Dyno Tuning Day with MazdaManiac 8-4-12 (Seattle Area)
 

Hey guys--

The time has finally come and we're booked for a dyno tuning day with MazdaManiac on August 4th in Kent, WA at Intec Racing.

The address is:

25911 104th Ave SE
Kent, WA 98030

We have the dyno booked all day so I'll edit this space for the exact times once they're settled. Jeff is arranging his flights now and should be in the night before on Friday the 3rd.

Theoretically we have space for more folks to join for either tuning slots or dyno runs as we'll only be scheduled to consume 6 hours with the three FI builds Easy and I have been working on. That leaves two hours free on the normal schedule and 6 hours free if we opt for the extended twelve hour schedule.

Please let me know if you have any interest and we can discuss timing and fees. Flat fees are charged by MM and the dyno shop for rental of the space and hire of the person to strap the cars on so the math will follow depending on who joins and what they're doing. In general NA cars use 1 slot (one hour) and FI cars use two. Current MMCCS customers aren't charged anything more for the service but non customers are charged a discounted $150 to reup their subscription (which is good for a subsequent six months) instead of the standard $300.

Anyway I'll be around on here between now and the fourth to get everything sorted so I'll leave it at that. If you don't want to participate but just want to hang out that's cool too so come on by.

Peace. :Peace:

I'll be there, but it may just be as a pit crew member, and add support as needed. lol

My car will be there physically and i will be there in spirit.

UGH!! I have a big project going live that weekend and not sure I can make it. Please PM/Text the cost anyway just in case. Unfortunately I will not know for sure until sometime next week when we have our go/no-go meeting.

tempting,

do it, isn't it the same time as corksport? this is less of a drive!

your presence is always welcome. :) might be worth some pulls on a new dyno though.

you _could_ be here physically you know..

cost depends on who wants to do what but i can throw some numbers around if you want.

come on over man. fi rx8 dyno day, can't get much better than that

Wow, really wish my new engine was ready to go. I don't suppose you could ask Jeff if he could bring a Cobb AP down with him, I was going to order one on the 3rd anyway, and it would be awesome if I could pick it up from him while he is here. Will he only be here for the one day?

just send him an email and i'm sure he'll do it. and yeah just a day.

I don't have his email, can you pm me it or where i can go to find it?

jeff at mazdamaniac dot com

I'll show up after work, and I would like to pull if there's room and it's not too late. What's the schedule?

show up around 10, clear out the cars they have in there 10-10.30 then get going at 10.30 until we're done. maybe 6 or 7pm.

I will see you Sat. afternoon.

I would love to go, at least for one pull just to see where the things are at with my ignition setup right now. Would love to know what the numbers would be, for a single pull at least, if you have any approximations.

if you're gonna get strapped on we might as well do three pulls since the loading/unloading takes the longest. I think it'll be around $30-$40 for 3

Dang, my AP Dongle is not working. I'll be there to borrow a dongle for a test to see if that is what my problem is. No dyno for me as i am not ready.

That sounds pretty great actually. Sucks that I might be working as early as 2.30 pm this Saturday, and I work in Edmonds, which makes me wonder about the commute this Seafair weekend... But i would really love to get in on this, maybe go for a few pulls around 11am.

Let me know if there is any kinda sign-up/commitment needed. Thanks!

:ugh2:

RU READY?

haha no. still missing a couple parts. headed to the shop now to have a look for them though. then trying to finish tomorrow. ;)

matt's coming out though so that's cool.

Yes i will! Thanks to Mike for hooking me up I'll be able to make it out for the weekend and dyno my car and help get everything tuned and finished up before i ship it back to Chicago. Can't wait to see everyone Sat.!

^ Sweet!

I'm officially out. A few things came up that is going to take up my money. I'm hoping to drive up and hang out though. Maybe I can sneak on for a couple of pulls just to see where my car is at :)

Every time you guys do this I alway have plans. I will see if I can show up to see you guy, but I just got a new house that am starting to move in today!!!

