jonbar87

well I went and picked it up from the exhaust place today...it sounds crazy. He charged me 108 for the install. That means the 3" mandrel bent exhaust cost me a total of 378. I am extremely happy. when I asked him how it sounded before I drove it the first thing he said was it's extremely deep, which I like, but is almost too deep/loud. almost like a drone and at certain rpm's also hurt my ears.

After driving it around with no belt I came to the conclusion that it's starved for air. When I step on it it hesitates and cuts out and shoots black smoke...an obvious sign off too much fuel/not enough air. I don't know how I'm going to get it to Florida and get it tuned. I thought about either maybe putting stock injectors back in until i install the belt or leave the 525cc and install the fuel pump so hopefully the larger injectors/more fuel pressure might get me by with the belt on if i drive it EXTREMELY conservativly and putts my way down to Florida. I thought about maybe somehow making it to where (if I installed the belt) I could make the bypass valve stay open all the time so I could be running the blower but not starving my engine for air but also not running too lean. I'm just really trying to avoid using the JRSC FMU and splicing into ECU harness. If worse comes to worse I may have to trailer it to Florida...who knows. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Is THIS really the "change" everyone was hoping for? I think not...

1997 Base, H22A, 5 Spd w/Leather.
JRSC - 9psi
215whp, 189wtq with clutch slipping
Exedy Stage 1 Clutch (worthless)
Auto>Manual Tensioner Conv.
Precision 525cc High Impedance Injectors
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
Accord Crank Pulley
K&N drop in filter
Kamikaze Header with 2.5" collector
Mandrel Bent 3" Kteller piping