In my quest to stop breathing fumes while setting up the start/idle etc. of the EMS, I took a trip to the Home Despot and picked up about $30 in parts to vent the garage




It uses 2 butted 4" flanges that fit nicely in the 4" spugen exhaust tips (I used 4 1/2" hose clamps to seal the holes in the back part of the tip - I assume they are used to fit a silencer..)

Off of the flanges, flexible aluminum dryer vent connected to a heavy-duty plastic "Y" connector (with prodigious amounts of duct tape) and finally connected 2 8' sections drainage pipes that you can see in the second photo.

Took about 1/2 hour to put together.

The "Y" connector is easily strong enough to support my garage door, and I can always build a baffle for it if later on if I want to "fully" seal the garage . . .

 

Very nice. Its amazing how even with the garage door open it only takes a minute or to to get gased out.

 

I can have your idle, cold startup, etc tuned in the time it took you to buy that tubing.

Chris

 

yeah, but you are in Florida and he is in NJ....

 

True; when the temp is above ~45F, the car does start with the maps I have.

At colder temps, I have to do the ghetto trick; use OEM ECU, run for 20 seconds, pop the AEM back in and start her up.

Haven't had much time to play - next weekend I hope.

I saw a link on the AEM forums about injector timing - I may have gas pooling on the valves. I certainly have ENOUGH gas going in. Plugs look OK too (not wet or carbon fouled).

 

It's not going to be a mechanical problem if it works fine with the stock ECU... If the plugs look fine and you can't get it started, then obviously you don't have enough fuel. A wideband O2 sensor will solve the mistery. I do not recommend even driving the car with out a wideband. (Untuned)

Chris