Great to hear Bryan!

Even a little parking lot drive is rewarding! :thumbsup:

Soooooo it's morning?? Have you been back to go for a drive, or at least what's the weather report for today??? :hairpullout:

Did you see that San Antonio got 12" of rain in 24 hours??? He can stretch that excuse all the way across I-35 to Austin. :secret: :D

We had some crazy rain here the last couple of days, but did have that window of clear in the afternoon yesterday. The forecast for today looks like it will be ok, so I'm hoping for a little more than the parking lot. First stop, gas station, or we won't be going very far! :)

I'm working on my idle tune this morning. When I updated the ECU to the latest firmware, it wiped out my old tune. I have it saved, but I'm trying to only take back the pieces which I think I need, since there were some aspects that I didn't think were right. Hopefully I'll have her running better this afternoon!

We need to change out the brake light switch, the new one appears to be flaky. We also need to adjust the pedals a little bit (bring them up higher), and throw the passenger seat in so that Eric can ride along with me. :) We knocked out a bunch of little things yesterday to get to this point, and we'll get a bunch more done this afternoon!

Hopefully one of us will remember to grab a phone and record some video too. :)

I know a nice back road out to Driftwood.... you could grab some awesome lunch...


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Congrats, Bryan. That first drive no matter how short is always fantastic.

Today, we were able to take a real drive! We managed to get a lot of little things taken care of first, including replacing the brake light switch, installing the passenger seat, installing some seat belts, working on the HP EFI tune, installing the sail panels, and adjusting the pedals. After we finished all of that, we started her up and drove off. First stop, gas station. :)

I pur 10 gallons of premium in her, and we took off along a feeder road to the highway. I didn't push it very hard, we probably saw about 60 mph. We did a u-turn and came back up the other side. Everything was mostly smooth, but we noticed that the coolant temp was creeping up to about 215. We hit a stoplight where we sat for a couple of minutes, and it didn't come back down. So we decided to bring her back and see what was up.

We're not exactly sure what happened, but it appears that the thermostat never opened. It stabilized at 215, but the radiator was cool when we stopped, as was the radiator hose. So it doesn't seem that we had any flow, and thus the belief that the t-stat didn't open. We're going to investigate that more soon.

We have just a couple of minor things to deal with after the drive, but on the whole, it seems like everything is in good shape! I have a lot of work to do on the tuning, it's lean off idle. And the spark table seems to be too aggressive (we had a little knock), but when it was driving, it felt pretty good. We didn't log anything yet, we'll do that on the next drive.

On the whole, I'm very happy with our weekend! I have to travel next weekend, so I've left Eric a little list of things to do. By the time I get back, I think the car will mostly be wrapped up. Then we get to DRIVE!!! Woo hoo!

Good to hear Bryan!


You're in capable hands with Eric turning the wrenches that's for sure.



BTW --- Didn't happen without some video so we can hear that bad boy!

Agreed!

I think Eric took about 10 seconds of video on the drive from the shop to the gas station. After that, we were both too focused on listening to the engine and feeling for any problems that we didn't pull a camera back out! :\

As for the sound, it sounds AWESOME! I'm so glad I chose the Pro-XS mufflers instead of the XR-1's. In the short drive, it sounded just right to me! We'll get some video when we hit the road again, within the next couple of weeks (I'm traveling next weekend, so I won't get to drive again for a while).

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Nice Bryan glad to here it went smooth for the most part, now next time if there's no video :warning: :warning: :poke: