Emissions test.

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Congrats, Dan.  I know you've been working hard on it.  It's nice when
a plan comes together, eh?  :thumbup:

On 2/10/07, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
> Yep the Haltech is history.
> It can do some things that MS II cannot, but MS II will develop and grow to
> handle those things.
> The tunability and support are different universes.
> It took me 6 months to tune the Haltech to pass emissions.
> Considering all the last minute issues, the MS II was essentially tuned in a
> day.
> The Haltech is perfectly functional. Anybody want to buy it?
> Dan
>
> From: "Chuck Blue" <sukchew@cox.net>
> To: "Neptuno" <neptunonc@yahoo.com>; "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>;
> "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Emissions test.
>
>
> > We all know that if necessary Dan would Massage the 84  into emission
> > submission.It looks like Dan has moved completely to the
> > M S side.Is the Haltech ditched like never to be heard from again?
> > ole blue
>
> > From: "Neptuno" <neptunonc@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>; "Scirocco List"
> > <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: Emissions test.
> >
> >
> >> Congratulations Dan. It has been while with that car broken down into
> >> puzzle pieces.
> >>
> >>  El T
> >>
> >> Dan Bubb <jdbubb@verizon.net> wrote:
> >>  After rescheduling the emissions test twice it was time, ready or not,
> >> to
> >> get my 84 tested.
> >> New engine, ditched the Haltech and installed Megasquirt II.
> >> MS II is a lot different from MS I and I would have thought that I could
> >> have used my nephew's setting to get 90% of the way there, but this
> >> turned
> >> out not to be the case. Lot of setup issues even just to get an ignition
> >> trigger input from the crank wheel and getting it to hot start.
> >> So, after three weeks of messing around with it the deadline was here.
> >>
> >> The good news is they only did an idle test and it passed. 0% CO and
> >> 16ppm
> >> from an allowable 250ppm HC!
> >> Plus they didn't drive it on the rollers and I didn't have to watch some
> >> poor soul try to juggle the light flywheel, hairtrigger clutch, zippy
> >> throttle and high effort short throw shifter.
> >>
> >> The bad news is that during all the waiting the under hood temps got
> >> hotter
> >> than hell, the fan was running all the time and the IAT sensor was
> >> reading
> >> hotter than it actually was. So, the fucker was running dead-assed lean.
> >> Well, nobody was paying attention so I opened the laptop and started
> >> richening up the fuel table in the idle region. It obviously worked, but
> >> the car totally runs like crap when the IAT gets heat soaked. Not going
> >> to
> >> be a good traffic jam kind of car and probably not good sitting in line
> >> at
> >> the drag strip either.
> >>
> >> But, I passed!
> >> Know the last time I put gas in the car??? October 2005!
> >> Turns out I was an absolute idiot to fill up the car before the test.
> >> That 10% ethenal in the winter gas? Yep it screwed up the tune and made
> >> it
> >> run lean. Let the MS autotune on the way to the test!
> >>
> >> It's not perfect and there are still a lot of things to do on it, but it
> >> runs and I can start driving it again.
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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