I havent posted in a while I been really busy but I am finally back at school. I finally got the car running again, after 56 days of driving the huffy, my bosses work truck, and my dad's 2.8 a4. Since I took it apart I painted the lowers and repainted the bumpers, tried to rebuild my abs control module...but failed, worked on my exhaust manifold, which still isnt done, and I installed the zeitronix datalogger/ wideband commander, and 034efi stage1c standalone engine management.

The standalone was a huge pita to install because i had to look at the bently wiring diagrams to figure out which was which and decipher how the wiring diagram worked. eventually after lots of help from ppl on the 034efi forums i got it wired correctly with the zeitronix integrated so that they shar an o2 sensor.

Anyways its running and I have tuned idle a/f, and wot a/f to 15psi and 6490rpm, after that it hits the rev limiter. Everything is fully adjustable, and by everything i mean everything. right now i have a very flat curve of about 12.3:1 but I'd like to richen it up and i need to get preboost leaner. Part throttle is very rich.

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I raced my friend in his evo last week and beat him by over 2 cars from 10-100. I was only at 15psi and rev limiter at 6490rpm. My friend in his stock wrx were also trying to keep up but he was at least 10 cars back. I made the drive very uneventfully up to school so i have about 400mi on it so far.



I also gave Mainer a ride in it. He's the first audiforums member to see my car up close

The bad:
-Well I'm running no stock ecu so i thought I would loose a bunch comforts like cruise control, abs, gauges, but everything works except the coolant gauge.
-Also my damn manifold isnt done so im still using the warped one.
-My part throttle is soo rich that my bumper is permantently staind again 400mi after i painted it, so that will need to be repainted.
-My exhaust is misaligned, is too far under the bumper, and the downpipes hits the drivetrain stabilizer off throttle.


All in all I am an extremenly happy person, and I will certainly never go back to buying chips again. Standalone is def the way to go!

Oh and i dont check spelling

 

OMG That is amazing... glad to have you back.. been wondering where you were hiding.. sorry to hear about the exhaust manifold not being done yet.. what is the time frame for that?

 

sick dude, ur y idol

 

time frame is asap lol. I been working on it since june, and the pos still isnt done, i gotta order some more bends and weld them up, maybe a couple weeks

 

Wow thats awsome, good work!! Im clueless when it comes to working on cars wish i had those skills. [sm=jawdrop.gif]

 

i said it be for Tom u got skills
and those are some nice pics

 

good lord, sitting beside the evo and wrx, your car looks insanely low! Well... I guess it is insanely low. Looks nice though.

 

Chicks only want guys with good skills!, napoleon dynamite quote.

Damn dude, maybe oneday when i have a garage of my own and another car to drive i can do something like this, i just mean your project as a whole not just the standalone.

 

Damn nice Tom!

 

Skills, but i realized its not the car skills girls like

I wish I had a garage, you def dont need a garage to do this kinda stuff, i got walmart tools that i won at a gold tournament, and i use my stone driveway