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Well, Mid-Ohio is in the books. Hindsight is 20/20, and we should've waited for a trackday to shake it down. We got to the track on Friday morning for practice. While warming the car up, I noticed the alternator wasn't charging. It was a brand new alternator that Scott had installed between the time...

Paul sent me a couple videos on my phone and It. Is. Hilarious. It looks like a lot of fun.

Maybe Fred needs to drive it -- just to ensure all the drivers are wearing cowboy boots!

Friday, Sept 15 at Dragway 42.

I plan on being there, I'll get some good video.

-Dave

So with barely a few drives on the new exhaust system, both donut gaskets failed miserably, but of course not at the same time. First the driver's side, and I swear not a week after I did that one, the passenger side failed. I got the passenger side replaced yesterday with the departure of the Porsc...

I made a trip to the Tiresmoke Munson outpost to pick up a little hardware for the Porsche project and to see the DirtVette in person!

The 944 went back home to Scott's today. I was able to do a little street driving with it the past couple days and I have a rough tune in there. It starts and idles easily, I plan to do a little more tuning during our Friday practice session. This one was a hard project to document, because I was st...

Also, Tom came over again last night and we got the timing belt cover put back, zip tied some wiring and took it for the first test drive -- just down my street and the next street over to the cul-de-sac. I'm sure I looked pretty hillbilly to the woman and her daughter near the cul-de-sac with no ho...

I discovered it by posting a thread on the msextra.com/forums -- in TunerStudio, you can take a 'tooth log' which shows the trigger pattern seen by the CPU in detail. I don't know how to analzye/interpret those logs, but there are guys on the forum who know and help. So I posted a bunch of logs, mad...

This setting. Which, ironically, is what I use on my Chevelle and Malibu, but its a different sensor, and the default is to use Rising Edge. Even when my cars were set wrong, they still started up and ran. I mean, the Chevelle ran *great* with the wrong setting until 5100 RPM, when it had a hard cut...

IT RUNS!!

https://files.tiresmoke.org/f/7ce8ef9ec ... 9ba4/?dl=1 (60mb)

So I haven't posted too many updates, because the car **still** doesnt run. The signal from the factory crankshaft position sensor would drop out to 0 while cranking. I tried reversing polarity, adding a 10k resistor, tried adjusting these 'pots' on the mainboard. Nothing was helping, the Megasquirt...

So I got the injectors swapped during my lunch hour today. I removed the low-impedance 28lb injectors and installed high-impedance 30lb injectors. Still no start. Not even a cough, which was puzzling. Further troubleshooting revealed that the fuel lines were hooked up backwards. No wonder I wasn't g...

It's been a while since I posted an update, but a lot of progress has been made despire losing almost a week to being sick and other assorted ailments. However, a lot has gotten done. I'm using the S2's factory 60-2 crank sensor. I'm seeing RPM signal when cranking the engine. I need to verify TDC a...

Sorry I'm late on this Matt... just give me a username and password to use (priv message, email, txt, whatever) and I'll set it up.

-Dave