The Day of the Dyno

[Zecho]

Today is the fated dyno tuning for Jason's cobra. We're crossing our fingers for 550+, but the guy who did all of the work and the tuner both estimate 600+ to the rear wheels. We'll be at Slow Motion at 2:00, should have dyno sheets posted a couple hours later.

[Zecho]

What a crap day . . ended up with two codes popping up and not going away. Dyon'd it anyway with a heat soaked intercooler and an "engine overboost" code. Came up with 438 hp/480tq. Somehow the guy who did all of the work failed to burp the radiator and the intercooler. The intercooler was running at a balmy 160 degrees (should have been around 60). The car was missing, and running like pure shit. I would have to strangle the guy that did the work on this car, myself. We'll piece it together and his hp will probably end up around 455 to the ground. Not bad for bolt ons, I would say.

Either way, I think his license plate is gonna fit.

[Benyen Soljax]

the intercooler temp should make more of a difference than that. 100 degrees is huge when youre talking about the energy difference to 60 degrees.

(im an engineer, but dont quote me because i deal with theoretical things...)

[Zecho]

the intercooler temp should make more of a difference than that. 100 degrees is huge when youre talking about the energy difference to 60 degrees.

(im an engineer, but dont quote me because i deal with theoretical things...)

Theoretically, the code + the sky high IAT plus the rest of the garbage that popped up should be worth around 60+ hp. but we've given up on being optimistic at this point. He spent 10 grand and got 60 hp out of it. There's definitely some power left to pull out of it, but we'll see how it all works out instead of getting our hopes up again.

[SuperHawk]

Theoretically, the code + the sky high IAT plus the rest of the garbage that popped up should be worth around 60+ hp. but we've given up on being optimistic at this point. He spent 10 grand and got 60 hp out of it. There's definitely some power left to pull out of it, but we'll see how it all works out instead of getting our hopes up again.

wtf!

is that an 03/04?

did he blow the motor or something? why on earth did he spend 10g's? My buddy didn't even spend that on his turbo build and is pushing 700+whp on his 03. god damn!

[thomez]

if he spent 10 grand to make 500rwhp he is a fucking moron

[Zecho]

wtf!

is that an 03/04?

did he blow the motor or something? why on earth did he spend 10g's? My buddy didn't even spend that on his turbo build and is pushing 700+whp on his 03. god damn!

It's an '04 mystic. Like I said, there are some issues that need to be worked out. A lot of the cost was keeping everything as top of the line as possible. He just picked the wrong mechanic. Now we have to go back and basically start over with everything the guy did and figure out what's wrong. I cleared the computer this morning and pulled a P2196, (o2 sensor stuck rich), and his a/f ratio is all over the board. He's pushing 13.4 psi from the stock 6psi so the numbers should definitely go up.

[Zecho]

if he spent 10 grand to make 500rwhp he is a fucking moron

Thanks for your opinion, now go back and practice some reading comprehension. Everything was screwed up and he still hit 438/480 with the ecu pulling timing around 4 degrees, a heat soaked supercharger, a screwed up o2 sensor that is causing it to dump in too much fuel and the IAT sensor reading 160 degrees.

[thomez]

I read this to mean if it was running correct it would be somewhere around 500rwhp...

Theoretically, the code + the sky high IAT plus the rest of the garbage that popped up should be worth around 60+ hp.

438 + 60 missing = 500ish

for that kind of money he should be waaaayyyy more than that

[XB12Ss]

I think he forgot to mention that the ten large included a half key of yay and a toothless hooker that lives in the trunk.

[Zecho]

This isn't a debate, like I said we're not trying to be optimistic here. 10 grand included a lot of non performance parts, dyno time, labor, etc. .

[Benyen Soljax]

so are you going back with a fixed car anytime soon? id like to see the difference working parts make.

[Zecho]

As soon as we get the a/f mix right and the cooling system where it should be, it'll have to be retuned, so yeah. Next weekend we'll spend both days working on it, and probably hit the dyno again a week later. The clutch should also be seasoned by then so that'll eliminate the clutch slippage. Like I said, SOOO many things went wrong that day, but we had to do something about the tune, so we went ahead and did what we could.

At least 3k of the money he spent was in gauges, exhaust and suspension. The wideband o2 sensor, a/f gauge and boost gauge were around a grand alone.

[Zecho]

Final numbers are 487rwhp, 511 tq. The mechanic that screwed him out of 2700 bucks labor is actually going to refund some of it after we had to redo almost everything he got paid to do and did wrong.

[Casper]

Final numbers are 487rwhp, 511 tq. The mechanic that screwed him out of 2700 bucks labor is actually going to refund some of it after we had to redo almost everything he got paid to do and did wrong.

Inquiring minds want to know... who was the mechanic? What shop? Please don't tell me IPS...

[Zecho]

He's a true ASE Master mechanic, first name Jerry. I'm not gonna totally give him up till we find out how well he makes it right with Jason. But I don't think he'll come through too well given his track record so far.

[Zecho]

Three runs in NMRA True Street this weekend ended up with "best of's" of

60' 1.914

330 5.259

660 8.118

1/4 12.600

Trap 111.48

Average E/T was 12.795

He's still got some tuning issues, and some major traction issues, I'd say the car still has a half a second in it easy. He's still running the stock 3.55 gears as well.

[thomez]

that's very little faster than my stock turbo STi ran... and that was an off the shelf injection map, no tuning... and my shitty driving

keep us updated, that car should be 11's capable

if not, he has 4 too many cylinders and the wrong kind of forced induction