Looking good.

 

Wow nice set up.....but I am a little confused about the beater part.

 

It was pretty beat up when he bought it--was kept outside for a year, had fairly rough paint and more rust than it should have had for its age. Chris has done a lot of work on it.

 

So I blame shane(at DB Performance), he's a bad influence. I gapped my plugs down tonight from .022-.023 to .020-.021, stock iridiums. I was bawking at the thought of pulling them out and keeping the longblock virgin for a while longer. Then I realized I had taken them out on the day I bought the car for a compression test. Doh. Oh well. Plus I was getting some ignition breakup at 33psi

Of course, this is what I was fearing...I could have swore I smelled some coolant here and there but never saw puddles or anything...but I remembered I had tweaked the upper coolant hose while installing the BBX. I thought I was good, but finally it came back to haunt me--the thing I hate more than anything in this world: coolant!

***in coolant sprayed all over the cold side of the turbo and explains why the 'manifold' smelled weird lately after a hard run. I thought it was just lack of coating/heat protection, but no it was just burning green crap off itself:


Stay tuned for more dyno numbers from a slight change

 

eeek, at least no damage. Just need a good cleaning.

 

I guess I forgot to update this thread, but this is my car:

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...ting-evox.html



414whp on dynojet on pump gas, stock longblock. Hellz yea! More soon...

 

Put in a little more 111 for the dyno day saturday. I really really need to do a boost leak test but I've been working literally all day and night for my regular job and organizing for the dyno day. BeaterX will be lucky if it is washed for Saturday, sigh.

Stock MAF housing is DONE. 31.x psi tapering to 28, added some timing, leaned it out a tish. You can see the maf volts hit 5.0 up top and the fuel start to go a little lean. My calcs say I'm at 86% IDC and I've run them higher, so I'm sure its just the ecu not seeing the overrun air volume and thus not accounting for it. I'll add a tish of fuel to the map to account for that I guess.



Comments welcome. After this its back to pump gas for the winter and and saving/planning what to do next. Miles and smiles I guess

 

Awesome, that looks almost identical to my logs from my 30 psi tune @ sea level, but mine was spooling a bit earlier. Probably a bit TOO aggressive of spool on my part.

I even saw the same IDC's pretty much. With that race gas, you're able to run a lot more timing and leaner mixture given the same load % I saw. My engine must have been pretty sick at that point - I was seeing enough knock up top to need to back timing off significantly from where you're at. It's interesting that your load isn't significantly higher given the greater amount of VE your engine is surely producing on 111... I think I was seeing 320 tapering to 280 @ 7500 rpm.

Good luck @ the dyno!

 

car looks great!! wish i had money to buy more upgrades, last time i bought anything was 4 months ago =P

 

So, apparently the stock ignition is teh ghey, it was not liking 29+psi on the 111 leaded, even with the stock plugs gapped down to .020. Boo. Still, looks like topping up before going to the track is an easy +30whp/+30wtq for me, so if I never get Aquamist or E85 I'll likely just do this.

Before: 414whp/~335wtq@27psi
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/evoX/IMG_1422

After: 443whp/~360wtq@30psi, ignition breakup, +3° self tune. Tach signal failed so no torque, sorry.


I added 3° of timing across the board and 4° from 6500 up. Not sure if the car actually *hit* an extra 3° of timing with the elevated boost/load levels, but it was close. After the dyno I turned down teh boost to 28.5 peak and it lost the misfire and honestly felt faster. Sigh, wish I would have just done that on the dyno. Oh well.