TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by classicauto

I would've but I left the USA on saturday

Good job man, can't wait for power results!

Damnit, oh well.... next time

Originally Posted by JShiz

Fly me to CT and I'll do it

it was tempting.... it really was

Originally Posted by EJayCe996

Congrats!


and....




NICE WHEELS!

I'm sorry I couldn't resist

Yeah I did promise those didn't I.... Aight, I'll snap ONE tonight just to relive... whatever

Originally Posted by chickenwafer

I love your build man, so badass. I've debated having my engine in the 8 blacked out when I rebuild it, you are really convincing me Also on the harness tuck- love that.

i had it done by Anthony Bulger @ Sport Tuner. Awesome guy to work with, great prices and his turn-around time is what he says it is. how can you ask for anything more. I had everything done in their high-temp ceramic coating which honestly makes a huge difference. One of my pipes broke and I had to weld it. The coating rejected the welding heat like no-ones business. Great stuff.

As for that harness tuck I'm dreading helping my buddy do it. It's nice when it's done but I suggest alot of booze after the fact to help you forget the pain that you went through

Originally Posted by MaczPayne

Brian, what's your brake setup? Glad to see her back again! I need YOU at our local tracks! Would be nice to drive with ya!

Hell yeah it would be nice to drive with ya Johnson. As for my brakes, right now they are stock 4-pots with KVR x-drilled and carbon pads. They work great. Over the winter though I have something nasty planned


Aight........ so on with the update........ or lack thereof. First let me comment on Dave @ KDR. The guy is a fricken SAINT not to mention a hell of a mechanic and tuner as well. That being said.........

I left work late last night and made a 240 mile loop around CT for some miles, since none of you sissys wanted too Got home ~2 in the morning, cleaned my garage up so I could change my oil in the morning. Got to bed around 5, woke up @ 8 to help a buddy move his rig the alignment shop. Then I changed my oil and left. I got held up in construction traffic, then a car fire stopped 287 in both directions (I got pics of the carnage though, a Camry somehow managed to spin, bust up both ends, roll, land shiny side up and then errupt into flames. Had I been 2 minutes earlier I would've missed it all but instead I got to watch them put the fire out...) regardless... I was like 3 hours late. So we strap her down and make a few mild pulls. Problems right off the bat, WAY lean.... like high 13's in boost lean. Also the boost control was non-existant. Spikes to 20. I'll spare the details but it ended after swapping maps, checking vaccuum diagrams, dicking with this, horsing with that, pulling and changing fuel lines, swapping them around thinking the feed was feeding the back of the reg and destroyed the diaphram, reagardless of what we did, we couldn't get the girl to fatten up. To add insult to injury the FP sensor puked completely on the way out. So we had no idea what the FP was as one of Daves friends borrowed his kit. So we had to set the fuel pressure off the rail with a tranny system tester and I left, after keeping Dave late for a while, like a long while. I was all set to get a hotel and hit her again in the morning but Dave was jammed Thursday so we decided to just set the pressure and nurse her home........ guess what I found when I got home? Another clogged fuel filter. (Yes it's 1 in the morning & I'm on 3 hours of sleep, a few Redbulls and it was a high tobacco consumption day... yet I still had to know WTF was going on & I'm still gonne get pics of my rims.... bastards ) Yeah, after maybe 1200 miles my filter clogged again. Not to mention ~ 700 miles ago I dropped the tank to clean it out BY HAND.

Here's my thought. I've seen a METRIC FUCKTON of boats blow motors, clog carbs, eat filters from the inside and detroy fuel tanks from the Ethanol that was put in a few years ago. It's very prevelant in the marine industry where tanks tend to be very old and sedimenty being that they sit 1/2 thier life with the same fuel just fermenting. Years ago the ethanol would break up all the sludge and send it throught the rest of the fuel system. That's pretty much how I got my boat as cheap as I did. The first tank of ethanol fuel and the boat ran for 20 minutes before 4 out of 6 carbs were clogged. CLOGGED. Over powered the fuel filter and bam. Done. So I bought the boat, drained the tank, rebuild the carbs and it ran for 30 minutes before she started running like shit again. I put a drainable fuel/water/sludge seperator on and the bowl was BLACK, as in the fuel was BLACK. As in it looked like 20 year old coke was being poured out. This was after I drained the tank mind you. So I drained it again and the shit that was coming out was disgusting. Then I opened it up and put a pressure washer in there. MORE shit came out and it looked like there was no end. SO I hauled the tank from the boat - 32 gallon tank. Then I took a length of chain and put it in the tank and rolled it around, put a few gallons in, drained it and continued this for hours. The crap that came out was UNBELIEVABLE. So this was year one of the ethanol in the marine industry. After a bunch of tanks were cleaned or replaced, the next year it was just water in the fuel. So much to the point that engines were still blowing and carbs were still getting clogged. Not from sludge, no no no, that's all been cleaned out. Now its water in the fuel. Apparently the ethanol attracs water. Alot of boats actually have mold around the vents... charming isn't it? Incidentally, there is no real "charcoal canister" crap in the marine world. They are all pretty much vented to atmosphere. Like the tank in my 7

This year I have heard a bunch of stories about fiberglass/epoxy tanks being replaced. Apparently the ethanol wasn't content with collecting water, dispersing sludge and blowing motors constantly, now it's attacking fiberglass. There is one tank in particular that I worked on that is so soft you can leave a fingerprint in 5 year old fiberglass. When I drained that tank, CHUNCKS of epoxy were coming out. It was ridiculous. The floats were "epoxied" shut and the thing is in need of some serious carb work.

So, what does all of that rambling have to do with me? About 5 years ago when I painted my car I dropped the tank. I peeked inside and saw a shit-ton of rust. So I did what anyone else would do. I took it to a shop to have it boiled out and EPOXY COATED. The only thing that I can think of why I clog so many socks and now 2 filters in 4k miles is the ethanol is attacking my coating and sending epoxy through the entire fuel system. Now I'm debating whether or not I should pull my injectors and send them to Marren to have them double checked. He's local so overnight is the same as standard UPS and I have an appt with Dave next Wed (I'm getting a hotel room local so today's crap doesn't happen again, becuase this is the second time)

So that's the story. 1 all nighter, one night till 7 in the morning, and one till 5 in the morning all so I can make today's (@ this point) track day @ Limerock and Sundays auto-x. Maybe I'll e-mail a few of the BMW/Porsche clubs and see if they'll let me beat up on them at the track under thier club for a day seeing as mine only has one day @ Limerock. I know the club I belong to allows provisional one day memberships. Anywho, lemme go snap a pic or two of meh new rims, that I was hoping to have bolted on today.

The only bright side to this, I have tomorrow off for the track day. Now since I'm not going, maybe I'll uncover my boat, it's only more than half-way into June