San Diego Evo's
There is a Wizard in town
San Diego Evo owners have a wizard in our own backyard. James Reese has hooked me up. I can’t be more pleased and satisfied with the out come. James and I have been talking about future mods that I might be interested in doing, in my quest for useable power. So after doing a little bit of home work on this one particular mod, MIL.SPEC 65mm TB. I decided to go with it, I was more interested with the transient response more than anything.
James took me in on a Tuesday night (no appointment) with a one hour notice! James laid out a plan, he was going to get a base line to see where we were as far as base line power (keep in mind I have already been tuned, tuners name will not be disclosed as promised). I was expecting about 360whp, because the tuner that tuned my car had tuned it on a Mustang (dyno) and it produced 340whp and about 327wtq, on 91 pump (I have the print out to prove it). James was less optimistic and he expected about 350whp. Well after the first pull, the look on James’s face spoke volumes, he was disappointed and you can only imagine what the hell was going on in my head. When he showed me the base line numbers, 330whp/297wtq with all those mods no way! Well he ditched the plan and retuned using his Reese Tune and installed the MIL.SPEC 65mm TB and tuned, tuned and tuned some more. After it was all said and done (7 hours later) This man is determined, relentless! He was able to squeeze out 364.10whp and 353.07wtq on 91 pump. James is a wizard. With the MIL.SPEC tb he pulled out 25whp (like he said he would, that’s some scary $hit) with the Reese Tune he managed to get a total of 34whp and 60wtq from the original tune!!!
Transient response is there like Aby said it would be. Now on the road it pulls much faster (not a build up like before), the front end literally will lift!
Without getting out of control James (The Wizard) has a couple of tricks up his sleeve still to try. I can’t say enough about my positive experience with Reese Tuning, The Man is all about customer service as well ensuring you’re happy with the end results and he won’t BS you into something that you really don’t need (in fact he has talked me out of something’s). I know I won’t go anywhere else for my 4g63 performance needs.
If your serious about your Evo needs, then you really need to visit James Reese at Reese Tuning, you won’t be disappointed.
James took me in on a Tuesday night (no appointment) with a one hour notice! James laid out a plan, he was going to get a base line to see where we were as far as base line power (keep in mind I have already been tuned, tuners name will not be disclosed as promised). I was expecting about 360whp, because the tuner that tuned my car had tuned it on a Mustang (dyno) and it produced 340whp and about 327wtq, on 91 pump (I have the print out to prove it). James was less optimistic and he expected about 350whp. Well after the first pull, the look on James’s face spoke volumes, he was disappointed and you can only imagine what the hell was going on in my head. When he showed me the base line numbers, 330whp/297wtq with all those mods no way! Well he ditched the plan and retuned using his Reese Tune and installed the MIL.SPEC 65mm TB and tuned, tuned and tuned some more. After it was all said and done (7 hours later) This man is determined, relentless! He was able to squeeze out 364.10whp and 353.07wtq on 91 pump. James is a wizard. With the MIL.SPEC tb he pulled out 25whp (like he said he would, that’s some scary $hit) with the Reese Tune he managed to get a total of 34whp and 60wtq from the original tune!!!
Transient response is there like Aby said it would be. Now on the road it pulls much faster (not a build up like before), the front end literally will lift!
Without getting out of control James (The Wizard) has a couple of tricks up his sleeve still to try. I can’t say enough about my positive experience with Reese Tuning, The Man is all about customer service as well ensuring you’re happy with the end results and he won’t BS you into something that you really don’t need (in fact he has talked me out of something’s). I know I won’t go anywhere else for my 4g63 performance needs.
If your serious about your Evo needs, then you really need to visit James Reese at Reese Tuning, you won’t be disappointed.
I'm moving down in couple weeks, going to be working at a unit co-located with the MCRD. Was wondering how is living in Ocean Beach area? Mainly want to be stupid close to surf and not deal with lots of traffic to get to and from work. If you got any areas you suggest with short drive to work and close to decent surf, by all means let me know.
Also what clubs do you guys use for track days or suggest? I saw Speed Ventures, and FastTrack Riders.
Also what clubs do you guys use for track days or suggest? I saw Speed Ventures, and FastTrack Riders.
Last edited by ashumo; Mar 17, 2008 at 07:32 PM.
Alan, was your 7.4s run on pump gas?
