- Chassis
- Reattached rear suspension, axles, and crossmember to put the car back on the ground
- Bled my clutch line. I’m not sure why exactly, but I have had a very difficult time getting my clutch master to actually suck new fluid out of the reservoir while bleeding. Instead it tries to suck fluid back from the slave (compressing the slave). Sometimes it works and eventually I got it to a useable state. Anyone have advice on this?
- Fixed my vehicle speed sensor- just a corroded connection in the trans harness connector to the VSS.
- Engine
- Engine is still running well, but I’m having weird issues while trying to get it to ignore the rear O2 sensor. Right now, I have not finished the exhaust for the new turbo flange so I do not have the rear O2 sensor installed in the exhaust. Because of this, I figured I would delete the codes for the sensor so it doesn’t turn off boost control and set a check engine light. However, deleting the codes did not actually delete the check engine light and in fact set a flashing check engine light instead (no misfires or anything with the engine. Just the same code). It would do this whether I had the O2 sensor plugged in or not. I’m going to hope that installing it correctly will fix all this but I’m at a loss as to what exactly is going on with the whole codes thing.
- I have found that the BTSSM app and a USB-C to USB-A adapter allow me to use my tactrix cable to connect my phone to the car for logging, code reading, and live gauges. Highly recommend this setup!
- Interior
- Passenger seat and bracket now installed thanks to some help from a friend (who coincidentally also helped install the driver’s seat). The passenger seat has to be quite upright because of the fuel tank and interior crossbar but FFR doesn’t really seem to have given many options there…oh well I’ll be on the left side most of the time anyways 🙂
- Test Drive
- I drove the car around and overall everything is great! Only had 8psi of boost because of the CEL turning off boost control but my passenger monitored AFR and timing while we drove and everything looked good. Car will be crazy fast with full power. Also, my alignment is in serious need of fixing. The car is darty and all over the place right now but I didn’t have high expectations since I haven’t really put effort into aligning it. So it was driven pretty gently while I work out the bugs but now I’ll finally be able to start sorting a few of those.
Matt using the absolutely horrible HF flux welder to weld seat bracket nuts. The hold up welding mask is hilarious as well.
(This is just a picture)
