Looks REALLY good. Here the turbo whistle yet ?
Thanks!
It's hard to rev up the engine much because the tune is so far out, but yes I've been hearing that whistle... makes me giddy.
Looks REALLY good. Here the turbo whistle yet ?
Amazing how much pumping loss is gone just by that little pressure in the inlet tube, huh.
Man, just realized I can't even spell ''hear'' correctly.
x-tau? is that MAP based? because if its not, it will never work very well with a boosted car, and how do you know the tune is so far out? as long as the constants are correct for a v8 with TBI(I only know what they should be for 4 cylinders so far) it should run fairly smooth, regardless of how far off your enrichments are, idle should be fairly smooth...also, revving it up in idle, the turbo wont boost anyway, you'll be lucky to hit 100KPA, so in theory you should be able to rev it up to 3000RPM or so at least as long as your tune is somewhere in the ballpark
I have all my acceleration enrichments on the neon based on MAPdot, in fact, the car runs exclusively on MAPdot and currently doesnt use the TPS sensor at all(I have other uses I'll use that for eventually) I'd rather have my enrichments based exclusively on MAP simply because i dont care what RPM the engine is turning(I only care about the boost pressure going into the engine), the only RPM based tuning I do is in the VE tables, to me it just seems the safest way to go on a boosted car
Well, most of the work under the hood is now complete! And I started the car last weekend. I'm very happy with the outcome. Everything worked out great, it looks good, and everything looks like it "belongs".
Only work left to do under the hood is to put in a new ignition coil (and get rid of that yellow plug wire), and to put the hood on.
The next steps are to install boost and AFR guages, as well as re-vamp my existing guage panel. Then comes tuning.. I'll have to completely re-tune the megasquirt ECU due to all of the changed made.
Here's a pic of the new engine compartment: