This ones a done deal! In fact, my wife already put it on the calendar and is calling it a day date
Well,the tuning has been on a slight hold while waiting on new belts. I'm getting some belt slip and maxing out at 8 psi when I should be making twice as much. I've tweaked half a dozen things looking for leaks prior to re-designing the pulley setup as it is a fairly complicated operation and I wanted to hold that off until last. In fact, I did all of the following:
- I disabled the evap line and capped it off
- started to replace the brake booster hose and realized it has a check valve at the booster so i worked on the other end and buttoned it up tight
- In fact, I capped off the stock brake booster location on the manifold to rule it out
- I pulled the manifold switchover vac hose, sealed the switchover lever and locked it into the short runner position
- pressure tested the map sensor and air pump solenoid - both hold boost
With all of that, I've sealed up pretty much anything you can that might leak boost. So I turned my full attention to my drive pulley setup.
- I shaved down the grooves on the dual drive pulley I had made as they were too deep and I was losing surface area on the belt
- I then sand blasted the pulley for better grip and to see if it would get polished back up with use thus indicating belt slip
- While I was at it, I also had an erratic boost signal while logging with the SPD or AEM - I solved this by adding a restrictor between the IM and AEM and boom - perfect signal
As an experiment, I also pulled the boost signal to the fuel pump and am still able to get a 10:1 AFR at 8 psi which means we have one beefy fuel pump on the limited! I'm going to leave it disconnected for now to see when it runs out of gas
After all that, I still make only 8 psi. So I have some other tricks up my sleeve to get more belt wrap on the drive pulley. I should be able to test them this weekend.
As it is, 8 psi is enough to spin the wheels at the 1st to 2nd gear shift as well as the 2nd to 3rd gear shift and get traction control to kick in! Well, that and the crappy stock tires, you can't take them out of the equation!