LLY: driving again.

duratothemax

duratothemax

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my truck is finally running again. Its been just about 2 months since I parked it.

Fired it up for the first time saturday night. Took a lot of cranking, mainly trying to deal with dead batteries...wasnt spinning the engine fast enough to really do it. Finally did it "right" and got a huge marine battery, hooked it up, and cranked it for about 10 seconds, wouldnt build any rail pressure, noticed I had forgotten to tighten one of the injector lines. Tightened the line, cranked it for another 10 seconds while watching the tech 2. About 2 seconds later rail pressure suddenly came up and it fired right up. Great oil pressure, no noises, perfect balance rates, no leaks, literally runs smoother than new. Luckilly I got everything right the first time when I built it, this is an all time first for me.

Im running it with the stock single turbo right now; I had the twins kit sitting in front of me, but I was still up at school and just wanted to get the frick HOME without extra stuff potentially complicating things, going wrong etc... So Ill put the twins on this week or something, depending how busy I am at work, 6:00 am to 7:00 pm doesnt leave much free time.

Crappy part was some ass got a 5 finger discount on my V2. So Im stuck driving it on a tune I made for a non-variable vane turbo, with ZEROED out target vane position tables. Sucks; on the highway I literally have to get a 'running' start to make it up hills because the vanes are wide open the whole time. I had to leave my offroad buggy up at school cause it wasnt like I was going to tow anything with the tune like that.

I made it home no problems, topped off all fluids, still no leaks or anything. I have about 560 miles on the engine so far.

Well I shouldnt say "no problems". I wanted to see what kinda MPG's I got with the lower compression and after the 400 mile trip, ran out of gas coming up my driveway. :rofl:

Ended up getting about 16 mpg going 80mph the entire way, and being basically naturally aspirated. Once the engine gets "turbocharged" and some boost into it I think It will do really well for fuel economy, which I was pleasantly surprised about. :)

does anyone have a workshop EFILive cable that I could mail my spare ECM and email one of my tunes to just to get me by until I have enough money to replace my stolen V2? :eek:

ben
 
WolfLMM

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Ben, good job! Glad its back together. I know what its like to be without your truck. I just got mine buttoned up as well. Its a good feeling to crank up and have everything working right, no codes, etc.
 
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SIKDMAX said:
Cool.

So did your truck broken into or from your house or what?
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no no, I live wayyyy the hell out in the middle of nowhere, knock on wood nothing has to be locked up around here...it was up at school...my school (st. lawrence university) doesnt have any mechanical oriented stuff or shops or anything (liberal arts, up up up upstate new york), so me and some of my frineds go over to clarkson university (10 minutes away, big engineering school) where they have a student car club...clarkson provides us with a nice big heated shop (it gets -20* in teh winter), welders, tools, etc... so we can work on all our projects/trucks/offroad buggys, whatever. So I left my V2 on a table there because im really good firneds with everyone in the club so we dont have to lock anything up etc besides the front door to the shop..

well, maintinence was in our shop fixing something and they left the door unlocked when we werent down there...someone outside the club must have come in and taken it, because our dewalt cutoff saw and nice auto-darkening welding helmet walked off too. :mad:
 
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So if I put the twins on, how would they react with the vanes running wide open all the time?? If it will make it work "fairly normal", then Ill probably just put the twins on and worry about the ECM thing later.
 
duratothemax

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SIKDMAX said:
Bummer :(

Oh ya, pics of this offroad buggy? :D
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here is a pic, and here is the build thread on pirate. Its basically a 4 wheel drive vw beetle, all custom built by me. :eek:

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=664806


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duratothemax

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sucks once the engine goes in, because theres so much crap on top (hoses, wiring, etc) you can barely see my bling valve covers and paint job :rolleyes:
 
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tobyk321 said:
Ben how far up in NY are you? if your not to far I'd be willing to come up and help ya out with your ECM.
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Im actually at home now, in CT.

I used a 2001 block and thought I would have the insane oil pressure the early dmax's do...but now that the engine has been run and gone through some heat cycles, its only a little better hot at idle than my LLY was. It IS better, just not the 40psi HOT at idle I would have hoped for. (like some LB7's seem to do)
 
dmaxfireman

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Ben I don't know if you can transfer license numbers from one v2 to another but if you have or can get another license I'll swing up your way and you can use my v2 (I already used my second license on a friends truck). Let me know.
 
Tacojedbob7

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WolfLLY said:
Motor looks real good. RED would be my choice as well.
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I went with daytona yellow :bling blooow. I was going to go with red until ben took my color bastard

dmaxfireman said:
Ben I don't know if you can transfer license numbers from one v2 to another but if you have or can get another license I'll swing up your way and you can use my v2 (I already used my second license on a friends truck). Let me know.
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Where in CT are you?
I will be going up to ben's to help him out with the twins this week, so I could bring it up to him if its easier
 
JoshH

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That's good to hear Ben.

I'm not sure the twins would make it any better with the vanes all the way open on the stocker. You still need the stock charger to spool to get the boost going early. I run 0% vane position while cruising, but they will close up a little when accelerating, plus I have the smaller LBZ exhaust housing to help it out.
 
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