"Dom's Rants and educational videos" is a channel about the little things in life that just drive you nuts and a bunch of videos about how things work.
Does anyone even read these damn descriptions? Does anyone even read anything anymore? Everyone wants a video about this or that. I have an idea: pick up a fricken book. It does wonders for your vocabulary, imagination and brain power.... But since you're here, feel free to binge watch some videos.
Hey Dom, how do you like tuning with Link compared to other stand alones? I have been on the fence if I want to continue on building my Sti that has been on pause for more than a year. Seeing the price point for the Link is fairly decent and trying to get some motivation to continue on with my build . I put a decent amount of time and money in her with a tune and parts that are still on a pre-green speed tune from 2021. Sucks that I am stuck on an accessport with a tune I can't touch or re tune. Appreciate your videos and your willingness to teach your knowledge!
my Sti is always choppy around 2700. Switched FPRs, went to after aftermarket fuel rails with built in pulse dampers. Switch injectors, switched ecus. always terrible there. I read something about it being the factory for reference location. You ever found a workaround? I know its a thing because you can see it in the load comp tables in the factory ecu
Old mechanics used to use Vaseline on the pump gears, why did Cosworth use a larger relief piston??? Plug the pump bypass and use an external relief valve now the pump only pumps without disruptions. Those gears look to be DLC coated..
Thanks man. My content is a little dry. Guys who want to learn come here, but it's not great entertainment. I would like to pivot to more of both, but I'm just one guy trying to do way more than I should.
@@GetaDomTune lol, dryness and straight to point comes with us older lads. I know it's been a while since you designed it, but I love ya cooling mod on my '21.
@@GetaDomTune hey buddy lmfao just bought your cyl 4 cooling mod, looks like a legit part and all your testing backs it up. Packaging is A1! I watched your livestream from about 2 years ago on the IAG stage 2 cnc ported oil pump, was a bit disappointed like you when you opened it and it was dry lol. I have to buy a new oil pump, I have a 13 sti and wondering if I should commit to it?
toxic Cylinder 4 failures are a problem. Cam failures are a problem. IAT location is a problem. OIl cap removal with a FMIC is often a problem. Good Cam seal installation is difficult to get, but my tool makes it as easy as possible. Education in this industry is too low, that's a problem. Bending wrist pins is a problem many have and don't realize it. But they start dropping power, increasing oil consumption and getting increased engine noise. I would say I've addressed all these ACTUAL problems quite well. I'm sorry you don't think so. You're free to not visit the channel.
@@GetaDomTune I have your cam seal tool. Use it often and it's great. Cyl 4 mod, I watched your video explaining It and it 100 percent convinced me that 90 percent of people installing it don't need it and it's actively hurting their engines. Let's make the only cyl we can read knock on less knock prone. Your shuffling the issue to other cyl's. Ones the ecu's not capable of reacting to. With an actual Dyno tune for your car, sure. Standalone? Sure. Ethanol? Sure. Let's not pretend we don't see cyls 1 2 and 3 ringland on the stock setup. EL header, a bigger turbo (less restriction on the hot side), and a protune solve the issue much more efficiently, and those are the only cars I'd realistically consider the cyl 4 mod on anyways. There's definitely good shit in your lineup. There's also stuff that's missrepresented, and that's being generous. In no way do I intend to shit on a fellow small business owner for no reason. Your cams aren't a mass market product. Can I order 10 sets and stock them? No. I don't mean no-one has these issues. Odds are that whoever is reading yt comments, does not have said issue.
@@OpTicBossaru Your conclusion could not be more wrong. Cylinder 4 is still the most aggressive cylinder. Cylinder 4 aggression can also be controlled with two other factors: Fuel and Timing. What I've done is reduced the impact of the imbalanced cooling system and moved the level of aggression to controllable means. You're just wrong and you are bashing me. Yes, I can get you 10 sets of cams if you wanted.
@@OpTicBossaru another thing you should think about: As HP goes up, the load on the cooling system also goes up. This pushes the deltas in the system higher. Small problems become big problems as these deltas get higher. Reducing the delta from 4 does not hurt the engine. It moves the power number where small problems become big problems to a higher number. I did NOT remove the delta. I was very cautious in doing this modification. I lowered the delta.
@@OpTicBossaru lastly: The ecu reads knock at all four cylinders. It's quite clearly in the logs and in the detection circuit. So again, you could not be more wrong.
Very interesting. You might have covered this elsewhere, but I see that there is no bypass valve. Is that based on confidence about oil making it through the filter even under cold-start and/or high-revs conditions? (and confidence people will change the element obviously).
@@yowie0889 yeah I don't like shoving a ton of dirt and debris from the bottom of the filter into the engine. With nearly double the media, I'm going to experiment with it, but I think it's going to be fine.
@@GetaDomTune Me neither. That's why I use the larger filter from the FB25 engine (and genuine Japanese Subaru only, with the stiffer bypass spring than the local aftermarket option). I'll keep watching your filter development with interest.
@@GetaDomTune Cool. Your testing results for each will be very interesting. If "no bypass" works for all warm climate conditions, that sounds like a winner to me.
What about a adapter to have extra Send and Receive...So one above for return oil (before filter) and Send below (after filter)? Or is this not appropriate place to do?
Same like mine.. i buy king bearing for 4age 16v. Main bearing perfect nice.. but conrod bearing not fit so tiny. Bullshit.. this call king bearing?? Whaf the hell fuck israel! King bearing from israel!! Bullshit!
@@GetaDomTuneHave you considered to 3d print it in plastic? SLS or MJF process... To me it looks somethig like PA12 may be good enough for the application.
@@GetaDomTunewell, we don't see metal intakes on OEM cars too often these days, so... I recently made a manifold adapting bike throttles on friend's Miata, paid about 140 EUR for one-off part which I think is fair enough. And it was shipped from India (I used craftcloud). Probably for commercial project you will want to find local manufacturer, but still, it's not as expensive as it was even 3 years ago. The material was PA12 nylon and process is HP MJF. There are data sheets for these materials and it's completely different compared to FDM 3d prints that may not be good enough for end use in many cases... Try it, I think it it's very cool technology and if not for this project - you will definitely find some good use for it in the future.
