know that's boomer math, blow me) so I'd didn't know what the expect from the combo but I LOOOVE IT.
I LOVE that bumper and the direction the car is going. Big props for going with JDM legend parts, in true Japanese time attack style this car is both very aesthetically pleasing and fast.
Was that hint at the JRSC setup indicating it might go on this car? I do hope to make it your way, I actually have a tow rig now (sans trailer) so it's looking more likely I make it down south!
I looked down after completing the boomer equation and saw this:
Originally Posted by Fireindc
I LOVE that bumper and the direction the car is going. Big props for going with JDM legend parts, in true Japanese time attack style this car is both very aesthetically pleasing and fast.
Was that hint at the JRSC setup indicating it might go on this car? I do hope to make it your way, I actually have a tow rig now (sans trailer) so it's looking more likely I make it down south!
Thanks! I'm very much style>function and I'm finally at the point when it functions pretty well and the 2.1 GHO racecar from back in the day has always been one of my favorite builds so I'm pumped with where it's headed. I picked that JRSC setup up last year at a steal and I'll happily run it but I'd much rather unload it and go with a Kraken con 2854 or something, ideally.
Oh this is cool! I really dig the bumper and new direction. Also interested to hear your opinions of the Haltech PDM. Are you keeping the MS3 for the engine side?
@Fireindc we really need to pencil in a date for an ASR trip and assemble the power rangers.
@Fireindc we really need to pencil in a date for an ASR trip and assemble the power rangers.
Originally Posted by Fireindc
@redursidae 100%, Brian said he'd be in too if we go in the fall.
Dudes absolutely!
Originally Posted by redursidae
Also interested to hear your opinions of the Haltech PDM. Are you keeping the MS3 for the engine side?
Unfortunately I have zero feedback because my time/motivation kinda fizzled out. I'm keeping the MS3x for now because why not, eventually I'd like to have a 2500 Elite in the car though, maybe next year?
Originally Posted by Fireindc
Tyler, how's the car? Still one of my favorites, it makes mine look like a turd. Really need to wrap it or something so it's presentable someday.
It just photographs well.
My kapton should be here today, I decided to just go all-in on the harnesses and I'm really bad at wiring so this should be an absolute ****-show but I'm hoping I can have it mobile again this year.
Scored some Tuckin99 flares off a a crazy black man I know on IG.
Mocked up the flares, HATE the wheel gap.
Since they don't play well with the skirts I'm running I started trimming. Plan is to possibly reshape these more than I'd like but I've got to get them either mounted lower on the car or lower the lip of the flares because I'm not living with the current wheel gap.
Took a "sick day" and trimmed engine and chassis harnesses of everything I don't need and, likely, some **** that I did.
Scored this DW bulkhead connector a couple of Black Fridays ago (this is how long I've put off wiring.) Like I mentioned above, waiting on the last few bits of wiring supplies, I'm going to attempt a "motorsports grade" sealed, concentrically twisted engine harness so please keep me in your thoughts.
Then it'll be making the PDM do what I need it to do and hopefully I'm racing again after the bodywork but that's a whole other mountain to climb.
Scored this DW bulkhead connector a couple of Black Fridays ago (this is how long I've put off wiring.) Like I mentioned above, waiting on the last few bits of wiring supplies, I'm going to attempt a "motorsports grade" sealed, concentrically twisted engine harness so please keep me in your thoughts.
Then it'll be making the PDM do what I need it to do and hopefully I'm racing again after the bodywork but that's a whole other mountain to climb.
Idk how much progress you've made on your harness, and what materials you've ordered, but a true motorsports grade harness with concentric twisting, DR-25 sheathing and rigid boots/transitions is insanely expensive compared to a "clubsport" straight loomed TXL with DR-25 over it. You are also not using one of the "standard" motorsports bulkheads so booting that might be a little difficult.
If you have the budget, both monetarily and time, the motorsports grade stuff is definitely the way to go, but the "clubsport" level is just as effective and much cheaper to execute.
I think I was all in $500~$750 in materials for all new connectors for my Haltech Elite 1500 and OE connectors for the motor, HD30 bulkhead connectors, Bussman fuse boxes, TXL wires, DR-25 for engine bay side sheathing, TechFlex split loom for the interior sheathing. There was only 1 boot on the engine side bulkhead and that was already ~$25. Tefzel is ~3.5x the cost compared to TXL. If you're concentric twisting, you're probably going to want to include service loops in the bulkhead strain relief, and you run out of room real quick with the thicker TXL insulation. Additionally, each individual branch transition from raychem is around $10-$25 iirc.
I'd also highly recommend the HP Academy wiring courses, I purchased the clubsport package and was able to plan/purchase/construct/test my harness based off the stuff I learned in that.
Not trying to dissuade you from attempting a fully sealed, concentric twisted, ***** to the wall harness, but just know that its not a cheap endeavour, and it takes way more time than a simpler harness construction. I have some pics and sample documentation on my build thread for a less complicated harness with my Elite 1500 if you want to take a gander as well.
... I have some pics and sample documentation on my build thread for a less complicated harness with my Elite 1500 if you want to take a gander as well.
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