2013 3000GT/Stealth National Gathering - Part 1

This post wont be the typical long winded, informational type - it is just a quick update with some pictures and videos of how the NG is going so far.

UNIUNO'S REVENGE: 

Uniuno's 3000GT, freshly converted to AWD

A friend of mine, Uniuno (3SGTO Profile Link), recently finished his FWD to AWD conversion - which took months.  He also happened to finish 2nd in the AWD stock turbo class at the NG drags.  Quite an opening act if you ask me.  He started with a 14.3 pass and continued improving until finishing with a 13.8 in the 1/4 mile.  The key at the NG drags is that it isn't the fastest time that wins, it is first to the finish line and Uniuno is good at consistency.

 

Uniuno - Far Lane - Run 1

Uniuno - Far Lane - Run 2

Uniuno - Near Lane - Run 3

Uniuno at the track, near lane

Gokarts:

The electric gokarts were rightly quick.

A room filled with Ninjas?

Most people were lapping in the 26-27 second range.  My best lap was 25.3, but it was not enough to win it.  Von Morgan had a solid 25.0 second pass, while Levi and Dan (Bonzai Car) were neck and neck with 24.7 second passes.  It was pretty entertaining.

My Dilemma:

If you had been following the thread over on 3SGTO (Link), then you know that I recently put a '99 Clone ECU in my car to replace a failed stock 1st gen ECU which had leaked capacitors.  Additionally, the car had a failed front oxygen sensor which I fixed by swapping in a "universal" Bosch replacement sensor.  

Universal Bosch Oxygen Sensor

Clone ECU with harness

My 91 RT/TT running poorly due to a bad adapter harness

Unfortunately, the car had issues due to swapped wires on the adapter harness and I wasn't able to bring it on Day 1 (Tuesday).  The ground wire for both the TPS and MAF sensor was swapped with a  5V wire resulting in the above video.  If you could imagine, the TPS is comparing a voltage to 'ground' and was comparing it to a 5V signal which threw the throttle position signal out the window.  The MAF was completely unresponsive without it's ground.  The good news is that Clone ECU (link) has outstanding customer service, and after giving the ECU and harness back to Brett for testing, we had figured out the problem and fixed it within 24 hours - now THAT is customer service.  The car is now here at the NG and running well.

More pictures and videos to come, stay tuned.

- Axle