That was me and a buddy! I knew you looked familiar!

Interesting to see you come up with that Brad. I found the same thing when I tried them, thought I'd gone crazy.

How far are you willing to go and what part of Maryland is Easton? Some places mentioned in this thread range from "good but doesn't work on DSMs any more", to "shouldn't be in the same state as a DSM much less touch one", to "does good work but pretty damn expensive" If you were limited to...

26" tire and tighter converter

I've been wanting to try this for about 10 years but never got around to going through all the work to try it. Looks quite promising. can you give us more info on that test car? good numbers for an auto for sure. Is it FWD or AWD? 2.0 or 2.3?

I'm going to clarify all the misinformation here..Converter is just an automatic slipper. Stall speed is NOT where it "locks". DSMs don't even have a lockup type converter (2Gs do, but not under power, it's for cruise only). The stall speed is simply a factor of torque vs the K factor of...

Nice job vinnie! glad to see you got it all sorted out and rolling finally!

Can't trust anyone these days... I've escorted many a customer to the ATM immediately following their "can I pay (insert later date here) I don't have the cash on me right now". I've been ripped for about $10k total over the years by dishonest customers. I've reformed my business practices to...

Man that's bad. I had a cheapass customer with a 4G63 block warped .008 before. Put an OEM gasket on that sucker and made 700whp haha. Sucks for those honda guys though they don't really have any good composite HG options that can pick up that kind of slack like we do.

That's a nice power curve for that little housing. But I don't think going to T3 would be worth the trouble for you. a .63 T3 may spool slightly faster but it'll make the same power curve. Hit or miss I'd say. If .82 T3 was the idea, then you'd be better off keeping your T4 and getting a .68...

It'll work fine as long as it's wired right

If you aren't using a TCU, the only wires you need to worry about are solenoid A and solenoid BI'm curious about your swap though, that seems like a pretty fun setup. I always wanted to do an auto 3kgt VR4 but the thought of ease/price of repairs vs a DSM kept me away from it. Love those...

What was your RPM through the traps on this one?

what tires / tire size are you running?

I've done tests of filter vs no filter vs screen probably close to 100 times. Seems at least once a week I have a customer's car on the dyno that insists on pulling his air filter off swearing he'll gain power. In probably 50+ instances of this I have never seen a gain in horsepower at the...

TCU -> blue wire -> resistor -> ground.Takes 1 minute and $2 at radio shaft. Done it dozens of times.

I got a ticket once for a 3" crack in the passenger side upper corner of my windshield. The same officer gave me a ticket for my stock exhaust. I got out of both with the proper defence. It really all depends on the judge. If you get lucky the judge will actually acknowledge the "prove it"...

I wouldn't say it's because they CAN'T catch real criminals. It's that real criminals cost the state money while equipment tickets gain the state money. Since modern law enforcement is a business and not about protecting, you can guess what they try harder at.

"prove it isn't stock" is the way the court system is supposed to work. But finding a traffic court that actually gives a fair decision vs taking all the money it can is like finding a needle in a haystack. The laws are made for revenue purposes. The state wants money out of it and nothing...

Yup. Happened to two of my friends here in Va too. Cop wrote them tickets while they were at a gas station buying some food. Had the tickets written and ready when they walked out to their cars. It's obviously not legal for the cop to do, but as the cop told my friends that night when they...

It won't work. The state makes money off the tickets. Most people aren't going to leave the state due to exhaust laws, and if they do, real estate is a big enough market that new people will take their place immediately. They don't care. I've gotten tickets for stock headlights and stock...

did you do all the wiring to add the flash ability to the 97 connector?

What did you change on the motor? You may just have to lower the nitrous. Restalled stockers can only get so loose, I've had a couple customers with big cam motors we couldn't get up past 2500 without juice. Cam timing will make the largest difference of any change, but 14* seems kinda low...

That's true, part of what I want to know too. 142 isn't much for a 72mm but the boost could be down to a lower power level. If it's a tin can race car it may not be making a lot of power. My car weighed 3200 lbs on MIR's scales and trapped 140mph on 26" tire at 8500-8600 RPM in 3rd. I'm...

Does anyone know who this test car is? If what that thing says is true how i'm interpreting it, seems like it's definitely in the right direction. I'm curious to see some more specific data though, like tire size, more details on flash/brake boost behavior to compare to my current converter data

Nice, I definitely will keep an eye there. The initial results on the 8" have been disappointing, but it is awesome to see that he's still trying hard to get us what we're looking for. With the effort you guys are putting into the testing it's only a matter of time before it pays off.

