The Project Pad

Aaron you are looking for one of these:

well, i dunno WTF is up.

all i know is it was real hard being @ the track, smelling race gas exhaust, watching friends make pass after pass, and not running.

but the car got showed off, it looked terrific. and i even entered into the showing and won first place for special interest Audi. it was a shoe-in, as there were no other entries :bashtard:

so it makes rev-dependent ticking. seems like bottom end, back half. louder at times, quieter at other times. i guess when i muster the desire to tear it apart again, i will check into it. BOTI is end of next month. (Battle of the Imports) maybe i try and make that show. who knows.

that said, this car should be a monster when i can finally make some runs in it.

but i want to take a break from it at the same time.... (he says as he goes out to the garage to start tearing it down AGAIN). lol

Are you sure it's not your clutch/flywheel? Does it go away when you push in the clutch?
Mine makes a lot of ticking noises, until I push the clutch in (Spec 3+ with aluminum flywheel).
I've heard many people comment that their clutch is a lot noisier at idle with an aluminum flywheel.

it's definitely in the engine. i ran it today and listened (while a flock of people watched ). it's something in the bottom end i think.

show pic

the car looked awesome today.

i met Pete and Dave from Integrated Engineering and also Clay from CTS as well.

was alright day actually. also got offered a photoshoot for a magazine layout possibly....

speeding-g60 wrote: BOTI is end of next month. (Battle of the Imports) maybe i try and make that show. who knows.

hey aaron, you gave it your best, its so nearly there. its ok been there ive been trying to get my swap to run for 2 months and i went today to a show/meet in mass, finally being able to drive it out of my town hahaha ~250 miles round trip, still have less than 350 mi. on the swap, but it was awesome, your day is very near!!!

speeding-g60 wrote:the car looked awesome today.

was alright day actually. also got offered a photoshoot for a magazine layout possibly....

:woowoo: :woowoo: :woowoo:

and that would be me in the blue flames....

pondering something probably....

speeding-g60 wrote:and that would be me in the blue flames....

pondering something probably....

serious ponderage

speeding-g60 wrote:and that would be me in the blue flames....

pondering something probably....

I think it was something like:

"man why am I such a badass?"

lol

car looks amazing. I sure hope you get a magazine feature. The car definitely deserves it! I would take pride in seeing a fellow MG'er in a mag


I'm still working through my issues too. Luckily it seems we have made some progress...Keep it up.

took off VC, turbo, rad.

nothing out of the ordinary. all lifters are cycling just fine. oil is coming up to the head while cranking.

tomorrow maybe manifolds and head come off.

then next day block come out.

i think the first pull did it, really. 45 psi by 6400 rpm spiked hard. ECU logged 410 kpa @ ~6k rpm. made 561 AWHP and 456 WTQ like instantly. let off the throttle ASAFP but still it went sky high. blew the boost reference line to the ECU right off.

i think i may have bent #4 rod or something, its low and back sounding. but so far, the head looks brand new as yet.

the good stuff is that we are only @ 72% injector duty cycle so far with 592 AWHP. and only with 22.5 degrees timing, too. so its not like it is out of this world mapping.... fuel is right where we want it to be....

Somewhat unrelated, are you still running the AEM UEGO?

gave that away a long time ago..... i have this one now.... linked to the ECU and dialed in great. have one for each car actually

http://www.ngksparkplugs.com//products/ ... country=US

and while tuning on the dyno, i have a separate bung for the dyno WB sensor. no pipe sniffer action here. and they were veeeerry close to each other fueling wise.

if i were back on a Dyno Dynamics dyno, i could just use the dyno WB output (as it is an Autronic wideband OEM) to feed the ECU directly with the same signal for both the ECU and the dyno. that allows Auto-tune feature as well. i did that last year with the rabbit, until i tried to hold 5k rpm it skyrocketed from boost... LOL.

Aaron, youre clutch is absolutely retarded ahahah....

did you say it was 2200lbs or something?

saw the car at waterland, very nice. I rode in the only lowered B5 avant there, or so it seemed.....

jsut one b5, ?!?! :?

speeding-g60 wrote:gave that away a long time ago..... i have this one now.... linked to the ECU and dialed in great. have one for each car actually

http://www.ngksparkplugs.com//products/ ... country=US

You didnt like the AEM wideband?

My buddy was between that NGK and the AEM and went with AEM, he seems to like it.

whats the difference between the 2?

AEM was round?

mine stopped working. even with two brand new sensors, it quit.

i gave it away....

Justin517 wrote:whats the difference between the 2?

Other then the obvious shape difference; The AEM can display Lambda and sues a Bosch sensor. I like Lambda display because I will be running E85 and there are less conversions to do.

Mcstiff wrote:

Justin517 wrote:whats the difference between the 2?

Other then the obvious shape difference; The AEM can display Lambda and sues a Bosch sensor. I like Lambda display because I will be running E85 and there are less conversions to do.

The NTK also uses the bosch sensor, but since the product carries the NTK name, the bosch-ness of the sensor is laser marked off.
You'd think with NTK in the name, they would use an NTK sensor but this is not the case. The NTK UEGO sensor costs too much for that market niche.

I've never played with an AEM, but the NTK meters are pretty low quality.
Many Ive seen have gone south in a lab environment.

ive never had the NTK, but i...and my good buddy, really like the AEM setup. its simple, unlike the innovate setup which needs a whole seperate box wired in along with the gauge and such, the aem was one wire to switch 12v, ground, and then 0-5v out to the ecu.

Yeah, the AEM's harness is "too" simple as it has a shared ground for the unit and the output. Funny that NTK uses the Bosch sensor but makes sense.

Run a simple compression test to see if any of the cyl are low? Might show a bent rod

Jim, i think the head is off already...how would you run a comp test? some sort of adapter plate that bolts to the deck or something?