anyone with first hand exp w/ wrx sti's?
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So the pump that was asked to deliver fuel well in excess of what it was designed for was unreliable? Or was that also 'upgraded'?
This is why you don't buy modified cars. Stock stuff is well engineered and thouroghly tested. A lot of mods look good on paper, even well engineered ones, might not work as well as thought. Fuel starvation on a heavily boosted engine is a recipe for detonation. That only needs to happen once to destroy an engine.
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Considering doing a megasquirt FI upgrade to the Volvo. Only thing holding me back is the hilarious simplicity of a carb and dizzy, but I want to be able to shoot flames out of the exhaust when I lift at high revs.
Please do it.Considering doing a megasquirt FI upgrade to the Volvo. Only thing holding me back is the hilarious simplicity of a carb and dizzy, but I want to be able to shoot flames out of the exhaust when I lift at high revs.
I don't like them anymore. What was once one of these cars eyeball'd me at a light and tried to make racing car sounds while going by me - like I now must race that jalopy if going the same direction, which we we not.
I need to commute more on my Surly.
I need to commute more on my Surly.
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If I can control individual injectors:
- Retard timing as much as possible so I still have burning mixture when the exhaust valve opens
- Keep one cylinder with regular AFR
- No fuel to one cylinder to push oxygen into the exhaust
- One cylinder super rich to pump raw fuel into the exhaust.
- When the three meet combustion shall take place
Just driving too-difficult?
No, too easy.Just driving too-difficult?
Whoa - you just blew my mind.
For clarification I am talking about a 50 year old station wagon that left the factory with 95 HP 400,000 miles ago. My tinkering and fucking with it has it getting to 60 mph 2 seconds faster than when it was brand new, not to mention a blast to drive. I have put 10,000 trouble free miles on it in the past year. The feedback loop tells me to keep marching forward.
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Westy you win today keep on trucking!
just remember, rex owners, stoopid sounding exhaust does not a fast car make.
So that'd have to be a P1800 or the like - real cool car, just not sure on all the effort and time into making a micky mouse exhaust.
huh, watchu talkin' bout Willis?
Rumbling loud exhaust just makes one deaf. It doesn't make one's tarted up econobox any faster, in all likelihood.
It would be the same exhaust that is there now. Would install intake system from a later model that had mechanical fuel injection. Would control with a modern computer. Was just thinking of putting in somewhat of an easter egg in the lookup table at one very specific RPM and throttle position that would not be used during normal driving. It is as simple to do as changing a number in a spreadsheet, and just as easy to undo. I enjoy tinkering with the car as much as driving it.
It does with a better downpipe
Not without a tune it doesn't.It does with a better downpipe
you must really love turbo-lag dont you??