Cascade Crew

scott in wa. · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:49 am Post subject: kids car

Well,
I took two plugs out yesterday, they are Autolites, 26's two heat range higher than stock.
The insulators are pretty much bone white, no tan at all, except maybe some shadowing lines that are dark.
Electrode and arcing wire are clean as a whistle.
The threads are a little black; they must stick out a bit into the cylinder?
What do you think?
Its been driven for about a week maybe two, shouldn't they be nice and tan?

I drove it last night, we have been taking it easy on the car, but I was going about 35mph floored it, broke the tires loose, (it was a little damp out) and Bang, felt like I hit a bump in the road, but there was no bump or hole in the road.
Got the car home, crawled under it and found the transmission rubber mount is cracked through, looks like it’s in pieces.

Any thoughts?
It was good when we put it in with the motor, but its toast. I ordered another along with front calipers. (Needs brakes)

So will that broken trani mount feel like a bump in the road when you get on it a little?

Also, I changed some settings in the prom. 65 ecm 6e mask.
I changed several that have to do with iac, I wish I could give you some screen shots of what Iam talking about, software is on a different
Computer. One of the setting was 160 (iac) changed it to 40,
Idles way better when going ito gear, doesn't want to die any more at least in the driveway.
What is DEFCO in the mask? There is a bunch that have to do with it.??

Oh, I need that 3.5 cutout.

Thanks
scott
Smile

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:17 am Post subject:

DEFCO is Deceleration Fuel Cut-Off. It turns the injectors off above a certain RPM, you you let off the gas.

As for the Tranny mount, the stock ones suck, and break all the time. I would order poly mount from Energy suspension, I beleive Summit sells them, you can probably order one from you local Baxtors also.

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:

you should feel it in a stick shift!

scott in wa. · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:18 pm Post subject: auto

It’s an automatic,
When I step on it, I can also feel something hitting the center console.
So you don't think the bump upon acceleration is the trani mount?
shoot maybe the motor mounts are bad as well?

Thanks
Scott

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

I'm sure its the tranny mount, it will slam the tranny into the tunnel when you accell.

iansane · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: auto

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: kids car

scott in wa. · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:41 am Post subject: yep

Put a new cheep one on last night, bump is gone.
But I ordered another from summit, one of the nice ones.

Had to take my prom back out, the one with the modified iac commands.
Problem is I changed about 4 different things, need to do it again, one thing at a time.

Thanks
Scott

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: yep

scott in wa. · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: prom

yep, to many things at once.
don't remember which ones, Iam old lol..
but I will start again this weekend.
thanks
scott