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PaulProe

PaulProe

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Paul
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Proefrock
In this downtime, I know a lot of cars are getting tweaked, completed, polished.

I challenge everyone to post picture(s) of what you're doing, where you're at on your build or status of your updates.

Paul
 
I'm upgrading my suspension on my FFR to electronic controlled semi active suspension. The shocks and controller were made by TracTive Suspension in the Netherlands. The shocks were custom made to fit and use active control valves. An accelerometer mounted to the car feeds input to the controller and measures the movement of the car. The shock stiffness along with pitch and roll parameters are programmable using a touch screen. I'll let everyone know how the upgrade goes. Since this is a street driven car only, my goal is to soften up the feel of the suspension without increasing pitch and roll. I have a 2019 Ford Fusion Sport with Ford's semi-active suspension and I've been extremely happy with the comfortable ride in that car, so impressed that I decided to try it on a Cobra replica.

Hope everyone is doing great and staying healthy,
Wibby
 
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Hey Jason! Great to hear from you.
I'd like to catch-up with you when this current distraction ends. I want to see and hear how your super-charger turned out as well.
 
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The wiring begins.
 
Holley Sniper EFI - Sneak Peak Update

After last October's cruise (a disaster for the coupe - rear end broke free on its own coming out of the German restaurant, and coming home Sunday I had to control the throttle with the clutch), I had to decide if I was done. Decided to pick at this elephant one bite at a time with the Professor's help. The problem was that A) the throttle stuck open(a lot), B) the throttle would take off(accelerate) on its own sometimes, C) the throttle would "hang" or even accelerate when shifting. Things really acted up from 2000 - 3000 rpm.

First issue, mechanical binding in accelerator cable. There was a slot in the cable sheath.

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Also, the cable bracket wasn't aligned properly into the throttle body. So the Professor kindly welded a new one.(Thank You)

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This is the base timing table for the Holley tune in street mode.
The Paul astutely pointed out was that the shift in timing from one rpm level to the next(250 rpm steps) was pretty large (9-11 degrees). And it was also occurring at likely shift points. So, that at 2225 rpm, if normal engine load bumped that to 2250 or 2300 rpm the timing jump occurred and forced the engine even higher. You can see from the table the large jumps occurred at a couple different places.

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After multiple conversations with Holley, they replaced the Throttle Position Sensor and the Idle Air Control motor on the Throttle Body.

Then I went back and smoothed the Ignition Table to this. The idea hear is to make the transition smoother at increasing rpm.

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I've done about 80 datalogs on this and we are getting closer. The engine runs a lot smoother. I can put it in 5th gear and the engine moves smoothly at 1000 rpm.(I could never do that with the Edelbrock system. It wouldn't hold 1000-1200 rpm in 1st or 2nd gear). There is also straight line acceleration up to 4200-4500 rpm now. Below is a datalog that shows the engine rpm increasing on its own. At 27 seconds, the engine rpm increases from about 2200 to 2600 all on its own. So, I'm getting closer, but it's not quite there, yet.

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Good one Kent! LOL

Bob, how are you liking the Sniper compared to what you had before (btw, what did you have??) Did you have it dynoed somewhere?
 
Well... nothing too exciting here.. some carpet in the trunk area and some knuckle busting fun changing exhaust manifold gaskets
 
Sounds like the elves are hard at it in here despite the Corona V.
Every time I cough etc I wonder did I catch it the lol

Anyway, I have a few pics of the car in paint right now. Couldn’t figure out how to up load em.
Mike and Wolfgang are hard at it though. Color is pretty much set, just need a final sit down and maybe spray some samples to confirm.
Let’s all stay safe and come out together on the other side. It’s hard not to go out but maybe ask yourself on some things, do I really need that or could order it via snail mail. Just a thought.
Be safe !!
 
Kent D said:
I’m not good at reading this kind of data. Is it a boy or a girl?
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Kent - I've called it a lot of things over the last 6 months!

MP - It is way better now than the Edelbrock EFI from before. Bob Monk (STL Mustangs) dynoed it in Sept., but it is not a apples-to-apples comparison to previous dyno.

Rich - You know I'm always PC.
 
Looking real good Tom...gonna be exciting to see the end result. Great pics...like the old truck too... I know you’re anxious and that’s a good thing!
 
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