Date:         Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:00:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Damon Campbell <damoncampbellvw@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Thanks to the list and a very brief 2.3L WBX writeup
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I appreciate everyone's feedback on my question about
low oil pressure and hard starting.

Low oil pressure wasn't really all that low - just
thin oil with a motor breaking in, and a VDO sender
that triggers higher than it should...  Solution?
Just look at the gage, and (kind of) ignore the red
light for now.

Hard starting?  Just an older, originally weaker
designed starter for a 1.9 trying to crank over 2.3L
or pure power.  Solution?  A new "Hi-Torque" starter
for Weddle Industries shipped next day air.  Sounds
like a race car trying to start up now...

I drove it up to berkeley for an inspection by Buslab,
and Marco showed that FI who's boss (him).  I came in
with a really rough idle, a stinky gas smell out the
tail pipe, and a hesitation off idle.  I left with a
smooth idle, even *more* power, smoooooth
accelleration and lots more torque.  Solution?  Crank
the heck out of the AFM spring.  It was running
super-duper rich, so the AFM spring needed to be
tightened up a ton (like 60 clicks or so...).  Mixture
is looking better and drivability is what i had hoped
it would be.  Engine was essentially flooded at idle
(AFM needs to trick the digijet ECU into thinking the
motor is still a 1.9).

After my move up to Canada (vancouver, B.C., to be
more precise), i'll see if mr. Bob Donalds will lend
me his G-tech pro (he seems pretty curious, about
this, too), and i'll try to get ya'll some HP data.

My little westy has got some pep, now!  Let's just see
how long it peps ;-)

Thanks everyone... and don't forget to help me clean
out my garage!

-Damon

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'84 Westy (Sparky) w/2.3L WBX (woo hoo! my first engine build works!)

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