Hi everyone,
I just wanted to know if anyone has taken a trip with their EVO maybe 500-600 miles on a base map. I am currently in El Paso and have to make it to Austin for school which is 590 miles away. I recently installed a ton of parts including fuel upgrades, upgraded turbo (GT3040), Magnus SMIM, as well as others since I had the time to do this over spring break and I only trust the shop down here in El Paso to do the work on my car. For some crazy reason I thought that I could get all this to work on a flash (so dumb). Hopefully while Im in Austin for school there will be a time when an AEM tuner will come down to tune EVO's in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, etc.. Any information from you guys would help me alot in determining if I should even chance making the trip or fly back.

------------Booker

 

morning bump

 

Just watch your a/f's. As long as its not sputtering and you are below 17to1 you should be fine. I have driven mine for about 1700 miles.

And what time do you want for the april 15th tune?

--Josh

 

you cant really blowup a car under low load, such as crusing............ good luck!

 

thanks alot guys hopefully everything will be okay with my car. SwiftEVO I would like the 3:30 slot.

 

Ok got it down.

--Josh

 

Well the damn EVO wont start for us. I flew down to El Paso Friday night in hopes that we could get the car started with the AEM and I could drive it back to Austin to get ready for the tune. As of right now that doesnt look like its going to happen. Hopefully the deposit I placed with Turbo Trix is refundable, mainly because I would like to see if they could come down to El Paso to tune my car. I can get alot more people to get tuned also if need be. Will call them on Monday to confirm or if they see this they can chime in.

 

Why do you think it wont start?

--Josh

 

Because it hasnt be able to start and maintained idle no matter what we have done so far. There is more than one problem with my EVO and now we are barely addressing the issue of the AEM. Put the AEM in and we get ignition but only for a sec then we lose it, maybe a throttle issue, ignition timing, lose wires at the coils? The guy that installed my parts pretty much butchered my wiring so we have to fix his mistakes and then move on. And also Im just not real comfortable trying to play around with this thing would rather leave it up to a pro unitil I get more acquainted with the features. Bottom line, shouldnt have messed with the car and brought it to these guys. Will keep you updated.

~Booker

 

as long as your AFR stay safe. you should be fine, might not get the best gas milage though.

 

well as of right now we pretty much gave up on the AEM. We put the stock computer back on and the car seems to be running okay for now. Will have to get Turbotrix install and tune the AEM when I get the car back to Austin. I will have to monitor the AFR very closely on the 600 mile trip.