Getting Ready for the 2006 Race Season...................

[TSIfreek]

Yea a Video on the dyno would be cool to see if you can have someone else do it for you. Im sure you will have your hands full anyway sunday!

 

[Microrcdude]

Greg your car is looking AMAIZING! i think i may be in town for one of your races, ill have to check my calander.

 

[Zero Bar]

Wing looks great Greg! What'd you do with the old one??

 

[Greg Collier]

Wing looks great Greg! What'd you do with the old one??

At this point it's hanging by the old aluminum one. You've got to remember I have two other project cars I'm working on (he says working on... yeah right ). A 90-AWD Talon and a 96-AWD tube framed custom wide body Eclipse. I do need to go through all my parts though... when I get the frigging time

 

[mavisky]

At this point it's hanging by the old aluminum one. You've got to remember I have two other project cars I'm working on (he says working on... yeah right ). A 90-AWD Talon and a 96-AWD tube framed custom wide body Eclipse. I do need to go through all my parts though... when I get the frigging time

Well look at you mister race car hog guy person.

 

[Greg Collier]

Well look at you mister race car hog guy person.

Kyle, you can fly out here and sort everything out for an official DSM garage sale

 

[Zero Bar]

Let me know, I'll probably take some parts off of you.

 

[mavisky]

Kyle, you can fly out here and sort everything out for an official DSM garage sale

I'll gladly do it for 50% off of everything

 

[Zero Bar]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a20/ZeroBar78/V710.jpg
I can't wait to try these out! Steelies are back on for street duty. All I need is my seat and I'm ready to go!

 

[mavisky]

Looking good, I'm going tomorrow to get my V700's

 

[Greg Collier]

Hey Kyle, such a deal... only 50% (we'll talk)

Did a quick masking job last night and had the painters mix me up a quart of "banana yellow" this morning. With the garage door "open" I painted the fenders at a really low air pressure and did about ten (pint and a half) of really thin coats.
It ain't perfect, with only a half dozen nats, a couple of big drips of sweat, and I actually hit the new paint with the botton of a sprayer, only twice...
WTF

 

[Slow old poop]

The bad news is that we spent about two days chasing the reason why my engine will start but runs poorly -- spitting, backfiring, etc.

We reversed the cam angle sensor a half-dozen times, replaced fouled plugs, checked timing time and time again, suspected bad gas, used a data logger, and on and on. Finally, by switching the data logger over to the O2 sensor output, we found that it was extremely erratic, with counts from zero to 200. So, a new O2 sensor is on order, and we hope that will cure the backfiring.

The good news -- which is also bad, but not as bad as it could have been -- is that in all the checking of everything, when we pulled the timing belt cover to make sure the belt hadn't jumped a tooth, we discovered that the belt was "walking out." It was at the end of the timing gears and rubbing on the cover. Even though we had torqued the pulleys to spec, one had come loose, and let the belt wander. So, although we have to replace the timing belt again (and order a new pulley bolt), we averted a major disaster. Crikies, if we hadn't had the O2 problem, we wouldn't have checked the timing belt until we'd put 50 miles on the engine, and it could have broke, taking down those P&Ped heads and the 2.3 stroker short block. $$$$$$$$!!!!

Thank gawd for Mike the Mechanic, Brent the Fabricator, and Black Flag Jon for all their help and brilliant diagnostic work.

Rich

 

[Greg Collier]

So fortunately the dowel pin stayed intact in the cam sprocket and didn’t spin off the end of the cam… That is a biggy. Someone is watching over you in those DSM heavens above!

 

[mavisky]

Rich, get in there with a bottle of red loctite and make sure none of that stuff ever moves again.

I ordered up my new oil cooler and turbo feed line today, and now I'm just waiting on the turbo to get back from FP and do a few minor tweaks to the inside of the tranny to get her happy again this year and I should be set for my first autox.

 

[Zero Bar]

Looks pretty darn good to me Greg, you getting excited yet?? I know I am, first autox is April 2 and first HPDE is April 22!

 

[Greg Collier]

This just hasn't been my week (ok, 2 weeks). Got up a 6-AM this morning and prepared for the dyno session at ten. Tools, gas, cameras, the car loaded on the trailer, and it was gonna be a great day. I show up at the shop and nobody is there. Scot Gray is driving down from LA so I call him on his cell to let him no what's going on... to make a long story short there was no body there to run the dyno...

I brought the car home and worked on stiffening brackets for the new wing, rear brake pads and bleeding, and so-on and so-forth.

