midnightracr
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- Mazda,MP3
First let me say Juan is awsome. He answered all of my stupid questions as did YP5Toronto. Well it took my dad & I three weeks to get er' done. This was the first for us for something like this. We're used to V8's. It was a father son project that was fuc%ing awsome. I had a blast & has some frustration on some things. It took me & my dad all of three weeks to get everything on then we decide to crank it & no luck. All it would do is rollover. Wouldn't even try to fire. My dad at the time thought it was timing. Long story short i get the notion to go back to Comp USA to buy a serial port to change the ignition crank map. Well halfway there juan calls me & asks me how my car is doing. I tell him not so good that all it will do is rollover. Told him all connections were correct because we went over everything 5 times probably more i lost count...LOL. I tell Juan to give me 30-40 min to call me back since it would take that long to get back to my car so i can look at it when he tell me what to do. Well not even 10min's go by & he calls me back. He tells me the wiring instructions are wrong about the coil wires. i get off the phone with Juan & call my dad & tell him the news. When i get there my dad has the car running. Not good but it was running. It was stumbling, idle was erratic, i mean all over the place, CEL light was on. I take he car out goes i was just so damn excited that it was actually running. My G/F hops in & we go for a little spin. i hear the BOV go off on the 1st two gears then it stops. We go a little further & the car wasn't pulling very hard barely pulling at all. Then i remembered about Shagwagn having the same problem so i go back home pop the hood and sure enough a pipe was disconnected. I tightened that up & Juan calls back & helps out even more CEL light went off for a little bit but came back on. Juan tell my dad to plug the boost controller into the conector that helps with fuel going into boost (making it lean or rich) I get off the phone with Juan and take it back out & HOLY s*** this b**** pulled I mean pulled hard. I wouldn't even floor it & it would set you back into the seat. Pulled up beside an older 5.0 mustang asked him if he wanted to run so we go from a 30 & s*** he didn't even have a chance. I go back home & asked dad to take a ride with me he jumps in & I did the same thing. I would only gas it halfway. i looked over at and said watch this. I get on it a little in 1st not much though, 2nd gear just a little more, 3rd gear i got on it pretty good and it sat us back in the seat i look over at him and said what u think? he said pulls damn good so get on it a little in 4th but not much change gears going into 5th then boom. i look in my rear view and smoke everywhere. i'm gonna tell you my heart just dropped when i saw all of the smoke I felt like crying it hurt. It took so long to get it on and in the 1st day it blows up. i wasn't acting stupid i never floored it to the floor & changed gears before 6k i got on it but never floored it. Hell i NEVER heard any kind of detonation at all. So know as pissed as my G/F was for me using he car I know had to deliver the great news that my car just blew up. it hurts guys, boost is VERY addicting now it's gone. So hear is what is going to happen I'll have to buy another used car probably a used Civic then when i have enough money I'll buy a used block drop it in and get Forged rods & pistons & possibly a steel crank 7 put the turbo back on. Hopefully it's ok but I doubt it. Juan called me shortly after it happened when i was waiting for the tow truck He asked me how is it running I told him it WAS hauling ass bbut then i told him it just blew up. He aked me if it was pulling hard and said o yeah. I think what might have happened is I spiked past 14psi which is what it's mapped to. i'm dissapointed, sad, upset but it'll come back stronger. Juan can you still help me out on those forged internals? When i get done with this thing it will be a beast. Only it will take a very long tome for that to happen. Buying the Highboost kit nearly broke me only have 2k in the bank. Juan has a great kit made this MP3 fast as hell. It's just unfortunate that this happened but it will be back eventually
