JAE 2012
thought I'd fill ya'll in how it went and with pics I took
set off friday 7th 5.30am, was so tiring i needed a quick nap at the services. the AFR began to randomly lean out again, I stopped to check and summore debris blocked the maf again.
near the venue 10am I thought I'd stop by local tescos to grab my ticket from my bag rather than fiddle at the gates. when i parked Mik shouted me over. he was abit lost, found the honda gathering and I appeared there in time to lead him to the venue for his first time.
we got through the entrance, spotted dragons k12 but puzzled bout how to get there cos of the bollards. so had to go round the long way and found him and james/carrie
jay, karl & nex arrived, cars facing the wrong way so thought we'd move the cars down the front end of the stand where ppl will be walking past
tents & more ppl slowly popping up, sun at lunchtime was unbareable, went to tesco with james n carrie for sandwich and a big brolly
as the day progresses, chris, solarice, etc arrived n setup camp
it was a day full of catchup n talking, my throat was absolutely killing from talking to sophia, chris, debbie, karl, celina, mik, etc and was a long night. rest of the park was asleep by midnight but the mighty msc kept on going through the cold clear night gathering round the barely warm bbq and till the generator was out of fuel.
i slept in my tent for the first time, twas alright, a chilly breeze down me back at 6am but just pulled the sleep bag over my head.
next morning, show day began to get interesting. we cleaned our rides and then literally out the blue, a blue k11 with white rota grids labelled GTR had arrived, twas james
what a special occasion i thought I'd never see. 5 famous boosted k11s at the front line.
i had my compression tester that chris needed, warmed up engine, took plugs out and oops cyl1 was completely flooded in oil from a seriously damaged ring, 2-3-4 was sooty. no point testing compression as it runs on 3cyl. time for new engine.
i removed his seized waxstat and corrected the idle screw, couldn't remove n clean the IAV at the time.
as I was fitting Miks new wheel nuts, r-reg called me by surprise that he was there
i ran over to show the way in. jeez like eveyone has appeared.
all the bbq's made an eery layer of smog
at night we started chris's car to see if the IAV fast idles and nope, starts at 500rpm. readjust to 750 cold and he'll have to clean the IAV at home.
i started mine to show how it should fast idle and then the fireworks began and so begins the oohs n ahhs n wowsy
what a show. mik took some brill photos
afterwards everyone honked n revved n flashed etc was an ecstatic array of mechanical abuse
later on chris wondered if his SR driving lights could be connected or switched on seperately and so began the night of diagnosing the lighting systems, twas such fun n team bonding working together on the issue
turned out that the featured loom was missing or not originally there so the SR lights will have to be manually wired in.
r-reg and james GTR had to return home.
next morning frank appeared
i took selina for a ride and get petrol & ice from aldi.
after packing up the tents etc, i managed to remove n fix chris's IAV and the valve was just abit stuck with dirt. free'd n cleaned up n reconfiged, she now idles up as normal.
lastly took will out for a short blast down the grass and was told off by the guards, woopsy
meanwhile other cars were doing all sorts of donuts, skids etc
meh
on way home, myself and car worn out, she began to occasionally lean out under light cruise closed-loop?
i was testing all sorts of open-loop, closed-loop maps, various injector settings, cleaned the maf etc and it was annoying but eventually got home.
got a new o2 and will be retweaking the inj & mapping.
