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Originally Posted by FPenvy
based on your issues and also living in cali (which seems like a waste to even think about modding a car now especially to your extent).......
how about you save up that 5k......
give it to me.......
i'll kick you in balls......
and we call it a day. seems to be how things have gone on this build since day 1.
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Lmao.
Nah. I have the smog issue resolved legally. I found a coworker who allowed me to use their home address to register my vehicle in that county. No smog checks are done in that county. So that is a positive thing, I can modify my car however I choose to now, without worrying about that.
That, and I actually do have an update.
I ended up bringing it to the Nissan Dealership this morning, and they checked out the code. Said the voltage was off on bank 2. Also, I asked if I replaced the AFR sensors at all, I said well yeah, we did but that was last year and we did have this code for a while back then too, just never was properly addressed since then since I never really got to drive the car to see it!
They did an idle relearn and now the numbers are fine. The short term fuel trims were both identically stable at 103 103 at a freeze frame during a random time in the idling process, and instead of seeing 125% at 2k RPMs and such which was way too crazy for that RPM.
He test drove it at a couple thousand RPMs to see if the code came back, and it did not. Idled it in the shop for a while and kept the graphs running constantly the entire time -- code never came back up and graphs banks 1 and 2 are now identical. No more waviness.
They fixed the code.
Before you guys flame me for bringing it to the Nissan Dealership:
They have a tech who I have been working with the past few times I have been here, and they only have one tech that deals and knows a lot of knowledge regarding aftermarket parts, and performance vehicles. The advisor also knows me pretty well too. They both know what is on the vehicle.
Both banks ran evenly according to the graphs they showed me versus how it was before. I wish I asked for the paper work but I forgot, since I was too happy about it being fixed.
He said the code actually wasn't due to a leak but an idle relearn process that wasn't done when we changed out the AFR (upstream) sensors last year.
He charged me $120 instead of $160 which was really nice of him.
He always takes care of me when I visit, and this is why I am always going to come back. Both the advisor and tech are very honest and reasonable about pricing instead of the usual /dealer scams for money/ mindset.
I'm blessed to have both of them working at this particular Nissan dealership in my city.
They said if the code comes back, then to come back to them to let them know.
They also found no leaks due to the smoke tests they did on the exhaust system and what not, after doing the idle relearn process.
I can now safely drive the car around without worry, and will be able to drive it to Seb at the end of June assuming the code doesn't come back up between now and then - or any other critical issues. I'm still going to baby the car for a while, but the great thing is it is safer to drive than before, and I feel confident driving it.
Yay!
Next on the list is to clean the engine bay.
It is so dirty it looks like the loch ness monster is living in there.
Then detail the exterior of the car with all my car wash items sitting in my room that's been waiting to be used!
And of course, dealing with the possible boost peak issue at 6psi, if that is still an issue? Not sure. Because I haven't pushed the car hard to find out or not, since I'm paranoid from the past experiences every time I tried to make boost lol.
I'll get there slowly though! If that issue is still persistent, I am sure Seb will fix it!
Regarding Seb, I did get a confirmation email from him that I made an appointment officially to drop off the car at the end of June this year! So that's set in in stone unless something crazy happens between now and then that doesn't allow me to do so anymore! Knock on wood!