Well, yes I did get 355hp/288ft/lbs at 18lbs creeping to 20lbs. I'm not unhappy with the number, I'm unhappy at the fact that I couldn't run 25-26psi.
Below is a breif summary of the weekend.
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The weekend to me was a topsy turvey (sp) weekend full of ups and downs. Thursday was a looooong HOT drive down with no AC (again). Swam in the pool, and drank beer. Went to bed late, woke up WAY too early...
Stopped in at Buschur's on Friday AM after Sterks, just as the stuff from Meguiars showed up. I just about dropped dead when I saw all the stuff they sent. Swam in the pool, and drank beer. Went to bed late, woke up WAY too early (which turned out to be a good thing IMHO)
Saturday was kinda fun at first. We went to set up the car show...brought the tent (as you saw in the pics) and set up my car. I brought a battery
charger and extension cord so I could run the computer all day. I played MP3's and getaway in Stockholm all day
Steve hit the dyno...did pretty well even if it caught on fire :-P
They talked me into the dyno-ing my car...We jacked up the car, and put it in FWD. I go out for a test drive to waste some gas. Come back, throw in the racegas. Zip out again for some boost controller adjustments :-P. On my way back, I hit it one more time to make sure it says 25-26psi, yep! Just then I see the trooper fly past in the other direction. sh!t! yep he hits the brakes and turns around (sigh) I pull over into the next parking lot and shut her down and wait for him. He gives me the gears LARGE, but lets me off with a written warning. So I head back to Buschur's and strap it on the dyno. First pull is a 348, David asks me WTF is my VPC set at? I show him, he laughs, turns it full lean, checks the GCC and says "run it now, and if it blows up, I'll fix it for free
" So I run it again, 355,
but this time at only 18-20psi? Tell David that boost is low. He says run it again and try turning it up during the pull...tried but nothing. Gave up, unhappy with my 355hp/288Ft/lbs. Later that day I see that a vacuum hose popped off the EVC :-( Got a hose clamp on it now.
Car show only has 12 participants (usually 35 or so) which sucked because I had all that nice Meguiars stuff to give out! We even went back that night to try and run the dyno again, but no luck :-(
It was fun to see them bolt together a car with off the shelf parts (stage III block, head, SM intake, BR57 turbo) This thing ran for 10 minutes and was bolted on the dyno. First pull was a 550 or so. A bit of tuning on the GCC and it was 595 or so. A bit more tuning, and it was 604HP at the wheels with NO Nitrous. DAMN!
Swam in the pool, and drank beer. Went to bed late, woke up WAY too early...(starting to see a pattern here?)
Sunday, got to the track at 8:15am, got a run in real quick. Car wasn't launching hard at all. I normally do a 1.69-1.75. I got a 2.0. Zip around again and run again. Clutch slips like crazy :-( Its brand new!! arg! Now I start missing 3rd gear. Of my 5 runs I hit 3rd twice, every
other time I missed it. This is where the duck in my tranny comes from (it grinds so bad it sounds like a duck). Ran a bunch of 13's both high and low at about 110, which was my MPH when I ran 12.54. That tells me I could have had another 5mph at least if it was a clean run. frack!
Go back to the hotel...Swam in the pool, and drank WAY TOO MUCH beer. Went to bed late, woke up WAY too early...
It was fun, I had lots of fun...but lots of sorrow also.
Thats all I can remember for now...
except Steve SUCKS!!!