Turns out I’ll be getting a new water pump / thermostat and some new coolant pipes ....had the car parked the other day noticed a little bit of coolant thought nothing of it really had it out again noticed a little more coolant in the middle of the ground ...heads oil look fantastic. I know the water pump and everything that goes with it has been taking a supercharged beating now for over 2 years and well looks like new water pump seals only saved it for so long ...so finally after 128k they are finally saying change me ...before I go splat .......will be a good time to get a new power steering pump also and get fit my abs plastic cover back on .....Kinda surprised it’s held up this long ....lol

 

I hear ya on the neck issues! I've had several vertebrae fused. If this had happened when I was in my late teens, my back seat adventures at the Drive In theater would've been much fewer, but just as between 'er!!!

 

Hey speedy when you replace your water pump buy the more expensive ac delco water pump. The other cheaper ones can lead to belt slip because of the way the supercharger bracket bolts to the original belt tensioner location that is on the water pump. I wasted lots of time and money before I called A and A and got that little tip from them.

 

Ya they said to use the stocker for alignment purposes I have no trouble with that ...as far as buying a more expensive one prob not ...though

 

the one that’s 200 is the one you want. I tried the $100 acdelco and a house brand from a parts store with no luck.

 

Rather than just throwing the entire parts bin at it why don't you trace your leak? Use UV dye kit and figure out where the leak originates. Unless the water pump has been removed recently I doubt the leak is coming from those two gaskets.

 

I did trace it back to the tank just way over filled to the brim guess I had long forgotten about that ...took out the syphon and cleared that up...

 

Its was a while ago when I was doing the supercharger and head swap I did take apart the water and power steering pump entirely to see what’s in then and get familiar with the internals replaced seal used a little bit a rtv blue to just hep it stick....I kinda just want to change the pump sometimes I go looking for reasons based off mileage and it’s boosted

 

must of been busy. Replying over 3 weeks later. What u do, tear down ur whole car to look for that bug the feds hid n ur car.

 

 

Just crawled out from under Plymouth Rock waiting for the right to start messing with y’all again .....seems to work up some laughter...


Anyways for what it’s worth to those who celebrate it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

So what does -19 on the vacuum state ? Negative -19

 

All day. U already know the deal. I get less oil pressure than vacuum. Is that good?

 

You have yet to sum the answer to the stated question other then all day doesn’t clarify the reading of -19 hg ( mercury measurement) . Let’s clarify....input before we begin it boost gauge 101 ? Anyone everyone welcome to share ....

 

A vacuum cleaner that runs that low can not suck dirt when vacuuming your car.
Im guessing air filter.

 

Anyways -20 hg below ambient pressure is normal...a light fluctuation to -21 -22 would indicate dirty filthy filter , spark plugs and or injector because it’s reading from the amount of air /fuel needed to maintain that pulse ...-19 to 17 is saying your car is running more effectively then stock -20 thus making a -19,-18,-17...better emissions too.....anything above -16 -15 and so is telling you there’s a pressure leak .....whether it be oil,piston or other relevant issue ....I never knew this before as my snow performance gauge was a true boost and only read from 0 to whatever x boost u ran .... anyways stumbled on this after selling off my methanol kit ...found it cool how the older tech is still a kinda diagnostic if u know how to read it .....this is my cheap Chinese /Japenese gauge I paid 25.00 bucks for ...I seem to like it more then my snow vc-50 controller as it’s both analog and digital read outs .

Okay so history provides uses in aviation and this seems more a like a chronograph watch yet it tells time plus so much more ....the value is much higher if your educated enough to convert problems to hp ect....so why hasn’t this analog platform or gauge face display like a watch face the needle could match up the equation to sum every time the correct hp..,afr,air, boost, leak, and others just to get started .....helping tuners across the board measure and tune and put this into a digital OBD CALIBRATION.....through android just because it’s open source
I’ll start by sourcing the plastic cover display for printing ....and get one up my own on the pc .....so a chronograph style will fit and have a multi read function

 

Noticing some fuel richness as it’s gets in the 40’s and upper 30’s .....I kinda wonder if I turned on my auto tune if this will help scale out some richness ....from the fuel enrichment settings ....I love the pop corn or in this case it would be more like the bigger kernels like kettle style pops lol ....but there’s a tad more fuel then I would like by the smell of things and I think it would be just as gurgling with a few more points shaved off.....so it’s in all I know engine in e85 is commanding what 30% maybe 25% I should knock this back to maybe 15-% in the winter months maybe ......will see boost gauge indicated a rich segment the other day I noticed so I would just like to square away my fuel enrichment these days .....as a winter tune ...and this way I have one on blast for the hotter days and a tune that’s running a tad more skimp in the winter as e85 is that wonderful ......I used almost almost 1/8 of a full tank in 50 miles or so ...judging it averaged about 27 mpg city and some getting down of course not to shabby and it’s rich on fuel still ....lord oh lord how efficient has the engine really become .....test is proving e85 may fail to function in normal state during a cold cold start ....but hey once it’s temped to I would say 60 -65 it’s all good ...the cold air helps e85 get better economy in colder months ....after tuning the fuel enrichment should see a maybe 5-10 mpg increase on that .....then back to the blaster tune in the warm months ....where over fueling is needed lol ....

 

R u sd tune?

 

Of course...

 

Hmm I live in chicago and I don't have that kind a/f swing and I'm SD also. I wonder whats up

What is auto tune?? Your SD u need to change it manually.