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A happy little bedtime story



I heard the yelling here in NY, but wasn't sure what it was! Congrats Cathy!
As a great man said: "Never Surrender. Never give up the ship" (Galaxy Quest :)
You get the "Most Determined Award" this year!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 10:17 PM
>To: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: A happy little bedtime story
>
>Yeah, after a few months of downtime for the "extensive injector insert
>swap", Klaus is alive and very well. Thanks to Drew Mac for advice and help
>on the mechanical end of things (which was no small feat, it incorporates
>fourteen cars so far), and to Dan B for the MSnS advice and endless online
>support, and to a host of others for ignition system troubleshooting (Mark
>F, for example) Anyway, my ignition woes turned out to be a badly screwed
>up .msq file. For anyone doing an MS conversion, do whatever Dan B says,
>the pretests I did (for example tesing fuel flow and driving on CIS and the
>spark part of MS only) gave me whatever shred of sanity I maintained during
>this whole process. Yeah, I lost it quite a few times.
>
>Anyway, this is a very unique build, and I really like it so far. I have to
>to learn about tuning with MS, but my first driving impressions today have
>been very positive. The car ran like shit till I got one of the values to
>where it needed to be (again, Dan's online support got that sorted out),
>and even in its relatively untuned state, the car seems faster and smoother
>than it was after two years of tweaking straight CIS. (mind you, I am
>working with a tested map)
>
>Unlike CIS: you have feedback on everything, second by second, variable by
>variable, and you can just open the file you used last Wednesday instead of
>figuring out how many quarter turns you moved the CIS dizzy screw and what
>else you changed since then. And you can make datalogs of as much driving
>time as you want to log. If you're thinking of doing it, budget for a wide
>band O2 sensor and put it in even before you do the conversion. I had my WB
>in for a whole year to tune CIS, so I have decent idea of where my car was
>running as far as AFR. Again, it helped me know if MS was in the ballpark.
>
>Anyway, I drove and drove today, then got to help my son volume test 16
>injectors one at a time (the 'stang, new set and old set), then there was
>beer too. (Klausie's injectors are are bigger too, ah, remember the days
>of:"how big are your injectors?" LOL) So I need to give my brain a rest.
>Dan, I'll send you some files in the morning, okay?
>
>Anyway, my darling son gave me my Mother's day gift early (a case of beer,
>what a nice kid eh). Right now he's revving the 5L beast right under my
>bedroom window, so I guess I'm not doing bedtime just yet. Anyway, it's
>been a challnge for a few of us to get this car back on the road, but he's
>back and feeling pretty good too! Beers for all!!
>Cathy
>
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