Grn92LX said:
Grn92LX said:I had my rear drum brakes 'dragging' once. Cost me my first 12 second slip at the track. Car went 13.1 @ 104, readjusted the brakes because they were way too tight and if I think the next time I went after that I went 12.80's @ 107. Not all the brakes fault, better weather too. I will check that, I did re adjust the drums a few months ago because I had them a touch too loose. I dont think its an issue, but i'll check eventually.
Grn92LX said:No, that shop burned my chip on a dyno. It was an autologic chip. WOT a/f was good, but driveability sucked!
My car does the same thing if its on an incline. I have to pull the brake up real high and it still might roll lol. On the inside of the brake (the side facing the differential) theres a rubber plug and if you take it off you'll see where you can adjust the brakes w/o taking the rims and drums off. You need a flat head screwdriver.
Wow, 230 miles to the tank is nice. When you fill it up, do the math and lemme know. Thats probably around 16-17 mpg.
Sounds like you just rode the clutch and burned it a lil. Nothing to worry about, stuff happens.
Grn92LX said:Ok, heres an update. I put an old mr gasket 195* thermo in today and now the car runs hotter, about 200*. I'll see if this improves my mileage at all. I also noticed one of my rear tires was 4lbs low on air so I filled it back up. I filled my tank up, did the math and I got 13mpg. The gauge was at the line below the 1/2. This tank was al around town driving and some beating on it. I guess the new maf (and 75mm tb) helepd the mileage because 2 tanks ago I only got 10 and that tank also had some highway driving on it. This mileage is still crappy IMO. I'll see how this tank goes with the car running much hotter now. After this test (depending on results), I think im gonna put a motorcraft 180* thermo I have in the garage in. I dont like this running 200* stuff UNless my mileage magically jumps to like 20mpg or soemthing
David, to answer your ? from above, no, my chip tune was with the old 24lb maf with the 30lb injectors in the car and 65mm TB. Any good shop can design a custom maf curve. I had that done in march. The new tb and maf were done last week. Yes, they need to burn. I find it funny that with my used $85 optimizer I had the car running better myself than they ever could with their pathetic chip and useless tuning skills.
Grn92LX said:david, what temp do you normally run at? What does it run at at night when its cooler now?
Grn92LX said:My first start up idle for the day sucks and has got worse. Now it'll stall right away on the first start and it'll try to stall on second start unless I give it gas. This horrible idle stops after 2-3 min. Im guessing it goes into closed loop then. I think im gonna disconnect the battery over night when i get a chance and erase the KAM and see if the car can learn a better idle. Im also gonna put my motorcraft 180* stat in after I get the gas mileage from this tank to see if the hotter running temp effects my mileage.