ive no idea martin, does it..?
wish i knew all the earlier, lol
ive no idea martin, does it..?
wish i knew all the earlier, lol
You will need somebody more technical than me to answer that one, but i thought that was the lambda sensors job to control emmisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
If yours aint connected that maybe why your off the scale.
*Update
Got an old PC setup in the lockup today, played with injector mili-second values .. i think lol..
In order to get those CO's down.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0208.jpg
I took 20% off the figures @ site 0 and 10% @ site 1, between 750rpm and 1500rpm.. :-s
Im booking it in at the same mot place for a quick emmsions check, if its any better (or lower) than last time but not quite enough then back to the pc and lower them a bit more. I doubt ill have got the car good enough 1st time but if i have: theyll carry out the mot retest. But most likely try again friday. If no difference, the sod it i give up lol.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MARTIN KELSON
Yeh it will!! I Cant belive it will be running very well without it either!!! The lambda sensor informs the ecu as to weather its running rich-lambda 1-lean via a small voltage ranging from 0.2 which is rich to 0.9 which is lean! Get the lambda sorted out!!
Other than that looks good mate!!
lambda sensors are needed for setting up, but you dont have to run them full time i dont think..
Ill get some lambda sensors too lol
lol no wonder your fuelling is all over the shot. Stop messing around with it and put an o2 sensor in!
NO you will need the lambda sensor all the time! It controlls the day to day adjustment of air/fuel ratio!Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
When you have more air at higher speeds your ecu will adjust this via a few means of reading the air flow. air mass meter/map sensor/lambda sensor etc it is vital it is used if that is what the engine is set up to be used with!:thumb:
there are ways of controlling air and fuel on the software anyway.. to a degree. but yes in an ideal world..
anyway; i went to test the emmisions today after our 'mot-map-modification' and its dropped to 5. So near, but not quite.
I managed to reduce the figures furthermore, but then the readings were higher again, nearer 9 so ive reverted back to what scored 5 and been a little more subtle with the reduction. Try again tommorow.
What are you doing to the map? I would be very very careful as to how much you cut the fueling as you really dont wanna be running it very lean!!! You will have worse problems than emmisions! Iv not been folowing this thread so dont know what managment you are using so the lambda might not be needed however i cant see why its not be included in the map. Why dont you get a lambda sensor and try it?
Tbh im not clued up enough to give u a reason why. Ive just never been advised to get a lambda, until now by u lot lol.
I am being safely looked after my bowyer throughout this so dont worry too much, i am aware of adjusting fuelling too much fore/aft.
The map is one of martins (bowyer) proper fully dyno'd, originally for Mike Turpin's yellow rallycross nova but just limitered more.
But yeah, now i just want the thing mot'd for the pv show ive got tickets for and planned for weeks..
Ill do-the-lambda until my hearts content after.
Plus not to mention: If i cant get it to pass and miss the show then no biggy; ill order a lambda (£75) book it in for manifold modification and fitting of boss etc (£100+) then go to a rolling road for a proper full on session. (£450)
:-s
Lambda £30 ebay, manifold port £12 ebay (i fitted one on mine, see my wip) Then as it's got a MAP to start with, just to re map will be no more then say £300...So lot less stress then you think dude, and is it using MBE? if so you DO NOT NEED the Lambda for daily running etc.
Hope you do git sorted for MOT really want to see it on Sunday.
Scott
amen scott amen.Quote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
Ahhh ok well i wasnt sure what management you where using! Well sorry for the hi jack! Good luck with getting it right!
no mate, no hi jack, thanks for the input - you are right a lambda sorts issues like this out, just a little late in the day for me now lol
i hope so too. visit back.
http://14point7.com/SLC-DIY.php cant go far wrong with one of these dave
*Update.
Best i do one of these really, despite little change/development, even though its been over 2 months since last pointless update lol!
Ive been preoccupied with a career change- has taken up most of my time.. also i kinda needed a break from the nova as it was getting me down a bit all that mot crap..
Proof its still alive..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0324.jpg
Im currently acquiring the parts and info needed to complete this stage - something ill be doing over winter now- ill go into this more in time.
X16xe sump.. this is going to a fabricators on friday to discuss chopping it a little..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0328.jpg
X16xe SBD Exhaust Manifold.. a little 'early' with this as ive not collected it yet lol but this, once altered, is replacing the piper manifold.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...er/Exmani3.jpg
To this ill be adding new braided fuel lines with aeroquip connectors and fitting that walbro/sytec fuel pump and sytec filter ive had a while.. also a mild pair of CATCAM's. Then of course mazz's illusive half-cage.. lol.
Until then i think im goign to try get some more use out the car , with whats left of the summer.. So an MOT re-try.
So this weekend, i finished sorting the gear linkage and set it up.. gave it a good bit of locktite lol.. Then once ide had news my 'correct' backplate was in - i first needed to build the air-filter assy. back up.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0344.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0348.jpg
New 90mm ram pipes, backplate and dome filter. Both Pipercross.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0350.jpg
Sounds quite different to the old stubby rams/sock combo...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1..._Video0039.jpg
Much smoother, deeper.. May well feel bit different too, on the road.
