Before and after

Here is the comparison of before and after the coil on plug ignition setup. It was a peak gain of about 100 ft lbs of torque and 95 hp just below 5000rpm

Dyno day for me!!!

I took the eclipse to the dyno and I think it did pretty well. Take a look at the graph to see for yourself, but it made 531hp and i was able to drive it home in one piece this time. There is something to be said for working on your own car. Also I didn't check precicely, but it did the dyno session and the trip there and back all on one tank of gas which means i still averaged over 20 MPG. Not bad on a 500+ hp car.

Day Off!

I had the day off and will have more time off the rest of the week since it is the end of the fiscal year and i can't save my vacation days. It's ok though because i just ordered parts for the car monday and they came already and the car started with the upgrade already. Coil on plug ignition if anyone is wondering. I think i'll use some of the time off to get another dyno session in. Should be able to get another 50-60 hp out of the car now. Also worked on the garage a little before teh UPS guy got here. I'm down to the last few rows before putting on the ridge vent. I'm not sure if i want to do that myself though. I'll also have to put up soffit at some point. Ahh the joys of home ownership.

Computers

I have been working on fixing my computer for a long time now. Maybe a year and a half or so. One of them was locking up and i replaced all the parts to the point where i actually made a second computer out of the spares (which was basically the old computer) and it worked. The new one then had the problems. Now i switched around a few of the parts Mainly the CPU, and both computers are working!

In other news Friday was our fall fling at work which was kinda fun. I was the only one at work on my team also, but i think it went smoothly. Hopefully i'll be able to take some time off this coming week though. The Eclipse is still running and i plan to get some more done to it. Oh yeah, I got a decent size bonus from work which will actually be enough to get some parts for the car!

PS did anyone notice i had a double post up for a week? I just did tonight

NHRA drags cancelled

I didn't get to see the NHRA drags yesterday because of the rain. It apparently ruined all their parking for the wekened and also got the race teams stuck in the mud. Oh well i'll have another chance at the end of the month. Then i won't be on call either that should be good. To make up for missing the drags i just drove the eclipse some more. Another good thing was my friend came back from officer training after being away for 6 weeks.

Pager was good to me so far this weekend too though. I was able to make it to church which doesn't always happen. I might get something tonight, but i plan to be around the house anyway to catch up on things besides putting the car together.

VROOM!

It lives, i actually took the eclipse for a drive today. Everything seems to be working, i didn't beat on it yet though. The transmission doesn't seem to be leaking like it was before i took everything apart either. I might warm the car up for 5 minutes and take the 2 minute drive to work and let it cool down for another 5 minutes tomorrow hehe. Very nice to have it back though even if i should still walk to work. Oh and plugging the hole was a little tough as mitsubushi didn't have the part in stock so i had to make my own bolt by cutting one down to size. Dremels are excellent tools!

Car and Pager

Well i worked on the eclipse last night. Got the oil squirters i was waiting on and put the oil pan back. After all the other parts were put back i filled it up with all the fluids, put the tires on and took it off the jackstands. Turned the key and....it started! Definitely a nice feeling. Then I checked the timing and it looked close enough that i could drive it to work at least. Unfortunately there was some fluid coming out. By some fluid i mean there was a bolt missing that allowed the oil to shoot out of the head onto the floor. Big mess, but i have the kitty litter type stuff to soak it up. Unfortunately that means i need one more part, but at least it is very minor and they should have it in stock at mitsubishi. I might do it over lunch hehe.

Then to top off my night i got a page too. Not a big deal as i wasn't asleep and i expect at least one page during the week on average. I didn't like that it was something we warned people not to do, but that isn't unusual either.

I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend now. I get to go to my first NHRA drag race for free. I have a pit pass and there will be a hospitality tent too. My car should be working by then too. Of course i might get paged over the weekend too, but we'll try to use that as an excuse for a cellular modem i think =)

Pager week

Guard weekend is over and Pager week begins. It's not all bad though because I have car parts to install on the eclipse. It should be back together this week if the last part gets here quickly. It was shipped UPS from Maryland though so it should make it here fast, maybe even by tomorrow. I still have to put all the belts on including timing belt and i need to get all the fluids to put in. Oil, transmission gear oil, and coolant. If i get the part i'll probably try to get it all together tomorrow. If not, i'll probly try to get everything but that part put together so it won't take long afterwards.

The garage roof now has the cut for the ridge vent, then we put the paper back over so it's water proof. That means i can just finish up with the shingles and not have to worry about stopping to cut if i went to far etc.

This weekend is the NHRA drag race at Maple grove that i plan on attending. I have hearing protection and everything. Normally i'm not a big fan, but i suppose a day full of funny cars might make it worthwhile.

Thanks for reading and feel free to click to let me know you were here.

Getting there!

I took the day off so I could pick up the head for my eclipse finally. It is already on the car, but I still have a lot of other work before the car is back together. I got the transmission back a while ago and it is also in the car now too. Unfortunately there is another part that i noticed was broken today (rather than when it happened) so i'll have to wait for another part, but it isn't a pricey one at all so that's a plus. Also not as much work is involved in putting it back together.

I have guard this weekend and Sunday is some appreciation thing at state college. Hopefully it won't be too bad, but as they say in the military it's "mandatory fun". Tomorrow after guard though i plan on working on the garage roof some more. We can't have it leaking while i'm working on the eclipse.

Oh and my brother's car got hit really bad, but it will be fixed and not totalled. He might even be able to make some money out of it if he does some of the work himself like installing some of the parts on the other door.

Picture

Here is the new pic of the house as promised. For anyone with photoshop skill and some free time, you can play around with green shutters and figure out what to do about the brown on the garage door in the bottom left.

This weekend was interesting, after we got bri's car back together it got hit in the side. The estimate should come on wednesday, he's hoping they total it so he can get a new car. I'll want this one and use it as a rally car though. That way who cares about the body damage.