Well, 7 hours in a warm garage after a long week at work at I got everything on my list done. That said, I left two things off yesterday. I still need to brace the top of the rotrex to the motor and I have to go over the AEM wiring.
I have a plan to change a little bit of the wiring and check each pin in the harnesses to make sure they are all making perfect contact.
Everything else is checked, double checked, primed, prepped, and ready to start!
I should have but a few hours in the morning and the big moment for me is finally here. For now, I'm tired, when I'm tired I have a higher potential to make a mistake, so I'll wait until the morning and do it right.
Things to test:
My boost signal to the Fuel Pump Filter and pressure regulator. The way it reads in the service manual, the fuel pump pulls from the tank, goes into the filter/reg assembly, you then have the bypass back to the tank, output to the fuel rail, the other goes to the evap assembly. I capped this line off on the evap side, and ran a boost signal to this location on the filter/reg assembly using 1/8" copper line. I didn't have enough to make it a hard line all the way. Once this proves out, I will buy another section to replace the rubber vac line I used so I don't have to worry about the routing going close to hot spots.
For now I used some thermal sleeve to protect the rubber hose, but I wouldn't want to run it that way forever, because rubber is rubber!
You can't see anything in the grill which is cool, even if you were looking it would be hard. I left the inserts off of the bottom scoop until I can take a dremel to them and open them up to flow air.
Other than that, mid term plans after some tuning will be to make a silencer for the BOV. I know I commented on this before and someone said "but some people like BOV noise", but it is a little different in this type of setup. The way you size a rotrex to make big power, it always flows more air than the motor needs. Therefore, at full vac, the bov should be cracked bleeding off some of the excess air. If you don't silence it or recirculate it, it will make a constant jet type noise
I don't like this at all so I usually make it go away. Even though, on my first trip in my newly rotrex'd spyder to the Dragon, it was awesome sounding. Everyone thought the bat mobile was coming around the corner when they heard it and all eyes were on my car as it drove by wondering what the hell I had under the hood! Cool, but it gets old real fast so bye, bye
Man, and the work isn't over. Once I get her humming, I still have the sways and springs to install! I imagine new tires are going to have to come real fast as well as some konis. I have those crappy Continental eco sports, yuck..
I'm also really happy with the IC pump placement. People always question why I look for a piece of plastic for the mounting point. I mounted it in the lowest horizontal front right corner of the bumper and it makes for near silence. I hate a noisy IC pump and that is usually what you get when you hard mount it to a metal crossmember or other.
Not much to see new in this pic except it is all put back together and a sharp eye will notice a new hose or two
