Just got my call from PTC. He said the converter looked to be pretty tight. He put a loose stator in the thing, ( Whatever the hell that thing is) Said that should loosen it up considerably. Charged me a whole 100.00 to do that, including the shipping to get it back to me tomorrow.
If it does indeed get to me tomorrow, I’ll try and get it back in Sunday. If i’m lucky, maybe I’ll be running by end of day.
Maybe it won’t leak.
Maybe it won’t vibrate.
Maybe it’ll fall out of a tree.
In case it does leak, or the vibration is still there, I put the 4l80e into motion with one of my Chevy boy friends..I should have a decent rebuild-able unit for about 150.00 that will be here w/i a week.
If on the other hand I get lucky, and I’m back in business, Ill need to get with my buddy Steve again for the resumption of the tune session, and the future 20 psi that i’m targeting as my end goal.
In other news headlines:
Financial Responsibility Rears it’s Ugly head!
(details at 4:16)
My BMW rewards money showed up in the last few days. 2400.00 unattached dollars, that I fully intended to help ease the pain of having to change out the transmission, should this one be a lost cause. I looked at several places to waste that money that ranged from buying a forged bottom end for the engine to a new professional series Tool box.
In the end, I decided to own the 2jz instead of continuing to pay Paypal credit for the thing. It’s been a year since I committed to buying that thing, and had managed to whittle down the 3300.00 to about 1600.00. So,..I chose to pay for that thing instead of buying some other thing. So now
that thing is mine. Hopefully, the gamble I’m taking with the 4R70w pays off.
You’re Not gonna believe the Paint hackery!
(Full story at 4:34)
Every day for the last few days i’ve been going downstairs and filling that crater i created on my front bumper with Competition Orange touchup paint. Everyday that I go down there, the paint from the previous day had dried and shrank. I’m finally getting it filled enough to the point that I can actually hope to try and sand and buff out the high spot that I’ll eventually be creating when I get the 70 bazillionth layer of paint level with the existing paint. I know it’s not the right way to do it, and frankly, I don’t give a rats red bunion hole,..I just gotta get rid of the ugly for the remainder of the year.
And finally..
I wish that there was a “Tuning your 2jzgte VVTI engine using a MS3x“ handbook out there..I might actually be able to get a strong enough grasp of the process to actually be able to try this on my own. Right now, i’m just as ignorant as any other noob that comes on here that says stupid sht that I usually am first to jump on with a snide comment.
The difference here is I’ve already berated myself numerous times,...in this thread alone.
( Shouldn’t I say something disrespectful back to myself here too?)
I‘m pretty confident that I want to convert the damn thing off of SEFI, and batch fire it, and convert the COP to wasted spark purely to dumb the tune down..I read the early pages of this thread, and back when the OG monster was running, ( with both of those parameters intact I actually messed with my VE/AFR, and ignition tables myself ( Course, I also rattled the engine numerous times myself as well,.....so......I got that going for me too).
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That concludes my daily rant, and is all the news that’s fit to tell....Believe me when I tell you it’s MUCH better than the other version I had written and was ready to hit “ Post Reply” on before I got the call from my converter guy.
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