Ya, I got lucky. The hinges survived, there is very very minimal damage to the cowling. luckily i'm not on good paint so a little bit of body work and nobody will know better. Also luckily I have a couple of spare hoods.

BTW- its already fixed, I quadruple checked the latch and it works good. Shouldn't happen again.

pics?

I didn't take any with the bent hood on it, it really wasn't exciting looking as far as the damage went. the new hood looks almost identical to the old one(primer finish).

No more having to drive it around with those gay VT plates, my notch is fully legit now, texas title should be here in about 3 weeks.

I'm going to tear through the timing and mess around with the tune some more. I need to sort out this idle issue, then i'll be able to moe on and finish sorting out the rest of the tune(which isn't too bad right now either).

How does the computer know what to do the first time you run it? Does it "learn?"

When you first set the engine constants you put the inj flow (cc/lbs), how many injectors, how many cylinders, simultanous firing or bank fire, and a few other things then it will give you a quasi close fuel map. It was good enough to start the motor on. If you have a o2 sensor it has a closed loop mode but it will only work for one AFR, I turned that crap off and i'm using a software package that was designed to tune megasquirt, tuner studio. With that software i can make a a map of target AFR's and then just drive on the car and it will continously update the fuel map till i acheive my targets, but you got to have the laptop pluged in to do that. I've messed with different management systems and tuner studio is pretty slick but i had to buy the registered version...$40.

When I had my injectors cleaned I had the guy measure the flow rates at 30psi fuel pressure(thats what the stock fuel pressure regulator is set for), and 43.5psi(standard 3bar of pressure, thats what most injectors are rated at). I can do a little math and figure out flow rates at different pressures.

there were a few settings for the pulse width modulation that i had to adjust but everything was described in great detail in the megamanual. the megamanual takes you step by step through initial startup and tuning. i'm a little thick headed and just jumped in, probably why it took so long to start it up.

I tried a different timing map and set the target AFR's to different values, holy crap its still a bit of a fast idle but damn this thing is running worlds better, it even fixed my clutch chatter issues. I heart driving this car.

I'm heading up to the kemah show right now if anybody wants to check out the notch.

I never made it there last night. first was a lectrical issue with the headlights, fixed that then tried to go anyways. got as far as league city and it had to spend the night. So i discovered some issues, if i have the laptop hooked up doing a autotune it runs like a scalded dog, but if its not hooked up or communicating then it runs like straight doo doo. I'm guessing a cold solder joint or corrupted firmware. Intermitant faults are the fun ones to troubleshoot

Virus ?