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Was driving it the other day, about 5,000 - 5,5000rpm in 3rd and it had a moment blew some smoke and well now were here! Guess I found what was wrong with it? I'm guessing it dropped a injector? I'll send them off to be tested and see what happens from there I guess.. This was on number 2.. Then there was this too which deff isn't good! All going to plan I'll be getting CP pistons and machined block to suit in the next few weeks.. Once its rebuilt I'll have to figure out which was to go with injectors.. I'm not sure if the bosch 1150's are FUBAR now, and even if they'll flow enough to make the best out of the gen 1 garrett gtx3582? When it gets retuned I might go to a SA tuner again as I need to switch over to PCMTEC, current tuner wont re-do it with the xcal and I've had some mates with some great results from a bloke in Adelaide who some here obviously know pretty well!

Woohoo my transmission part is in Honolulu! The place fixing the head is starting work on it today, so should have it back by the weekend. I suppose I'll have the engine fully assembled on the weekend and could have it in the car on Monday if I wasn't waiting for the trans bit. I was thinking I could put the engine in then, run it in, work on the tune, then pull the trans out and upgrade it before I turn it up. It would be fine to run as it is for a while and I'm gonna give it a few oil changes before I rivet the page up button to the keyboard! Eh we'll see how it all goes, no hurry to get it running. Random bit of info here, my injectors were at 69% to make 704awkw, it'll be interesting to see how much more power it can make with the bigger turbo...haha guess we'll find out soon enough! Nuther random bit of info, I had 2.5inch hotside piping last time which is being upgraded to 3 inch now, while the cold side is already 3 inch. Anyhow there is that, so yerp, will update again when the missus gets sick of hearing about it. #2weeks

Slow progress on the LED controller. Fried some of the LED driver ICs and the board wouldn't work unless it was hooked up to the programmer. Turns out I did a rookie mistake and didn't connect a pin on the microcontroller It is fixable but inconvenient. For the cost of PCBs it'd be better if I just revised the PCB and ordered more, which is what I'm going to do. I chose a very cheap MCU for this project too so I can keep the build cost down, but an issue I have come across that I didn't think would happen is that I'm running out of RAM... Hoping I have enough by the time I'm done with the code, just something I need to be weary of. Another issue I found was that I didn't account for the voltage supplied to the LED controller. I just assumed that >10V would be fine.... It is not. I fried some chips testing over 6V. I will need to supply the LEDs with 5V instead of the 12-14V from the car, I will add a 5V regulator in line for now and determine if its worth me adding this to the board. eBay sells heaps of cheap 5V converters I can use. Plan is to continue the code from here using the current design. Once the code is done with control for indicators and brakes I can see if I need to change the MCU for one with more RAM. I don't want to revise the PCB now only to find I need to change the MCU. Here's a video of it finally functioning without the programmer (the programmer was connected in the vid, but I had already confirmed it worked without it) Just testing a single output, 22 of these channels will be used for the indicator