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The car was cutting the fuel and throttle. I had a stuffed throttle body which I've replaced but still having fuel cutting issues, no longer throttle cutting though. I'm just swapping the pistons pretty much, I might do bearings too but the ones in it are pretty new, they just have extra clearance which messes with the vct, especially if the vct is already worn.

Yeah maybe, I don't wanna go too nuts with a hurt piston. I turned the quick spool feature on this evening, it's the same as the under boost setting in the factory computer. It basically runs 100% wastegate duty until your boost target, then drops back down. I've got a bit of dialling in to do, but I already have a boost curve, just gotta raise it up a few percent. The 4 port is very touchy lol. Having real time wideband correction works a treat with the water meth system. You can actually see how much of a difference it makes in the ltft fuel map.

Did some driving around with the Haltech and it's pretty good straight out the box, although the timing map is more suited to E85 than 98. As I was driving and stopping a fair bit dialing things in, the car warmed up as to be expected, then it decided it was going to start cutting like it was the other day at roll racing. I had a good look at logs etc and what I can come up with now is the vct phasers are farked. There is massive cam error around the times the car plays up so that could be the issue. Any fricken way, I cbf fixing it for now, I'll wait until I do the entire engine. Eh maybe I will fix it, it doesn't take long to swap phasers lol.

Ok, head gasket ordered, rings for pistons ordered and new 7/16 rod bolts ordered. I figured I'd better do the rod bolts cos they have been used 3 or 4 times now and are probably stretched too much. My Haltech cable arrived this morning so I can get to tuning the car slightly and when all the stuff arrives I'll sort the engine out. I also bought a bead blasting cabinet yesterday with some glass bead to prepare the pistons, so everything is set in motion to get it done.

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I managed to trim the video, here it is. It doesn't look like much but the cuts were pretty violent. The last part I lifted and floored it again but the first part was wot. https://I.imgur.com/nRuSCZ0.mp4

Should be pretty easy, I've tuned a handful of other ECUs, several of the same as you have, including a couple of different haltech models. I've been tuning the factory pcm for years now and if you can get your head around that, anything else is childs play. There is plenty of info on the PCMTec forum, it applies to HP tuners too. The video is really nothing special, I'll get a proper one next time and post that up.

I deleted yt and CBF making a new one. I'll send it to you via messenger.

Lol 280xxxkm old pistons don't like 28psi apparently. It's cracked a ringland, only slightly, but enough to breathe and drop compression in one cylinder. Still runs and drives fine, can't hear it on cranking or idle and you wouldn't know it unless you did the health checks I've done. So...I'm getting a bead blasting cabinet tomorrow to get my std forged pistons ready, get them re-coated, gonna get a new set of rings for them, give the bores a touch up, new MLS gasket and farken send it. I think next year I'll do it more properly but for now this will do. I'll still set up the Haltech when the cord arrives, I just won't go nuts with the WOT tuning. I'll get a head gasket ordered and pull it down when everything is ready to go. That way it'll be a 3 day process to pull the engine, rebuild it and get it back in the car and running again. Also my roll racing video is too large for imgur and honestly it's just the car hauling arse, then not, then going like fark again. Not very exciting.

That's entirely up to you mate. If you want to learn it's not that hard, although there is a fair bit to take in. I'm happy to help you out along the way if you need it. Unless you actually want to know everything, you can get away with knowing just a few things to get decent results.

I found a guy on FB who will lend me one if mine doesn't arrive soon. At least I can get it set up and get some tuning done sooner rather than later.

Wasn't this already posted a year ago?

Eh a phone call and an email so they don't forget lol.

I mean it did get posted on Friday lol. Slightly frustrating but there's nothing I can do about it, no one has one locally that I can find, so I'll just have to wait.

The Haltech unit arrived today, woohoo! They forgot to include the comms cable so I can't install it...Oh well I guess I'm waiting for another few days

Eh it'll make me pull my finger out and install the kit into the ports where it should be.

Went roll racing, car had ETC issues all night, probably from the water meth leaking into the TPS. I would have won the event if the car stayed on song but it cut out constantly. Ha I beat one person in eliminations even with it cutting out! Haltech arrives tomorrow, I'll get a new throttle body and see how we go next time!

Will be one day, probably not for another 20 years though

Cheers mate, I might just do that

Slacker...just as I am for not coming lol.

Out the front or the back? And we are gonna need !!!

Fark yeah, it should mate. Having your own house is great, you installed that sex swing in the lounge/kitchen yet?

Yep and the weather will be perfect too

Yay Friday Got a full tank of BP 98, topped up the water meth and ready to chop tomorrow night

Well they let him go this evening but I'll chase it up. You can do a lot in small town that you cant do in the city.