I actually sold this car years ago BECAUSE of this issue, after a full rebuild (drum/band/TC all new) it didn't change anything, sold it cheap priced to sell, person who bought it pulled the trans and replaced it with an auto from a wrecked same year and that fixed everything, so obviously the...
Bought mine from a friend at work that owned a couple DSMs, the GSX was the bastard child because it was an auto, and he didn't like it because he is one of those "auto equals slow" guys hahahaha. Paid 3k cash and so far my only issue is the trans shifts like ass at times, but still dependable...
gettin off topic but, from those pictures, it looks as if he would be rubbing pretty badly with a more aggressive drop, even with a bit of flaring and rolling. I didnt see anything on what his current drop is however. The Evo X wheels have a much different offset as well, so that also becomes an...
Supposedly people have run evo x 18x8.5 wheels with 235/40 and have no rub problems up to a 2 inch drop. I've looked into it myself and decided to stick with my stockies. After riding around on these prokits for a few months, I haven't scraped on anything, no wheel rub, but I hit my bumper a lot...
Thats why I just use my SAFC to check voltage, it matches up to my Fluke perfectly.New alternator (reman from autozone thanks to warranty) is in and working, it was the problem I guess, all dash lights work again. Next step is, Im making a heat shield for the downpipe, or Im just wrapping it...
Im not too concerned about being best friends with him, Its just nice to have that guy on your side that doesnt make you wait an hour for something to test on the bench, just to tell you that their machine says its good when you know damn well its not. This applies to my buick that eats LS1...
Ill look into the saturn alternator, I saw a lot about it when searching around already, but lucky for me, steve left the lifetime warranty receipt in the glove box for my alternator, and even luckier for me, the new guy at autozone had a boner for Turbo Buicks and after about an hour of him...
That's a bad regulator hands down. Sounds like its not regulating anything anymore and its sending full field voltage to it causing it to max out on the charge. Anything over 14.8 is abnormal usually, anything over 16 can start to eff up electronics, you'll be lucky if your ECU/TCU survive too...
I guess I should have been a little more clear, I DID use my Fluke DMM to check the battery voltage, it matches up with what the SAFC was telling me the voltage was at the ECU.As for the car dying, I wasnt implying that a bad battery is why it died, I was just saying that the battery...
Car died the other day from a dead battery while on the freeway, So i assumed bad alternator, HOWEVER, when I unplugged the 4 pin harness on the side, while the car was idling, I noticed on my SAFC that the voltage went from 11.8 to 12.1. So i bumped up the throttle to about 1700 rpm and the...
Yeah I thought about pulse generators, but it doesn't make sense, if I unplug the battery for a few hours, it shifts fine for a while then goes back to shifting funny.P.s. If you've ever thought of buying a typhoon, put 10k on the ground and burn it, that what you would have wasted on that...
I unplugged the solenoid harness and checked resistance to the trans (ground) and Im getting 27ohms on the Orange wire, 27ohm on the yellow wire, 18ohms on the red/blk, and 8ohm on the blk/blu. Colors might be off a bit since the wires are a bit stained and faded. I thought all four solenoids...
Id agree IF I were using a fuel map. Im just using it to basically watch the pretty blue lights, I dont have a wideband yet, so I dont see any point in running a map.
For the money, the IPT valve body is worht every penny. Im having issues as well, but they got significantly better after installing the valve body. check some of my older posts.
I cut the red wire and put a plug between the two cut ends just to test it out. It stopped the locking of the TC, but it still has that sluggish feeling, sometimes, Even at WOT in frist gear, and it seems like ONLY in first gear. It is also still shifts into second, and then immediately into 3rd...
welcome to the "bad" part about automatics, they are a hell of alot more complicated than manuals, and when they act up, there is no simple fix. See some of my older posts to see what I mean, I had some serious issues with mine that Im still having off and on, but, I still would take it over an...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ROFLKudos on the AWD automatic, I love mine, especially in rush hour traffic. HOWEVER, watch your back, I think you have some stalkers already ROFL
All my problems are hit or miss, I cant ever duplicate them when I want, but in my mind it seems like its doing that shit all the time. Cold start first thing in the morning its a DOG, I mean it is sluuuuugish, almost like the Ebrake is on, then once it hits 3k, takes off like a damn rocket. The...
Well here is my step by step rundown. I bought the car fro.m a friend of mine in his 50s, he always thought it was sluggish because it was an auto awd with a t25 and a big fmic, so a mix of turbo lag and auto trans, compared to his built t28 with 550ls and a 5 speed. I bought it, drove it home...
Yeah I don't do big get togethers, its like a buffet for theives to windowshop. Well if you ever know of anything going on let me know, I only know of the dsm club meetings off ray road on every second Thursday. I just got a house in peoria, so I'm not out in surprise anymore, I'm pretty handy...
95blackGsTurbo, hopefully your not one of them at the QT on 75th and deer valley HAHAHAHA! I almost stopped getting gas there because of the douchebag kids in my neighborhood driving SRT4's and evos that think I want to race everyone. - don't think I've ever seen you around.
Idont have a specific quarter mile time in mind, I don't even know what my car can do now, so I can't say that there is a real goal in mind. I get the mitsubishi turbos through work, if you look at my profile pics, there's a couple mitsubishi engines in the background, the blue ones that are...
Pretty much. HAHAHAHAHA!I agree a 14b is my best bed, I wouldn't be backing myself into a corner with that turbo, and at stock boost I should be alright til I get some injectors and a tune. - just didn't want to cross that point of no return where my car is no longer a trustworthy DD and be...
