Betcha wonder what I've been doing?
Nothin.
For the last three days, I've been meticulously combing over all of the settings, and configurations as I prep this thing for it's first start.
Even after all of that, come day three (today) I'm missing something in Tunerstudio that allows me to see, and interact w/ the fuel and spark tables. I contact the guys at DIY auto tune, and they have me send them a copy of my tune file. After a few hours, I call back, and the guy that answers (Matt Cramer) hasn't even looked at it. But while I'm on the phone, he does, and just that quickly, points me to open this, click on that, disable this, and BOOM! the AFR, VE, and spark tables materialize. He tells me that no existing tune exists for my goofy assed engine combination, so I'm going have to have the wizard auto-generate a starting recommendation, and go from there.
Whoop de doo. I'm still not far from where I was two minutes ago.
But I hang up the phone, and do as he says. Then I try to start it..................................................
Nothing except a backfire through the muffler.
(With the neighbors house directly behind the garage, the shotgun loud backfire probably had the guy thinking I just put an end to my misery, 12 gauge style.)
But I didn't.
Not knowing where to go from there, I pulled a plug.
Wet. Too much fuel, or no spark. ( I know I have spark, it was one of my "tests") So,...that brings me back to too much fuel.
I don't know how to change that. I try again. POW!. another shotgun blast. (Clearly, I hadn't shot myself before,......maybe this time)
I disconnect the fuse to the fuel pump, and crank the engine clean.
It acts like it wants to start. definitely has too much fuel.
Or maybe it's somethin to do w/ the firing order. I remove all of the plugs, and crank the engine so it'll spin fast enough to see if the timing light will show me anything.
The timing mark is nowhere in sight,...definitely something wrong w/ the firing order.
Lets look back at an old pic again shall we?
How many times do you spose I've looked at the front of my engine, and the sensor mounting that is depicted front and center?
In addition to that pic, I probably rambled on about how it had to be precisely 6 teeth away from the missing tooth. When you look at the pic, it looks like everything is perfect right? It wasn't. The engine wasn't at TDC. It ended up being one tooth off.
That required a butchering of the sensor, because there wasn't enough room to move it backwards, and shifting the trigger wheel was definitely out, (it's screwed to the back side of the balancer, and the gap machined in place. I had to move the sensor.
I did.
I checked timing.
The mark was nowhere in sight.
It's gotta be something else.
Earlier on here I bitched about the EDIS coil pack w/ regard to wiring the plug wires. I had ordered a cut to length custom set for that stupid coil pack and wanted to be sure that I wired the plug wires in the correct order.
This pic is everywhere online:
The reason I was concerned, was that there were also a few pics out there showing the same order but w/ the 4 pin connector on top, instead of the bottom.
That would effectively change 1, and 6 and 2, and 5 depending on whether or not the connector was up or down.
I chose to wire the thing the way it was most commonly wired.
But , now knowing this, I take the connector clamp on my timing light off of plug wire #1,...and put it on plug wire #2. ( doesn't matter whether or not it was 2, or 5, they both get the same coil signal)
I check timing.
THERE THAT DAMN TIMING MARK IS..........DEAD STEADY AT TDC.
Dammit.
I cannot change the plug wiring order, and I cannot flip the coil pack. So I had to transpose the wires to coil 1, and 3.
I checked timing after that.......we're in business.
I contacted the guy that I bought my turbo from because he has a guy he refers for dyno tunes. This guy is supposed to be completely familiar w/ MSII. I texted him and asked if he could help me, he said he could. Supposed to call me tomorrow to arrange an appointment to fix me up.
Means I gotta clean the garage,......company's comin'.