#115791 - 09/05/07 09:37 PM
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Loc: Waterford, WI
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Do I blame the 91* weather and humidity? Do I blame myself for poor launching? Do I blame the boost gauge line that comes out mid-pass and bleeds 8lbs of boost into the atmosphere?
My first run I rab a 14.388, a personal best. But now I can't find the slip.
Every run after that was either a really high 14 or a mid 15.
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WTF!?
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#115792 - 09/05/07 09:46 PM
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Registered: 03/30/07
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are you hookin up well? i know hot weather isn't best for getting low times...
~Stauffie
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#115793 - 09/05/07 09:48 PM
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Wait until season end before you go again, let the air cool down. I hope my ride is 100% before then. I want to see it make a fast pass.
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#115794 - 09/05/07 09:54 PM
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Having a vac leak wouldn't cause you to lose all your boost. 95% of it is still inside the intake manifold.
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#115795 - 09/05/07 10:13 PM
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I think the kitty cat fell off mid way down!
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#115796 - 09/05/07 10:27 PM
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Originally posted by drummerboy1307: Having a vac leak wouldn't cause you to lose all your boost. 95% of it is still inside the intake manifold. It can cause adverse timing and fuel effects though. If the boost line blows, your map is reading atmospheric pressure as well as your FPR.
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#115797 - 09/05/07 10:33 PM
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are you tuned? whats yoru kr at? and yoru ltfs?
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#115798 - 09/05/07 11:36 PM
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Originally posted by drummerboy1307: Having a vac leak wouldn't cause you to lose all your boost. 95% of it is still inside the intake manifold. I beg to differ. I my boost selenoid (or something) was not hooked up so it was realeasing boost, and I was only making half boost, like 3-4 lbs. Hooked it back up when I figured out what it was, and it turned it into an entirely different car.
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#115799 - 09/05/07 11:41 PM
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Dang! You went! Grrrrrrrr well then what do we go from here?
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99 GTP Mods= Wizair, U-Bend delete, Resonator delete, 180 T-stat, Msd coil pack. Appearance mods= 20% tint all around, HID's, rerouted flashes to fogs and tails, front grill has a Red Gtp badge,Calipers painted red, engine cover painted silver, and with red lettering, rear pontiac red overlays, and side Gtp badges have red overlays, Silver star fogs, A piller w/gauges boost installed, oil, knock have to be installed, and a GPS.
Mods to come= 3" DP, and others........haven't thought about it
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#115800 - 09/05/07 11:54 PM
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ILGTP didn't come and I left by 7:30 it was so awful.
I'm not tuned except for the PCM ZZP sent me.
I saw a MAX of 4* of KR around launch and then nothing above 1* afterwards and that was only during shifts.
The top-end is SOOOOO much cooler now with the pulley and headers. It's like at 5k, it just throws your head into the headrest. I'm so surprised that I was running as poorly as I was, I thought I was doing very well.
MY launches were bad though, 2.45 60' was my best launch.
LTFTs were locking in at -2.3 through the 1/8 mile, then went to -4.7 in the last 1/8 but again, that may have been the run I blew the boost line out.
Also, my front O2 isn't reading properly anymore, I deffinately need a new one. Sadly, it's going to be a real PITA with those headers.
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#115801 - 09/06/07 01:21 AM
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Originally posted by Kev-GTP: Originally posted by drummerboy1307: [b] Having a vac leak wouldn't cause you to lose all your boost. 95% of it is still inside the intake manifold. I beg to differ. I my boost selenoid (or something) was not hooked up so it was realeasing boost, and I was only making half boost, like 3-4 lbs. Hooked it back up when I figured out what it was, and it turned it into an entirely different car. [/b]Uh... that sensor is only there for torque management, and as a safety feature, if the PCM isn't getting input from that sensor, it limits your boost... whole different thing than a vacuum leak.
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#115802 - 09/06/07 07:49 AM
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Dang! You went! Grrrrrrrr well then what do we go from here?
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99 GTP Mods= Wizair, U-Bend delete, Resonator delete, 180 T-stat, Msd coil pack. Appearance mods= 20% tint all around, HID's, rerouted flashes to fogs and tails, front grill has a Red Gtp badge,Calipers painted red, engine cover painted silver, and with red lettering, rear pontiac red overlays, and side Gtp badges have red overlays, Silver star fogs, A piller w/gauges boost installed, oil, knock have to be installed, and a GPS.
Mods to come= 3" DP, and others........haven't thought about it
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#115803 - 09/06/07 09:46 AM
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ummm. you cant blame anything but your launches. a 2.4 60' time is bad.
so bad launching+vacuum leak+hot weather.
did you really expect good times?
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#115804 - 09/06/07 11:22 AM
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wow, yeah i didn't catch that the first time I read through. That's a horrible 60' time (no offense)
You need to drop your tire pressure and that should help you hook better.
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#115805 - 09/06/07 04:22 PM
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I thought about it but I couldn't find my tire pressure gauge and I wasn't there with anybody I knew either.
MY tires also have about 1/4 of tread left on them as well. Time for me to put those new tires on.
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