That would be the reason I asked if I could run STOCK boost and leave room for improvement when I feel like dumping more money, instead ill just run a T25 so the elite circle of DSM tuners won't burn me at the stake for trying to not buy 2 turbos
So what you're saying is that they matched everything with no room to budge outside the selected paramaters of 270hp. That makes sense, understandable that no one thing would go too far without injectors, turbo, and ecu all updated to match. I was thinking that the injectors would be good for...
Which is why I said people always assume bigger means more boost, my bad on not being clear.the small 16g increases compressor flow over the T25 by 25% at 505 CFM at 15 PSI boost Supports 320 HP. It has a larger 7CM2 turbine housing.
the big 16g increases compressor flow over the T25 by...
The question was never about me being able to run more boost on the stock fuel system, it was about the stock system being enough for the added airflow. I wasn't ssure if the stock system would handle over 500cfm at stock boost levels
Thats very true, and more of an answer I was looking for. I know stock injectors wont do 20 psi, neither will the T25, but I wasnt sure if they would do 15 psi at 550 cfm from a 16g, or if that would be more than maxing them, or at lease coming close to 100%, I dont know what the ceiling is on...
Well the shit storm that has erupted due to my post is pretty much what im talking about. theres two sides to this forum, those that are comfortable with minimal, and those that want to go big. IT IS a bi*** forum in a way, but only because of the people that want you to do it their way or it...
Just seems that there would be an easier way of doing things, I find it hard to believe that the values stored in the ecu are so precise that you would have to reflash just to change to 550 injectors or a 14b turbo, or both. All I want is small upgrades, and all the searching I do, people have a...
Why is it, whenever I look into upgrading any aspect of my car, I'm blasted with a metric dickload of posts and topics demanding that you don't do anything to your car without purchasing dsmlink, getting a dyno, or a vafc2 or afr, OR all of the above?All I wanted to know, is if I could run...
Well about 1500 miles have came and went since the springs went in, still no complaints, I am however concerned about the camber kit that's in it. It was in it when I bought it, and pretty sure id rather have the stock knuckles back iin it a this point.
The sluggishness doesn't seem to be worse or better even in this cold ass weather we have had lately. The noise the trans makes in park has been a bit of concern for me however. The dipstick tube making that hissing or sucking sound in park but in no other gears, including nuetral, has be...
Well I figured out MY problem, sad to say its unrelated. Mine was only making noise in park, if I put the tranny in nuetral or drive, or reverse, the noise goes away, so its coming from my trans I guess. Whatever, its just another thing to add to weird shit my auto is doing.
So here is an updated history on my unsolved mystery. Its now a month and 1000 miles later, and still haven't got this bi*** figured out. I've replaced the turbo and manifold, I replaced the end clutches with IPT ones, I've replaced the valve body with an IPT rebuilt, replaced the filter, I've...
throw some plastic cling wrap over the valves and run it without the valve cover off, Ive done that before, its ghetto as hell but it helped me find out I had a collapsed lifter :D
Sorry, it sounded like it was also doing it at idle, if it starts at 2800k RPM then its probably not injectors ticking. Lots of things cause injector ticks, age, contaminants in fuel, or just the nature of the beast. I don't know what kind of injectors these cars run, some cars run a disc type...
that sounds like injector tick, but hard to say, it distorts a bit.:confused: not the same sound Im hearing from mine, mines more of an instantly gets loud at a certain RPM, your noise seems linear with RPM
Im having the same exact issue. If you rev the engine by hand under the hood, at about 3k RPMs it starts to make a rattling noise near the rear of the valve cover, almost like a worn out bearing or something. I have no metal in my oil after 3k miles of it, and it has me a bit confused. It doesnt...
The stock struts already have some sort of cover on them, but it can't keep out everything. Its probably something worth looking into, especially if you live in dirty conditions like most of us here in the desert, or if you live in snow.
I guess ill just stick with what I've got at this point. Dsmlink and eculink, all these programs get pretty expensive after you have your ECU socketed and all, I cant fathom that kind of money for a DD. I still think ill go back to my HKS, rather than make my motor go pop with a bad NEO mapped...
Well if that's all that a logger does, I have an automative scanner that does all that, and it records data streams as well as clear check engine lights, and it gives details on codes that it pulls. I was under the impression data loggers did more than just read basic global OBD2 stuff.
250HP? That's a joke! Did you add all the Type R stickers and various APC accessories from the chrome aisle at the auto parts store? The stickers are 20hp at least, each, and the clip on pedal covers? 40hp if its an auto, 60hp if it has a clutch pedal, plus another 20 hp for the "type R" shift...
Id actually like to get a logger, but don't know much about them, I have one for my buick that runs off a laptop, are the ones for DSM about the same or are they Palm operated? And that being said, what all can a logger do and monitor? ECU and TCU or just ECU? Id almost rather sell the NEO to...
A 16G on stock injectors, stock ECU, and a hotwired stock fuel pump sounds like a recipe for disaster. My goal is to get what I can out of the stock setup without spending much money, even if its 20 HP more than stock. Its no race car, and I don't really see a need to dump a whole lot of money...
Well they would work perfectly for a ricer that just wants that hammered look at the expence of ride comfort. It would go well with his aftermarket wing, body kit, Ebay muffler, and LED windhsield squirters :D
Well as far as a DD goes, it rides beautifully, and the pictures don't lie, it sits only about an index finger higher than the sportlines did, maybe less, the car handles and rides exactly as I hoped it would, and the clearance is adequate enough for speed bumps, at an angle of course. Now I...