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After Fort Myers I made my way east to the coast. I thought about travelling to Miami, but I had a low budget for hotels and Miami didn't looked very good for cheap accommodations. Plus I am not much a beach/tourist trap kinda person. I made my way North along the east coast driving up along the...

After Spending a couple days in Jacksonville I made my way down to Bradenton, to the home of Cleetus McFarland and the Freedom Factory. I had a blast at the 2.4 Hours of LeMullets.. From there I made my way down to Fort Myers.. At this point I needed a little down time and to find a...

With Summer in the past, winter time was a bit depressing so I decided to take a trip. I set off early November down to The Sema Autoshow in Las Vegas. I drove from there to the Grand Canyon Next Stop was Amarillo Texas, I made my way East taking all kinds of little side routes...

I stepped away from posting for anything for a while to enjoy some fun life events.. One of those fun life events was getting my Son into his first car. My old Mx3 was slated to be the hand me down, but she was seriously neglected. We spent the summer rebuilding the KLG4 in my old Mx3. With the...

You aren't likely to cause damage starting it to move it a couple times... Chain rattle, broken VVT is such a common problem and often gets driven on for months by people who don't understand whats going on.. I've dealt with multiple cars, multiple motors with broken VVT actuators/worn out...

Air ducting work like that is important and often over looked...

All right, looks like I've bored everyone.. So what do we need to talk about next to bring some life back into this topic.. Open loop vs Closed loop fuelling.. There's enough google information out there, so I wont get into breaking these terms down and what they mean... BUUT! did you know the...

I realized while I was putting together my last post that I never finished my data logging rate comparison testing.. So I didn't have 3 data logs to show case... I was hungry for some pizza tonight and looking for an excuse to go for a drive... So here we go.. Lets continue... I set the logs up...

So we've looked at some airflow stuff.. Maybe we should switch and take a look at Data Logging.. After all need to be able to collect and go over data in order to tune... First step... go here, spend the few buck and unlock the full version.. You can play around with the free version, but...

Not insisting, but using Zap straps to make a "lock" or keeping a plug seated when the lock is broke is really common in the world of fixing older junk with brittle plastics... youtube some ideas... One thing you can try is using a pick to take the weather packing out and see if the connector...

This is taken directly from OBD2 regulations... "Absolute Load Value (PID 43) The absolute load value has some different characteristics than the LOAD_PCT defined in PID 04 This definition, although restrictive, will standardise the calculation. LOAD_ABS is the normalised value of air mass per...

zap straps... you can make your own lock...

Tuning.. isn't this why any of you are here?? I talked about how this car was to be a tuning experiment for me.. So lets start.. My back ground isn't in ECU tuning. I barely graduated high school and had a knack for fixing cars.. Got a job at a local shop and started my career.. I am a horrible...

It depends.. You can inspect for wear.. generally by 100k miles your axles will have enough wear to consider rebuilding, or buying new... Doing a major hp build... I'd say it's better to replace/upgrade as part of preventative maintenance

Sooo... The car's running great.. It feels great.. While I get my tuning notes/discussion stuff together, Lets take a break on a good note and leave you with some recent actions shots of me teaching my son how to properly drive a car... sshhhh, don't tell his mom... Look at those smiles!

So where did we leave off?? Right.. a bad rod bearing on the 2.5L, bad rod bearings and worn out cylinder bores on the "good used" 2.3L... The 2.5L rod had enough hot spotting, plus my feeling that there was issues with the chamfer job I did on the crank shaft oil galleries.. I pulled the 2.5L...

interesting information.. something I haven't looked into yet, but I've noticed people talk about Gen 2 gear set swaps.. Thank you for comment, I feel old and out of touch for asking... but whats CBE mean??

I haven't see that dot on any of the OEM stuff I've pulled apart... You're thought process/worry about it needing to line up with something wasn't a bad worry... On a different type/brand of motor that would be used to line up to a specific link when timing the motor... In this case, it's...

interesting.. I've never heard of this..

Thats a bummer... I used to be apart of some Mazda 323 GTX forums.. Same thing happened when there were issues with that forum... Lost a lot of great information..