I will never forget the time I was stopped doing a flash and the locals pulled up in dramatic fashion and said

"you all get the **** out of here before we blast you"


When I suggested that the speaker would get a more positive reaction from me if he would refrain from using profantities he opened the passanger door in the mid 80's GM sedan he was driving in an effort to show me he was ready for action - when about 5 empty beer cans roled out onto the road . . . . I reliazed that these "welcome commitee " memebers meant business and I took off for greener pastures

After that david arranged to get a dyno so that us out of towner's would not wind up arrested or worse

 

Thats a better explanation, You said street legal before

It is like my car... not anywhere near street legal but I do drive it quite often and dont get screwed with.

Just for warning though, if a cop really wants to be a moron he could easily have the car impounded for not being street legal. Technically they can do it for almost any reason. If it is not street legal they can tell you it cant be on the street... pretty simple. Most cops arent that big of idiots though but I have a story with one of my vehicles that they HATED but couldnt find a reason for it to not be street legal. One day they finally did... it had a burn out brake light... they towed it and told me it could not be on the road until i fixed the light. They knew I wasnt going to pay the impound fees for it but it is still the point. Here is a pic of one of my rigs:



You can guess what the "FTP" stands for and why the Police hated it so much... the last two words of it are "the Police".. you can guess what the F was

Here are some other creations of mine in the past :



Or maybe this one that never got the change to be painted:



And yes it was kinda a sausage mobile in that pic but dont let the pics fool you... chicks at bars LOVED getting rides home in my creations

 

It looks so much better in person. David I see you got the IC pipe on since I left. Al you will be very happy as I am with Mr. Buschur's work.

 

I miss some of those bad boys.... once it gets warm this one is probably going under the knife... should be fun:



Sorry you can get back on topic now I just had a sentimental spot there thinking of some of my old creations.

 

Is this motor still stroked? Or back to 2.0L?

 

i cant imagine what it would feel like to have Al take me for a ride in that beautiful beast of his. He took me for a spirited(lol) ride in MY 03 8 after a tuning session and i still havnt got the smile off my face and that was over a year ago.i,ve been into high performance cars for over 30 years and consider myself an excellent driver, daily or drag racing (at the track of course) but if you want to see something spectacular go for a ride with Big Al, man that guy can drive.

 

Looks like a subaru meeting in progress

 

Its still 2.3 L for the time being

My goal is to have it be a bit more driveable off the line and faster throttle response between shifts

We will see how it fares on the dyno when David gets around to tuning it

I may go back to 2.0 depending on the results

I am hoping that my current 8900 rpm red line can get me throgh the traps fast enough to beat a few evos this year

 

I wonder if Al's Evo still has a warranty...

 

I see the Buschur decided to keep that tough conveluted injector wire insulation, still using stock wires inside of it?

 

Me too - It has never been inside a stealership. I got it the same afternoon it arrived on the 18 wheeler.

To me its like a hammer - you either replace the head or the handle and keep smashing.


This year will be a big one for evos in the usa ther are a lot of people comming into the deep end of the pool and I imagine quite a few with make for some good stories

 

Because with only one wastegate, or rather one wastegate which only relieved pressure from one of the scrolls, only two of the cyllinders would breathe properly.

I still would have preferred one wastegate with lines from each scroll running into it. With two wastegates, even with identical duty cycles, there is going to be a small difference in flow between them. That will make two of the cyllinders have higher backpressure than the others. That will make them the weakest link.

I'm sure it will work in any reasonable pragmatic sense.

 

just wow

 

wow, makes me more excited to run buschur parts on my autox evo! Cant wait to get my parts from my 03 on to my IX and up to buschur for a tune!

 

I am hoping that when I get to Buschur's next week we might be able to organize a little video with the black car and slver car

I am looking forward to seeing how it feels to drive one of those Gt42R's also

I am slowly working my way up the GT series turbo family line up