I was told many things about the car that just were not true, or important facts were omitted, important things.
I've kept my personal feelings out of this discussion because right now, I have a LOT of personal feelings that I'd like to express, but instead, I'm stuck with what I have, so I'm just going to move forward, fix the car, and next year I'll go through everything myself. Then nothing will be based on what I've been told, it will be fact, and true.
By chronicling what has happened to the car, I've devalued it now that everything is known about the condition the car was sold to me in. I plan to make everything like new, so I can enjoy the car with confidence, and if I ever decide to sell the car, I'll be able to give them a true, honest history of the condition of the engine and gearbox.
The gearbox shifts and feels great, although I did find bits stuck to the magnetic fill plug (neither the engine, nor the gearbox had magnetic drain plugs. The box had a magnetic filler plug only), but I suspect those aren't anything that affects the performance of the gearbox at this time. Small bits I think are to be expected in a gearbox, especially one that's been driven hard.
Next year, both engine and box will have been gone through, the rest of the car is sweeter than sweet, so I'll have what I originally wanted. It's just when I bought the car, it was insinuated that none of that needed to be done, and all was fine. "ticking time bomb" is a good description of what I bought.
I know, "race motor-expect race breakage", so that's where things sit right now.
The car will be back running very soon.
I've ordered a new distributor, and if the car runs as it did before, I plan to run and enjoy it.
I have a tuner who is familiar with Haltech and can make changes if necessary. I will definitely save the existing program.
I personally don't know enough about "tuning" with the laptop to understand, or make changes, so my plan is to leave things alone as long as the car runs well.
My plan WAS to learn everything about my car as I went along, owning and maintaining it. I did not expect or plan on getting this deep into "knowing" everything about my car in this manner.
quote:Originally posted by ZR1 Pantera:
If it is a Haltech, most systems give you the ability to connect a laptop and upload from the Haltech EMC the current tune. That current tune is likely what roger is calling the secret sauce.
I highly doubt he has custom software in a factory Haltech EMC.
This is simple to figure out.
1. Find the model of Haltech EMC.
2. Download the software for that model.
3. Load software on laptop.
4. Connect laptop to Haltech EMC.
5. Upload current EMC mapping (ie:"the secret sauce")
For someone to tell you it is custom and to leave it alone is, IMO, stupid. You should know how everything in your car works. There is NO MAGIC in there. Sounds like Roger has been less than helpful and continues to be that way. Sorry for friends of Roger but he is not someone I would have wanted to buy a car from.
Not to worry, it is no magic. Haltech EMC's have been around a long time and are typically very easy to work with.
To Doug's point, you NEED to save the tune so that if anything goes wrong with the EMC in the future, you can get another one and reload the tune and then you are back on the road, with the same tune!
Scott