The rest of the silver 2000 S is doing great after some work, thread to follow. The internals of the engine you swapped in were spotless, seems unlikely this has over 100k
The rest of the silver 2000 S is doing great after some work, thread to follow. The internals of the engine you swapped in were spotless, seems unlikely this has over 100k
In reply to Sonic :
That's beautiful. Go light on the sealant so you don't end up with 'snakes' in the oil pick-up. I'm looking forward to the build.
Snakes... fun in the yard (sometimes), never fun in the oil pickup
I dropped off the Xbox in Texas today for a thing at the place with the guy.
A while ago, I mentioned somewhere that the V8 swap into the Frog was stalled because the engine cradle that I had built will. not. work. My rallycross season starts in March and I have limited time to play with builds between now and then. This week, I'm doing some basic prep on the 2002 Boxster engine that I bought from Dan0. It looks a little rough and I don't want to dump too much money and time into an unknown engine. For this season I plan to run it with the flywheel, clutch, and IMS bearing that came with it. If it lasts through a season of abuse, high revs, and thick dust, I'll give it a good refresh afterward.
So far I've replaced the water pump, deleted the SAI, and put the lower runners for a 996 intake on it. The intake needed some holes drilled and tapped into the head, but the mounting points were cast with the head. The car came with a DME tuned for the 996 intake and exhaust and ran well with the set-up. I'm not worried about the engine being a bit dirty. The only time this car will see pavement is when it's parked.
Looks like Xbox was parked next to Matt's Off Road Recovery and entertained celebrities.
Doing a little bit of work on something every day while on night shift. Light bar and winch bolted on the Prius. Hoping to finish wiring them tomorrow.
I know with my gen2 Prius that the traction control is amazingly intrusive when a tire slips just a little bit on silly stuff.
have you tried running this thing in the dirt yet? Can you turn it off??
In reply to jfryjfry :
I haven't had this in dirt yet. I did take a Camry Hybrid out for Rallycross just for giggles and Yes, the traction control was very intrusive. With the Camry I could go around the whole course with the car floored and it would brake every time a wheel slipped or there was some lateral G. It was remedied by pulling the main ABS fuse. In the Prius, I may wire a switch into the circuit for that fuse.
For now, I'm building it for the Texas Carnado (Gambler 500 Event) Feb 9 - 11. It could be freezing temperatures and ice covered roads or in the 60s and muddy. I definitely need to see how it handles off-road before I'm there.
In reply to jfryjfry :
I finished up some work on the undercarriage and took it to a place with some loose gravel and mud. The mud effectively immobilized it. It was bad enough that I didn't want to test it any further without a buddy there to help bail me out.
To temporarily disable the TC you can do a little dance to put it into either Maintenance Mode or Certification Mode. To make it switchable I'm pretty sure that I just need to create a fault in the ABS system by creating an open circuit at one of several fuses.
In reply to AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) :
I'm interested in learning what you discover about defeating the traction control on a switch.
Cyber-Prius is looking good 
It looks too good not to go out and turn heads at a gambler rally.
Hope the switch will be easy to figure out.
I did some reading on Priuschat.com about the Traction Control on the 2nd generation cars. Any discussion about disabling it is strongly discouraged saying things like that a wheel might over rev and ruin the transmission or somehow damage an axle. I'm sure that repeated abuse can cause trouble, but I'm willing to experience a catastrophic failure if it will advance Gambler Science.
In one of the threads, a guy mentioned that he disabled traction control by disconnecting the brake fluid reservoir level sensor. Looking under the hood, I decided that was preferable to working with the fuse box.
I cut one of the wires then ran it through the firewall (with the winch control and light bar harnesses) to a switch on the center console. It works, but it requires the car to be shut off to reset the fault and get ABS and traction control back. Not optimal, but probably the best I can get with this car.
One of my Gambler friends just got a 3D printer and made a couple Camper Special emblems for me (and a third item that I'm not quite sure what to do with yet).
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5164464? if anyone wants it.
Y'all need to buy one (or more) of these: https://www.gambler500.com/product-page/sons-of-smokey-trail-trash-bag
Seriously!!! They are awesome bags for your Outdoor and Motorsporting activities. Only $25? are you kidding me? Quickly before they sell out.
She's doin' good. Speedometer screen went blank today after being good for a couple months. No problem except no fuel gauge...
In reply to AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) :
There's a quick and easy temporary reset for the cluster going blank. Google it: combination meter
I'm not sure that I want to see the gas gage yet.
The Mercedes de-beaded a tire. We had to cut the exhaust off a couple cars. A Ford is blinking low oil pressure. We are exactly in the middle of nowhere. It's awesome.
The Volvo started venting coolant. "If it's coming out, that means you still have some."
It seems that the core support became higher and the fan impacted the shroud. We can fix that.
Shortly after that, there was rock ledge hidden in mud. Volvo rises up on it and is stuck. The Suburban pulls it off, but there's a trail of transmission fluid.
What to do? Collect fluid from nearby cars and keep going as far as it can.
An hour or so later it quit, but pavement was nearby. The Suburban towed it back to camp.
...and I reset my combo gage. Still have over 1/2 tank of gas. Yay.
A major award!
There were only two places along the trail that I heard a scrape on the belly. It looks like the stone guard is good enough.
The Xbox is back with me now, heading the rest of the way home Sunday.
Not that it's a high dollar car, but I don't want it to be an easy target at the hotel parking lot.
How's the Touareg been treating you? How many miles are on it now?
The Touareg has been great *except* I just got a check engine light yesterday morning when I started it. P205b indicates a problem with the temperature sensor for the DEF. If it comes back I'll probably replace the thermistor myself: https://www.myturbodiesel.com/threads/def-p205b-temp-sensor-diy-fix.28155/
I got 31 mpg highway driving to the DFW area and am getting a little over 20 towing the trailer. It rides and tows great and I can almost forget I have a ~20' 5000lb load behind me.
I think it's just over 135k miles now and out of warranty. I did an oil change with a kit from FCP Euro about a month ago. It costs about the same as taking it to the dealership for an oil change, but for me a trip to the dealer pretty much kills a whole day. I'd rather take an hour and do it myself.
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