I had to bleed the brakes as i had a losse/weeping knackered nut on one of the front calipers, so replaced it and filled the system back up and bled it - ill take it out round the block tommorow.
More soon.
Get the linkage sorted easy enough then?
yep, well ill take it round the block tommorow but shifts as it did on the spot in the lockup, i did wriggle it forward and back.. all seems good.. thanks for your advice dude - i understand it now lol.
Nice update mate, and im glad you got it sorted on the trumpets/filter etc.
Nice BTB manifold, so your hoping for MEGA power then??
Scott
cheers scott.. the manifold is an improvement in design, over the piper one i opted for originally (4-2-1 instead of 4-1) but in addition it will sit 6-8cms higher off the ground than the piper manifold does - thats the main reason im trying to buy it- plus i think its better made and has a boss for lambda sensor - which again, the piper didnt have, and i need for future mapping.
But i hope it'll gain more bhp/torque once swapped over, of course..
Good work Dave, I assume you will be chopping that sump up to make more clearance? won't the SBD/BTB one be ok with the standard sump?
ps let me know when you want that cage!!
Top stuff dave! Manifold looks awesome!
Good stuff, car looks rude in the garage shot.
cheers guys! :-)
chris, more nipping the bottom of the sump really and no its not for the manifold to fit , its designed for that sump - its just to get a lil more road clearance lol while its not fitted to car yet. At its lowest point; the x16xe sump is only bout half an inch shorter than the existing z18xe sump so just looking to graze a bit more off.. we'll see what quotes n that come back..
the cage- i work next door to your house lol, (dunno if i said..?) so how bouta night in the week? i pop over after my shift..?
The cage is still at Dad's :( How is the job going? On shifts yet?
Any night next week is ok with me, just need a car to fetch it in though..might have to nick Tina's Nova...
jobs going well dude.. no im on perm. days, so its all good so far.
still learning n that like..
ok well ill txt u one day in the week, i finish 4.30 monday, 6 rest of the week.. midday friday
Manifold looks awesome.
Collected the manifold the other day and the z18xe er.. flange was delivered too..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0355.jpg
Will do a lil enquiring over next few weeks how much to swap them over.
Though i wont be fitting it until during its off-the-road over winter. So no more of this hanging down like a sack of spuds..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0354.jpg
Christ! If you slammed her on the deck, that manifold would be ruined.
Who put your side repeaters down there btw? Doh!
yep that was the problem cg, hence all this effort with manifold number 2.. and the sump lol..
i run the car low, this is how it came off the jacks after engine conversion..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...r/SP_A1650.jpg
so bit of jiggery pokery now, well, over winter - and should have my cake and eat it next year lol
oh repeaters - mr john h..
im just going to leave them lol.. wings are mint so no reason to change.. but if i do ever go kevlar or f/g front wings ill pop original type side rep's back on, only clear..
Astra G side repeaters were all the rage 10 years ago!
:) they look fine anyway, nice and low down is good.
Yeah i thought they looked a little lower too. Just personal taste i suppose. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by peester
lol i did this to my old GSi when i got it resprayed..Quote:
Originally Posted by John H
http://www.pngclub.com/images/car_images/1970big4.jpg
They was some rank LED jobs, when LED was new on the scene! lol :thumb:
Look forward to an update mate.
Scott
*Update.
Still not much development, yet lol, - just been accumilating the parts for the next, final (hopefully) stage of progression, over winter. As mentioned in last update..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0467.jpg
Moved the car into the new lockup, and all my stuff.. First job is to get a decent enough internal gear linkage arrangement.
Ive missed out of a few quaife group-a linkage's over the last few weeks ,i just cant stretch to the prices theyre fetching at the mo.. So instead, ill hopefully get a similar result by bodging a trusty cav/calibra internal shifter onto a mk1 Astra linkage bar :-s
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...er/gear003.jpg
Ive found a cav shifter just waiting to seller to strip the car then i can pay and itll get posted..
If this manages to get all 5 gears quickly and easily accessible then im taking the car to retropower to get the sump modified and fitted and the BTB manifold will get modified and fitted, now that the linkage is out of the way of the exhaust tunnel..
Then the car will actually be at the stage it was supposed to be at for the 2010 summer/show season lol..
Twin port Bailey header tank (always wanted one of these anyway) but with the modified LET twin port-ness itll tidy up the coolant piping under the bonnet nicely, really chuffed i found this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1.../Photo0421.jpg
Whilst im taking the cooling system apart ill drop a nice new alloy radiator from TX in too - look to bring the temp's down a bit as the one on the car looks fair few years old..
Driving it is egging me on to get it finished one way or another, if these afore mentioned bodgery doesnt work then ill just have to hold out for a quaife jobby after all lol
More again soon.
Looks very well on they SR steelies :)
Dave are you on rear coilies now?
nah 4" pig tails.. still with your bilstein shocks. Ive got a few rear springs.. think those are 225lbs, will prob go find and fit slightly higher poundage springs, it rides nice now believe it or not but when throwing it round theyll prob roll too much..we'll see..Quote:
Originally Posted by John H
thanks vaughan, i agree.. its the tyres that help (175/50x14) with the look n stance a bit too..
Really? that stance is awesome!Quote:
Originally Posted by peester