lostsoul
2014 vett or 2015 stang..
Thats right ladies and Gentlemen its a tread all about the one and only. I will throw my unless information/ Comments in other threads as normal but thought I should make a thread to focus on my issues in one area then all over the place. In this thread Screamn yellow is the best color ever period! and a mid 12 second 600hp car is normal, and 3 inches is above average.....
Anyhoo, Lets Start.
Issue #1
After getting tuned with my new MMR built motor. I have been having issues with driving when the car is cold. It will make some intake popping sounds when trying to drive it. I had the car re-tuned from another tuner and he was able to "work" most of it out. HE also told me he thinks there is a leak in the head gasket(an mmr metal racing gasket). When the car warms up its seals up and stomping on it is fine. I have had this issue for a while but its not been much of an issue. 3-5 min of warm up and I'm fine. Last night and now I hear something like that noise when warm and stomping on it. I dont know if this one is air or miss-fire. I will check the plugs today. There are no codes thrown for these issues. Questions.
1. I'm very worried about my head gasket "if" its an issue. Someone told me a leak down test would test to see if its good. IS this true? how much?
2. Could the car miss-fire without a code being thrown and could be be something other then plugs (bad gas)?
These might be separate issues. ITs hard to tell. The cold start has been going on for a while and this other noise(miss-fire?) just happened last night and only does it when I stomp on it.
Anyhoo, Lets Start.
Issue #1
After getting tuned with my new MMR built motor. I have been having issues with driving when the car is cold. It will make some intake popping sounds when trying to drive it. I had the car re-tuned from another tuner and he was able to "work" most of it out. HE also told me he thinks there is a leak in the head gasket(an mmr metal racing gasket). When the car warms up its seals up and stomping on it is fine. I have had this issue for a while but its not been much of an issue. 3-5 min of warm up and I'm fine. Last night and now I hear something like that noise when warm and stomping on it. I dont know if this one is air or miss-fire. I will check the plugs today. There are no codes thrown for these issues. Questions.
1. I'm very worried about my head gasket "if" its an issue. Someone told me a leak down test would test to see if its good. IS this true? how much?
2. Could the car miss-fire without a code being thrown and could be be something other then plugs (bad gas)?
These might be separate issues. ITs hard to tell. The cold start has been going on for a while and this other noise(miss-fire?) just happened last night and only does it when I stomp on it.
Issue #2
Damn boost gauge. Ever since the engine rebuild I have not been able to get my Nordskog digital gauge ( http://www.nordskogperformance.net/ )to work again. The settings and hook up never changed. All it is is a ground wire and signal wire going from sending unit to gauge. I thought the sending unit might have gone bad so I bought a new one.. but it didnt fix the issue. I talked to their tech support and with 100 ohm res tested the gauge itself and read 9psi (which is what it should read) with the res between the signal and ground. I ran new wires and it seems like nothing is fixing it. Doesnt look like a leak or anything It jsut reads 00 and doesnt go up.
1. I had a Vortech mondo bypass installed. It might be a dumb question but can this some how affect the gauge? Before I had the procharger bypass connected to were the gauge is at and it worked. Anyone have any ideas?
Issue #3
Increasing air intake. Today/ tomorrow I will be installing a GT500TB upgrade from RPM(many of you love that place http://rpmoutlet.com/05gtbbk.htm ) and Anderson motorsports powerpipe for the procharger (http://www.andersonfordmotorsport.com/dynojet/05GTATIPPhoodclosed.jpg)
1. Both these items say they can be installed withOUT a tune. IF I install both of these and do a little ram air.. can I get away and drive it safely without a tune? I plan to get another tune soon.. but can I get away with it and will I get some hp?
You can see the difference between the stock procharger filter and the Anderson power pipe
The GT500 TB will be a very close fit because there is almost no room to move the procharger intake pipe back to fit the spacer and TB. RPM said it fit on their F1 and "Should fit". I think it will with some knuckle banging
Thanks for any help you guys can offer
Damn boost gauge. Ever since the engine rebuild I have not been able to get my Nordskog digital gauge ( http://www.nordskogperformance.net/ )to work again. The settings and hook up never changed. All it is is a ground wire and signal wire going from sending unit to gauge. I thought the sending unit might have gone bad so I bought a new one.. but it didnt fix the issue. I talked to their tech support and with 100 ohm res tested the gauge itself and read 9psi (which is what it should read) with the res between the signal and ground. I ran new wires and it seems like nothing is fixing it. Doesnt look like a leak or anything It jsut reads 00 and doesnt go up.
1. I had a Vortech mondo bypass installed. It might be a dumb question but can this some how affect the gauge? Before I had the procharger bypass connected to were the gauge is at and it worked. Anyone have any ideas?
Issue #3
Increasing air intake. Today/ tomorrow I will be installing a GT500TB upgrade from RPM(many of you love that place http://rpmoutlet.com/05gtbbk.htm ) and Anderson motorsports powerpipe for the procharger (http://www.andersonfordmotorsport.com/dynojet/05GTATIPPhoodclosed.jpg)
1. Both these items say they can be installed withOUT a tune. IF I install both of these and do a little ram air.. can I get away and drive it safely without a tune? I plan to get another tune soon.. but can I get away with it and will I get some hp?
You can see the difference between the stock procharger filter and the Anderson power pipe
The GT500 TB will be a very close fit because there is almost no room to move the procharger intake pipe back to fit the spacer and TB. RPM said it fit on their F1 and "Should fit". I think it will with some knuckle banging
Thanks for any help you guys can offer