[Shotimes] Valve lash done.....but car seems weaker now.

[Bruce Malachuk]

Well I jsut checked everything I could short of pulling the intake off in
the rain. Plugs are routed correct, secondaries do open and close on time,
canister in on the intake is working, ran the codes and everything comes up
fine except for a memory code of 211, but I reset to see if it reappears.
This morning the car seems a bit more alive, I'm seriously thinking that
between the exhaust leak at the y-pipe, and the berrymans that was in the
intake and valves that it was causeing the car to just run all sorts of
crappy.  I'm resetting the computer right now, and then I'm gonna take the
car for a nice little drive thru some back roads and a little highway, also
grab some coolant, since my light came, and I never replaced the little bit
the spilled when i took the intake off, and my recovery tank in near empty

Hopefully after a little driving, fixing the y-pipe problem, and adding my
LPM that has been sitting waiting for the valve lash to get done I'll feel
that low end come back a bit.

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>; "SHOtimes"
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Valve lash done.....but car seems weaker now.


> Bruce, just go buy the numbering on the coils, and route to the correct
> cylinder. (1-3 in the rear from pass. to drivers side, 4-6 in the front),
> forgetting about the manual......in this case, the manuals are more
trouble
> then they are worth.
>
> Also, on your loss of power. A wider valve clearance is better for low and
> midrange torque, while dropping high rpm power. A tighter lash is better
for
> the high-rpm power, but can lower the midrange torque. Torque on the SHOI
> motor is rather low, and the car (being rather heavy) is sensitive to
> changes. The feeling of acceleration is primarily the gross torque at a
> given rpm, so I believe that this is the issue. If you would have done a
> dyno run before & after the 60K, you would most probably see a higher peak
> HP, but probably a lower torque curve down in the rpm band.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Bruce Malachuk
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: SHOtimes
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Valve lash done.....but car seems weaker now.
>
>
> I used the helms manual for the plug wires, but I'm gonna check them again
> just to be sure.
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