After getting everything sorted, I thought I would try to get the engine running again, and this time give the gearchange a whirl!
I have only just glanced at the gearchange settings, so the blip is a little coarse. Remember also that there was no throttle so the engine does almost die when cut! You can also see the neutral selection working correctly!
Listen out for the blips on the downshifts!
Now, I know I am supposed to be building the Arachnid, but Neil from GEARTRONICS asked me if he could borrow some kit from my engine for the paddleshift. Seeing as the wiring is not done yet, I helped Neil out. This did however involve removing the engine.
OK, well after a phone call to Motec, I have got the dash talking to the ECU, and got the sensors all calibrated. Getting the sensors calibrated was not the easiest thing, and in fact took the all day to do! The problem being that Motec didnt have them in their pre-defined list and the sensors were just effectively variable resistors. However the M400 can only read in a voltage, and not knowing the rest of the circuit I couldnt change from one to the other. I have sure there will just be either a pull up or down resistor and the voltage will come out between, or something similar.
It also turns out that the document I had from AIM had a typo on the CAN address, hence the inability to get them all talking. Pop in the right address and bingo, it all suddenly worked!
So, depending on time on Sunday after the Britcar 500, I will try to get the airbox, overflow bottle and/or GCU sorted. hmmmm looks doubtful!
Not too much done this week unfortunately. I spent Saturday at whizzing round Rockingham, if you ignore the rain, and then on Sunday we were phoned up by a stranded 964 Turbo on the M11. It turned out that whoever had built his engine had NOT done a very good job! the throttle cable had fallen off as they had not put the retaining clip in and whoever had assembled the rear of the CAM should be sacked! But we got it fixed and the chap drove home late afternoon a happy man!
That left we with a couple hours to get a few minor things done. I made up the clutch pipe from the copper pipe to the slave cylinder, it is only about 6 inches long, got the rear brake pipes on and connected up, the air lines in and clipped up and got most of the way through making up the fire extinguisher lines.
Next week we are testing the 935 on Friday and assuming everything is OK racing on the Sunday. Hopefully I can get a full day on the Arachnid on Saturday, so I hope to finish off the fire lines and make a start on the front suspension. I need to weld some tags to the front arms for the anti roll bar and some collars onto the bar itself. Time permitting I will try to get the radiator sidepod on and make a start on the water pipes. I also had a new seat moulding to try out, and new GCU software…
The title of this post pretty much says it all. The next item to go onto the car was the actuator. I did however have to put on the oil fitting to absolutly make sure it was all going to fit, however I didnt get around to making the oil line but that shouldnt make any difference yet!
