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Old 02-26-2015, 09:58 PM
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What ethanol content sensor are you using? Will this work with microsquirt?
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Ugh, thats awesome.

I guess it depends on whether or not I'm happy with what I end up with, since I plan on driving the **** out of the car pretty much every day. The old big block wouldn't let me do that, and I HATED seeing it sit in the garage 10 months out of the year.

I take it trans control will be extra? Are they going to have a pre-made harness for plug and play control? Just from your videos, I think the gold box has strayed me away from the Holley Dominator.
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I am also awaiting the release. I was gonna do the MS3-gold and the TCI controller but hopefully they release it in the next month or so. I guess Testing has gone well and they are waiting for B&G to release it. Which is suppose to fairly soon if I read correctly.

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Matt how do the brakes feel? I was thinking of upgrading the Mustang's single piston jobs to the ones you have but wasnt sure if there was a significant difference or not in braking power.
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Originally Posted by Sumter
What ethanol content sensor are you using? Will this work with microsquirt?
a late model GM one, 50 dollars on ebay, yes
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Originally Posted by 69-chvl
Matt how do the brakes feel? I was thinking of upgrading the Mustang's single piston jobs to the ones you have but wasnt sure if there was a significant difference or not in braking power.
i havent gotten to really slam them yet, the car isnt aligned yet and i havent gone very fast on the road, just the dyno, but they feel awesome
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Hope to run in to ya at OC. We're staying at the carousel up by hooters.
We'll be in this.
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You mentioned you used a Caravan throttle cable- can you elaborate? What year? Bolt in? Do you prefer it to a stock mustang cable, or was it an "I have it so i'll use it" kind of deal?
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like 04? caravan i think, jellybean, first open engine bay i walked up to decided to yank it and try it, dropped into the fairmont pedal linkage and i had to cut the truck throttle bracket a tiny bit for it to fit in since its larger.
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Originally Posted by JoeNova
Ugh. If it wasn't for my 4L80e, I would have already tossed out the stock harness and HPTuners in favor of this.

I guess if I ever pick up a cheap caged roller and decide to build another 8-second street car, I will have no choice but to get the Gold box so I can run E85 at the track and pump gas on my drive home. That thing is AWESOME.
You don't need an aftermarket efi system to run flex flex fuel. Stock PCMs have Flex-fuel capability. I am using a stock pcm with Flex fuel, 4l80e, cable throttle and a 3 bar Hptuners OS. If you're curious about it, pm me.
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got a 0-100psi pressure transducer today, going to wire this into the exhaust and read back pressure and then compare notes when i turbo swap

also mounted a stock chevy flex fuel badge and a custom monkey fab badge

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Matt, you're gettin way to high tech! Actually, great to see you riggin to capture data that will help a lot of folks. Next up, headers and individual cylinder EGT's? Haven't seen anyone else provide data/insight on #7 failures. Keep rockin!
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You have a link for the pressure transducer? And did they give you transfer function?
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What Borg turbo are you going to put on there later, the same 76 you ran before? Are you going to do any type of heat sync before the sensor or just mount it straight in the exhaust?
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Originally Posted by denmah
got a 0-100psi pressure transducer today, going to wire this into the exhaust and read back pressure and then compare notes when i turbo swap

also mounted a stock chevy flex fuel badge and a custom monkey fab badge
Very cool, are you gonna throw the Fairmont 5 MS3 tune up on the sloppy wiki page when your done?
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how are you getting this much **** done? the news man said from the rockies on east was a solid block of ice!
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Originally Posted by NoorJ
You have a link for the pressure transducer? And did they give you transfer function?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271576977896?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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What Borg turbo are you going to put on there later, the same 76 you ran before? Are you going to do any type of heat sync before the sensor or just mount it straight in the exhaust?
copper coil heat sink
billet s484 probably

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Very cool, are you gonna throw the Fairmont 5 MS3 tune up on the sloppy wiki page when your done?
yep

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how are you getting this much **** done? the news man said from the rockies on east was a solid block of ice!
i have time to do all this stuff because i cant drive the car
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I use the same transducer on my wastegates. Great way to save a little cash.
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Denmah did you just slap the gen 4 rods and pistons in or did you balance them?
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Lol, the denmah doesn't balance!


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