Shitty. When I make my harness i'll be making my stock connectors easily reinstallable so I can put the original coils back in as well. The idea of being stranded on a roadtrip just sucks. Did go on a 250 mile trip this weekend to knoxville though, had a good time and the car ran great. 26.6 mpg on a decent street tune, cruising with the afrs bouncing around 14.7-15.5.

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went 250 miles exactly, also rolled the odometer past the 60k mark on the way home. still have an indicated 1/4 tank remaining :bigtu:
amazing what kind of mileage you get when you're limited to 7 psi

Yeah i'm still running the 1.8 injectors, hope to install the 550s this week before petit. I too had a quater tank indicated when I got back, appears we got about the same mileage.

install the injectors the weekend after. if you're tuned and issue free, leave it that way before you road trip it.

i think i found the problem with my ignition. i had to crimp connect my main power, main ground, and tach wires because I broke my (late grandfather's) soldering iron when I dropped it after burning my hand. :doh:
well, the power and tach crimps failed immediately. this time the ground failed. so something about these 12-14 ga butt connectors is wrong. I have a decent crimp tool and put what appeared to be a good crimp on them. but all 3 have failed. one of richard's wire nut jobs would have been better it seems.

looks like a good time, the weather was awesome for a drive. I'll have to jump in on the next one.

thanks for the pics, wished I was there

I've always gone solder and heat shrink- just don't have as much confidence in my crimps I suppose. And I've got a good crimper too. I had a pro install the ecu in my last race car and he soldered too. Said the same thing- solder is "for sure". He used some kind of heat shrink with a sealant in it... I think it was marine spec.

would have been nice if you came.
we all need to do it. it should be very scenic in about 3 weeks or so.

i think my ignition is good to go again. what i ended up doing is splitting the heatshrink over the crimped connections and I flowed solder down into the butts. that should make them solid. when I was doing that, I broke one of the leads off my resistor that I use to shunt power to tach. so I replaced the resistor and used electrical tape to wrap a butt connector up next to it like a splint.

i'm hoping to get my diff swap done this weekend, maybe my brake swap next weekend... and hopefully I'll be good to go

I will get in the loop soon. My kids need to get a bit older and I need a couple of serious days to work on my car. Just picked up my new oil cooler today with some freshly welded up AN fittings. Step in the right direction.

Testament to true car lovers...no matter how bad-ass a car is, there's always something just not quite right ;)

I figure if the car is built to manage track duty, then it should survive the rest of the whatever is thrown at it. I keep thinking "this will be it" only to find out whatever I changed just wasn't enough. So the process never seems to end.

Short term goal is to get the oil cooler in, so I can rejoin everybody at the dyno. I'm hopes that my peak power occurs later than 5800rpm, and should therefore be much higher.

I "just need" to get bigger injectors, tune them in, improve cooling.....:eek5:

Gassed up today. The trip was 250 miles on Sunday. Drove 5 miles today before filling up. Took 8.95 gallons. That's about 28.5 mpg :bigtu:
16:1 cruise FTW

Real reason for this post was to whore out the photo though:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/4...gpack1bmh7.jpg

I averaged 25.4 mpg that trip. Some day I'll tune some cruise zones.

that's impressive... actually amazing for untuned zones. And you guys actually got into boost on the jaunt?

I wouldn't say untuned. Just ot tuned for economical cruising. I'm at 14.7 in most cruise zones.

I most certainly was in boost, but not 100% of the drive. I think I can speak for Ben as well.

There was only one stretch before lunch where I was able to really use all my power potential. And I did. After lunch, when it was just me and Ben (the two turbo cars), I was in boost constantly, but kept it under 7 psi because the spark was getting blown out at 7+

Around town I've been getting around 23-24, driving it like I stole it. I'd bet on a highway trip I'd break 30 mpg.

Sounds like i need to tune my shit a little better and turn on overrun fuel cut. I decided to install the 550s today, won't be taking the miata to petit this year i suppose. We have a semi large group going, decided to take the g/fs protege instead. What a buzz kill.

:werd: like having to drive the suv to Rd. Atl on race weekends because there's so much shit to haul to the track.