from the twisted minds of snm
When will it end? Well, here’s the ECU without the glob of goo.
And everything in engine bay is back together! I’ve also swapped out throttle cable as the hack one was short and the cable stop mounting was also hacked to accomodate. I’m not sure why they did this.
And so, finally the moment of truth arrives:truth.avi
After this I take care of some other issues like figuring where to hook the tach, the speed sensor, check engine light. Man does this feel good!
Just watched the DVD of the movie Dokuritsu Shoujo Gurentai (lit. Independence Girl-gang) 2004, retitled for the USDM as “Samurai Chicks” (Tokyo Shock, 2006). I really wish US releasers wouldn’t go messing with the titles, not only because it is both f#@king unnecessary and is culturally insulting and ignorant, but because it makes it really difficult to identify the movie by the title. When I first saw the title listing, I thought it was Samurai Gal 21 with Koike Eiko and Satou Eriko. I was elated until I found out that this was a different movie… after which I remained elated, but for different reasons. Viz was one of the first “insipid title” offenders by retitling the USDM release of Shimotsuma Monogatari as “Kamikaze Girls”. WTF?! Continue reading ‘Dokuritsu Shoujo Gurentai’
Took it easy on the knees and quads after Monday. It was windy, so keeping the speed up even on the flats was a bit of a challenge.
Kept encountering the same woman in her Millenia smack dab in the middle of the road at WCC, immobile, with her brake lights and reverse lights on. Apparently she was attempting to learn to parallel park. Certainly she couldn’t.
10.88-miles, 50-minutes, Vavr = 12.8 mph.
Thanks to Aaron who is also working on a 20v install in his MK1 MR2, I got that missing connector with perfect timing. The harness is done!
For some reason it seems this connector is often missing from salvaged harnesses. So it was being held on with RTV gooped over it on mine.
Anyway, got the harness snaked into the engine bay & through the firewall. Started plugging things in. So close, but I’m calling it a night. Stay tuned to see if it works!
Okay, resumed working on the FX wiring. I’m now the electrical taping monkey. Taping up the loom, gone through 1 and half rolls of tape already. I sure hope this all works! Ended up being a little more work because the JDM 20v harness is setup for right hand drive, so the harness goes through on the left side of the firewall. My US setup is opposite, so had to reroute wires and splice in extensions. Getting close to the moment of truth!
It rained all morning on Monday, so I went home. Ckucky called just as I drove out of the parking lot at work and said he and Scat were going to ride around town. I wasn’t trying to be antisocial, but there was no charge in the battery and I had the wrong shoes. I did want to try ot my new shinguards, though…
The Windward side was dry, so I rode over to WCC and did some intervals. 8.05-miles, Vavr = 12, 40-minutes. The pulled shin muscle seems to have healed up as there were no issues with it.
The cleats are holding a lot better after I rotated them last week – I’ll have to back off the pedal jaw spring tension now. I also added one adjustment wedge to each cleat and noticed a lot less muscle strain and more knee and foot comfort. I’ll probably need another wedge or two per side, but two is all I had left.
There’s still a pile of new anime I’ve watched that I would like to give my quickie evaluations, but I just finished watching one that I need to talk about. Sometimes it seems I gripe about many anime shows being unremarkable, but then something shows up that gives hope. Byousoku 5cm (5cm per Second) is one recent standout that I didn’t get around to mentioning. Lavish art, animation & detail. The anime I just saw was not that though, a new movie titled Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Translated its The Girl Who Leaps Through Time, which is an apt description of the premise. Basically schoolgirl gains the ability to jump through time and once she figures it out, uses it for her convenience. Yes, there should be the whole paradox thing. I guess they get around it by making it when she goes back in time, its kind of like she rewinds back to that time, but still she has gone through the previous time & remembers it. Don’t think too hard about it. Anyway, what this show really is is a school romance. Art is nice, animation good. Trying to figure out if its rotoscoping or CG they’re using. Its funny, touching, bittersweet, all that good stuff. Not as lavish as 5cm, but its still great.
I can just see Scat shaking his head. He would advise me to jus’ carb ’em! With the harness completely out, I can see a certain esthetic appeal as the bay looks nice & clean without all the wires. Doesn’t help that the previous conversion job was a pretty haphazard hack job with stray wires all over the place. I spent all day Saturday on this. Not sure if you can see, but there’s less wires, one of the ECU connectors has been completed, the two looms are migrating together almost ready to merge. Would have been interesting to have done time lapse pics. It should look a lot cleaner when done. And if I convert over to the MegaSquirt standalone ECU, I can make it look all hotrod stylie with exposed shiny individual velocity stacks on each cylinder intake. Maybe put in a functional hood scoop to feed them! Bwop!
The progress on rewiring the FX has been slow. Got the old harness out, there’s some weird routing of that wiring. Got it all unravelled. Toyota electrical tape nice, it unwraps clean without sticky gunk. Slowly working out what to take out. Didn’t get much done in middle of week, was sent to the Island of Chickens on wednesday & ended up being a long day.
The rain gods were having a party overnight Sunday and until noon on Monday, so no freeride… besides, everyone was otherwise occupied. Chris had birthing class, Ckucky was on the mainland, JT had a project deadline for some pieces, and Root was going to break his FX. Mitch called me just as I was leaving work. He opted to do some road laps since the ride was called. I went home to ice down the muscle I pulled on Saturday. I hope it will be reasonably usable for secret training on Wednesday…
