Or a valve cover leak? I'm hoping it's just the tires.

Les

 

Valve covers are all resealed (DONE YES!!!). Can you tell I'm excited to be near the end of my project??!! Ha, I'm pumped! It was a rubber smell. The belt did feel pretty snug on the PSK. I'll look at lunch and report.

Oh and to be fair: Gr8len DID include a crank bolt with the 181 pulley. It was turned down the same as the one I ended up cutting. It was wrapped in bubble wrap and I missed it. So sorry Gr8len, my bad.

 

Thanks for your PMs guys.

Ok, the car runs great. Burning smell is totally gone.
All my pulleys look good and square. However the water pump looks strange but I'm gonna just drive it.

I made a cheap catch can but couldn't resist this sweet Needswings one, so I'll swap that.

 

It looks to me like you have something installed wrong. The pulleys don't line up like the should. Scary looking! You need to find out whats up ASAP.

Les

 

Les, mine looks almost identical to that.... I believe that with the turn pulley having the almost 90 degree shoulder and the factory one having the large radius formed shoulder it makes it look off so much.....

I haven't had any issues with mine and I have had it off a couple of times and checked it for any signs of stress cracking.....over 2 years on it now....

 

Ok, thats a relief. I retract the horror I expressed.

Les

 

Thanks for the concern Les!
I think it's fine. The camera angle really made it look crazy. The pulley is very wide so the belt is supported.

Thanks Mike also.

 

Yesterday I hooked up my laptop and started logging IATs.
Temp outside was 57F and cloudy.
After spirited driving temps would hover around 87 and stay there. When getting on it the temps climbed as high as 104F but came back down to around 95 as soon as I got off the gas then would settle to about 90 when cruizing. I didn't do any sustained high rpms, no tune 'till Thursday.

So what do you think? Are these good IATs?
Seem high to me for the ambient temps, but not sure.

 

Got my remote tune done today. Bought a 100' Lan cable and streched it to the garage. The tune went easily, no computer type problems.

Ok, the car is ripping pretty good now. It has a ton of torque, runs so smooth. I'm really happy with how all these mods are coming together.

So after about 100 miles of messing around the verdict is the tune really ties it all together. I can tell it's going to get WAY better! It's a beast down low but loses steam at the top.
After 5K she definitly poops out so I need to get some wideband data logging going and re-tune from there.

 

I got my remote tune today too and I'm going racing on Sunday. I doubt I'll get on the dyno tomorrow. Saturday is going to be busy, alignment, brake bleeding, hopefully a dyno too. I have faith .... and will have hard real world results soon.

Les

 

Good luck, have fun!

 

Still at it.......

 

You never slow down do you? I have a Zietronix wide band to instal in my Needswings downpipes. (has the bung in them) I'm not real comfortable cutting wires to the ECU or BCM which is why it's still in the box. Let us know what AFR your seeing when your done.

Les

 

Will do Bro.
I'm heading back out to try to finish before Easter Festivities begin. I'm trying to do the narrowband simulator thing instead of welding a bung, we'll see if it works. If not it's only one wire to solder back.

 

les do you a dsahdaq? no need to cut anything on the zt-2. its plug and play once the bung is welded in

 

Your kidding me, right? I have the instructions where you have to tap into the throttle position sensor signal (pin 21) pin 5 and 3 etc. ..... are you telling me those are for the additional sensors for the future? The wideband doesn't require ......... oh the wasted months. All I have to do is use all the plugs? Please explain so the artist can understand.

Les

 

the zeitronix zt-2 that i have has a O2 sensor that has a large plug on the end. about 12" long cable. that plug goes into another plug that plugs into the zeitronix controller. that way if the O2 sensor ever goes bad you simply remove it from the bung unplug it and get another from zeitronix.

heres a couple pics for you. see how the O2 sensor goes into the zt-2 box with what looks like a fone jack. its about 6 ft long.from the zt-2 another smaller plug goes out and into the dashdaq. plug and play!

 

^^^ That's cool! My first choice was Zeitronix but I found these used for cheap.

Well, the narrowband simulation seems to work fine! No cells, drives the same.

Thanks to Rudy for the install tip.

 

Crank seal leak and checking out stuff.
Noticed about 4% LTFT one one bank and also oil was dripping on floor. These cars are fun to work on!

 

Looking at the photo of the hub way back in this thread I see that it does not look too smooth.
Any nicks and scratches on it will cut the oil seal lip and ruin it real fast. I hope you put oil on it when you assembled it as well.
Also I hope the face that you cut on the hub was machined square to the bore.
The face the oil seal runs on should be ground, if not the seal will wear out fast. Some of these pulleys are made like crap with an eye to a fast buck is my opinion.
When a hub is too long the engineering behind it is totally lacking.