The fact that you don't know what piston fitment is speaks for itself so I won't go into that. I already went over the fact that you knew I hadn't built my own engine yet and made software to match. I didn't force you or encourage you to build your engine before mine. I'll have the new software done when I have it done; my schedule is not set by you wanting everything yesterday. You bought the parts when you did because that's when they were available--that didn't mean you had to put them together--especially before you knew how to do so correctly. Your bearings went bad because you didn't follow my instructions for measuring your bearings and machining your crank; you also used cheap chineese bearings.
As for my suspicions of leaking fuel injectors maybe that's because you ripped the o-rings when you installed sicksubies fuel injectors so bad that despite your swearing up and down he didn't have any fuel leaks he called me a week later to crossmatch nissan's he could get o-rings from off the shelf because he had fuel puddling on the top of his engine and was afraid of an engine fire. I also had to give him the part number for an idler because you had neglected to tension his belt or tighten down his idlers so he not only went to the dyno with a slipping belt but actually had an idler fall off. As for my confidence that the software doesn't run lean maybe that's because it didn't run lean on my car and it doesn't run lean on sicksubies car now that he's had his hands on it long enough to correct your mistakes.
I can point out your mistakes and misleadings all day. I
DO know how to build engines and tune engine management systems so it's very easy. Your lack of knowledge on the subject is extreemly tansparent. That's why I aggreed to build jonathans engine instead of leave him in your incomptent hands.
And the truth is if you really wanted me to have the opportunity to dyno tune software for this specific engine and supercharger set up you would be jumping for joy over that instead of seeing it as dollars out of your pocket and going on the war path.
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Originally Posted by TomsSVX
Not trying to bring you grief, trying to get you to listen.
The idea of DYNO tuning anything you have done this far is laughable. Explain to me then why oh why did a standalone make 210 wheel horsepower through a 5 speed transmission using all stock components?? Yet you fail to increase over stock more than a couple wheel without much improvement across the board. What does the different chasis have to do with anything? Its still the same motor, just someone actually took the time and expense to put it on a dyno and tune the engine properly.
Stage 2 does exactly as I stated above. it allows people to use forced induction with limitation of the stock MAF and injectors, beyond that I would LOVE to see something using the stage 2 NOT heavily benefit from a real tune
Ok lets put it all out.
#1 I bought all of your components at full cost
#2 I have been your test dummy for years running *new* software
What do I have to show for it? Well, smoked a piston or 5 in my stock motor trying your software. You offered $350 to pay for a new engine. So I replaced the engine that was running on the 12psi pulley you guaranteed me would work and started using the 9psi pulley you had to send me. Which did work well. Finally i got around to getting a motor together. This one being Sicksubie's of course. I followed the exact procedures laid out by CP for the piston ring fitment. Instead of blowing off their guideline of .5" of ring depth to set the gap like you did, I used it. I used their exact formula to find the suitable gap. Once I got the bottom end assembled and the heads installed, I found your error in designing the cams. Don't even try and tell me the cam grinders took too much off the base circle, you just didn't think about it. SO I had to eat two sets of intake cams and pay overnight shipping to get them back to the grinders. I also had to eat the shipping costs to get all 4 sets back down to you. Both of my engines were assembled by the book, and both would be running very well today if it was not for the following.
Since day one when I finally got my wideband installed I have given you more information about how LEAN the car runs. You once again blame it on an erroneous diagnosis of an intake leak. After going over all of my seals time and time again (yes even replaced all of the injector o-rings). This system still has issues. IF there were an intake leak, it must be from your manifold or your TB adapter. Yet you still refuse the fact that there is something wrong. The fact that my built motor ran great the day I fired it up and it ran great through its break-in period was no surprise. The fact that when I went to the track the first time and the motor was detonating like hell may have been the reason that since then my rod knock has gotten worse and worse as my rod bearings probably look like a wheel that hit a curb doing 80. But have I blamed that on you?? NO. I have asked for you to add more fuel to software for a long time as running into the 13's probably isn't a good idea when the blower is running too hot in the 1st place.
Throwing a hissy fit?? I shelled out over $10k into your company for what?? an astonishing supercharger that could never come close to meeting the promised which were made to me? For software that I have begged on my hands and knees to be changed that never happened? How about asking you nicely that if you knew anyone who desired a stage III to send them my way so I could unload it?? Nothing you have done for me has resulted in anything positive. Maybe if you started listening instead of living in denial we might not be in this situation. I already have plans to tear down the engine again and to have new bearings installed and the rods checked out to make sure they were not damaged as well. So if you want to solve this issue that you seem to have been hiding from for so long, you can work with me to resolve it, or continue to ignore it. Your choice.
Not trying to pull things apart, and I agree that the components available now are of great quality and DO work. Its the lack of spending the $ to dyno tune anything right now that astonishes me that anyone listens. Your plans all work great in theory but you will never know until you test them. Do not rely on your customers to give you dyno plots liek you did to Mike and I. Even then you could see the lean streak in both of our cars with the stage 3 yet nothing was done about it. Do NOT try and patronize and belittle me, I have done nothing but try and support what you have been doing, but when I am ignored and talked down to when I have serious concerns about your products, there is only so much bull**** I will listen to before it gets ugly.
Tom
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