We are the borg 
San Diego Evo owners have a wizard in our own backyard. James Reese has hooked me up. I can’t be more pleased and satisfied with the out come. James and I have been talking about future mods that I might be interested in doing, in my quest for useable power. So after doing a little bit of home work on this one particular mod, MIL.SPEC 65mm TB. I decided to go with it, I was more interested with the transient response more than anything.
James took me in on a Tuesday night (no appointment) with a one hour notice! James laid out a plan, he was going to get a base line to see where we were as far as base line power (keep in mind I have already been tuned, tuners name will not be disclosed as promised). I was expecting about 360whp, because the tuner that tuned my car had tuned it on a Mustang (dyno) and it produced 340whp and about 327wtq, on 91 pump (I have the print out to prove it). James was less optimistic and he expected about 350whp. Well after the first pull, the look on James’s face spoke volumes, he was disappointed and you can only imagine what the hell was going on in my head. When he showed me the base line numbers, 330whp/297wtq with all those mods no way! Well he ditched the plan and retuned using his Reese Tune and installed the MIL.SPEC 65mm TB and tuned, tuned and tuned some more. After it was all said and done (7 hours later) This man is determined, relentless! He was able to squeeze out 364.10whp and 353.07wtq on 91 pump. James is a wizard. With the MIL.SPEC tb he pulled out 25whp (like he said he would, that’s some scary $hit) with the Reese Tune he managed to get a total of 34whp and 60wtq from the original tune!!!
Transient response is there like Aby said it would be. Now on the road it pulls much faster (not a build up like before), the front end literally will lift!
Without getting out of control James (The Wizard) has a couple of tricks up his sleeve still to try. I can’t say enough about my positive experience with Reese Tuning, The Man is all about customer service as well ensuring you’re happy with the end results and he won’t BS you into something that you really don’t need (in fact he has talked me out of something’s). I know I won’t go anywhere else for my 4g63 performance needs.
If your serious about your Evo needs, then you really need to visit James Reese at Reese Tuning, you won’t be disappointed.
James took me in on a Tuesday night (no appointment) with a one hour notice! James laid out a plan, he was going to get a base line to see where we were as far as base line power (keep in mind I have already been tuned, tuners name will not be disclosed as promised). I was expecting about 360whp, because the tuner that tuned my car had tuned it on a Mustang (dyno) and it produced 340whp and about 327wtq, on 91 pump (I have the print out to prove it). James was less optimistic and he expected about 350whp. Well after the first pull, the look on James’s face spoke volumes, he was disappointed and you can only imagine what the hell was going on in my head. When he showed me the base line numbers, 330whp/297wtq with all those mods no way! Well he ditched the plan and retuned using his Reese Tune and installed the MIL.SPEC 65mm TB and tuned, tuned and tuned some more. After it was all said and done (7 hours later) This man is determined, relentless! He was able to squeeze out 364.10whp and 353.07wtq on 91 pump. James is a wizard. With the MIL.SPEC tb he pulled out 25whp (like he said he would, that’s some scary $hit) with the Reese Tune he managed to get a total of 34whp and 60wtq from the original tune!!!
Transient response is there like Aby said it would be. Now on the road it pulls much faster (not a build up like before), the front end literally will lift!
Without getting out of control James (The Wizard) has a couple of tricks up his sleeve still to try. I can’t say enough about my positive experience with Reese Tuning, The Man is all about customer service as well ensuring you’re happy with the end results and he won’t BS you into something that you really don’t need (in fact he has talked me out of something’s). I know I won’t go anywhere else for my 4g63 performance needs.
If your serious about your Evo needs, then you really need to visit James Reese at Reese Tuning, you won’t be disappointed.
James and I are here to provide San Diego with all their Evo needs 
Here is the Dyno plot:
Last edited by alan678; Mar 17, 2008 at 05:45 PM.
At some point in the near future, we will probably have MIL.SPEC etched into the throttle plate, but the internals and porting will be the same as before
Yes, Aby and I have joined forces, so to speak. So all you kids out there who have WOT throttle bodies and WOT porting do indeed have MIL.SPEC throttle bodies on their cars and MIL.SPEC porting in their exhaust manifolds and turbo hotsides. Anyone with an "atlvalet" race cat, in fact has a MIL.SPEC race cat on their car
At some point in the near future, we will probably have MIL.SPEC etched into the throttle plate, but the internals and porting will be the same as before
At some point in the near future, we will probably have MIL.SPEC etched into the throttle plate, but the internals and porting will be the same as before