Well at least you havent been waiting since Valentines day for a mount.. Ive pm'd him several times about it with no reply.. Im closing in on a month and a half..
What have you done to your MSP today?
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Well at least you havent been waiting since Valentines day for a mount.. Ive pm'd him several times about it with no reply.. Im closing in on a month and a half..
pm me ur name and order and ill ask him when i talk to em.
SeR_Cyclops
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the car had 5 people in it and i was granny shifting but here is the vid.
the car had 5 people in it and i was granny shifting but here is the vid.
Mazdaspeed2oo35
600whp - 600wtq at 30 PSI
hahaha... your car moves men.. I like it. its fast !!!! also the sound is awesome ....
I fixed a few things today. Fixed my rattling power steering cooler, and while I was in there I found my missing exhaust gasket chilling behind the IC. I had looked everywhere but there for it, lol. (bang)
Threw that back in and gave the DP - midpipe connection fresh new 10.9 SS bolts/washers/nuts. Fired it up and was amazed at what it did. Not only does it sound like a brand new engine compared to how it did, but I also no longer have the ultra lean (17+) condition at idle that I had ever since installing the 28RS way back in the day. It also feels a million times smoother, it's almost like I went back to stock mounts, haha.
I had no idea that a leak at the DP - MP connection could cause a lean condition like that, so I hadn't ever even checked it. Instead of my AEM reading 3 lines because the AFR is over 17, it is now bouncing lightly between 14.7 and 15.2. Beyond stoked. (rockon)
Also tightened up my alternator belt because it was a little loose. I had my alternator tested at autozone last week and it passed with flying colors, so I hope this solves my charging issues.
Threw that back in and gave the DP - midpipe connection fresh new 10.9 SS bolts/washers/nuts. Fired it up and was amazed at what it did. Not only does it sound like a brand new engine compared to how it did, but I also no longer have the ultra lean (17+) condition at idle that I had ever since installing the 28RS way back in the day. It also feels a million times smoother, it's almost like I went back to stock mounts, haha.
I had no idea that a leak at the DP - MP connection could cause a lean condition like that, so I hadn't ever even checked it. Instead of my AEM reading 3 lines because the AFR is over 17, it is now bouncing lightly between 14.7 and 15.2. Beyond stoked. (rockon)
Also tightened up my alternator belt because it was a little loose. I had my alternator tested at autozone last week and it passed with flying colors, so I hope this solves my charging issues.
^^^ Had the same thing happen to me last summer when one of my s-pipe studs backed out. For over a week I wracked my brain trying to figure out the lean condition at idle. Of course it rained that whole week so I couldn't get the car into the air to look. As soon as I got it up I found the problem. The dumbest things sometimes...
was the car lean all the time at idle? or just randomly?
Just at idle and really light loads. It actually also triggered a System too lean code as well. Once I got the car up and noticed I was missing the stud I turned it on to see if I had a leak - sure enough I did. Enough to feel quite a bit blowing around the flanges. Replaced the stud, AFRs went back to normal and the code cleared itself within the day.
Yeah man I had tried finding vacuum leaks, even though my vac gauge was reading normal. Tried seafoam. Tried a new fuel filter. Tried relocating the MAF. Tried new IC pipes. Tried no BOV or BPV. Cleaned the EGR. lol. I had given up and pretty much said screw it, figured that it must have been a side-effect of using the 28RS on there. Never even crossed my mind that a exhaust leak anywhere other than at the manifold could mess with the AFR's like that. 2 whole points +, and it wasn't even a big leak.
Now I know I guess, haha.
Yeah really! I was changing O2 sensors, the MAF and checking everything was well. I'm glad it was something so trivial but man did it drive me crazy! I thought something was seriously wrong with my car.
but was it all the time or randomly? sometimes my a/f spikes lean at idle, but i blip the throttle and it brings it back down. this does not happen often.
Mine does that sometimes as well. But with the exhaust leak it was a constant lean condition. Mine wasn't as bad as 505zoom's but my idle AFRs were like 16-17:1
Mine was constant except for just after startup when the car was real cold. After a couple minutes my gauge would always read "---" lean, and if I blipped the throttle it wouldn't take it more than a few seconds to go back to pegged.
Other than being a little rough and occasionally giving me some low idle and/or stalling issues, running that lean at idle didn't seem to cause any real problems.
yea i was surprised when i found out about that lean condition too. I even told ken about it cause i couldnt beleive it. lol
2.0t03speed
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i seriously miss my car. i watched my video of me racing msp608 tonight and i just want to drive it so bad =(
damn, try calling, I had the best response that way, they are closed until monday but I called earlier last week and got an answer to a question right away
Ugg, that video.
I think his tail lights might be 'bluring' bc he's running rich between shifts, not sure though.
Mazdaspeed2oo35
600whp - 600wtq at 30 PSI
hahaha. hey ryan, PM me the link of that video, i wanna see it.. !!!!
