Cheers Lunacy
Since my last update all that has been happening have been mind games. Holy Shit...
From the ECU's perspective: "Hey, you've done an alright job of wiring me, but I'm going to float some channels to ground just so your fan turns on when you turn the ignition off. Oh you fixed that? How about I play silly buggers with the fuel pump now! Ahh, you're a crafty one, what if I backfeed through the idle solenoid so you can't turn the ignition off AND it sits on 6000RPM?... Bahaha that f*cked ya didn't it!"
I'm positive the Kiwis designed this little blue devil box just to try my sanity. It's alright though, left it for this afternoon to regroup and attack it again tomorrow.
Sorted out the fan switching on by itself and the fuel pump staying on pretty simply, but I think I need to put a relay in the power feed for the idle solenoid (ISC) and switch that with my anti lag, seeing as I'm happy to idle up at the throttle plate.
And on the subject of anti lag - good fun
. There isn't a great deal of info on it that I've been able to find as far as setting it up, but progress today made it to about 0 kpa on the MAP sensor, so that's 0 psi of boost at just above idle, so that's no vacuum! Like I said, good fun but damn the engine and inlet temps go through the roof! between 86-90 degrees coolant temps and over 60 degrees inlet temps! definitely thinking I'll need a bigger or water to air intercooler one day.
Another temperature that gets up there on anti lag is exhaust temp. Although I don't have a pyrometer connected, my manifold is blue half way up the waste gate runner and the cabin filled with smoke at one stage - most likely from the catalytic converter trying to set the carpet alight (right beside/under the drivers seat too, the left seat rail was hot enough to burn skin). I looked under the car as well and right along the exhaust were heat waves and it was probably under-body sealant that was beginning to singe and smoke in places.
However, today's biggest frustration was with the RTA (RMS). *Rant* I tried to renew my rego over the internet today, having paid for my green slip the other day and put simply I couldn't register it as the RTA didn't recognise that I'd paid my CTP... supposed to be a system all linked up and working, doesn't, got mad, an hour or two of unproductivity. All said and done though, realistically it won't be tuned until Monday afternoon anyway so I can just spend the morning waiting for the doors to open at the RTA office
And hence ended the escapades of today.
oh well, life goes on I suppose (would've been nice if they re-packed the box properly and without making it look as though it had gone a few rounds on a soccer field though!).
, that's the goal anyway.
but on the bright side, it ran today!
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