The car has been basically “start able ” more or less for 2 weeks now. Despite the fact that I had a bad D585 coil the last attempt at starting it, I still had 8 other LS coils that I could’ve used to “temporarily“ get it running. After the non-stop, month long Marathon I took on to get it back together while I was furloughed last month, you’d think I’d be jones-ing to get the thing running so that I can reap the rewards for all of that work that started last fall.
Not so much.
Theres a wall down there. Getting it running now requires I do one of two things. I have to rely on someone else, or.....I attempt to self-teach the mountain of crap involved with getting the engine tuned well enough to start, idle, run, and perform all without washing down the cylinders, or melting the engine.
To know me brings no surprise that it frustrates the phck out of me when I can’t do something myself. The are very few things on this car where I have had to rely on the expertise of somebody else......MOF, I dont even need all five fingers on one hand to count them.
1. Paint. ( Original paint attempted by me, and commensurately failed, requiring the good graces of
@Davedacarpainter. This time around, even the small job hood and trunk blackout, still proved to be beyond my skill set)
2. Engine machine work. No need to even try here.
3. Torque converter modification. I tried here again. All I succeeded In doing was making a potential centrifugal time bomb. The reality ck there was my concern for the length of my right leg. ( I preferred that it match my left).
4. The performance tune. I got the monster running and driving originally when it was batch fired, with the EDIS ignition. How the hell I stumbled into that is a mystery to me. ( it was a very simple tune, that’s why) However, Getting it running GOOD, again required the good graces of yet another,
@a91what.
When I was deciding on the replacement engine, my greatest concern was the complexity of the engine itself. While it’s all warm and fuzzy to be able to say that I have an engine with COP/SEFI/VVTI controlled with an IAC, and an EBC, but in reality, I dont have a single clue about controlling any of it.
Had this been a variation of the simpleton-tune that I had in the monster, I’d be driving today..but as of this minute frustrated, and sitting on the couch.
It’s like I’m afraid to even try now. Why I have injectors as big as they are (95Lb/hr) is beyond me, considering those injectors are rated for 800 plus whp,...( a HP goal I’ve never even entertained) the 340lph pump can’t feed them At that power level, that’s for sure. But at the current state of tune, theres a whole buttload of potential fuel that can accidentally flood into that engine in an instant.
And i’m none to anxious to go down there and see if i can make that happen.