Airbox looks slick as hell Mike! I just hope the damn thing runs in the end. I learned first hand today how little things really mess with how an engine runs. You always make it work though, on the second or maybe second to last time you try.
I was thinking this same thing...Sometimes it's a step backward to go forward. Sounds like you made a good decision. It also sounds like the 2 dealerships are a little lost business wise. I mean, if you have a shiny new building and no road and no customers, wtf are they waiting on for 8 months? If you have BMW which I am sure there are some sitting on the lot with close to or over $100k stickers, spiffy up the damn building. It's obvious as a customer you are spending lots of money there but the management is pocketing it, and not using it for a more professional or appropriate to the price point facility.
Fast idle valve. It opens and let's extra air pass into the engine when it's cold started.You got a lot more done than me today.
Whats with the vac breather dealio on the fender? How are you ok having that red vac line running across the bay?
CarMichael Angelo said:IDK if the sensor sticking in the hole will hurt the airflow to this cylinder,....but I didn't want to put the thing in the airbox, and have to disconnect the thing and not have it while trying to dial in the ITB's when I get the engine running again.
Is this along the 'Do it twice' Mike theme?I'll call this update "Back to ze Fatherland"
The Alfa Romeo dealership is new. Only 8 months since they opened their doors. They did this despite not having a dedicated turn off of the main road. Presently, there is all of the cement footings for the curb work in place, there's just no road beteween the curbs. And it's been that way for 8 months.
To get into that dealership, you have to actually drive into the convenient store parking lot, and exit out through a side exit which gives access to the paved part of the road that gets you into the dealership immediately after the unpaved part that is between that and the main road.
And it's been that way for 8 months.
Needless to say, there are no customers. Only the few that figure it out for themselves manage to get there. The rest assume that the dealership isn't open yet.
I spent 4 days last week not speaking to a single customer. I didn't even so much as direct somebody to the restroom.
Add to that that All week long I'm getting hammered by my old dealership to come back, each time I tell them no, I've committed myself to this new place.
That lasted till Thursday. All four salesmen are standing around in the main showroom four The last two hours of the day, and nobody has anything to do. When the place closed at 7 I called my old sales manager, and told him that he'd won,...that he was right, and that I would come and talk to him at his next possible convenience.
" How about now?" He asked.
I went straight there.
I re-start as a BMW salesman/ Genius hybrid today.
I just was too worried that I'd be standing at that dealership after my guarantee runs out, with nothing. Made even worse by the "something" that I had before at BMW. By the 7th of the month, Alfa Romeo had 3 cars sold. BMW had 30.
Things are different at BMW. Most importantly, the GM that was 95% of the issue for me leaving is gone. The sales manager likes me, and has all but guaranteed that I'll sell over 10 cars a month. I know that place, and despite its rundown appearance they still out perform every dealership in the region. Whatever they do to do that, I'll be a part of it.
You're right. I didn't think of that. Guess I'll have to drill the airbox, and put it there, and plug the hole in the #1 riser.Take a piece of 1/2" rod, 16" long, either wood or metal and tape a cloth streamer about 3" long to it. Drive down the road at various speeds with the rod stuck way out the window and watch the streamer as it responds to the airflow. That's what your ACT is going to do to the airflow inside the manifold section. The next question is not so simple: what will be the reaction of spraying fuel on the ACT do to the accuracy of its readings? The ACT in the 5.0 Mustang manifold is upstream of the fuel injectors, it isn't a very useful comparison to make for what you are doing.