I got the car back to driving last week and I've been driving it most days this week. I do have a slight coolant seepage where the water pump mates to the manifold, and also where the filler neck mounts to the manifold. I reused the water pump gasket because it was still good from when I replaced it...

I started the car and bled the coolant and power steering tonight, but I discovered a couple problems. I think I have an issue with the front harness that I installed three years ago, or the junction box by the driver's left foot. The EGI relay is getting power as soon as I connect the battery, and ...

I worked for almost 12 hours yesterday trying to finish the car so I could attend the meet, but no luck. I almost finished it tonight though. I assembled the most of the dash, finished the fuel pump harness, and picked up more coolant and power steering fluid. I pumped almost all the fuel out of the...

So much has happened over the last couple weeks I can't even remember everything. I finished the harness, and upon installing it, immediately broke every single coil pack connector, two of them when connecting and two when disconnecting. The locking tabs broke, specifically. I contacted MilSpecWirin...

The heat shrink I need won't be here until Monday, so I can't finish the harness until then. However, now I need to do some other things before finishing the harness and running the car anyway. I found a new way to route the CAS cable, and ideally I need to swap the water pump manifold to do it. I c...

I've been building the harness over the last week. I have all the wires added, although I might have to change a couple of the ignition coil sensor ground wires because I messed up and somehow grabbed a shorter wire and don't have one long enough for the coil at the front of the engine, although I d...

I replaced the bearings in the Pineapple Racing idler pulley today, and I'm a little worried because they're loose inside the pulley. You can almost press them in by hand. And the old bearings were like that too, they pressed out super easy. I fear the pulley itself is too worn, and I'm not sure I c...

I've been buying all the parts needed to build the harness. I started digging through old info to see why I can't use the wiring from the EGI relay to power the ECU, and I ran the wire to it again, and again the car wouldn't turn off when I removed the key. After some troubleshooting, I discovered t...

One of Chris B's friends that came through town several months ago posted about finding that the early 2000s Protoge wiper motor fits the FD, although it uses a different connector but the same terminals so it can just be repinned. I love having spare parts, so I picked one up from the local UPAP fo...

I got an updated file from OneGauge today and the fuel level was a bit closer, at 90 full on the gauge, and the ohms readings were all over the place depending on where I measured and different things with the multimeter. They said the fuel level gauge is already filtered. I've been thinking about m...

I bought a new Haltech flying lead harness from Joe, but I've discovered that it won't work for me because it's missing the second Knock input wires, so it kinda defeats the purpose lol. I'm not sure if I'll have to buy the harness from Haltech or what. The one I got from Joe is a 1500 premium harne...

I got another updated hex file a few days ago and almost all the gauges update much quicker, although the fuel and oil pressure gauges are still somewhat slow. And the flex fuel sensor isn't bad, it just had the wrong calibration, and Ryan Heinrich got into it tonight and fixed that and set up my kn...

Well, it turns out my boost issue is not fixed. I got the same 'trigger reference error' CEL again tonight, and on the second pull it even killed the engine again. Another thing I forgot to mention about the fuel temp reading. I was talking to Brett and he said it could be that the flex fuel sensor ...

OneGauge sent me another update today and everything is working now. The temps are still slightly slow, but they're much better than they were. They look like they're updating every few seconds now at least. AFR is still a bit slow. They're looking into that more, but so far stumped as to what the i...

We're slowly making progress. OneGauge has been modifying the hex file little by little, trying to nail down the fuel level and tire pressures and both of those are good now. Even the odometer started reading what he puts in, although I'm not sure exactly when that started working. I just noticed it...