I've been trolling the internet pretty hard about this.

I finally got around to taking the car to the dyno to be tuned.

the dyno was a load bearing dyno, so we would set the load then make pulls adjust each row as needed rinse and repeat.

My issue is, under a load that you would typically see while in 5th or 6th gear around 7k the car beings to act like its having spark blowout. plugs type are br8eix gapped at .24, MY wastegate spring is set for 7psi. I dont think my plug gap is the issue. It literally feels like the car hits some sort of ignition retard at 7k through 9k. The next thing im going to do is swap my coilpacks out. i have a set from an 04-05 RSX that i have researched will work for the ap1.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

car specs

turbonetics 72-68/1.00ar
deatchswerk 800cc injectors
aem ems v2
aeromotive 340 lbh fuel pump

 

BAS /thread

 

How involving is the install for the BAS? I figured it was just an amp that tapped into ignition power, but have read it can be set to activate once it detects a set psi. Also, you can adjust it's % output. Why not just run it at 100% output 100% of the time? Whats the point of all the adjustments?

 

Spark should not be blowing out on that gap at only 7psi. Are you running enough ignition timing?

 

What mani? Turbo seems huge lol.

 

Ignition timing is correctly set and the tuner has tried increasing (within safe limits) to solve the problem. It might help mention that if the dwell was increased we saw the problem start to go away. Im talking like the normal dwell is 2m/s we were up at 7 m/s and it started going away.. this is why I think its the coil packs.

plugs are at .24 maybe we should gap down, even those 7psi is really low....

Im reading up on the BAS now...

 

What exhaust manifold? Issue isn't present in third or fourth gear?

 

RSX coils and BAS fixed my ignition issues.

 

I didnt see the first time that this is only at 7psi, my bet is something else is going on, something with the coils maybe like you said, but the stock ignition should work ok what your set up

 

no it doesnt happen in any other gears. and when im in 5th or 6th, i can drive all the way up to where im starting to build boost, but as soon as boost starts to roll in it acts like the spark blow out. boost in 1st through 4th is normal....