I noticed sinister advertises a 9" converter again, and possibly a new stator design for the 8"?

holy 10 years ago. didnt know you still logged on here

It is not a common problem at all, the chip has been on cars making 700+ whp and running 9s. duty cycle of the line pressure solenoid is directly controlled via the tables in the TCU. Commanded full line pressure can't be anything less unless the valve body is adjusted incorrectly. See...

It definitely sounds like the root is in the valve body.As we know, if the solenoid that powers OD cuts out, it'll turn 1st gear into 2nd gear. So if you have 2nd and 3rd but no 1st or OD, that solenoid isn't working. But if all you have is 3rd, makes me think a valve is stuck. I had a VB I...

I don't see how that's bad for the converter really. It's just a slipper. More power vs load = more slip. All relative. You can certainly have a bad converter, just won't have these symptoms, and a the build of a trans has nothing to do with how long it lastsIf the problem is the...

Yeah the scene around here kinda died about 5 years ago pretty hard. Not sure what happened, but it died sudden and hard. The evo scene is pretty poppin but it's 99% high school and college "bros" from what I've seen. I still have my 2 1Gs, I drive them all the time. We got several DSM guys...

try 1st gear with the shifter in "L".Sounds to me like malfunction of rear clutch or one-way clutch.End clutch is used in OD and 3rd. Front clutch is for 3rd and reverse.To clarify some other incorrect responses -There is no limp mode without a TCUTrans being stock has nothing to do...

quaker steak and lube in central park on saturday nights... usually after 9ish is when most people show up

no, what I was getting at, is that you are wrong about the torque management.

:banghead:Did you by any chance comment/mark the code that does this when you disassembled the TCU and ECU code and re-wrote it all?I must have missed this part when I re-wrote my ECU from scratch and disassembled the TCU code.1G has zero torque reduction, PERIOD. In most cases...

No.2Gs have a little bit of torque management but it's mainly shifting related. There's a couple easily bypassed signals for this. 1Gs have zero interaction between ECU and TCU.

TCU and ECU are seperate computers and what ECU you have has nothing to do with shift points or stall.

The problem is flexfuel. If we got enough E85 stations to where it could be used as much as deisel and you could design a car for E85 only, you could take advantage of the ethanol and have a more efficient car. 17:1 compression 1.5L motor would work pretty well for a commuter car. You can run...

When I was in high school I had a on again/off again girlfriend I met out at the local meet/race spot, we both had eclipses... we raced and she won. I later took her to Prom. surprisingly she never brings it up (we still are friends, just not together).

I like how all these people who have never even touched a dyno are experts on how to properly and accurately dyno a car.If you have any experience with high hp cars on the dyno, I mean cars that make real power, not these 300-400whp turds, you'll know that on a DSM 4th gear pulls on the dyno...

I understand the problem. I have dealt with it, I know what it is, why it is, and how to fix it. For 10 years. I've explained all the concepts required to do so. If you guys don't want to believe it, because you haven't figured out how to do it yourself, so be it.

I'll ask around, I can't remember where the Richmond meets are these days. Could also try the local board www.vadsm.com I think there's some richmond guys on there.

Not sure about Richmond, I think there are meets but I'm not sure the location these days. I know we have meets in Fredericksburg every saturday night. Not too bad of a drive from Richmond.

That's why we tune by load vs RPM and not just by RPM alone. On a properly tuned vehicle, over-run is meaningless and transparent.When the reg is over-ran, it will have a lower limit it can't go below. Below this, it is basically running like a returnless system. Tune it as such. Above...

You're not understanding how fuel pressure system works. It is damn close to linear. That is how returnless systems are tuned. I tune returnless systems every day, It's a simple concept. You just have to stop thinking about things as needing to be straight lines and look pretty when graphed...

Not only is a Talon not a AMC Eagle, but your grammar is incorrect as well. More specifically, incorrect word selection for intended message.

Just because the means are easier to obtain these days doesn't mean it's any easier. If anything making it so easy to get such custom stuff so cheaply these days has hurt things, because people think it's easier than it is. 9/10 people working on and tuning these cars these days should be...

Talon Digest.Whether or not you were on it, answers the question of which one you are.Or if you remember when clubDSM was a website that was actually kept up to date and still being updated. When all the big areas had a DSM.org subdomain. If you saw shep's car when it was a true street...

A 255 will overrun a stock reg, much moreso on a 2G than a 1G, but most of the time it's well within the limits of tuning to get the fuel straight. Fuel volume is a product of pressure and pulsewidth. If pressure increases you can reduce pulse to compensate. If the car is tuned properly vs...