The Project Pad

Awesome, we'll have to discuss some things about the bushings when I get ready to design and manufacture a set or two.

The lengths aren't going to be easy to get for me seeing as I don't have an 01E yet and can't have the car apart for an extended period of time at the moment. Its not a huge rush though.

Mentosman42 wrote:how much torque was the car producing that you did the shaft chop on?


i mean if this stood up to 450-500 torque it might be the best option, UR-Q(and rear 4k i believe?) axles can easily take the punishment if you can get them straight after welding.

4.2 NA with some mods so probably about 280-300 ft/lbs.

nuugen wrote:There are two ways to shorten the axle---cut it in the middle and re-weld, or take the outer cv off, shorten it there and have it splined..A friend of mine owns a machine shop, when he did a VR conversion into a MK1 rabbit, he used the latter procedure..

Except the axles are hollow not solid, I don't think there is enough solid part on the ends to re-spline an axle.

Funny thing is stock axles are manufactured by friction welding the splined ends to various lengths of tube, I've never seen a weld fail yet.

I would trust a good weld. If it warps, meh. I can't keep my rear axles strait to save my life. As long as they are mostly strait you are fine, lol

ha this is going to be interesting. Its surprising to me that its not very well documented though. I bet there is plenty of info over on a European forum in a language that I can't understand. I KNOW there are more than a few t44 owners with 01Es over there...and same with the small chassis cars of course.

Since we are all in here talking about transmissions, I'm going to need some details on 016 into the 90 that won't be so difficult though since I can have that car torn apart for long periods of time as long as the 200 is running.

ORDERED A HANK MANIFOLD

WOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Very nice! You will like!

UGHHH

dealing with misfires again.

I got the new plug wires today. Thank you SO MUCH Marc for getting them to me so quickly.

Took some logs and started getting misfires. Better than before though.

Got home and started tuning because at higher boost, it was a bit rich.

Went back out to go log again, and the car wouldn't even idle on 5. I think its a bad coil again. Poopy.

loxxrider wrote:UGHHH

dealing with misfires again.

I got the new plug wires today. Thank you SO MUCH Marc for getting them to me so quickly.

Took some logs and started getting misfires. Better than before though.

Got home and started tuning because at higher boost, it was a bit rich.

Went back out to go log again, and the car wouldn't even idle on 5. I think its a bad coil again. Poopy.

misfires suck. but I'll take those that happen at idle any day over on-boost misfires. So be "glad" its worse?

I'll give you a ring later today to discuss.

and I stock the hank manifolds, damnit!

Yes, much easier to diagnose idle misfires than on-boost!

but, but I need a custom one! Hank is hookin' it up with Hargetts welded on the manifold and my lexus throttle body and such, so its a little different than normal I think

This is going to be the super duper baller one with velocity stacks, custom runners and flange, tb in the back of the engine still, and tapped for a crap ton of push-to-connect fittings and a different IAT...not sure which IAT yet though. I guess 1.8t probably.

Still having misfires.

Turned up the boost to 15psi. Feels awesome till it starts missing.

I think I've narrowed it to either the car just not liking the BKR7's or a bad coil. Luckily, I found out that a friend of mine has some LS2 coils to lend me. That will make diagnosis really easy.

If that doesn't fix anything, I'll try some Bosch plugs as much as I really don't want to.

This is with new wires Chris?

At least you have a holset now, sucka1!!!!!! You are 8 pages early too!

haha I know, I beat it no problem

Yeah, with new wires.

It has to be coils. Start swaping them out.

I personally have good luck with starting the car, pulling the plugs off one by one with thick rubber gloves on, and seeing which one wont arc to the head like the other ones. I'll turn the dwell way up to further crutch the one that is hiding.

Thats a pretty good idea. I was going to maybe make a coil tester or measure some stuff, but the arc-to-head test is very easy and probably won't even need to do that if I can swap some coils out easily.