Scot is going to get me some dyno time in LA in the early evening next week. I need to trailer the car up there (a two hour drive) and continue on this crusade... This is what getting ready for a race season is all about, you work every moment right up to time you get on the track for your first race! (this is the un-fun part of it, a definite burnout)

Picture of the car: (all dressed up but no where to go)

 

[Slapnut]

I would like to compare my weekend to yours Greg. I had a donor car all setup for me to buy yesterday; I talked to the guy on Thursday and also on Friday. I was buying a 91 mits eclipse with a bad motor and trans.... I was going to get ALL of my wiring harness WooHoo, $100 was all it would cost. So on Friday this guy tells me that he'd call me later Friday night to give me the time and address for this gem So i set-up the trailer and truck from my buddy, and cleared my evening for this call. I wanted to be at this guy's house bright and early to get the car and get it home, because i wanted to start removing the harness and what not. FYI no harness, I'm screwed..... Well today's Sunday and this flake never called me about the car and will not answer my pm's from my local DSM website. I feel like a 1 night stand HAHAHA j/k, but this is so NOT cool.

 

[Slow old poop]

I would like to compare my weekend to yours Greg. .

Boy it's been a bad weekend all 'round for the three of us, ain't it? As noted above, we got my Eclipse going, did a 20 minute break in, changed the oil and filter, and discovered the timing belt was going south.

On top of all that, we found that the previous builder had used a motley collection of nuts bolts, and parts (my car may be a 90, but it has parts from all years and models, it seems), some of the bolts were wrung off and are going to require a heli-coil, and we found a few oil leaks. In short, even after we get it a 500 mile break in on it, we gotta pull the transfer case and oil pan to fix those piddly problems. Oh, for a garage with a lift! What would be a two-hour job on a lift is going to take an entire day on jackstands.
At least, I got another month before my first event at Blackhawk.

Rich

 

[Slapnut]

wth is happening this year, well i guess what doesn't kill us.... only makes us stronger.

 

[Greg Collier]

wth is happening this year, well i guess what doesn't kill us.... only makes us stronger.

I'm so strong at this point, I can't even pick up a pea

 

[Zero Bar]

wth is happening this year, well i guess what doesn't kill us.... only makes us stronger.

Same here, I had the wheels off checking over some things and noticed my front brake pads are almost non-existent! Also found out today my seat it still at least 3 weeks out, the first event is 4 weeks from today, its gonna be close!
Car looks great Greg, sorry to hear that you got screwed today on the dyno. I hate unreliable people.

 

[mavisky]

Sorry to hear that greg. BTW, tell Scott he's famous. I was browsing the Sport Compact Car website and found out they have a way to make his car your cell phone background.

http://sportcompactcar.funmail.com/so/preview.htm?appid=130&cat=1&id=725z3rr5xkwm4&bflag=false

 

[terefic181]

I'm really sorry to here that, Greg. I know you guys will get it done before Friday.

My new turbo never made it, so David won't be running his car, but our weekend was still going great with my car. We took it up to the shop and we changed the tranny oil, set up the specs on the front end, put in a new throttle cable, and a lot of little last minute things. We then did a final boost check and fixed a few leaks, and it was looking real good in that department. We had worked most of the day on it and it was around 7:30pm. I cranked it up, to put it back on the trailer, and take it home, and David noticed it was smoking a little, and in a few seconds, it was smoking really badWTF . From what we had done, we couldn't think of any reason why it would be doing that. Then I saw it, we had left a clamp on the PCV and vent hose . I told David to shut it off quick. I removed the clamp and restarted it, but we still had oil and water shooting out the exhaust. We let it run for a while and it got a lot better, but I'm not sure what the damage is, and we have 5 days till the Cal Speedway event.



Tom

 

[Slapnut]

ok, i don't want to get smacked around so be nice guys.... i bought a engine wiringharness lastyear for my car (92mits mirage) cause i did the 1.5sohc to the 2.0dohc, now as i look at my harness today (i never really looked last year) i think i found my problem of it not runing....

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do i need this to make it run??? (this is gregs car.. for reference) cause my harness never came with it.

 

[Greg Collier]

Do i need this to make it run??? (this is gregs car.. for reference) cause my harness never came with it.

No... The stock harness comes through the drivers side fender well, under the radiator, and up to the fuse box. Your green arrow is pointing to a SPA fire system line and the Greddy boost control wiring. Other related wiring is from the EMS to several different sensors. Not having a battery in the stock location has made it easy to route all the aftermarket cluster to the sensors and probes...

Greg