Chuckstiva build

[htchbck]

Well, its been a while since I've messed with Chuck. Got a little distracted by Green Car lol. But since I'm still waiting on the rings to get here (fingers crossed that it will be today) I decided to try to drive Chuck to work. Last time I delivered pizza he was ok (not great, but running) for the entire night till I headed back from the last run. Then an ancient (hadn't reared its ugly head in a couple years) problem came back. It feels like it hits a fuel cut or spark cut at about 2500RPM, though thats a rough estimate since I don't have a tach in it right now, but thats what the tach said back in the day when it would do this. I never figured it out then, it just went away after a couple of days of driving it. But this time since I've had other things to drive I just let him sit on the back burner for a bit. Drove him in this morning and he did ok, still think my base timing may be off a hair but I'll check it at lunch. Only one time while climbing a hill he started doing it, actually had to UPSHIFT from third to fourth to get up the hill without slowing to a crawl. And it wasn't when I hit the hill, I was halfway up it, and it was very steep, so I shifted down to the third but he wouldn't rev any higher, had to go back to fourth. Even when its happening it still has normal pull up to 2500, its just like someone dropped the rev limiter by a couple thousand RPMs. But its not constant, he did fine the last five miles to work after that (including a larger hill than the one he did it on). I brought the known good coil from Green Car with me, and if he would have kept doing it I would have swapped coils, but I want to know for a fact that it was running poorly, and the coil fixed it, so I don't want to throw it on while its running right. But I did bring my sexy 2nd gen MX6 wheel with me to put on, and while I'm in there also putting in the int wiper switch I got. Got my 140MPH cluster with me too

[kellen302]

fuel starvation issue?

[htchbck]

Just realized that I haven't updated this in a while. Well it turned out that the choking/coughing problem I was having before was a bad connection at the white wire on the vaf. Fixed that, and then it started getting ~27mpg... still pretty bad, and didn't have the power it should have. Compression was low and I was contemplating rebuilding the engine, but instead, Kev dropped me a tip on this motor/trans combo in an '89 323. Over Christmas break I went and pulled it.



Its a B6 mated to the fabled G4A-HL transmission. Trans wasn't destined for Chuck, however, since Chuck is first and foremost my pizza car. But the B6 was a perfect match for him



All this happened over Christmas break. Didn't take as many pics as I had intended to of the install, I got too excited and didn't make too many stops lol.

Yesterday (first day back at work after the holidays) I swapped on Chuck's "new" wheels.



I say "new" because they are nowhere near being new to me, not even new to Chuck actually since he has worn them before as well. They originally came to me on my first (of 3) red carb'd car a couple of years ago. Since then they were installed on Chuck when I sold him to wifey's cousin, then on Babystiva for last year's FestivaL trip and even for a short time on Green Car before it was running lol.

Today I made the most recent piece, this shiny new throttle cable bracket for the B6 You can see how sloppily I modified the original throttle bracket in the pic of the engine bay lol.

[kumalaba]

nice updates, that bracket is nice! hows he running?

[htchbck]

Running great, nice and strong, I've been averaging around 33mpg, mostly pizza. High was 36.4 when I picked up your motor Haven't gotten a reading with the 13s on him yet but I'm hoping its about the same on the ODO. Going to those from the 12s was about a 5% difference on Babystiva.