work log : prepping for DA's time attack pt. 4

In one year's time, my car has been through so many changes. The exhaust has been changed from a oem celica header and a Magnaflow canister that had been completely blown out, to a LittleRocket header, JNZ downpipe, and Techno Pro Spirits titanium exhaust. Also for shits and giggles, I threw on a no name intake that was about 6 inches long with a HKS foam filter.

So we did a baseline run with the stock intake on and it pretty much ran as well as it did last year when my car first went in. As soon as the no name intake went on, without changing anything at all on the powerfc, 199hp. Now the tuning begins.

Shawn and Daniel started to do their magic and in no time, the car was seeing upwards of 200hp. The longest part was trying to fix the dip in torque between the cam change (lift). Speculation led towards maybe a better cam or perhaps the header design is limiting the flow in that part of the revband.

After the dust has settled and all the smoke had cleared, we came out with this...

:)

next up... gotta change the oil in the engine and transmission.

work log : prepping for DA's time attack pt. 3

i made me a splitter. 1/2" plywood. not sure what kind of plywood it is but it's really smooth. for now the splitter will keep this rough shape. i'm still in need of more mounting points to assure that it will hold up to the abuse this sunday.

also what you see in the picture are my rpf1's with toyo r888 mounted on them. running lotus elise size tires 195/55/15 and 225/50/16. the wheels are 15x7+35 and 16x8+38. the stance is fairly aggressive while staying within the body. does not rub :)

oh yeah... the alignment was done at pepboys :p -2.5, 0-toe / -1.8, +.13deg. car's so stable.

work log : prepping for DA's time attack pt. 2

Who woulda known bleeding a clutch was the hardest thing to do? I assumed it was the same as bleeding brakes...

pump 5 times....
hold the brake pedal down...
crack the bleeder screw...
tighten it...
repeat as necessary...


apparently not...

After 30 minutes of pumping and getting nowhere, i went on the internets to find out how to do this. I ran across these instructions on hondaswap...

crack bleeder...
press clutch pedal all the way down...
close bleeder...
release clutch pedal...
repeat as necessary...

This actually worked! du ma stupid shit hydraulics!


Fixing the alignment was horrid as well. I give up on this... maybe i'll take it to pepboys or something.

work log : prepping for DA's time attack pt. 1

Today's work on the car was toughest shit.

Brian started everything by fixing my front lip using fiberglass. He did a pretty good job and seems to have a better understanding of that stuff than I do. I was working on the front of the car, experimenting on the top strut mounts to gain some caster. This required moving teh top mounts from the driver side to the passenger side and rotating 60 degrees. From the looks of it, i lost .3ish camber and gained .5ish caster. more better for dorifto!

We then started on the brakes. First we got all the old fluid out of the system. Then we went to the rear passenger side and started taking the caliper apart to replace rotors and pads. The nightmare began here. We brought out the "all spark" brake caliper piston twisting tool. From the looks of it, it was working for a little bit and then stopped. The piston kept twisting but wasn't moving back any more. So I removed the caliper completely off the car and put it on a vise to see if I could use the all spark there. Still no luck. After about 40 minutes of wrestling with the damn thing, I decided to go to Autozone to get a real caliper tool while Brian held down the fort.

So I got to Autozone and as I expected, they didn't have the tool. Just as I was cursing Autozone, Brian calls and said he got the piston to retract. It's nuts. One of those things that you just have to give time for it to work. According to Brian, he did nothing out of the ordinary and it just worked. Grr... so much time was wasted for this dumb caliper. The other 3 sides took at most 10 minutes each.

So tired mang... No food in the stumick.

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