Ok I got a 2003 ap1 w/ 3mm HG. gt35r turbokit install also.

Running stock injectors/map sensor for now to get it to teh bodyshop.

Anyways. Stock ecu starts and runs car like stock (except when it sees a touch of boost it bucks like a horse)


Plug in the aem, load aem basemap.... doesn't start.

I've tried aem v1 and V2...... neither basemaps/ems work....

 

Is this your first exposure to AEM (I'm assuming EMS).

It's notoriously finicky on cold start. It's one of the reasons I'd do K-pro or FlashPro given the chance.

 

Just don't hook the intake pipe to the turbo. Put a screen or cheap air filter on your TB and drive it to the body shop. Let the turbo just blow the air out. I drove my turbo Civic like this for 500 miles to break in a new motor. Drove it to the tuner and swapped in the bigger injectors and new ECU and had it tuned.

 

does that really work?

 

Running the turbo discharge to atmosphere will potentially over-speed the turbo.

Wire the wastegate open so the you don't build boost and drive the vehicle with stock injectors.

 

I bet that will sound nice!

 

yes, please god dont drive your car anywhere with the turbo disconnected. it WILL blow your turbo. it never sees boost, so it keeps spinning faster trying to get up to boost and never gets there. i had a friend who blew TWO turbos this way. (i have no clue why he did it twice)

 

A gt35r shouldnt be hard to drive without boost. It wont spool that fast, just drive the car with everything hooked up and dont boost.

 

the aem basemap wont start the car. you have to scale the injectors and adjust crank injector time table.

 

you're not suppose to be light on a new engine for break in. you need to run it to redline and let it coast back down to properly set the piston rings and suck out any metal shavings.