BAD BAD BAD news, oil pump seized, timing belt sheared off teeth on crank pulley. Great.........

That's the code and I pulled the ECU last night and everythig looks ok internally. Cleaning out the housing right now because it had oil in it and it may be causing the problem, stay tuned lol.

Man I hope to god you're right lol. I already bought the damn cam sensor so I'm probably out that $75 if this does prove to be the problem. I don't think autozone will return electronic parts.

Did that as per se the tech manual everything was fine.

So my headache continues, I keep throwing a code for cam position sensor and I did all the diagnostic (service manual) checks and it all checks out. However when I pulled the CPS out it had a coating of oil on it and I just went down and pulled off the cover on the housing and there's oil in...

Well I misread my service manual, apparently the ECU is not the culprit, but still "could" be. Anyway I'm going to rerun the tests from the service manual on the cps and connector since I was running on three hours sleep yesterday. It just make no sense I did notice the cps was coated in oil...

Thanks for the info!! I searched but the results were toooooo many for "ecu" and the stupid search feature won't let you use a 2 character criteria like 2G. Anyone know a surefire way to test this thing? I couldn't find that info either. What started this whole thing was my car not starting and...

Well unfortunately I think I've narrowed my problem down to a fried ECU. I've been trying to find one in the classifieds but I'm not sure for instance a 96 GSX manual ecu will work in my 98 GST Auto (just an example) any help would be greatly appreciated. I need to know if ANY ecu that's a 2G...

So I'm coming home last night and get off the highway come to a stop at the first red light and my car dies and won't start just cranks and cranks and cranks. Had it towed back to my house hooked the scanner up to it and it says "camshaft position sensor A Bank 1 circuit malfunction". So I buy a...

I'm just going to put another stocker in ther and cross my fingers. No more brake boost launching. :(

Well mine did lol. You can look in the inspection hole and see that. Too much brake boost launching I'm assuming to be the culprit.

Anyone know of any stronger aftermarket flexplates out there?

Still not sure what I should do. What are we looking at time frame wise to so this yourself? I'm leaning on just letting him do it because it's my daily transportation so I need it back ASAP. Also, I'm assuming noone makes an aftermarket stronger flexplate??

How heavy is the tranny? Am I going to need some kind of hoist??

So my car started making this horrible vibration right, I'm hoping it's the motor mounts but of course that would be too easy. I drop it off at the tranny shop and my mechanic tells me today that my flexplate is cracked in half.....nice.......he want's $400 to replace it! It this a job I should...

I'm runnin 17psi on the 14B which I'd guess to be about max efficiency, I could probably squeeze one or two more psi out of it before it starts blowing hot air. I have all the knock tuned out on the stock fuel system so I don't really need the bigger pump, thanks though. I'm actually buying a...

My point exactly, I think my money is better spent on some cheap 15" rims and a set of slicks.

Just a bit of curiosity I need satisfied here. All the threads I search out say that a torque converter is the best performance mod you can do for your auto car yada yada yada. My question is why? What is it going to do for me? I understand it gives you the ability to have a higher rpm when...

Honestly, if I had it to do over I would spend the extra money and go with the pocketlogger setup. It's not that this setup is bad mind you, but the OBDGauge software that comes on it I found to be all but worthless. I ended up downloading Palm'n'Stein to it and it actually became a useful tool...

For some reason I can't figure out how to post in the classifieds so here it is. I am in desperate need of a 1G oil return line, if anyone has one they can part with please let me know ASAP. Thanks in advance.

Exactly, it's all about correlation lol I learned some stuff in all those science classes in college ;) It's hard to just go out and log runs though considering I'm topping out well into the 100s on the highway and I'm not really in the mood to get more tickets.

Airtemp was 62 at the start and 57 at 6800-7003 RPMs

Ahhhhh...perhaps that's why my airflow numbers are goofy in the upper rpms.

17 psi on a 14B

Ok, got another log, this one is much better I think, only pulled timing once at 7K 4527 8 22.47 4667 9 22.70 4824 10 23.85 4941 11 24.27 5062 11 24.57 5144 11 24.92 5226 11 25.08 53.16 12 25.31 5410 13 25.82 5562 14 25.93 5722 15 26.24...

Because I'm an idiot and was basically just experimenting. I'm going to go down in a minute and reset it to -1 across the board and see what happens. I figure that will be a good base to work from. Unfortunately it's dark now and my "test area" may have cops lurking in the shadows :(

Ok, new log 4535 9 22.96 4703 9 23.88 4882 10 24.73 5085 12 26.04 5277 12 26.88 5445 13 27.40 5593 14 27.83 5750 14 28.11 5914 15 28.55 6023 15 28.99 6152 15 28.97 6277 17 29.14 6378 18 29.24 6492 18 29.32...

