Recent content by Crazycanadian

Huston we have a problem. Wellllll ok I wish I was still ignorant to this problem.. Lets back up a little bit. I left things off with tearing apart the car, installing a Racecapture Pro 3 data logging system while I was waiting on some new 225/45R15 Vitour P1 X-01Rs. Well the Vitours fell...

JDM motors don't usually get good maintenance they can be hit or miss. Used can be hit or miss. I bought 2 used motors with compression tests and videos showing it.. Yet 1 had a broken VVT actuator, both had worn out rod bearings, plugged oil control rings. 1 had pitted exhaust valves in the...

That is soooo tight.. When things spin and shift there's little to no room... I'd bet on that sway bar bracket breaking

So what do you do after a scramble to put a car together for a show? You bring it home a tear it apart again... :rolleyes::rolleyes: This time around it's more track prep and winter project stuff that I wasn't able to get done. One of the new goodies I installed was a RaceCapture Pro MK3. I...

That's a pretty slick way of doing it.

20 PSI is low.. it should be closer to 30 psi at idle.. by 2500 rpm you should be up to 60psi..

The ECU reads the voltage signal and translates it directly to your actual pid (based on sensor calibrations, which isn't something that gets changed in this case while tuning).. So having the Actual vs Desired pids will help a lot without going into lab scope stuff... The laptop version of...

There's more data we could use to try and narrow down this problem. Some of it I don't remember being available through a COBB access port. Some of it is availble with Versatuner (their data logging rates are reaaally slow), but ForScan has it all and with the fastest data logging rates...

I don't see much of an issue with your high pressure fuel going on in these logs. But I do see an issue with your intake valve advance.. It's bouncing all over the place. These are the 2 idle logs. In one of them it's bouncing 9 deg.. In the other it's 28 deg. If this isn't a mechanical issue...

Setting up coil overs and doing a custom alignment takes a lot of time. Time I was running out of this week. The car needed to be road worthy for this Saturday. I had committed to putting the car in Tuner Bash's opening event. This is a Car show series with some drifting and drag racing. Overall...

This is the kind of problem, you aren't likely to find by looking at things and taking it apart... You've been in and out of there a few times and nothing obvious has shown it's head.. You need a buddies car you can rob parts from or swap back and forth at this point.. Otherwise it's someone...

It's not great, but it's also not your misfire issue.. I've seen motors worse then that without a misfire issue, including the original motor in my speed 6.. That kind of issue can cause what I'll call a "soft" misfire that most people don't notice. When a soft misfire you get some combustion...

Just because its poorly executed, home made from scraps, without a plan, measurements or even a ruler. Doesn't mean it was a stupid idea.. I present to you a Camber adjustment tool, for those of us stupid enough to try and do things the hard way. If you are looking at this scratching your...

I haven't heard of it happening in this platform. But I've seen it in GM's, Dodges, VW and Audi's... The last one I saw was in a 2010 2.0L turbo Golf.. The spring broke, the valve dropped, kissed the piston just the right way in order to jam it closed.. since it's like our heads with 2 valves...

After reading all of this... I am lost, not because I don't understand the problem. But the testing and PCV checks.. A PCV system is regulated by the valve coming off the manifold going to the block. A good working valve puts a slight vacuum on the system. To measure it, generally you have to...