Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

My laptop, the one that smashes other laptops in half and gets warrantied in under three days without a sales pitch, was made in china.

Like anything, it's finding people willing to pay the money for the requisite training to make a good product. The for-aftermarket Valeo ---- sold by china parts wholesale-to-the public vendors is of course of much lower quality than the ---- that finds it's way into an Accord.

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

Why, whats this suddenly installed in the wagon?

http://turboperformanceparts.com/images/AVC-R.jpg

And the guy also gave me an IBM thinkpad!

Took about 1 hour to install. I would say up to three hours for those not used to tearing into the wiring harness, and not having convenient places to bolt the solenoid and MAP sensor.

Tuning it is going to take some time. I have it set @15 psi, but since its all metric, it confuses the heck out of me. I was trying to get it to boost to 20psi and then taper down, but it would just go to 20 and stay. Bad JuJu. So for now have it set level.

More futzing and it should be sweet. Its awesome to be able to change the boost at the wheel!

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

Pay less attention to target boost and more attention to duty cycle. Duty cycle does it all, the target boost is just for the AVC-R's iffy closed loop mode. You'll have to tweak the unit once a season to as the valve flows differently at different temps, but those things flat out work.

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

Yeah, definately have to play with it.

I ended up only paying $50 for it new! My buddy needed $200 for it, it had never been installed. I bought a PP6 for $100, sold and installed it for $250, so I am only out of CAR pocket $50.

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

way to hide the booger welding job with high temp tape

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

you need to stay the ---- out of any tech section

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

i blocked all images from your aids filled photobucket :y

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

:mad:

Yep, I fucked it up. I had been doing ALOT of third and 4th gear pulls to get the AVC-R figured out. Occasionally I would have a weird hesitation and what not, but I put it down to the boost fluctuating due the AVCR.....

Nope. The ONE wire I didnt solder (either completly missed it, or didnt solder on purpose ????) was the deflection wire for the PP6. So what happened (so is the only logical explanation) is that I would get on boost and the wire would touch/not touch back and forth, or just not touch period.

So....

Instead of letting the injectors go static and pull 8 degrees of timing, I PULLED a huge amount of fuel and let the stock timing be. :rolleyes:

To top it off, I cracked the ringland on the way to Lincoln City (110 miles from home) to pick up my kids. AFTER :furious: the ringland cracked I noticed it was boggy and looked at the laptop for the first time. This is where I discovered the deflection wasnt deflecting....

So I made it to Lincoln City and immedietly found the loose wire. Tightened it and THAT problem solved. But this is where I confirmed the ringland was toast with the breather tube and oil filler PUFFING HARD.

Had dinner and loaded up the kids. Car started weird but started. Stopped on the way out of town for snacks. Two more hard starts.

But I made it home 110 miles! Could have cruised at 100 mph if I wanted, everything ran well as long as I didnt want more than 5psi of boost.

But now its parked.

Ah well, I need to swap the pressure plate. I have another block with JE pistons I will swap in and redo this block as I have two extra 100mm Mahles from the last Reddevil fiasco.

Poop. :sadbanana:

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

---- dude, hard luck!



or you really are a ---- tuner.....

sorry :(

Re: 1990 Legacy build
 

You have some great luck. Good luck getting it fixed.