well i already have a pretty close tune now to get me by while the break in happens, all i do is keep it out of boost and under like 3500 rpms and i just drive it on the interstate and stuff like that, i keep a good eye out any type of leaks oil water boost leaks, all is going really well for me, just take your time building it man, look over everything and dont cheap out on anything if a clamp needs replaced just buy a new one if a hose looks kinda old get a new one i zip tied all my vaccume hoses and put new ones on as well
Oh yeah. No way this was gonna fly without one. I just picked up a cheap acura with a million miles for $1200. I see guys screaming by me in their Hondas with spoilers that could double as a wing for a small aircraft. They're smug because my little Acura is a beater being left in the dust by their 16 second Civic. My time will come soon though...
I won't even race with them, I'll just look over and they'll know their place.
no i dont have a second car this is my DD lol i borrowed my friends second car while my car was down for a week or so, well my tranny runs great i have always been good to it since i got the car with 9,000 miles on it from a old guy lol, i run Red Line shockproof gear oil in it, and i have a ACT street lite flywheel with a new stock clutch, i would rather break my clutch than my gears not sayingi cant break my gears though still, but yea im excited i leave for chicago tomorrow morning at 8
well im here in chicago and we put my car on the dyno and it was making 21psi at 4grand, so we had to end up taking the turbo off and porting it, now im just chilling in a hotel room till they get it back together tomorrow morning, i will let ya know what my numbers are, so far im at 303hp at 4 grand lol
my god have i had a rough 2 days, ok it starts out how my turbo needs to be ported so i go get a hotel room for the night go back and wait 5 hours while they tune my car, they could get more than 300hp out of it and they didnt think the readings were right so they were working on the computer and dyno now, then im heading home and my raditator blows up 2 hours away from my house, so now i got a ride home im taking out the radiator of my friends WRX and going go drive back now and put it in to get my car home
ok i made it home!!!, now get this, i have a new 2.5 sti short block with my 2.0 heads on it, and a 16g turbo and 850cc injectors, now when it was on the dyno (dyno pack) the tuner said he could only get 280whp out of it, the car doesnt even feel like it pulls that hard at all, i was at the shop for a while that day and he was having a bad day i am starting to think he really didnt tune it that well, im kinda depressed that this set up only made that type of power.
Wow, I'm surprised Jorge didn't get more out of it. But then again he is known for more of a conservative and reliable tune. I'm sure he had a good reason not to push it harder. How much boost are you running on the 16g?
oh no i havent gone to P&L yet im going to call and see if i can get in there this week or so, i went to this other place cause my friend went there long story, and it just feels like it quits pulling after 4 grand, now i know since i have stock 2.0 cams and my heads are stock that it wont pull all that hard but for real i mean come on my 2.0 with a TD04 was faster than this
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