I would think you can add a little on the stock injectors, but then it's going to keep the tmiing down. I'll put it back to the first log settings plus a little fuel on top and see what that nets.

I find it hard to believe noone has an opinion on these logs lol. I made some adjustments of my own I'm going to go make a run and I'll post the new log.

And the second, -2 correction up to 5K, +5 at 5.6 and 6K, +10 at 6.6 and 7.2 4007 8 18.97 4171 8 19.71 4335 9 20.19 4484 9 20.89 4625 10 21.50 4753 11 22.34 4886 12 22.88 5027 11 23.54 5175 13 24.23 5320 13 25.16 5433...

My points are set at 2, 2.6, 3, 3.6, 4, 4.6, 5, 5.6, 6, 6.6, and 7.2. This log is -2 correction up to 5K, then I set it to zero for the rest of the rpms. rpm timing airflow 3964 7 18.25 4105 8 18.96 4226 8 19.62 4359 8 20.40 4464 8 20.80 4597 10...

Ok, so I went out and played around with the SAFC for like the second time today. I reread the tech article and I have a few questions. I'm unfortunately running the stock 450 cc injectors so in theory would my car be faster with less boost because I could keep the correction values down and get...

So I shouldn't try and lean it out anywhere to try and coax some more timing out of it?? I just want an excuse for spending alot of money on this SAFC lol. :D Going out to make a couple more runs right now, I'll post back in a few hours.

All autos do that, the only way to retain timing through gear changes is with DSMlink :( And yes that was a 1-3 run. I was in drive w/o o/d on and just smashed it to the floor :D I'm starting to think that's actually a better way to tune the car being as that's the way it's going to be run, but...

I know what you mean about the load. Just out of curiosity after setting the STFT while in park I clicked into drive and guess what? The numbers were off. So I reset the STFT to 0 revving to 1K in drive and I'm going to do the others on the highway tomorrow or over the weekend. I wish someone...

This is another log I made on the way home of just smashing it and running up to about 95mph.1722 .19 25 1.66 1722 .25 25 1.76 1718 .79 4 4.31 2089 .91 20 8.10 3816 .89 0 24.09 5253 .93 13 27.07 5953 .93 17 27.91 6492 .93 0...

Edited above post to include airflow, probably will do another boost leak test tomorrow just to make sure, plugs are brand new NGK and properly gapped, but I'll check just to make sure. SAFC is set at 1K 2K 3K 4K 4.6K 5K 5.8K 6.2K zeroed out all the way across until 5.8 which is +3 and 6.2...

You mean the SAFC setting?? Told ya I'm new at this lol. Anyway here's the new log, talk about inconsistent results, it has to be the easing into WOT that's causing this. 2652 .03 28 2785 .03 27 5.19 2906 .05 25 6.64 3054 .21 19 8.71 3207 .87 12 11.87 3414 .93 9...

No idea what a correction value is lol. And the pump isn't rewired. I put fuel in at the wrong spot last time and fixed it this time, going out to make another log, I'll post back in about 20

Ok, this is starting to get under my skin, from what I've read you set the ne points up then free rev the car to those rpms and hold it and adjust the STFT until it's 0 +-2 correct? For some reason when I get the car to the rpm it's marginally off for a second then it fixes itself and goes...

Ok here's the new log, is it alright that I'm easing into the throttle in third to keep it from kicking down or is it giving me flawed results?? RPM 02 timing airflow 2675 .00 33 .69 2410 .00 32 .58 2136 .00 29 .52 2152 .81 28 3.74 2425 .69 24...

TPS reads 98%, and unfortunately I'm on the stock fuel system, I'm out of money again lol so it's going to be awhile before I can upgrade. On my way out now to make another pull. One quick question about the SAFC, you said add 2 or 3% around 5800-6200, should I add an nepoint at 6200 and put the...

Ok, so I finally broke down and bought a datalogger and SAFCII. The following is a log of a third gear uphill pull BEFORE the installation of the SAFCII. Bear in mind I have an auto so it's easing into WOT as quick as I can without making it kick down. Basically I'm new to this and have only a...

ANYONE!!! ARGGHHH!!!! this is so frustrating lol

What do you do, just ease into the gas until you're WOT to keep it from kicking down? I have an SAFC2 on the way as well.

Everyone says to do a third gear pull at WOT, but that's going to be a bit difficult to accomplish in an auto. My logger should be here Wednesday so any help would be greatly appreciated. :thumb:

Very interesting stuff, thanks guys.

I was under the impression GSTs were one tire fryers. I never thought anything until today when I was practicing launching and got a little overzealous with the wheelspin. I came back and there were two big fat black marks. So I did it again and got the same results. Did my car come from the...

Well I already ordered the logger, so I'm just going to order the SAFC II. I should be able to get a pretty decent tune with the logger and SAFC correct? I know it's not wideband but it's better than letting the ecu do it, and I'll be bale to get the knock out right?