Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:45 pm
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Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:53 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:34 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 7:49 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:59 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:20 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:06 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:01 am
My success rate with it is 100% starting every time thus far.
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:01 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:33 am
I did things to the grom this weekend, more later when I finish. Today hopefully.
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:53 pm
Well?
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:52 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:17 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:40 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:59 am
Things done to gromlin:
The big performance mod this go around was the addition of the Power commander Wideband 2 module.
This little piece of magic does a few things. It reads a wideband sensor to adjust your tune on the fly to a target afr you set. Then it stores the trim values in a separate table so you can go back later and trim your main table; this is so you can eventually remove the wideband sensor since they do wear out. Finally it simulates (LIES!) the narrowband output to the OE O2 sensor to keep the stock computer happy. It was a lot of wiring since i needed to tap a switched power source, but wait....nothing is stable enough to power it! So I had to put in a relay as well.
This means my somewhat pathetic storage was now full of wiring and power commander shite
So i fixed that too
AVD GROM ACTIVATED
I was planning on this for a quick minute anyway. I had installed the tail rack + tail tidy a few weeks ago, and mounted up the helmet case. As you can see it hides the tail light very effectively, so I wired in (at the same time as the PCV of course) an LED strip that is 3M taped to the handle of the box. It looks really good and is super effective.
Even has turn signals! This is wired under the seat to a 5 flat connector for ease of conversion back to track grom.
Added bar end mirrors that i can see out of. These too are one fastener away from being removed for track d00ty. With taping up I should be able to go to track ready in under 10 minutes with two tools. not bad really.
This is the obligatory pic from when i had to wheel the bike inside to hook up the power commander. This is also a pic of how much i hate working on laptops. Since i had auto tune turned off, even loading the map with it turned on to the pc did not show the afr targets tables. I had to physically hook up the bike, get the map, reconfigure for VATOT00N, and save to get it to load up correctly without the bike being connected again. (NB: this is so i can edit, manage, and save tables in excel, like 100x easier than dicking around the cells of your PCV)
My CBR 600RR pegs came in too, but I didn't open the package till after i was done. 15 minute job to install next time anyway.
The big performance mod this go around was the addition of the Power commander Wideband 2 module.
This little piece of magic does a few things. It reads a wideband sensor to adjust your tune on the fly to a target afr you set. Then it stores the trim values in a separate table so you can go back later and trim your main table; this is so you can eventually remove the wideband sensor since they do wear out. Finally it simulates (LIES!) the narrowband output to the OE O2 sensor to keep the stock computer happy. It was a lot of wiring since i needed to tap a switched power source, but wait....nothing is stable enough to power it! So I had to put in a relay as well.
This means my somewhat pathetic storage was now full of wiring and power commander shite
So i fixed that too
AVD GROM ACTIVATED
I was planning on this for a quick minute anyway. I had installed the tail rack + tail tidy a few weeks ago, and mounted up the helmet case. As you can see it hides the tail light very effectively, so I wired in (at the same time as the PCV of course) an LED strip that is 3M taped to the handle of the box. It looks really good and is super effective.
Even has turn signals! This is wired under the seat to a 5 flat connector for ease of conversion back to track grom.
Added bar end mirrors that i can see out of. These too are one fastener away from being removed for track d00ty. With taping up I should be able to go to track ready in under 10 minutes with two tools. not bad really.
This is the obligatory
pic from when i had to wheel the bike inside to hook up the power commander. This is also a pic of how much i hate working on laptops. Since i had auto tune turned off, even loading the map with it turned on to the pc did not show the afr targets tables. I had to physically hook up the bike, get the map, reconfigure for VATOT00N, and save to get it to load up correctly without the bike being connected again. (NB: this is so i can edit, manage, and save tables in excel, like 100x easier than dicking around the cells of your PCV)My CBR 600RR pegs came in too, but I didn't open the package till after i was done. 15 minute job to install next time anyway.
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:30 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:33 am
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:34 am
not really
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:29 pm
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:35 pm
Given the adventures of the green car, I cannot label this as
. He went then went back. 
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:39 pm
stripethree wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:35 pmGiven the adventures of the green car, I cannot label this as
when scaled 
~$3000 125cc 3/4 motorcycle
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:46 pm
You leave our tiny 75% motorbikes out of this.
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:59 pm
So you made the bike 10% heavier and added 1% MOAR POWAH? 
Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:25 am
Re: Brad's Garage, look at all the reasons I can't afford a Miata/MR2
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:15 am