Few small updates...
Harness showed up from KPower, but the pin retainer was missing so they happily overnighted it to me.
Unfortunately, when I reinstalled it I found I was getting DBW errors with all three of my throttle bodies and the car didn't want to start. Fortunately, I noticed that the RPM wasn't reading while the started was cranking and another fellow KSwap person (Harrison) was willing to sit on Discord with me and multimeter some stuff out.
Turned out that the pins for DBW motor 12v and the 12v for crank angle sensor, cam angle sensor, etc were swapped so that was an easy fix. Car started right up after that, fortunately.
Emile from WinningFormula ended up redoing his TB adapters after Harrison (dude is a legend) talked to him about CNCing them instead of welding. I think he also took some inspiration from the Ichiban adapter I was running and moved to o-rings instead of gaskets. He was nice enough to send me the new revision to test out.
For lack of a better option due to wire length, I'm using a DTM mount stuck in one of the hose clamps to keep the wire strain down.
Another set of RC1 winnings showed up and I added a subtle 8th gen Civic Si decal to the quarter panel
Arizona Motorsports Park went decently, though I didn't drive real well. I won TT5 both days and pipped my previous TT5 record by a tenth on Sunday with a not great lap.
Previous lap was done before I added the cams, so it was 196whp average versus the 205whp now. It was also on brand new Nankang AR1s and ~40f ambient, versus 20 heat cycle RC1s and ~90f ambient.
I ended the day with spring bind when turning the steering wheel, which I more or less attribute to a hilarious ~90mph off that covered the entire car inside and out with what is basically lunar dirt. I think some dirt worked its way into the strut bearing / perch, not a big deal. Also, weirdly, the passenger window regulator stopped working. I've had this happen before but plugging/unplugging the window switch or opening and closing the doors a few times has fixed it but that didn't work this time.
Jon at Shaftworks was nice enough to send me out some replacement strut bearings and Torrington bearings, which I started swapping out yesterday.
I also took the opportunity to swap to some 12mm upper bolts from the stock 14mm or whatever to get some more camber out of the front.
Interestingly, the right coilover had a bent ... whatever the thing that sits on top of the strut bearing and under the camber plate bearing is called ... which I can only assume happened like eight months ago since it is the only time I've dropped the front right hard. I emailed Jon to get a replacement and he got back to me within an hour, so that was super cool too.
Anyway, I have one event at Wild Horse Pass East on May 20th, which I suspect will be the last time NASA AZ sees the track as it will be torn down for casino/freeway expansion. It'll also be the last NASA AZ event until September-October since we don't run during the summer here.
I'm kind of considering going to High Plains in Colorado for a NASA crossover event August 12-13, but we will see since it is a 900mi tow one way. I basically have to go to win the TT5 regional championship since I already missed two events, it'd be nice to meet some of 86 guys up there, and it'd be nice to see a new track for the first time in a while.