WTH!!! No update on power ??? Need Dynograph ASAP

 

I didn't add any power adders.

 

Well, I didnt see the Magnaflow Catback, the FMIC or the upper pipe dynochart !?! The catback should add some ponnies somewhere right?

 

You are right I haven't put up a dynochart with the magna flow. There weren't really any gains other than sound.

FMIC and Upper IC aren't really power adders either. FMIC is for consistency.

 

Really? After seeing the way the stock exhaust is built, I was expecting big gain from that upgrade, you're telling me not to waste my money on exhaust other then for a high flow cat?

Regarding the piping, I was expecting boost coming in faster

 

On the Ralliart (I see in your sig you have one) I wouldn't even bother upgrading the catback.

Check out my Ralliart build. I was running stock catback with upgraded turbo and making almost 200whp MORE than stock: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/09...sportback.html

 

Getting the car ready for another track event coming up next Monday.

Changed all my drivetrain fluids with OEM fluids. I still had factory fill in there with 19k miles and 5 track events. Shame on me.

Fluids actually weren't horrible. The rear diff torque mechanism fluid being the darkest (the clutch bath).

I also wired in my flexconverter ECA. I did this to move my flex sensor out of the engine bay and also to put it on the feed line, to be more **** with flex fuel ECU response.

My fuel tank is becoming a crowded place now!

 

You had me at posi-tap...

 

Another track event yesterday. It was a day of both joy and sorrow...

The joy was I blew my personal best out of the water and put down a 2:03 lap time, which is only 1 sec off my best I ever did with my Evo 8 at the same track. Super impressed with the Evo 10 now that I have it set up correctly.

I also had an awesome session dueling with a very well setup, driven and powerful VW GTi that impressed me. Had a blast this session:


The sorrow...

The next and last session out the car lost all power coming out of turn one and didn't want to rev. No smoke, no liquid trail behind the car so I limped it into the pits.

Car sounded like it was only running on three cylinders. Pulled the plugs and cylinder number four had a nice present for me....





Put a fresh set of plugs in hoping maybe I got lucky and no luck, still three cylinders only.



So I had a nice 144 mile tow home...



At least the driver was a super cool guy which made the trip seem short.

Logs where clean that session until I hit the rev limiter coming into the front straight and it registered a 17 knock count. Not sure if that was the unlucky moment that the plug decided to peace out but I did WOT all the way down the straight (I didn't notice the knock light because it happened in a high G right turn) to 125mph (and the log was clean) and then the car called it quits powering out of turn one at the end of the straight. Interesting enough the logs where clean except for that 17 count event, so I'm assuming that was the fate and I got unlucky.

I was so beat by the time I got home I just pushed the car into the driveway and went to bed.

Going to do a compression check this weekend and cross my fingers it's just the top end and not the bottom end...

Situation sucks but for doing track events for more than 15 years now and this was the first engine failure, I guess it was just a matter of time, and that time struck yesterday...

 

That sucks man, hope it turns out as well as it can. How many miles were on the plugs?

 

Factory original. 19k, same as the car. I actually had a fresh set of plugs I was going to change out after the event. Who knows if it was the age or just bad luck. 19k really isn't much on iridiums. The other three looked fine.

 

Same here except I have 18k on mine. Planned on changing them this weekend before the start of my track season. Now I definitely will.

 

A buddy of mine had the porcelain break off of one his plugs in his X, luckily it just covered the electrode and new plugs fixed. Hopefully the damage isn't too bad.

 

If you melted the ground strap then you might have burnt a valve or something...

 

That's what I'm hoping