Nice numbers Tom and Mellon, BTW Tom, I finally ditched the 9.8 turbo on my car and put on your 9 turbo, I would have to say night and day difference. I did not buy anything to put it on, just cut and welded my 8 elbow and bent all the water and oil lines to fit. Need to take me for a ride, Huy says its pretty fast.

 

as long as a car is behaving a single pull per revision works fine...however when you're getting down to creating perfection, it helps to have a couple of pulls to find any patterns.

 

technically they're both correct... if you want to get nit-picky... EXACT boost was at 27.8psi (peak) w/ avg around 27.3-27.5 psi... Round up, yes 28psi... but it can be interpreted as 27 or 28 (i wasnt rounding up)...

 

- We'll hit the track, once i get some drag radials and a twin disc clutch. We tried launching it in the street and it was just retarded w/ wheel spin, lol... and the ACT single isnt cutting it w/ the shifting. Im getting lock out trying to shift at 8krpm... so im shifting slow from 3rd to 4th. Still quick even w/ that handicap =)

- No, we didnt do 3 pulls for each revision... sometimes i took multiple pulls, sometimes only one. And yeah..... it aint easy w/out getting pulled over. I aborted a few runs due to random cops... Actually drove pretty far out to make my pulls and sent logs via internet usb card while i was driving =)

 

hey Marcus! yeah, i heard you finally put it on. I was wondering how it went. I bet its a huge difference. When i had it on, it ran really strong. We got 340whp out of that thing on 24psi... i was trapping around 114mph w/ that stock turbo, lol... Glad you made it work w/out the install kit!

I think the new 35r is pretty quick also... fastest car i've owned to date, thats for sure... but a 500whp car is on the low end compared to the monsters that come out of Huy's shop,

 

sick mellon! i will be seeing u soon mellon. i'm hoping for the same results when u throw some more timing at mine. i have a cbrd intercooler with the garrett core so that should help. =)

 

well went to the track... ended up running at IFO (Import Face Off) in their street class quick 8. got there late so no practice... just straight to qualifying, lol... i launched, spun... and shifted 1st to 2nd at only 7600rpm (nervous so forgot i was supposed to be shifting at 8krpm!) well shifted to 3rd correctly... then when i was approaching 8krpm i go to shift 4th gear and it locks me out! try again, and nasty grind! i wanted to salvage what i could from the run so i just slam it into 4th and it finally goes in, lol... rev it out and barely shift into 5th to cross the finish. Felt like it was a ****ty run... but i ended up qualifying in the #1 position w/ an 11.5 @ 120mph. Obviously the trapspeed was super low because of my fiasco w/ 4th gear. Further proven by the fact my 1/8mi trap was decent at 98mph... So we felt good about the potential of the car... thinking we could further better the time to a really low 11et and 125mph traps. Well round 1 eliminations come... and i get a bye-run (whew). Round 2 and i smoke the clutch n 3rd... bleh... (but the other guy botched his run too so i won luckily)... round 3(finals) i was pitted against the Cobb GTR and the clutch was still f'd up... slipped bad in the upper gears and ran a slow 12... ended up taking 2nd place and a measily $100 bucks... and a really sad clutch, lol... not too bad for a spur of the moment race. Unprepared and running on 18" volks w/ street tires =) Thanks mellon for a great tune!

-Tom

 

Congrats on the run at IFO , I wanted to go out there sat. nite but I was out in Dallas . Fail

 

haha you did pretty great and with issues

 

MAN!!!!!!!!!!! I can wait to go to dallas to meet some of you evo guys etc. im just 3 hours away from there but im doing a build. something special to finally shut mellon up. Just wait major update for you chris. Nice run at the track i should have been there but you will see me next year or in janurary. Having no evo is the pits lol