CulRidr's MP3 N/A build (~150whp goal)
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shane02pro5
25ish_psi
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- New Caney TX
...And wash the oil out of the cylinders and make it nice and toasty
protege321
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this is exaclty what i plan on doing to my car. (2thumbs)
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- 02' Protege ES (Gone)
16' Mazda 6 sport manual
(cricket)
I suppose I should update this eh?
Well, somewhat in chronological order:
No I'm still not tuned...<rolling my eyes> I've pretty much given up on the reflash and am looking at other options. Only problem with a standalone is that I can't pass emissions AFAIK...Not sure if the new ECU Haltech is putting out soon will help with that issue.
Well, somewhat in chronological order:
No I'm still not tuned...<rolling my eyes> I've pretty much given up on the reflash and am looking at other options. Only problem with a standalone is that I can't pass emissions AFAIK...Not sure if the new ECU Haltech is putting out soon will help with that issue.
- That AutoX was awesome! New alignment did some world of good to get some balance back, especially combined with a softer rear end; the car rotates again, and gripsgripsgrips.
- Had a few issues along the way; not running for a month while trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. End result, starter wasn't strong enough anymore, supposedly. Either way, I'm running a 626 starter now.
- Cooling issues were also a real bother as I was overheating and the car was acting up like CRAZY! Replaced the thermostat and all is normal again. I later found out that my coolant temperature sensor wasn't properly hooked up which is what caused the car to act a little cookoo. Thermostat still needed changing though.
- Replaced my rear pads with HPS to match the front; what a difference balance braking makes to reduce nose dive!!
- Did a little tune-up; changed the spark plug wires to new 8mm NGK wires, and at the same time re-gapped the spark plugs to see if I could get rid of my random misfire issues. After gapping them to .0425, I haven't any more misfires from what I can tell, although I have a P1170, which I believe is a fouled up main O2 sensor. Going to be taking it out this weekend to try and clean it up to get rid of that CEL.
- The car now pulls like crazy with the regapping.
- Going to the dealership to have my PS pump replaced (with another one I got locally; used) as my shaft seems to be rather loose with a lot of play, and I don't have a press to put the Medievel pulley on the replacement. I'll have the camshafts closed up another 2 degrees while I'm there to try and get it even more torquey while bringing the power band down even more. Cars going to be nuts I think, especially since the car runs better then it ever has now
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Maxx Mazda
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Why gap them so big? I have mine at .036" but even 38 thou would be perfect for you.
Found some web information that suggested the larger gap for higher compression engines such as the FS-ZE. I would guess that he has increased the gap slightly to see if it would fix a problem - and it seems it has.
Im encouraged to see that an N/A engine responds better to closing the overlap on the Twiggy cams. I have a set of adjustable cam gears and a cut valve cover sitting ready to go. Just have to organise a cover for the cams and then I can head down this path too.
Keep up the good work! Cheers.
Isn't stock gap .044?? (uhm)
Either way, car didn't like .04, so I tried something closer to stock with some stuff AusOrion passed on in another thread, and no more misfires and fairly smoother operation
Maxx Mazda
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What plugs are u running?
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- 02' Protege ES (Gone)
16' Mazda 6 sport manual
good to see things are going well for ya now.
Maxx Mazda
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Those might be too cold for your operation. Try going to a 5 series with a .038 gap.
Conventional wisdom is you should run as wide a gap as you possibly can, whilst still being able to get a healthy spark.
Turbo motors usually run narrower gaps, because the increased fuel loads require a stronger spark and small coil packs are not upto the task of delivering strong sparks over a wide gap.
Maxx Mazda
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I run a smaller gap because increased dwell times are available to me if I do with the Haltech.
get coils that deliver a bigger spark - you wont need such aggressive dwells, and you will be able to run higher spark gap to boot
SR20 dummy coil drive + some big fat coilpacks = win (specially for high boost or high rpm or both)
Maxx Mazda
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8ms isn't agressive. I've gone up to 10 reliabley but there's not much point going higher than 8 from what I've read.
