Emissions test.

[vw_85roccoZ400 at hotmail.com (Brian Spinney)]

Great job Dan on passing the Emissions test.

-Brian
85 Scirocco 8vT       01 Jetta 20vT       84 Rabbit GTI
86 Bronze Scirocco 8v
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@verizon.net>
To: "Chuck Blue" <sukchew@cox.net>; "Neptuno" <neptunonc@yahoo.com>; 
"Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Emissions test.


> 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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