Got the knock sensor installed and cobbled the wiring together today. Not many options for places on the old Triumph engine to mount it, so I tried the oil gallery plug on the back of the head. Not ideal, but convenient. After fiddling with it in the driveway for a while, I finally took it [...]
Not doing anything this week, but accumulating a lot of new parts. My choke cable showed up. It’s in good used condition, I just need to figure out how to route it. Hope it’s long enough to reach where I need it to go. Forgot to mention the puddle of clutch fluid on my floormat [...]
Drove the car to Tampa this evening. First drive since adjusting the valves. First drive at temps consistently below 50 (damn, it was cold tonight!). First reasonably long drive at highway speeds. It was VERY smooth. Felt a little flat, though. Never hooked up the laptop (though I brought it with me just in case), [...]
My KnockSense kit showed up today. I haven’t done anything with it yet, but I have to say I’m impressed. The sensing circuit is a professionally-made board with surface-mount componenets all in a tidy little case that can mount anywhere. It comes with a shielded sensor cable with proper connector that looks like it’s about [...]
Reworked the tables as I discussed yesterday. Did a little Autotune on that setup, but it still wasn’t quite right. I thought about it and decided that rather than idling slightly rich (13.8) and leaning out by about .2 every 200 rpm was the opposite of what I needed to do. I was getting bad [...]
Alpha-N is good stuff! Took a little fiddling to get it right, but it did just what it was supposed to do. Before, I had very little control at low rpm, it was sort of all or nothing. Couldn’t tune much of anything for light throttle because the MAP signal spikes with the lightest application [...]
18 psi was good. The power band increased from what it was, but still ran out of steam at the top end. So, today, I cranked it up to 20 psi. Was gonna go for 21, but found that anything much over 20 sprung right up to 26 and became unstable. So, 20 it is! [...]
Not much new to report. I’ve been using MegaLogViewer’s VE table Analyzer to tune over the past few days and have the bottom end feeling REALLY good. I still need to tweak things like the starting parameters and acceleration enrichments for a little more “finesse”, but for general driving around, it’s already more drivable than [...]
Finally got my cigarette lighter socket replaced and rewired in the car. Now I can go mobile with the laptop and do some tuning with the wideband O2 sensor that is now working! Took a drive last night and did some autotune and some datalogging. Learned that I had some settings wrong in MegaLogViewer, but [...]
I know there is because I got my Oxygen sensor working! Turns out it wasn’t as dirty as I thought, and thankfully, it was not otherwise broken. I did clean it, but cleaning consisted of wiping with a paper towel and blowing it out a little bit. I think what actually “fixed” it was doing [...]