Landon's Rebuild
09-25-2012, 09:51 AM
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Im lucky to have Madhav around to advise me too, if not for him I would have gone much crazier on parts and such. I was very tempted to do head work but at the cost to performance ratio it is just not beneficial at this level. We got the Aero 340 and ID1000s in this weekend, im also going to add the SoS power relay to the fuel pump because we all know how the OEM line just cant handle the increased demands of a larger pump. The good side is that the tuner said my injector duty cycle was in a much safer margin now, 70% around 10 psi I believe.
Ill be in your hair again soon Ben! I spend abit of time reading through the schematics of parts and seeing what would benefit from being replaced and such. I have done quite abit of research into WPC treatment and the guy who does it keeps no secrets, he was very happy to give me any little piece of data he had to help my decision. Unlike cryo, which I believe is placebo, WPC guy gave me SEM (Scanning electron micrograph) photos of before and after of the metals and also has some SEM pictuers of cryod parts too. Thw WPC produces a consistent micro dimple which does aid in oil retention on the surface level and the change in dimension is so negligable it is perfectly ok as it does not change the tolerances of the metals.
I would seriously like to WPC the crank and all bearings and journals, but I dont want to crack open a NIB OEM block. I will be going to WPC parts in the head... Rocker arm shafts, cam journals, cam gears, idle gear, shaft and bearing.
The next challenge is wiring up the AEM Failsafe gage, the tuner said we could just wire it to cut both ignition and fuel IIRC. Personally, if hondata would just give me the location of the lowside ground pin, we could wire it into there and then use the OEM cut as the RSX does. Its basically a work around for the lean cut that hondata has refused to work with us on. Since youre running a 1.5v lowside ground to the ECUs lowside ground, it would act the same as the original function if I understand it correctly. Ive already proposed this on the Engine Management forum and no one seems to know so maybe we will break ground there.
The dyno read 10psi @ 9k on Dynocomps setup, so even with a fresh motor I dont feel as if I will make 400 rwhp, both the tuner and Madhav agree that the 91octane pump gas is a major limiting factor here. I really would like big power but safety and reliability are my primary goals. So say 360 on Dynocomps and I would be seriously satisfied.
10-30-2012, 09:59 AM
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