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iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

Welcome to my world lol

PXRdriFT · Postby **PXRdriFT** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

speedjunkie wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention, I guess I'll be adding airjacks to my car...I stopped by the auto hobby shop after work yesterday to use one of their lifts...I can't even swing the arms under my car, it's too low LOL. Or I'll just have to use Frank's every time haha. His is the only one I can drive up on without taking the bumper off haha.

That was a big reason I got my own. I had to jack up my car in order to put the swing arms under my car! You're always welcome to use it.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

iani1.1 wrote:Welcome to my world lol

I wouldn't say I'm QUITE to your world yet, I don't yet have to take off any body panels or bumpers just to be able to get the first/lowest jack under my car LOL.

PXRdriFT wrote:That was a big reason I got my own. I had to jack up my car in order to put the swing arms under my car! You're always welcome to use it.

So I can get a key to the house then? LOL

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

Air jacks! That's extreme! But I feel your pain, I had the same problem with my 8. It was so low I had to drive up on a piece of 2x4 just to get a low profile (3" thick) jack under it. What a pain.

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

Oh yeah, Eric, I'm also disappointed that you're browsing the norotors forum website. How dare you!

iani1.1 · Postby **iani1.1** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

^LOL i know right? whats up with that?

i wish i can get a 2x4 under mine...

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14

I knew someone would mention that. I'll have you know I did a search on google and that thread came up. I would never browse such a blasphemous site LOL.

Right now I have to use my stock jack to get the car up a bit, then use a normal jack. When I was home on leave I used a truck jack and I couldn't believe it fit under the car and lifted it with no issues, not even touching the sideskirts. Although that was with the other wheels and tires making it taller.

yoojeankim · Postby **yoojeankim** » Thu May 12, 2011 9:14

what an ugly car... lol jk

eric i envy you

Twisted_grip · Postby **Twisted_grip** » Fri May 20, 2011 9:14

So how's the Car? Is the starting problem fix. I read in the cruise tread you won't make it to the cruise.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

I haven't worked on it since Tuesday so I'm not sure. I'm going to load an old map into the PFC and see if it starts. It started with a tow start and ran fine, so I'm thinking it might just be the map. But if that doesn't fix it and it still won't start, I think it might be the oil control rings bad already and it's not getting enough compression to start. Either way, it's still burning oil, so I'd have to still fix that problem too.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

Good luck getting everything running man! Hopefully it's just the map and you can hopefully make it to the cruise!

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

I won't make it to the cruise regardless. For one, I'm looking for more of I a spirited drive through the mountains and it seems that's not the point of this cruise.

I uploaded an old map and it fired up, but it still seems like something isn't right. He adjusted the crap out of my throttle body, which kinda ticks me off since I had it set right. So I'm trying to fix all that stuff since it's not idling right still and it idled fine before I went up there. Working on it now actually.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

Hope you get everything worked out! I still want to see your car.

chickenwafer · Postby **chickenwafer** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

So the tune I made worked on it? Was he adjusted your air bleed or dashpot? Dashpot shouldn't effect starting but the air bleed will.

After looking at the tune I definitely think the split timing was rather aggressive (more than I would run), and the leading timing was a little sloppy, almost like a modified version of the PFC base map.

But your motor was still burning oil before the dyno so I still think you other issues (i.e. oil control rings or massive blow by).

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat May 21, 2011 9:14

Well I messed around with the map even after you messed with it, but yeah, pretty much that same map worked for a bit. I adjusted the air bleed screw again (yes, he adjusted it way out/open) and I tried backing off the idle screw on the front of the TB, back to just barely touching like it's supposed to be, because he had it turned in quite a few threads. I had it idling pretty well around 1150-1250 and after a while it started dying regardless of what idle was set to.

I know I have other issues with the burning oil, but I'd at least like to get this idle and starting thing figured out. As long as it doesn't have anything to do with bad oil control rings or something like that anyway.

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