In an effort to “fix” the many electrical problems akin to my mid-90’s Nissan experience, I added a new section to the Hideous Hardbody – Hideous Quirks.
The first quirk I dealt with was an erratic idle, low-speed stumble, driveability issue which involved re-soldering a questionable crimp in the engine wiring harness.
Much better!
Yup! It’s a 1970 Toyota Celica GT.
If only I could fit in it.
I bought one of these. First time ever. Why? Because of this:
Jody “Shnitzel” Willcock is a good friend I met way back in my BCIT days. I had to buy one.
These always make things look good.
That should be it. SO not worth it.
Fabricated for a friend’s lathe.
I figured I should add an update on the current tune. I have been running pure Alpha-N for a couple years now, and this is the current state of the tune.
There is still a wee bit of unhappiness light-throttle around 2000rpm, and cold start is still about 10% unhappy. But very driveable, and nary a problem.
I did have a strange quirk wherein the car would act like it just dropped two cylinders, usually only once in a while, and only within the first 20 minutes of operation. Only a full on/off/on would make it go away. Someone on www.locostusa.com found the fix: reset “next pulse tolerance” normal running up to 70%. Problem solved.
With yet another Technology upgrade at school, there is a new link to access the School Server from off-campus. Use your regular user name and password:
I got the (possibly real?) Manx dune buggy running today. We ordered a new computer – I still don’t have the old computer running yet.
Now that it runs, I can tune it! Or…. we don’t have any O2 happening – lo and behold, it’s not even connected to the computer! Interesting. It runs ~ok~, and can be driven ~gently~, but it cannot be tuned without a working O2 sensor. The connector is unplugged, and the computer end of the connector is missing. Weird.
Lots of really nice work done putting it together, and some other “interesting” touches as well.
