Cascade Crew

Alphius

Aaron is always losing his tools.

Tools were acquired and put to use.

Functional. For now.

I bet you can see where this is going...

Yup. Click it fool.

Anyway, that was our day. More fun tomorrow.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject:

Is the turbo on it yet?

I feel as though I am missing some beer drinking time....

Alphius · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject:

Damn, I hung out in North Tacoma this morning. I should've realized bananaananaa work would have been going down and texted you guys.

Nice job!

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:53 am Post subject:

Woot! She lives!

Way cool gentlemen.

-Schultzy

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject:

It's true, kids. The car is totally running a driving. After rolling it around the neighborhood a bit yesterday Gabe and I took it about half a mile up the road before the exhaust pumping into the cab had annoyed me enough to turn around.

Some thoughts:

If you have a smoke detector in your shop you should take the battery out before you redline a motor with open headers inside. Cool

No exhaust means no wideband and so no ability for the ECM to target and AFR. Gabe was manning the laptop and fueling based off of the MAP sensor alone. This caused some tip-in issues, and it ran way rich with any amount of throttle. This was especially bad because with no HVAC covering the holes in the firewall Gabe and I were being pummeled by hot blinding exhaust smoke as we drove. Rolling Eyes

As such an HVAC blockoff plate has moved way up on the priority list.

The serpentine belt keeps jumping off the back of the alternator pulley (til it runs into the alternator case) with any RPM. I am not certain if this is the fault of the alternator, the tensioner/idler pulley, or maybe even the water pump. All are unknown units.

The start and die immediately issue that I was having was caused by the IAC acting retarded. With enough pedal I was able to keep it running but by the end of the day Gabe had mostly tuned that out so that it will start and stay running without pedaling now.

The engine free-revs to redline great. I would wager it's probably the fastest-revving motor I have ever had. Not sure how much of that is the aluminum flywheel on it, but speaking of that...

The Spec stage 3 is reasonable on the street. I was worried it would be aggressive or chatter because it is kinda hammered but it works fine.

Fourth-gen throttle cable with a third-gen firewall connector and a new swage on the cable seems to work pretty well. I cut the cable a bit short so the throttle pedal is higher than normal, but whatever.

Overall I am very pleased. There were a lot of questions on this build but for the most part it went great.

RSFreak · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:21 pm Post subject:

Awesome! Cool to see the Banana getting closer to running under boost! Dying to see this thing completed! Cool

turbo_jimi · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:11 pm Post subject:

Nice progress! Looking forward to when it's complete. Smile

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:56 am Post subject:

Nice Rat Fink shifter. Laughing

Are you ready for the cross over then? Get that intercooler mounted and we can spend a day and mock up all the good pipes :O)

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:23 am Post subject:

Yeah, that shifter sucks ass. Rolling Eyes

The nylon bushing in the transmission is shot so it's super sloppy as well as being too long.

Intercooler is already mounted! You can get a good look at it when I'm backing out of the driveway in that video. Very Happy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:28 am Post subject:

eXCELLENT. You get pipage for the CAC system?

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject:

No pipe yet. You got a PM though.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject:

Who got creative with the Sharpie and wrote "the Great yellow hope" on the Driver's B-pillar?

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject:

Alphius · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:21 am Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:11 pm Post subject:

Yup. I already have that exact page bookmarked.

On a related topic: does anyone know if Pro5.0 is still in business? Their website has been down for awhile and places seem to be low on stock of their shifters.

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:39 pm Post subject:

So how much of the interior is actually going back in?

And when do we get to see some performance numbers? Very Happy

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:11 pm Post subject:

Rhinoline that shizzle.

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject:

No no, this is weight reduction project, Paul. Wink