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by gielamonster
Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:14 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1985 Volvo 740ti - GRM 24 Hours of LeMons Racecar
Replies: 2
Views: 6651

Anybody getting excited yet? You'll notice GRM has picked us up on their project car pages... here Still needs some tuning, but the car is running/driving/handling great. Feels very quick. One tire fire through 3rd gear pretty easily. Thats at 8psi, we'll run about 14 in the race if I can get it tun...
by gielamonster
Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:39 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1985 Volvo 740ti - GRM 24 Hours of LeMons Racecar
Replies: 2
Views: 6651

Car finally ran last night. Using trigger return crank timing scheme caused my coil outputs to hover high and only drop to ground for ~approx the specified dwell. Switching only that setting to time based cranking instantly fixed the problem and inverted that signal without juicing the coils with th...
by gielamonster
Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:34 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 1985 Volvo 740ti - GRM 24 Hours of LeMons Racecar
Replies: 2
Views: 6651

1985 Volvo 740ti - GRM 24 Hours of LeMons Racecar

The event is a month away and the car is (hopefully) days away from firing up on MS-extra. I'm using a discarded v1.01 (yep, you heard right! circa 2001) PCB, completely fresh harness built using everything stripped from the stock harness plus some 1/2 off day junkyard parts. Grand spankin total of ...
by gielamonster
Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:39 am
Forum: Others
Topic: Erik Adolfsson, Briggs and Stratton 580cc V-twin
Replies: 1
Views: 18875

Erik, I uploaded the pictures you sent me... http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/euroBriggs http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/albums/euroBriggs/motor_komplett_kedja.sized.jpg http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/albums/euroBriggs/DSC00253.jpg http://evilallianceracing....
by gielamonster
Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:01 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

Note to self: check for "resistor" spark plugs as soon as someone suggests that could be your reset problem. It is. The code on the plug must include an "R" somewhere (at least on NGKs). Engine runs like more of a dream than it ever did. Obviously it needs to be tuned, but it res...
by gielamonster
Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:28 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

Vroom vroom!

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by gielamonster
Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:58 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

Ok, ran like a champ. Mostly. 97.327% Swapped the polarity on the coils (+12V to the black terminals on those coils above) and the resets drop from almost constant to once a minute. Here are two massive logs of it running. First two "runs" since we added spark control, and much better than...
by gielamonster
Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:04 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

Ran on fuel and spark yesterday...

http://www.msefi.com/viewtopic.php?t=15884

Feels like it won't be much further before its running like a champ. I hope so, like you said, time is definitely running out.
by gielamonster
Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:00 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

True Eric. If anything I could just use a very basic timing map until I had the fuel tuned in. The stock ignition is locked solid at a specific advance, I believe somewhere between 20-30 degrees BTDC. I was looking at the '90 Kawasaki EX250F coils I bought off ebay , and started wondering if they we...
by gielamonster
Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:43 pm
Forum: Others
Topic: Dan Gielas, Briggs and Stratton 590cc VTwin
Replies: 18
Views: 49965

I don't want to pop open the champagne too soon, but I think we finally diagnosed the reset problem. I pulled the ignition system including the coils completely off the motor and it cranked and cranked without a single reset (always reset during cranking before). Now I have to figure out how to get ...