VR-SPEED TUNE + evo 9 + minor bolt ons
Brandon came to me with a limping car. I discovered him from one of the threads on here where he had issues and I offered my help to him. He was previously tuned by some very reputable places, but weather changes, and other misc things have caused his tune to go downhill.
I fixed both his fuel and timing maps, smoothed them out, gave him faster spool up, more response at cruise & part throttle while increasing his MPG as well as making his evo drive 100x smoother. He is super happy with his evo now minus some minor phantom knock we have to filter out due to kelford 272 cams and a noisey clutch. He will chime in here and explain more details maybe. Fuel being used: 93octane Boost being used: 26psi Location: NJ/NY Mods: Stock 9 Turbo ETS 3" FMIC Injectors Walbro ACT Clutch Kelford 272 Intake & Exhaust BOV MBC POWER GAINED: +75whp TORQUE GAINED: +75wtq http://www.myevolution8.net/vrsf/temp2.jpg There was more in the car, but I felt the owner didn't want to go much more then 26psi since he uses the car as his daily driver and needs it to be reliable. I asked the customer to write a review and he asked me to email him what all I did to the vehicle and in return he responded with this: Retuned Evo IX by VR-Speed I was tuned about a year back and was pretty happy with the way my car as driving but lately i was having some drivability issues which let me to find a huge boost leak and some other random issues. I decided to shop around for a retune and I made the right choice. I have been having some knocking problems for almost a year now and I havent been able to track down what has been causing it. I contacted a few different tuners and while that all had great input I just got a certain feeling about the quality of service from VR-Speed. They were responsive and very helpful. First they told me what to look for in my engine bay, anything that can cause a knocking sound. I found that my bov was hitting my fan shroud as well as a bolt lodged between my oil pan and transfer case. This alleviated some of the false knock i was getting and we determined the rest of it was from the Kelford 272 cams. In my previous posts I had pictures of my old spark plugs that were shot.. this was most likely due to the excessive fuel as well as the low timing causing some detonation. Before i found my boost leak my stock injectors were running at 120% IDC and flooding the cylinders with gas. I turned my boost pressure down about 2 or 3 psi while trying to diagnose my issues...The car was running pig rich and only 6* timing at red line due to it knocking. VR-speed pulled my timing in the mid range, increased it from mid to red line and leveled my AFRs to target 11.5 . We also increased the boost from 24psi to 27psi spike tapering to 20 on a hallman MBC. The V7 BIG fuel and timing maps we remade from scratch and the car drives smoother then ever. The knock multiplier was modified slightly to take into account the kelford cams and now i get minimal if any knock. VR-speed was constantly at my service, always available when i had to give them logs, got me an updated tune within a few hours and got the full tune dialed in in under a week! The car never drove so smooth, it spools sooner then it ever did and the power hits harder then ever. All of this was on a stock turbo FIC 850cc injectors ETS Black 3in intercool ETS LICP Stock UICP Kelford 272 Cams O2 Dump and full 3in exhaust with a test pipe Hallman MBC ACT HDSS Clutch I went from 300hp and 292tq to 378hp and 366tq all while getting better gas mileage and more comfortable cruising. |
Im the owner of the car and everything he said is 100% correct. Ive been having some random knocking problems and Tom has been helping me through diagnosing it as well as giving me a great tune. He has pretty much wrapped up the tune but is still very responsive and actively still helping me with all the questions ive been shooting at him.
Thanks Tom for great customer care! Hopefully ill get some 1/4 times for you soon! |
Great job Tom! Looks like you woke it up and nursed it back to health!
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Thanks Fred. Ya it was in bad shape lol.
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Nice to see you really cleaned up the powerband. Looking nice and smooth! congrats to both of you!
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I bet you this car has no springs or retainers??
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Originally Posted by EVO IXMR
(Post 8807711)
I bet you this car has no springs or retainers??
Are you implying valve float? |
Originally Posted by EVO IXMR
(Post 8807711)
I bet you this car has no springs or retainers??
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Originally Posted by tscompusa
(Post 8807736)
yep. I told him to get them, although not required. His valvetrains pretty noisey though :lol: How hard are kelfords on stock valvetrain if hes not reving past 7k?
I knew it..lol..The valve springs are working very hard to keep up with lift of those cams.As far as you question tom yes even that hes only revving only to 7k...I bet your peak *is only around 9 to 10 * with out getting knock? |
Originally Posted by Jerm__
(Post 8807613)
Nice to see you really cleaned up the powerband. Looking nice and smooth! congrats to both of you!
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Originally Posted by BillSpec
(Post 8807731)
Are you implying valve float?
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Originally Posted by EVO IXMR
(Post 8807787)
I knew it..lol..The valve springs are working very hard to keep up with lift of those cams.As far as you question tom yes even that hes only revving only to 7k...I bet your peak *is only around 9 to 10 * with out getting knock?
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Originally Posted by EVO IXMR
(Post 8807803)
lol that post was for your question..
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Originally Posted by tscompusa
(Post 8807806)
12-14* at redline. 4* at peak boost. so the kelfords are destroying his valvetrain?
If I was him I would invest in a nice kit like supertech dual spring retainer kit for added safety and the car more power and pull harder from the kit. .If you look on their site or gsc it will say for the most power and to take full advantage of are cams require springs. .I went threw the same issues and when, I did the kit I picked up 30 whp all over the rpms band with 2 psi less boost and 2*less. |
Originally Posted by tscompusa
(Post 8807806)
12-14* at redline. 4* at peak boost. so the kelfords are destroying his valvetrain? Its not knocking uptop, only downlow which is right where the cams knocked on my personal car lol. We filtered it out now though. It wasnt bad either.. you know its phantom knock though when you get multiple clean pulls with 0 knock counts then all the sudden the knock train with the same load/timing being seen :lol:
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