I put the stage 2 belt on alone in about 15 min, I jacked the passanger side up, removed the splash guard in the wheel well, take a 9/16 and tap it onto the tensioner with a hammer (it wont slip off like the 15mm, 9/16 is actually about equal to 14mm) then line everything up except for the alt and tensioner, compress the tensioner, and slip the belt around.

 

or buy the pulleyboys belt tool haha no more busted up palms

 

it boosts my "street credit" more with busted up knuckles and palms

 

hahaha yea the tensioner i got right now the nub isn't rounded off like my stock one was so it's a lil easier but my palm would be sore for days after doing it with either
too bad my pulleyboys tool broke lol

 

Just buy the pre made 50/50 at the store like this man said^. The more water you have in the mixture, the better the cooling. Straight will be quite useless. Dual pass is reccomended, I have OTTPs gen 4 h/e, Option B and dual pass and I'm on the GMS2 pulley. Overkill much?...possibly haha

 

With the socket or bit they give you in the kit . I used to swap pulleys all the time using the blue bolt's .
Crateenginedepot has a replacement bit but the socket is better if you have it laying around.

 

Well last night we finally put the belt on, was a bit of trouble but we did it.
Went to buy some E85 put it in and started the car, at first it smoked cause it still has normal gas in the tank but then it started running better

Doesn't run all that bad. I thought it would be idling all over the place since people say that with the can tune it tends to idle bad, but it idles fine.

We test drove it and everything's good except when you really step on it after it passes a certain amount of rpm it sounds all wierd and nasty, as if it has no more power, im thinking its the can tune.

I'm gonna get a dyno tune this coming week anyway though.

 

Hey guys, the car runs fine but if i try to step on it it kinda bogs and feels like it loses power. Is this tune related or could it be something else? It kinda feels slower now.

 

Made sure of no vacuum leaks?
Not throwing any codes?
What are your plugs gapped to?
No crank relearn require with the new ecu?
What are your iat2's?

 

It has the check engine light on but it has had it for iono a year? maybe 2? so I wouldn't know I'd have to take it to auto zone. Plugs are gapped at 0.35 <- got that off zzp's website. Crank relearn? IDK. I did have to do a crank relearn when I first dropped in my new engine.

 

it sounds like i hit the rev limiter like when i go like 88% throttle.

 

That sounds like plugs. Make your gap a little smaller.

Joel

 

I found a thread on hptuners.com of this guy that had the same issue im having when he went E85. I'm trying to contact him. My plugs are gapped at 0.35.

 

If you plugs are gapped at .35 you got problems, its .035 People on here say to gap the plugs .032 but Ive always had the best luck at .035

Id go down to advance auto parts and scan the codes just to see whats there. I had codes I didnt even know about because my cel has been on since I swapped in the OTTP ecu (havent gotten a case relearn yet) I had a code for the bypass actuator, oops! I always had good luck with a .035

 

it's .035 sorry lol. I found a guy on hptuners.com that had the same issue I'm having when he went e85. He said he would fix it for me if I had hptuners. I'm guessing it's a tune issue.

 

Sounds like spark blowout to me, and takes ~5 minutes and not $500 for HPTuners to regap your plugs and try. Worst case you put them back to .035.

Joel

 

Ill check but either way I'm still getting a tune this weekend

 

very nice

 

any word on the "tuning" issue?

 

Getting tuned Monday at 1pm pacific time.

 

My car is getting dyno tuned now. I'm at work though. So far it's at 287hp

 

Curious to hear what the final tune lays down.

 

It was 287hp. Next mod will be TVS or that twinscrew SC if it turns out to have good gains.

 

The car got tuned yesterday here is the dyno sheet of the final numbers

 

Impressive ...... Gotta love the LSJ's power curve. How much did you gain over your old setup?