IT RUNS!!! - My 500whp build - Element motor and Moore Performance Twin Scroll Kit! by dexterous

5 minute(s) of a 312 minute read

I added extra oil, primed the system and then filled the pan to the point where the oil was back to the full mark. There's over 7 quarts in there and it's on the full mark. Does it sound like I did it correctly?

I will start out by saying that I am pretty good with the mechanical stuff and I really have a good understanding of the computer end of things BUT the actual programming of the ECU is a serious weakness. Maybe somebody here could offer an explanation.

When I first hit the key the AFRs were almost exactly 14.7 and then it went to 10.9-11.1 after about 20 seconds. I let it idle for almost five minutes yesterday and it was still 10.9 to 11.0. It was so rich it was smoking (it wasn't blue oil smoke, it was black fuel smoke) which made me panic a bit so I shut it down.

I lowered the base fuel pressure from 55PSI to 45PSI to see if that made a difference and it really didn't do much. It leaned it out a point or two but nothing significant so I tried pulling fuel from the 3D base fuel map. I selected the cells that were active at idle plus a few extra around the ones it was bouncing to and removed 10% from the values in those cells. This really had no effect at all so I further reduced the cells another 10%. Strangely, the pitch of the motor changed each time I changed the base fuel map but the AFR reading from the Hydra's wide band didn't change.

Since I was obviously not helping the situation at all I shut the motor off, put every setting back to where it was originally (I had the original map saved) and started the car up again. This time I let it idle for 10 seconds and then I shut the Aeromotive fuel pump off so that it would burn out all the extra fuel in the motor. I let it run down to an AFR of 16:1 and turned the key off. I don't intend to touch it again until I talk to Phil in the morning (hopefully he's available).

4-26-2011

All good points guys. After talking to Phil from Element late yesterday and showing him the picts of the filter on the end of the turbo I have decided to cancel my tuning appointment. Phil's main concern was not so much heat but the size of the filter. Since thats the maximum size that could be placed in that area it doesn't sound like this is a viable option at all.

I have asked Moore Performance to go back to the drawing board and come up with a more traditional turbo inlet. The plan right now is to use the front half of the APS inlet and come up with either a custom hard section at the rear or use silicone. The next question is where to stick the air filter since the passenger side is getting pretty tight. Phil says that the shortest possible intake path is superior to a longer CAI with lots of bends so I will be taking that into account as well.

4-27-2011

Its go time! Here's the Moore Performance modified APS inlet:

The intake solution with a 3x larger filter (custom made by Green Filter for Moore Performance):

Getting ready!

The tires look good:

Here's a few to close the night on:

Ready to roll!

I stopped and got a few gallons of turbo blue tonight. If the 93oct tune + meth goes well I will have Phil play around with this too.

This is how the garage looked just before I closed the door for the last time. This is the FIRST time the car has been out of the garage since mid October so I figured that it was worth a pict.