pontiacfreak142

yea, but fortunately its not gonna be a DD for much longer lol

LOL, yea but me and my dad are talking about things to come with this car after im out of school

this is probably a dumb question, but if ya havent figured out yet, i dont know much about tuning and what not. im gettin ready to order an electric water pump, would that mess with the pcm any since its gonna be picking up more power?

ive noticed that to. i always go the KFC on east broad now (east point)

holy crap, id say a good little while anyway. thats about how bad mine looked when i blew my first one up.

nope, its not a stock pcm, i had to get a 97 cause the 96's were untuneable. Yes, the car was dynoed with a/f, i have the graph around some where. im not quite sure what im making power wise. last time it was dynoed i made 222 hp and 225 tq, but also had bad valve guides (although not sure how bad they were at the time of the dyno, but still had a very nasty tick from the valves bouncing around a bit), and still had stock length pushrods, which i was later told were to long. thats really weird, with yours, did you have like great bottom-mid range power, but crappy top end? cause im pretty sure thats what half my problem is with this car. im pretty sure its capable of pulling off 1.8 60's with a good tune, but im only trapping 95 mph at best. im just really confused about this car, like i think something is wrong, but at the same time i just dont know. There was a guy on a v6 site im on running the same cam i have, stock heads/intakes, with a 3200 stall i think, 1 piece drive shaft, i think he had a few valve train upgrades, and good tires and 4:10 gears, and a good tune running 13.5's @ 100 mph. so basically he has better gearing than i do, his 4:10 to my 3.73, but i have ported heads. so im hoping that i just have a very shitty tune lol sounds good, i work till 2 in the after noon saturdays and sunday's

umm i think about 48 thousand on the motor, about 2 months ago, they are basically new slicks. unfortunately, there are no easy solutions on this car LOL. scott, ill let ya know when we figure out a day to do it. i hope he can check everything, id also like to see if it can check injector duty cause i have a feeling im leaning out real bad on the top end to.

exactly, i have no clue whats going on. do you think it could cause that problem where its at? (you can see it in the second pic i have posted). The only thing that sucks though, at least until i get a new intake setup, i have no where else to mount that sensor that would be in the air flow. hey buck, when you scan my car, will you be able to tell if its pulling timing and such? and correct me if im wrong, but dont those IAT sensors have to have ait going past them to get an accurate reading? cause where its mounted, i cant really see that happening since its not really getting any flow going past it

i always use sunoco 93, and maybe 94 every once in a while.

actually that thing is pretty much just rigged up and shoved into a little hole in the front of the air filter lol so it probably aint doin to much. im just guessin it is the intake cause ive had quite a few people tell me it would probably cause problems since it is mounted right near the motor and the radior/fans, so its right where all the hot air is.

well i deffinately wouldnt count a bad tune out for some of the problems. as for the mph dropping off, i honestly do think its that damn intake of mine. the car never used to change so much in different weather conditions as it does now. hell back when i just had bolt ons, i still had the stock intake on it basically except i took the air box out and just put in a cone air filter on instead. the car was pretty consistant no matter what. the biggest jump in time it ever had was when i took it out on a wednsday night and ran a 15.4 in mid 80 degree weather with decent humidity, then came home and took out the spare tire and jack and took it back to the track a couple days later when it was cooler and ran 15.2. it did it the last time you were at trails to. it was running 14.5's the entire time you were there, then after the sun went down i started running 14.2s, and that was with just a 10 degree drop...

nice truck man, i want one of those. ill be signing up as soon as i can. im hoping to have a few extra parts on the car before this track day.

that would be awsome. let me know what weekend you are free to do that.

i know it, im gonna get hptuners one of these days so i can. as for times, my PB for sunday was 14.18 @ 94.35 mph with a 1.93 60, but had pretty consitant 14.2's at 94 mph with i think 1.95 60's all day even with hot lapping it quite a bit. the best i could get out of the car wednsday was a 14.44 at 92 mph with a 1.98 60, then nothing better than a 14.5 with 2.0 60's the rest of the night.

well what do you mean compare? compare to what? times from sunday and last night? buck, not much of one. i had it tuned by intense a while back but i later found out i was only running on 5 cylinders, and had stock length pushrods still in it which i was told might have been keeping the valves open to. damn, thats alot of timing, im only running 25 degress

ok here they are http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj294/pontiacfreak142/PICT2152.jpg http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj294/pontiacfreak142/11-4-2006-46.jpg

ok, well basically im having problems with the bird. Most cars (at the track anyway), usually vary maybe a tenth or two depending on weather and humidity, but my car is fucked up when it comes to that. like a couple weeks ago, it went from 85 degrees to about 75, and i went from running a 14.5 to a 14.2, and its getting rather annoying, especially since i bracket race. the reason for posting this is, those of you that were at the track day last sunday, may have seen my car running low 14's all day (14.3 was my worst pass of the day with a 14.1 being the best). I know kil kare is a bit faster track than trails is, but i could get the car to do better than a 14.5 tonight, no matter what i did. im pretty sure it was a bit more humid out tonight than it was sunday, but id guess the temps were about the same. The only thing i can come up with at this point that might be causing the problems is my air intake. I know only like 1 or people here have ever seen it so ill try to find pics. To give ya an idea though, i have an air filter fitted onto the throttle body, but 2 tubes running out to the front of the car where the fog lights used to be, like a ram air setup, excpet only the bottom half of the filter is coverd up, and the top half is just sucking what ever air is the the engine compartment. Anyone else think it might really be hurting me? any other ideas on things i might try?

exactly, money reasons. i dont want an LS1 to try to fit in, ive just always wanted one. if i had the money i could probably easily build a low 12-high 11 second NA 3.8, and it would be sweet, but could also build a 10 second LS1 for alot cheaper. thats my reason for wanting one. other than that i could care less about what people think about what i drive. i wasnt knocking him for what he drives, just saying i dont see much of a point, which is just an opinion. i have no problem with a good running 4 banger.

LOL, i knew that was coming. i know i dont imuch room to talk, but at least mine started with 200, and with a mild cam and slightly ported heads, im still making 300 hp with a damn motor that is used in a grandpa car lol im also not addicted to the power of my v6, id gladly take an LS1 if anyone has one they would like to get rid of lol

truth. maybe its just me, but ive never quite understood the whole point to modding a honda anyway, although i do realize there are some very nicely done and very quick ones. I dont know much about the different engine codes for honda, but if you build up this b18 and only make 215 hp, i dont see a point.

ouch, what gears did you have it?

eh, dont feel bad, the best i got was a 1.93

actually im just kinda holding out right now, im getting 15 inch pro star rims this winter, but im going back to a 26 inch tall tire that is also 9.5 inch wide.

it is modded, but not as well as one might think. it has mild ported heads with stock valves, a mild cam, full exaust, 3.73 gears and a 3500 stall. and yea, mine ran 15.8 stock. 14's arent bad, but it still has more left in it. the headers i have on the car now cant flow enough for stock car past 5100 rpm, let alone mine (plus mine doesnt shift until 6K). I have bigger fuel injectors for it cause a few guys i know that are running the same cam i am (with stock heads) are maxing out their injectors. Ive also been told by a few people that the slicks im using on it are hurting me cause they are to small and its hurting my shift points and such (tuned for 26 inch tall tire and slicks are 24.6 inch). This car should be at LEAST at mid 13 car by time i get all that corrected.

edit: it might not be there, my dad will be in california and i cant exactly drive 2 cars at once lol. i tried to talk him into lettin my sister drive it but he doesnt seem to like the idea much.