I'll shoot for August 23rd or 30th. Work and school will be killing me through the end of October so I will reevaluate closer to then.

The tune was fine, but since I blew the dipstick out of the car and replaced the PCV check valve (to keep the dipstick in), I decided to have The Shop check the car out and see if they could fix my boost controller and I had them retune it so the car is more torquey and responsive at lower RPM for AutoX. The tune seems more stable and the car is making way more torque now...too much actually, I need to re-learn how to drive it. As far as problems go, I definitely don't mind that one.

To be honest, in my mind it is still April. I have a full basket of Easter candy and everything. I cannot beat into my head that the NER is next weekend. We are woefully under-prepared and ill-equipped for the drive. It will be awesome.

I had Monday-Thursday set aside for waxing and clay bar and oil changes and sleeping to prepare for the rally and now I am expected to come in to work for at least half days. Ugh.

 

Don't worry too much on the sleep since there is no overnight drive... Only worry about the sleep if you plan on partying as much as we do..

You won't need to do this. (Us at Hooters checkpoint in 2008)


I also forgot I need to put the police scanner back in the car & make a mount for it, still need to wire up the map lights again, and more **** to be done.. ugghhh... Gonna be lonnnggg nights for the next 9 days..

 

I am not a huge partier, so I may not have a problem.

Also, it is odd to see the RallyEvo with an interior.

 

ummm... Thats my STi... lol.. Two years ago my buddy's car broke down right before the rally, so I let him & his girlfriend take my STi... We napped in there because the seats reclined.. And the Hooters restaurant we were at was in Vermont... So there was nothing really worth looking at.. lol

 

I see it now. Huh. Being at work, I didn't spend much time with the picture on the screen. I just saw the blue interior and thought "must be the Evo 8 interior" and left it at that.

 

hey guys, here's the latest. my car is supposed to go on the dyno tomorrow, then saturday morning ill be picking it up. (it's the 4th time i've heard this, so we'll see). but if it goes well, ill have my car back here in connecticut on saturday night!

once it's back im down for just about any meet.

i have these parts sitting in my basement waiting to get installed when i get her back too!!
-CWest Side skirts
-Greddy front lip
-JDM 9 rear
-the entire new interior.... suck....from an evo 9 MR btw :-)
-remount my sparco seats, cause apparently i recieved the wrong brackets
-9 MR wing
-Tanabe Sustec Pro 7 Coilovers
-Slotted Rotors
-short shifter and new shift knob
-other miscellaneous crap i've been gathering up over the nearly 5 months my car has been in the shop

so..... who wants to help?!?! :-D

 

Thats alot of stuff to do lol..

I can help, but not for like 2 weeks... In rally prep mode...

 

no prob. i have the shop down here at my disposal. it's only 3 bucks an hour to use the lifts and tools, so i pretty much have everything i need. i just need the knowledge of peeps that have done some of it before. i've stripped the stuff out of one, but never put it back together again.

 

Ken just give me a call and I might be able to help.

 

got a call from EFI yesterday and they were able to bump up my appt to sept17th
f yeah!

 

Im down for some installs!

 

so.... here's the update.... put her on the Dyno last night. Half way through the first pull she blew a fuel gasket. Fuel started spraying all over the place. Had to call it a night. What we DID get out of the dyno was this though.

18 pounds of boost and it was already pushing 440hp. on pump gas. i'd say we've got quite a monster on our hands...

 

anyone know of any gas stations that sell E85?
around enfield ct?

 

ok guys. check out the VID!!!!! He stopped it where he did because the engine was smokin a bit. like every project, there's more to work on. so this is just the start. this car is going to make WAAAYY more power than this. ill all the mods sometime soon. ill just tell ya it's a 6262 though. ;-)

http://www.facebook.com/ken.metzger#...2390796&ref=mf

 

^ Vid is stated to be unavailable?! Are you gonna be bringing her home today?