Turbo Project update. The good, bad and ugly.

[Jon Fedock]

I have a large coffe can full of plugs in the garage. :) Good thing the
truck uses one or two every now and again. Nice brownish-tan color. No
speckles :) :) :). Also, did/are you running an EGT? I have one, but haven't
hooked it up because of the slow response! It was installed in a 4 cylinder
before, where WOT runs could be checked and temps would stabilize. This car
only sees WOT for usually only 10 seconds at a time (it was a parts car -
unsafe at 100+mph!) at the ABSOLUTE maximum. Any ideas?
Jon
White Car

----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Plecan <nacelp at bright.net>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Turbo Project update. The good, bad and ugly.


>
>
> Welcome to the Turbo world.
> Yes, when making lots of HP you use lots of Fuel.  Some are worse then
> others but any serious HP means serious Fuel.  I about ignore Knock
Counts,
> and Spark retard, as a one source piece of info..  If I see any signs of
> detonation, then I'll first look at some datalogging, or if doing an
intial
> cal, then there is lots of data logging, and looking at plugs.  I spent
the
> first 2 months of running with a *known* setup without tipping into more
> then 5 PSI, while sorting mine out.  Tuning with a Turbo, at least for me
is
> a very slow process.   Too easy to miss something.
>    As a precaution I have a spark retard limit of 30 degrees, just so if
it
> does happen for some unforseen reason there is lots of room for cancelling
> it.
>    Just as I see it
> Bruce
>



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