peteretep Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 ive had an exhaust and intake coated by procoat, you could touch the exhaust after thrashing the car. I was impressed by how well it worked tbh. but it was quite expensive 1 Quote
Spencer Posted January 5, 2015 Posted January 5, 2015 Yea not all coatings are created equal. If you buy expensive wrap Roman it will last. Hot engine bays are dumb, with the Buick you could cook a roast under the bonnet. Kinda keen on a electric fan that will stay on for 10min after a long drive maybe. 1 Quote
tortron Posted January 6, 2015 Posted January 6, 2015 a morrie guy at work who does starlet transplant yuckness to his says he's used a fiat diff of some type before, either is LSD or he was able to get the right bits for it without too much fuss. Nominal knows him/ may know details. again, someone else will know better but 411 on the street is suzuki cappuccino LSD brains go into carry housing...? interdasting. For something smaller than the morry tho. Wont be needed for a good long while, but making shopping lists is nice Quote
peteretep Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 I fitted an old vdo tacho to my microsquirt, it works and is accurate when rev's arent changing but it super slow to move so the accuracy is a little worthless. how can I solve this? I thought the thing in tech articles was for tacho's not running at all or really erratically? Quote
Hemi Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Yea not all coatings are created equal. If you buy expensive wrap Roman it will last. Hot engine bays are dumb, with the Buick you could cook a roast under the bonnet. Kinda keen on a electric fan that will stay on for 10min after a long drive maybe. Watching the temps go up when we were stuck at those roadworks was a bit concerning . Shit i was tired after that drive. shouldve jumped into a L/h vehicle that wasnt the width of a football field before driving that. not used to that at all. 1 Quote
Simon Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Good thread. Don't buy NPT threads from USA. Found that out the hard way when doing my bag install. BSP4lyf. Quote
downtrail Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 How are you driving it? I fitted an old vdo tacho to my microsquirt, it works and is accurate when rev's arent changing but it super slow to move so the accuracy is a little worthless. how can I solve this? I thought the thing in tech articles was for tacho's not running at all or really erratically? Quote
peteretep Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 just using tachout from the ecu into the feed as per the wiring diagram shows. we tried wiring the output into the LO input on the tach and it worked but it showed almost double the rev's and was still slow to respond Quote
sentra Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 is the tach output duty adjustable on ms? this happened when too high on james car. Quote
downtrail Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Ive never had much success witg the megasquirt tach outputs either lol same thing slow or erratic. It will output a low voltage signal from megasquirt. What coil configuration are you running and how many cylinders. Theres a few ways to drive successful from coil negative at a high voltage level. Quote
peteretep Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 its running wasted spark from 4 ls2 coils. 4 cylinder engine I changed the output from normal speed to half speed and changed the tacho to 2 cyl 4 stroke and it is definitely working better although still seems a little lazy. I'll take it on the road to see if it actually affects real life operation. I wonder if maybe the tacho is an older analogue or something style which can only react so fast Quote
peteretep Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 how tidy does a bump stop need to be when cutting them down? Quote
Yowzer Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 I think it needs to be slightly tapered / "progressive" and not look like you hacked it with a blunt wood saw. Flapper wheels make them look pretty decent without too much work. Quote
downtrail Posted January 10, 2015 Posted January 10, 2015 Hook up the high input to one coil negative and set it to 2 cylinder 4 stroke and see how it behaves Quote
Rookie Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 Peter, just be content that you engine can rev faster than the taco and nang the limiter at every possible opportunity. 4 Quote
Roman Posted January 11, 2015 Author Posted January 11, 2015 Today I learn: Peters car is an LFAYou got the motor back together now? Quote
peteretep Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 yeah it revs quick without any load, probably on the road I wont even notice I think yeah got the motor back in and ran it a bit on axle stands, we are modifying the fuel tank at the moment so there is a proper return in it then I will take it for a drive. I already regret not taking the crank and flywheel to be dowelled tbh as I was so close to having it apart. I'll just have to wait until it does it again now hahaha also cut bump stops, not sure if I will notice any difference, and I didnt measure anything so something major might smash into body now instead of bumpstops. who knows what will happen 2 Quote
yetchh Posted January 11, 2015 Posted January 11, 2015 how tidy does a bump stop need to be when cutting them down? Make it look like you paid for it... Quote
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