After a couple of test drives, I'm pretty convinced the original hesitation
problem with the Eclipse is solved; the car behaves perfectly normal now. I
have a small problem with the shifter now, however; it feels like the cables
are binding up, or something is resisting against the shifter going into a
particular gear. I suspect I may have bumped or otherwise offended the shift
cables while down there messing around with the charcoal canister and the
fuel filter, which I'll need to investigate further soon.
DSMlink is now happily running on my
Linux laptop after building
RXTX; DSMlink
requires an implementation of
, which doesn't exist
except on Solaris and Windows with
Sun's
Java implementation, and doesn't exist at
all from what I can tell with
IBM's. RXTX
implements that functionality on a number of UNIX platforms, including Linux,
which means DSMlink now works beautifully using IBM's JVM on my Linux laptop.
(I'd run it on Erica's windows laptop, but it doesn't have a serial port, and
I didn't have a USB-to-serial converter handy.)
The next steps will be to swap the wheels from the Laser back to the Eclipse,
pick up the master and slave cylinders that Mitch over at
Engintecs ordered for me, get them
installed along with the new stainless steel clutch line from
RRE (I have their 1g version
on there right now, which they'd sent me by accident, but I plan to put the 1g
line on the Laser, so I picked up the 2g version as well), and get the car to
the track for a bit of proper tuning.