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You're trying to get 500 mile break in done? What's the plan after that? Tune?
Tune then start dailying the car to work. I'm taking care of the basic tuning myself...I plan on letting my buddy who owns the superflow dyno clean it up for me.
Interested to see what kind of power it makes and some acceleration stats. My Civic with some 200 TW summer tires will do 0-60 mph in about 4 seconds. Not sure on the 0-100 mph time. I looked at a Kpro datalog to determine. On the 225/45R17 tires I reach 60 just before the 7600 RPM rev limit. A little difficult to time due to the wheel spin in second. I have the datalog laying around somewhere.
I'm back! Honda is good, oil is good, life is good. I got into boost on Saturday night while I was making adjustments to my kpro. All still using Closed Loop, but that's ok for the time being.
The "shiny" in the sample oil I had sitting dropped out, and its 100% excess ARP install grease. *Phew*
My plan is to get it to the emissions facility next Saturday morning to have them "scan" it so I can get legal once again. They only do an OBD2 plugin since my low-profile tires grandfathered me into not running the dyno
Its all coming together. Been tinkering in kmanager all morning @ work.
Hot boost cut was turned up to 25 psi since i'm not using the factory map sensor. Pretty sure this is what was causing my cutout at higher loads. Either way, I'm looking forward to uploading this newest config.
Running this thing in Close Loop should make for a pretty decent daily driver up here at altitude.
Whatever wastegate pressure is on the eBay springs I’m running are for now 🤷🏾♂️
in all seriousness, I plan on utilizing the high/low boost function in kpro to have a “normal” map, and a “more than you can afford, pal” map. But for now wastegate is all I need.
I don't understand the point of setting hot boost cut to 25 psi if you won't be anywhere close on wastegate. Unless your wastegate will be high as well.
My wastegate springs are 5 psi. I run 9 psi on the street and 6 psi on track. Hot and cold boost cut are both set at 13 psi. I did hit it due to boost spikes caused by the quick spool setting in Kpro, but have not since disabling this feature.
Well I saw 11 lbs last night running nothing but wastegate pressure, until I popped an intake boot Felt like there was still some boost left on the table.
I set it to 25 since my boost controller should allow me to double spring pressure (mac 4 port). Call 25 my "failsafe". I feel confident running these Pauter rods and ARP studs to give her all the boost.
I haven't played with the quick spool functionality yet, but I did make the switch this morning to enabled closed loop target lambda tables, so I'm no longer running the WOT Comp High/Low tables.
My bigger issue in the moment is an oil leak from what appears to be my PCV box on the back of the block. I have it plumbed to a catch can, so I'm wondering if the gasket failed or I just didn't tighten them up. Either way it didn't leak until I got into boost
So the leak appears to be coming from between the Mishimoto Sandwich plate and the filter. I gave the filter an extra ugga with the hands after I cleaned everything off.
Ill be flashing the new config w/ Closed Loop Target Lambda tables enabled this evening.
I hit 18 lbs of boost on a pull last night. Not sure how when this is wastegate pressure but I have the fuel so why not? But for real i'm going to pickup a real wastegate when I have the funds.
Oh and the oil leak has been fixed too. It was the OEM front crank seal that came preinstalled on the Honda oil pump. Pulled it and replaced it with a national and its been dry ever since.
Is that 18.2 psi from full vacuum? 18.2 - 14.7 (atmospheric pressure at sea level) meaning ~3.5 psi of boost. K manager logger always reads boost from full vacuum for me and I have never been able to change it. Here is a snip from a random log I have. 21.18 psi shown, 14.06 psi atmospheric pressure at my elevation, meaning ~7.1 psi of boost. My tune gives a max of 8 psi at the top of second gear to try to minimize wheel spin.
Good question. I have my map reading in absolute, denoted by the "/ preceding the notation. So my map reading subtracts 1 bar from the calculation when in reality my local atmospheric pressure is closer to 12 psi since I'm right around 5280, so technically that map reading should be higher. But I digress. Ill have to dig into my settings to see what I did to change it.
I only boosted that high because I plumbed my WG side of the boost controller backwards. Good thing I hit boost cut before it ran to 30 PSI 😂
Absolute would mean full vacuum is 0, you would have to do the subtraction yourself according to the Kmanager setting. The laptop I use for logging must also be set to absolute but I cannot confirm at the moment. Either way, looking forward to seeing more on your project!
Got the boost controller lines swapped around, and low and behold I have a 8 pound spring. lol.
But my tuner did confirm my 18.2 lbs of boost reading. 🤡 He also confirmed that I semi know what I'm doing in terms of tuning. (lol)
However 8 lbs is not enough for my indented application, and I do plan on running 20+ pounds eventually.
Ok so quick update, I made it to the local track for the last test and tune before they tear the track down. Unfortunately I only got one pass before the rain rolled in and they called it. But that’s the bad news. Good news is on 5.5 pounds of boost and no adjustments to timing tables I ran the quarter shy of 3 seconds faster than when the car was N/A. Not “fast” by any means, but it’s a starting point. I’m left lane on both.
I have only been to a strip once. My Civic was just a stock K20a2 swap at the time. It was cold, I had all season tires, stock open diff. I spun 1st and 2nd a bit. My reaction time was 3/4 of a second. 1/4 mile time was like 16 seconds. Can't wait to see what it runs once at full boost.
08-22-2023
