09-30-2005, 01:09 PM
Mike Wrote:1000!?!?? jesus i'd be on that like white on rice. and it is white! damn! nice find! are yours and dave's identical now? i really am jealous, i've been wanting to do a dsm ever since the first mm autox...
ok, so I'll tell the story.
This guy has this DSM he got from another guy. His insurance just dropped him, and the DSM "needs work". He's trying to buy his buddy's Integra, which is only 950 dollars, so that's what He needs out of the DSM.
What's the problem with it, you ask? Well, as many of you may know, DSM's use a Mass Air Flow Sensor to measure air input for fuel delivery. Stock, they use a boost recirculation valve to re-input already measured air back into the intake tract (post MAFS) to prevent 'water hammer' damage to the turbocharger. Well, this guy had some blingy R2-D2 blow off valve which vented to the atmosphere. Combine that with an 8lb flywheel and some kind of crazy elephant-leg clutch and you have a car that, to be honest, barely runs. In between shifts, if you're not real, real quick with the action, the car will cut off. That's right, the car will die mid shift. The fidanza flywheel doesn't hold any revs at all, and the tach drops like a rock while the ECU dumps fuel into the motor to provide for the air it *thinks* is going to be there, but isn't because it just all went "psssh!" out the BOV.
His "mechanic" thinks it's some kind of idle controller. This is why I do my own work.
Now, I don't tell *HIM* that all he needs to do is put a stock valve back on and he'll be fine, I make some shit up about how it is probably the advanced idle air control valve stepper motor gone bad, or the post-turbo alphatronic flux capacitor is probably fried, and I'll need to find a replacement.
Then, I *carefully* drive it from Falls Church back to Harrisonburg.
I don't know if any of you have ever driven a car that stalls if the clutch is pushed in, stalls when you shift, stalls if you look at it funny and has about 5 inches of clutch engagement, but it's not easy. Requires some very fancy footwork and alot of restarting. It is not easy in the best of conditions....
Try it in stop-and-go construction on 81. I thought my leg was going to just fall off right there.
1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442