Well I was hoping to make this post in a much more positive light but as some of you know my motor had other plans for me last Friday. I usually don’t post these types of threads and keep a pretty low key on all the time spent on my car. But I feel that this thread needed to be made to thank the people that helped me so much the last month or so.

This year I decided to redo my entire wiring harness and ign system because of the constant misfires and weird readings I was seeing last year in my AEM. After speaking with Devin from AEM at SEMA and the PRI show about the problems I was having he said the first thing to do would be get rid of that old stock harness that has been cut up, spliced, sodered back together in so many places and start fresh. As many of you know, I race and work on cars to relieve my stress from work so building a wiring harness from scratch was something I have never done before nor even would know where to start. After speaking with Devin some more and him making the biggest mistake of his life by giving me his business card I decided it was time to try and build the harness. I had a ton of questions and no matter what time I would call or how dumb the questions were, Devin and the rest of the team at AEM would always make time to not only answer them but also explain the whys or the hows. With the help of AEM and Dave (DaveF) I built the harness.

Next the fun part came changing the jumpers on the AEM box and then trying to start the car. Once again I called the tech support at AEM and they walked me through opening the box and separating the two boards on the EMS unit to change the jumpers. Not something I suggest you do yourself unless you are extremely patient and have a high tolerance for stress. Well after about 45 mins of picking and prying ever so gently I had the two boards apart. Then a phone call back to AEM to find out which jumpers needed to be changed and some more detailed instructions I was on my way.

I then went to start the car and sure enough I had spark but no fuel. I emailed FJO to figure out how to test the injector driver box and found out the box was bad. So I made a post on Honda-tech and started calling everyone I knew from NH to MD trying to find a replacement box so I could make the dyno. No one had one. Until Dave called me back and said Steve (HR-1320) had a box that I could use for the weekend. So jumped in the car and off I went to Steves house. Came home wired in the box and cranked the car over to see if I now had fuel and I did.

The next day I called AEM tech support back to walk through everything with me one last time before heading to the dyno. They walked me through the software settings for my AEM EPM, AEM coils, new sensors, etc and made sure I was good to go for the dyno tuning.

Off to PSI Motorsports to dyno the car. We did a few pulls and started to hear some noise in the head which sounded like a rocker. This was around 11:30P.M. I pulled the valve cover off and found gold metal up in the head, vtec solenoid and nice shiny metallic oil. So my night had ended and the chances of making it to the E-town race had also ended. I put the car back together and back on the trailer to take home.

I think it says a lot about companies like AEM and these racers to help out another racer in need and I just wanted to thank them again for all the help.

I just want to thank Devin from AEM for all his help and countless hours after work and on the weekend he spent on the phone with me trouble shooting and making sure I was taken care of.

Dave for helping with the wiring harness, loaning me his expensive crimper tool along with picking up parts for the harness and all his other help and guidance.

Steve for letting me use his injector driver box out of his race car so I could make it to the dyno and attempt to make it to the race.

Brian (cluelessmale) for all his late night help on the car and at the dyno.

Frank from PSI Motorsports for staying open and up so late to tune the car and let me use his shop to start to take apart the motor.

I now have the motor out of the car and working on putting the stock motor in so I can race this weekend in NH. Then in my spare time trying to rip apart the built motor and figure out what went wrong.

 

Very well said, Chad.

It's all part of what makes this sport great.

 

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it just sux that it takes times of crisis to get some of us together. but it is what makes this sport great

 

No, doubt about it AEM has always been up to helping on customer rides or race cars...

AEM

 

yea i have to say to AEM they went out on a limb when they first came out with the aem unit ..and pushed racer to learn the system their self and it is all coming around for them know i wonder where the standalone society would be now if aem where not around how many people you think would have stand alones in thier race cars,,i know me personally being hardcore into the turbo mustang thing.. and using 1 of the first standalone systems ( a 1st gen d.f.i) and dealing with turbo people of hastings would never think of hooking a computer up to it never the less tunning it i ddint even want to stare at it to long that was about 10-15 years ago their where only a selected few people that knew how to tune them and they where almost impossible to get a hold of nevermind setting up a tunning appointment ,,ever since aem has come out with their unit alot has changed and i think they steered the standalone society into the direction they are know thats my 2 pennies

 

thanks chad ! its only a matter of time before it all comes together for you

 

Chad has always seemed to have bad luck. Trannies, electronics, now the motor etc....

Through the years he has stuck with it though. Gotta give you props for that man.

I hope it all works out for ya man. Let me know if you need anything.

 

Yes thats so helping for rides

thanks

 

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AEM
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i lent you my pants and cams!