All I know is I love this turbo ...from the few semi-clean pulls I've made.

Car sounds super nasty too. Vids will happen soon as I get it nice and clean at this boost level.

Just a quick change of topic. How is the tire wear issue? Any updates?

I switched the tires around to opposite sides of the car and haven't noticed anything yet. Its only been about 500 miles since I swapped them though. We'll see! I think they should be alright.

I'm tired of my door getting stuck shut.

Last time I got a new door lock mechanism from an old 5k at the jy. This one seems to be getting stuck now too. I have to get lucky to get it to unlock lol.

Anyone have a source for some NEW ones?

ebay used to have the outside handle and trigger assembly for 35$ and genuinevwaudiparts.com seems to have most if not all of the door Assembly...

SOMEBITCH

If you've been reading lately you know I have been having an issue with the spark blowing out on one cylinder when I get into higher boost. I can replicate it every time I'm in the car.

I got my new coil today and tried it out. Went from cylinder 5 to cylinder one trying it out to see when it would make a difference. I went through 5-3 and was praying that I'd fix it the whole time. Finally got to number two and it fixed the issue. I went out for some fun and logging/tuning. Car was making 15psi no problem and only having some random pop misfires that I think are a trigger issue (not even close to the same issue as described above...I couldn't get the described issue to happen at all during this time).

I started to make my way back into my apartment complex and got on it one last time. It started misfiring again. ಠ_ಠ

Gave it a few more tries and same thing. Played with the coil connections making sure the pins were making good contact (harness side) and everything checked out. Put back together again and went for a ride and still not fixed. Seems like the same issue as before (spark blowing out). I may have another bad coil. Might have something to do with running them at 3.0 ms dwell for months and having it ramp up to 4.1ms or so in boost. It was like that for the whole trip to Carlisle and all so I'm kinda thinking that the issue is a bad coil once again. I recently switched them to 2.5 ms static and about 3.5 in boost. (did it before trying the new coil out so thats not the issue)

Thoughts are appreciated. I probably just need another damn coil.

/me revs 034 HO coils

what?

I actually used to have the 034 HO coils. They were nice, but gave my VEMS problems (the 3B VEMS and IGBT coils don't play nicely).

Sooo thats not an option :(

I've lost count to how many coils you've used. lol.

What plugs are you running now? (NGK BCP7ES?)

Everything I have read up on about your issue has had the following explanation and points to this explanation as being the main culprit (but is not limited to). Any boosted performance motor that experiences "spark blowout" is probably using the wrong spark plug. A performance motor that is using high boost (yes 15psi is a little over stock applications lol) needs a colder plug with the proper gap.

These are a few forum threads and articles I have found and read that support my theory:
http://www.srtforums.com/forums/f38/spa ... ut-213628/
http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/showt ... hp?t=38064
http://www.ipdusa.com/nl-15-69 (read first paragraph)
http://www.tricktuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6

The issue does not need to occur on every cylinder, In fact it only needs to happen on one cylinder, the "weakest one". Doesn't it make scene that after you did a bunch of runs, that the motor only reproduced the symptom on your return; The same instance when the motor is at its hottest temp?

loxxrider wrote:what?

I actually used to have the 034 HO coils. They were nice, but gave my VEMS problems (the 3B VEMS and IGBT coils don't play nicely).

Sooo thats not an option :(

Were they the 3 or 4 wire coils? Coils with integrated drivers don't seem to have a terrific reliability record in general. Maybe time to try some 2.0T coils, or similar?

Sam

I don't remember if they were 3 or 4 to be honest. I didn't do the harness for them.

I'm definitely looking at my options. Just sucks that I have $500 in coils between the 034 ones and the LS2's. I can't use COP coils since I have a 3b valve cover.

Corey, I'm reserving my opinion until I see if it performs well when cold. I really don't think its my plugs (NGK BKR7E) because they have performed flawlessly for me on LOTS of other applications. Even 40+psi.