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Well here it is the day before dyno day and I still have an issue with the car. I have a small oil leak at my oil cooler. I have been putting this off being its an easy fix. Well rain all day today and I have been buys this past weekend and it comes to bite me in the ***. I did buy a STM oil cooler kit and I did not install that either. Hopefully the shop can do that for me being I just didn't have the time. Idk what is up with the car but I was able to boost it with afrs in the 10s and 11s on e85 and I didn't want to push the car being it acts funny sometimes but car did see 23 psi at one point and I will say holy ****. Even with super rich afr in the 10s car felt fast as hell. So tomorrow the car goes to a local Haltech tuner actually right down the road from my work place. He does generally supras, but to date he has the fastest hellcat in Michigan as we speak. Guy made 1600 whp on their dyno and guy was unhappy with that lol. Tuner said it will be a couple days so I am sure it will be done by the weekend. He said car will start and run like stock lol. Yeah I will believe that when I see it lol. Car will be tuned on a Dynocom. I don't know much about them but he said they read lower then by a little over a Mustang dyno. I wanted 850 Mustang but I am thinking I should be more then that being the turbo itself was said to do 1200 hp. So we will see. So check list before I go.
New oil filter being he is cutting the one on the car up to look at bearing stuff. CHECK
New Schaeffers 15w40 in full synthetic and moly lube. CHECK
Change oil cooler or fix the leak. NO CHECK
New Schaeffers 75w90 trans fluid. CHECK
Adjust clutch pedal, oh **** forgot NO CHECK
Well thats it for now, I will keep you guys posted. He will post a video of the car on the dyno on his facebook and instagram which I have neither of lol. But as soon as I get anything I will post it for you guys. What are your guesses on power? Post if you will I'm curious to see who is the closest.
Looking fwd to the result. Imagine 850 WHP heartbreak Mustang numbers? (whiplash event lol) Hoping for no major issues & a long lasting motor
Cheers, Joe
I will tell you this, listening to that turbo start to wind up on my base tune and watching the afrs to make sure they are in line was scary enough, then all of a sudden your pinned in the seat and its like damn here it comes. I plan on doing this Dynocom dyno and I have another spot where I can do a Dynojet and Mustang dynos as well. I am interested in seeing the difference in the dynos. Thanks for all the support Joe, it means alot to me through all this crazyness. And thanks to everyone else who followed this build. Its been a crazy one and I know I am at the end of a 7 or so year build at this point. I am looking forward to just sitting back and at the end of the day regardless of what the car makes just be relieved its all over. I will update this thread here soon when I get some info.
Car is dropped off. Tuner is excited being he doesn't tune to many evos but after he checked mine out he is almost as excited as I am. I am hoping to get it back by thursday but looking more towards friday. Either way I don't care its going to be bad ***. I told the tuner run me out of fuel or turbo whichever comes first. So more to come. Funny thing is my car will make over 1000 hp and it will prob be the slowest car at their shop lol. The lowest hp car they have is a 97 supra that makes only 1500 whp.
Well I have an update. I got an email from the shop with some great pics of the car. I can't wait to show you what I have to fix now. Here are the pics.
Here is the list of what they found.
Hey Brian,
Got your emails . Just wanted to give you a quick update.
Your oil leak is coming from several places.
Valve cover is leaking pretty good on the intake side, dripping all the way down the side of block , soaking alternator oil pan and oil filter housing .
Oil filter housing lines leak which we're aware of already
Brake abs pump is wet and leak somewhere there
Rear diff cover leaks as well
Valve cover has an opening in the spark plug valley that soaking the plug area with oil.
Turbo oil drain gasket leaking at the pan
Cyl#3 spark plug was missing a washer as well.
Getting ready to do a leak down and compression test but just wanted to shoot over some pictures for some updates.
He doesn't know but my car doesn't have abs thats my acd pump that is cracked.
Car has been on the lift all day and has made 0 hp. I am thankful that he is as thorough as he is in the pre prep of the car. I am just pissed yet again that car is pissing oil everywhere.
Well today was a good day today. I was at the shop all day after playing hooky from work. All the leaks are taken care of, sensors are wired and just need to go into the haltech, and oil cooler installed. Oil needs to be put back in the car still but I am about 2 qts low which I have hereat the house. So dyno time hopfully tomorrow.
Well today car is on the rollers wg boost @24 lbs car made 580/475 with no timing in the tune yet. Had to re adjust the Dyno being he forgot to set the load for the tq
and we're pretty much done here. 92% duty cycle, afrs spot on, and clutch doesn't like 800 ft lbs at 8k. We're taking boost down a few lbs and making another run but the should make 1050ish. Video will be posted when I get home.
Here is one of the first videos I know this was like 40 lbs of boost I think at this point. I have the video of the car doing 1165 too but the tuner is going to email me that video.
Here are also the dyno plots, sorry for blurry pic or unreadable but I only had so much time before they disappeared off the screen. We were having an issues with the boost controller so we took it out of the car and sure enough it actually hit target boost. 26 lbs or wastegate pressure car makes 700/499. The video of this run is on Instagram just look up Naber_racing.
