Black Emperor Options

[scorp28]

Well I finally decided to put up a ongoing thread for the progress of my car, although I don't expect it to be as in depth and as interesting as the others on here. But what the hell why not, right?

First off I am sure some of you are wondering about the name. Well it's simple really. I's just a continuation on the theme of my screen name. That and the Black Emperor is on of the largest little creatures in it's family and like to hunt prey larger and more powerful than itself.

A brief history..........I purchased the car in February of 2002 for what at the time was a pretty good price although I could buy 3 pretty good ones for that price now. lol I did not make any mods to the car until right before the first SCDC in 2003 at which time I (with some help from akamiami and mitsu90) installed a 14b and a 1G TB. Nothing was done to it again until when in the middle of 2004 the timing belt went. After saving the money for a 6 bolt and the labor to have it done I entrusted her a person who seemed to be a savior only to turn out to be exactly the opposite. So long story short...after getting screwed around for approx. 1 1/2 yrs. (yeah, yeah, I know) I finally went and rescued the car from its living hell and began the long process of resurrecting it. It had the 6 bolt w/balance shafts removed in it but would not run and was missing a few items that it had previously. After sitting a few more months (for various reasons) at my place I was finally able to get it running barely good enough to be driven. Then after just under 200 miles of having it on the road again it jumped time due to a loose tensioner bolt. Another month or so went by until I got the money for the parts and this time I entrusted it to a very good stand up guy, AWD DSM 1 because I didn't want to take the chance of messing it up any worse than what it already was (BTW, Rob I just remembered that I still owe you some money for the Heet and gas) and he did a great and fast job.

A few months later and that finally brings us to the present day. A couple of thousand miles later and the car is still running like crap and seems to develop a new problem every week that makes it worse.

OK, now that that is over with.

Car as she sits right now........6 bolt w/balance shafts removed, new timing belt and tensioner, new (sort of) clutch master cylinder, newer 14b, stock exhaust w/cat removed, new plugs, new wires, new fuel filter, new brakes, mbc, no emissions, 1G intake, 1G IC, and the EGR is blocked off. Everything else on the car right now is stock 2G.

I just picked up an EVO 8 fmic, 3" GM maf (still need the translator), and a walbro 255 high pressure fuel pump. Hopefully within the next week I will be getting a 95 eprom, the translator, and 550 injectors. Then I will just be waiting on the mandrel bent stainless pipe that I can still hopefully get from a guy at work so that I can build my exhaust and IC pipes for the fmic.

My plans for this car are nothing extreme. If I can get it into the low 13's (which hopefully shouldn't be a problem when I get everything installed) or even the high 12's then I will be happy. At which time I will probably upgrade the turbo so that I can still run the same times with a little less stress on the motor.

Wow, that was a lot more than I planned on writing

Will update more as it happens.

[scorp28]

Runs like crap =

Idle varies. Not constantly up and down but it will vary between 800 and 2500 at different times. I can start the car and it will be at one rpm and then when I stop it will be at another and then the next time I stop it may be at yet another.

Seems to be "cold blooded". After first stating it most times when I go to take off it will stumble and sputter threw the first couple 2-3 gears unless I am barely touching the go pedal. Every once in a while it feels like there is a miss also when just cruising.

Those are the main problems that I can think of right now.

When I was talking about knock earlier the reason I said that was because from everything I have read when a car starts to retard timing under acceleration it is because of knock.

As far as tuning, until I get my gm maf set up I was just planning on doing as much as I could with timing and the mas calibration screw, and also boost settings under WOT.

I am currently only running 11psi.

I have not done a leakdown test but I have done a boost leak test and there are none that are noticeable.

And as far as waiting on the fuel pump install, I know you don't have to have an afpr to run a 255 but I have been reading a lot on the effects of running one without an afpr. With the problems that I am having right now I don't want to be over running the stock fpr and dumping excess fuel into the cylinders. Plus I don't want to add to the tuning difficulty right now as I currently of a lack of available means to tune.