It's back home!
arty:
Picked it up today.
That Monster triple clutch feels really nice. The flywheel must be lighter than the stock one, however, as I had to rev the engine a bit higher moving off of a dead stop. Not much, just enough to be different enough so that I stalled it at one point trying to move into traffic at a roundabout intersection... :blush:
But I did have a problem show up. Not anything to do with the shop that worked on my car, I believe, just something new. When I started up the car at the shop to take it out for a ride, it was fine. But while I was out, I stopped the car and shut off the engine for a few minutes. When I started it up, I got an error message on the DIC saying SERVICE ACTIVE HANDLING. Although I tried restarting the car several times, it never goes away now. So it's something I am going to need to look into. Not really any big deal, as I don't plan on racing the car, and really don't push it enough that I think I really need that active handling anyway. But still, I would like everything to work as it should, so I'll put as much effort as I feel is not overly burdensome to figure it out and fix it.
I plan on putting it up on the lift tomorrow to see if I need to touch up anything. Those O2 sensor wires have a habit of dropping down and laying against the headers if they aren't hog-tied real well, so I need to check on them. And just generally eyeball everything to make sure nothing is amiss. The guy who worked on the car is pretty sharp and seems real conscientious, so I'm not expecting to find any real unpleasant surprises like I had from some other shops that have worked on the car in the past.
Oh yeah, the tech found that the MAP sensor in back of the intake manifold was just gone when he pulled out the engine, and there was an air leak back there. Not sure how long that has been the case, since you just can't see the darn thing without a lot of effort. If I remember correctly, I just disconnected the wiring harness to relocate the harness to the new 2 BAR MAP sensor I had to use for tuning with the turbos. Come to think of it, I wonder how the other shops, starting with the one that installed the turbos up through South Georgia Corvette, did their boost tuning with the stock MAP sensor? :shrug01:
Anyway, hopefully the drivetrain noises are over and done with. I know I didn't hear a peep out of it the entire way home.
Oh, one other thing of note. The shifter is a LOT smoother feeling than it used to be. With the old Centerforce clutch, going from one gear to the next was always kind of a struggle. Especially from first to second when I could actually feel the transmission synchronizers working hard to allow me to get the shifter into second gear. That is completely gone now, and it shifts like butter. So I guess the Centerforce clutch was never really disengaging all of the way. But heck, seems to be par for the course with those past shops that worked on my car several years ago.
I did notice that my hood was a bit wobbly feeling when I popped the hood on it this evening. Seems like several bolts are a little bit loose. I was able to get to a few of them and tighten them, but the others would require me removing the hood from the hinges in order to get to them. Or perhaps I can just undo one side at a time, if I can get Connie to help me. But I think the tightening I did helped a lot, so it may not be anything of further consequence.
