Project IRX: CRX-Insight Renaissance Experiment

[SVOboy]

Man, what I pain in the butt it was to find:

[RobertSmalls]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

What the devil is a brake booster pressure sensor? My brake booster doesn't have one . Think I can just jump the wires and it'll make the code go away?

It measures vacuum at the brake booster, so the car can re-start the engine if you deplete the vacuum assist during idle stop (which I find unlikely, since idle stop doesn't work above 17mph).

Edit: it's a 3-wire device: power, gnd, signal. So the easiest way is probably to buy one and supply it with vacuum, maybe using a vacuum tee upwind of your brake booster check valve. But maybe you could put the right sized resistor between VCC and SIG to make the ECU see vacuum.

And yeah, that's the graph. Which isn't helpful because there's no vertical lines on it except at 6000rpm, and because speed limits aren't posted in KPH around here.

[SVOboy]

Yeah, troublesome graph. I'll make a better one at some point. Anyway, working now (well, eating pizza on top of the car now), so wish me luck on finishing by morning!!

[SVOboy]

Big problem:

The front cross member, even with the mount for the old front mount completely hacked off, contacts the oil filter by a few MM. Meaning, running the engine like this would just be bashing the oil filter against the front crossmember until something breaks.

Ideas?

[Tygen1]

Make a new cross member with a cut out?

[SVOboy]

That's not something I have time for right now. Currently, darin is suggesting cutting out the section and welding a step in for clearance, and I'm thinking, I could just take a hammer to it. Sound bad?

[SVOboy]

I decided to side with darin that without the front mount the front xmember isn't really worth much so I just bashed in a 2x2" area about 1/2" and it's fine now

[MetroMPG]

Quick 'n' dirty. Not enough time to find a smaller filter or fabricate an inset section.

[RobertSmalls]

The 2000-03 Insight has an oil-to-water heat exchanger, mounted between the filter and oil pan. 04-06 models do not. You could delete the heat exchanger, which is ~3cm thick, but I bet you'd need a shorter oil filter base bolt off an 04-06, unless you can cut yours down and cut threads in it. See page 8-9 in the FSM.

[Tygen1]

As I was showering, I was thinking there has to be some remote mount system out there that would bolt up...maybe another time.

Mini Sledge to the rescue!

Are you planing on leaving tomarrow?