Success!

i finally got the DIY support cable to work!!!! yes, it's 7.20 in the morning and i stayed up till 1.30am on a work night but i just had to see if it would work.

when i accessed the main unit parameters it showed bullock settings like +20% fuel at 6000 rpm and +0% on all the other A.A.V. settings! also, all the jumper and rotary switch settings made no sense especially the bit that was for the number of cylinders in the car was set to 0! wtf.

anyway, i just set everything back to zero and updated the main unit. calculated tuning NOT based on throttle position to commence this weekend unless i backside itchy tonight which may probably be the case.

oh well. off to work.

note: the bluebird's 'Super Pearl White' will be sprayed today. will post pics once i get back.

oh yeah, and thanks Monash for awarding me with the 'Best Award - Final Year Project' for Mechanical Discipline. All those nights of ANSYS-ing in the dark and measuring sure paid off i suppose.

Failure.

scrap the DIY support tool cable for now. it just isn't working. maybe because the DKU-5 i bought is missing something that the original one has. oh well.

i'll just have to do more research on how to get the thing to work. i can get the cables instruct the GReddy support tool to go ONLINE, but no data is bring received from the e-manage.

back to the drawing board i guess...

i-Manage to e-Manage.

it was like deciding between the red or the blue wire, with thousands of lives at stake. only this time, it was whether my car would start or not.

as i mentioned previously, i had purchased an e-manage and actually hadn't thought of fitting it till over the weekend, but being the impatient bugger i was, the moment i reached home from work, i started to tinker with the anodized blue box.

i shall let the pictures explain because people who surf love to see pictures and not words. if they wanted long winded paragraphs like this this one, they would've sat on a comfy chair and read a book.




















total install time about 2 hours due to horrible crimping tools that came randomly for free with useless household appliances people buy. wiring was hell for me too cause i had to contort to awkward angles. if only Beat was there to see how flexible i was. :D

time to go beddy-bye (shower first) and figure out how to tune it tomorrow or something. cause i've a long day ahead of me, what with the prospects of the cortina coming back home tomorrow.

next article would be the DIY cabling i'll be doing to pick the e-Manage's brain.

Prep Time.

guess who's got his dirty grubby hands on an e-manage?

ME!

one of the many things left to obtain before the new autocross season begins. just remembered i'll be in singapore taking part in another race, so, i won't be able to make it for the 2nd round of the KKS Autocross 2008 series. Oh well.

Bump!

the painter's putting everything he has into this car. he's gonna keep undercoating until the surface is near flawless! kudos to him. however, it has begun to rain unpredictably, again.










soon, it'll be this car's turn. unless i can get my hands on a very sound condition starlet KP61. :D




some parents just don't feed their kids enough, check out this kid.

Undercoated And A Hint Of Future.

got a call from Ah Long the painter who said that he'd just did the undercoat. excited as i was, the whole family went to the paint shop to view the transformation from 'granny-green' to 'toighty-whitey'.

as this is the first layer of paint, it would have to be sun-dried for a day or two (weather permitting) then sanded down to remove imperfections before another layer of undercoat is sprayed. Ah Long estimates I should be getting the car back by end of the week. so, come to think of it, this rebuild is considered faster than the cortina's, which is saying something. sigh.






















the future bit is about my next project car which at the moment would be:

1. nissan cefiro a31
2. nissan laurel c33 or c34
3. toyota starlet kp61 (3 door preferably)

ah, i'm reliving my childhood but instead of buying micro-machines, i'm buying 1:1 scale cars. :D

Washing The Car. Everyday Phrases Taken To Literal New Heights.

The car being given a thorough wash before it gets covered in paint.



may not be much but it's still progress considering the torrential rain we've been experiencing in Malaysia. real bullocks weather for painting if you ask me, but what can I do?

the guys at the paint shop say that I'm crazy for spending so much money on a car like this because usually, people don't bother with restoring it to this extent, but you've to look at it from my point of view. If you're going to do something like this and have some money put aside for it (i can see my money depleting), might as well do it to the best I can rather than paint the bloody car in a half-assed manner only to regret later on.




what do you guys think? should I use those rubber side trim bits that come with the car or leave the sides bare as it is?

here's some undercoat applied to the driver side doors and such.


oh, did I mention that the colour being used is called "Crystal Brilliant White"?

been thinking of going with bride style seats and bride fabric for the interior but have absolutely NO IDEA if it'll look good or not. time to scour the internet for ideas...