car is back together, tuning done with video
Thanks for all your help this week. I never give up but felt like it a few times after all these issues kept popping up, good thing you don't give up either otherwise we wouldn't have even made it to the track. It will get all sorted out soon and then we can both celebrate. I feel bad we didn't even get to go out to the Vegas strip, but we will for sure when you are down here again 
And no worries about the vegas strip dude, I was down there for 1 thing and 1 thing only and that was to work on that beast and get it where you want it. We will get it handled the next time I come down. I will call you sometime this week and we can plan ahead of time for when you wanna go out to the track so we can make adjustments to the car..Thanks for having me down there, both you and your wife are very stand up people and I look forward to coming down again. I really didn't want to leave this morning with the car like that without a full clean pass. But we will get it for sure!
Ignore the player haters and do your thing Dan....I have more respect for your ride than any of the others out there and I think it is great that you gave evil eagle the oppurtunity to take the car under his wing so to speak...I can attest he does great work with evos as well as old school dsms! Goona do a head gasket, timing belt, and water pump on mine here soon hopefuly along with an e85 tune and MAYBE if you dont sell the rs, we can run em if I make it to vegas next time jake comes down 
well I guess we will just have to dig deeper into the car to figure out why it won't go over 40lbs on the dyno. We are using the AEM boost control. I started it out at wastegate spring only by hooking a pressure source straight to the side port of the gate, That gave us 30lbs on the spring itself. Hooked up the AEM boost controller controlled via the AEM EMS and set it to 35, it hit 35. Set it to 38, it hit 38, set it to 40 it hit 40, set it to 42 and it stayed at 40
Made adjustments to the duty cycle map on the boost control duty table, kept upping the duty cycle and still at 40lbs. Set the boost to 45lbs, and it still stuck at 40lbs. No matter what I did, even having the boost duty cycle pretty much maxed out it would not go over 40lbs.Now at the track we got it up to 43lbs since the turbo is a ram air mounted manifold setup. So we expected the boost to come up some.
After redoing some things on the boost controller and the boost map, there was nothing that was changing it. I wouldn't suspect it would be the wastegate spring as when I ran it on the waste gate spring alone it hit 30lbs without a problem. It was on the standard Tial spring too, so that lend me to believe there was hardly any back pressure at the housing at all. But once I got to 40lbs it was a brick wall, it would not give me anymore then 40lbs on the dyno.
So I was thinking it might have the housing holding us back since it is only a 1.00A/R housing. Maybe I'm wrong then. I will look further into the boost control setup and check for leaks at 40lbs. Although it showed no boost leaks prior.
Last edited by evil_eagle; Apr 28, 2008 at 02:49 PM.
Ignore the player haters and do your thing Dan....I have more respect for your ride than any of the others out there and I think it is great that you gave evil eagle the oppurtunity to take the car under his wing so to speak...I can attest he does great work with evos as well as old school dsms! Goona do a head gasket, timing belt, and water pump on mine here soon hopefuly along with an e85 tune and MAYBE if you dont sell the rs, we can run em if I make it to vegas next time jake comes down
Thanks mang! Now lets get your car handled and get her re-tuned on e-85 or e-98 and go back out to the track and see if we can nail a low 11sec or even a high 10sec pass on the stock motor!
I may take it to test and tune on May 7th, there's a few safety things I need to change, also going to order new shifter cables and bracket. This car has really beat me up this week, working till 4am almost every night, finding little issues here and there. It will get all sorted out soon and I assure you it's going to run a good number, I can just feel it.
you've proven every setup you were on....!