#3
Re: New Engine For The Red Baron
1/7/2009 12:48:00 AM
This post is a reply to post #2:
MoPaRmAn wrote:i think some of us in here want to hear that story...
hahah well...
for MONTHS it ran like crap and no matter what I did to it, it refused to get better. in fact it only got worse the longer I drove it. It turns out, I think it was a combination of factors. the throttle switch was bad, and so the ECU didn't know if the throttle was open or closed ever, so the mixture was way the fuck off. So, in my stupidity, I started messing with the MAP sensor and timing, and i got it marginally decent, but obviously it was really REALLY wrong now. So then on top of that, it ran for a while without these cooling hoses that I kept blowing off on the freeway on long trips, so I think the extra heat near the heads combined with the clusterfuck of timing and mixture issues at various RPMS warped and eventually caused the heads to crack HARDCORE.
when I tore down the engine, it was about .00000001 pico seconds from dynamiting. the cam was starting to go, I had chipped timing gears, all the crank and cam bearings where blue-ing. it was nasty.
