Hey I'm not dead. Just been busy starting a business, and working on other projects. I got a precision 62/66 installed and started the car again. Of course the power steering leaked everywhere, so that was its own issue. Anyway.The car still runs terribly. Timing is jumping all over the place...

Oh more progress was made with tuning, before the turbo incident. I got the E85 sensor wired properly so it sends the correct information, as well as changed the O2 sensor specs in Megasquirt to align with the correct O2 sensor. Car actually sounded really good for a bit, until the turbo...

Alright, I nearly had a heart attack yesterday when I noticed liquid around the#2-#3 exhaust runners. I got a compression/leakdown tester and all 4 cylinders tested within a couple pounds of each other. That's wehn I noticed that my downpipe wasn't really sealing all that well to my Turbo...

Success! The car finally starts and runs reasonably! The cam timing was off by about 30 degrees, probably caused by backfires while setting up the initial ignition timing. I'm sitting at 0 degrees on the intake and about 2.5 degrees retard on the exhaust cam.I'm waiting for my new IACV to...

OK more problems. Car really won't idle, and runs really rough. So I checked with a vacuum gauge, and I've got something like 5", obviously bad. I replaced the EGR valve and its gasket, then I sprayed some starter fluid around to see if I could find any other leaks. Didn't find any. Went ahead...

Small update. I've been trying to get the car to idle below 2000, and am not having much luck. It runs very rough, and for some reason I'm sitting at 30 degrees timing. I need to figure out how to reduce timing advance in MS2. It also has a lot of misfire/lean when accelerating. Despite sitting...

I really should take some more recent pics. It's roughly like the one in my profile, but red instead of black.Just got some heim-joint tensioners from Amazon today and I plan on using them to support the upper half of the intercooler. Pics tomorrow, weather permitting. I need to get to work...

I fixed it!So previously the alternator was only putting out around 12 volts no matter the rpm. I played around with F and L wires, but that didn't fix anything. Then I stumbled across a post of a suzuki forum mentioning that the CS 120 alts (Saturn alts) required a ground wire to the ground...

A little progress today. I got a NOCO 20, i.e. a lithium battery that's about 2x as big as my old one and now the car idles much better. I'm seeing 12.6 volts at the battery when running and 13.8 when off. This seems wrong. I should be seeing 13-14 volts at the battery when the engine is...

It runs! It actually runs! Poorly, but it's firing and making loud noises.OK here's where I could use a bit of help. I've got a brand new CS120 alt (Saturn alt), and it's not charging my battery. I've got the (L)wire hooked to a switched 12v+ and the sense wire (S) hooked to my distribution...

Just some pics of the fab work I did. You can just about see the throttle cable bracket I made that bolts to the stock coil pack location.

Ok, so it's been a year...wow. Sorry. Life has been busy, between working on a new chassis, the supra, a 47 IH and now 13 hour days at work it's been hard to do anything in the Starion. Yep, I've got a true Starion now. I sold off the old black chassis to get one with a clean interior and title...

Now it actually runs!I found out that there's a seperate VE table for cranking in Tuner Studio. I cut the values to a 1/4 and the flooding went away. It would catch, but not start, but sounded better with opened throttle. My dad mentioned that it needs air, so I unplugged the capped IAC hose...

Hmm, pretty sure any metal moving parts in an engine require a break in period. In my case per the cam card, it's required.So did more reading, and more tuning, and it's almost running again, but I'm getting lost in Dead time and VE tables in Tuner Studio. It's still flooding out the plugs...

So I was kinda dumb and found out I had a huge vacuum leak and that's why the idle was around 1k rpm and the engine died if I touched the throttle. I left out the PCV nipple (1/8" BSPT right?) on the manifold as well as the little one near the rear of the manifold, which is plugged now with a...