Good luck with the dino!!!

Well everyone that can make it for either support or to dyno their cars should! With Jeff in town it would be a great time to get everyone together.

Ha.

I live in portland and taking the train do Seattle this Friday to pick up my first 8 from a forum member. Wish this was on Friday.

What does MMCCS customer mean? The car I am picking up already has accessport and I believe its tuned by MM remotely. Does that make me a MMCCS customer and only need to pay $30-40 for dyno pulls?

Thanks

David

you're not a MMCCS customer so if you want MM to tune your car on the dyno then you need to reup for 150 plus dyno/tune costs.

if you just want pulls you don't need to be a customer so it's just $40ish. i haven't worked out the exact number yet.

Does Eric have bloody knuckles yet? :rolleyes:

Nemesis8, you going tomorrow? Could I use your compression checker tomorrow?

Yes, I will be there, and Mike has it at his shop.

Right on. Thanks :)

After a 1.5 yrs with the turbo I want to see how my compression is.

thats a good idea

I was hoping to make this but my wife's friend is having a wedding that day, super bummed

I'll try to make it. A little confusion as to the timeframe, so... what time is it all starting, tentatively?

He make it there OK? Looked like he had a helluva time at airport.

May require extra monster...

Would love to see dyno chart.

From what I know, the festivities start at 10, but they are tuning 3 fi 8s out the gate, so that might take a while. It should go late into the afternoon, so pop on over anytime :)

Alright, thanks a lot!

So from what it looks like, I won't be able to squeeze in a dyno pull before 1 o'clock, which is fine, but I'll try to show up at least for support

Hey guys, thanks for coming out for the day! Sorry we didn't get any non MM tuned cars up there but it ended up being a loooong day. In fact, we just called it quits at 2.30am.

Many thanks are in order for Easy and MM. They stayed til the bitter end helping to get these cars sorted so we have a little to do list worked up now.

Also, thanks to all who came out. From what I remember this late we had Dan, Kevin, Scott and Scott, David, Don, Matt, Victoria, John, and Tim.

Unfortunately we don't have any really great dyno charts to put up but I'll get them loaded this week some time anyway. It does look like another dyno day is in order though after some mechanical adjustments are made so keep a look out or let me know if you're interested in a tune so we can schedule it. We should also have more time for dyno pulls the next time around.

There are some good stories and photos and videos floating around so we'll get those going in the near future as well.

Thanks again and goodnight.

You most likely are sleeping in as I type this then lol

The best part was watching the look on the faces of the Intec Racing crowd when you wound up the supercharger - they all stopped what they were doing and looked at each other and were not sure to run, hide or what - it was priceless! It was like testing a Boeing 787 engine.

The turbo was a beautiful build, and it will anneal itself together eventually. It seemed to be alive up there on the dyno breathing and spitting at 'ya :)

You should change the Speed3's tags to "Stump Pulla" hahaha

Bummer

Had a great time and was really good to see old friends and meet some of the new 8club members :)

Yesterday sucked ass, as soon as I got ready to go I was called in to work... *&^%$#@

Glad everyone had a great time, looking forward to future events, and if anyone took any photos it would be awesome to see them!

Sounds like a very productive day . I do wonder however if a better approach would be a two day event where the first day is for the FI cars , just road testing and trouble shooting . That way the dyno session is just for fine tuning and pulling some numbers .

SARX take note !


ducks for cover :suspect:

yeah its a reasonable idea but we dont have a place to drive safely on the roads at the same gearing/speed/rpm that we can on the dyno.

maybe brettus ment do road like testing on the dyno the first day and have a numbers and pulls the second day?

great idea . FI cars testing and sorting issues 1st day , numbers 2nd day ....

So bummed I didn't know about this sooner. My bad for not being on the forum much :( Thanks for the heads-up Dondo. It's always fun to hang out with you guys. Maybe next time :fingersx:

Pics, or it dint happen!

Matt, I have something for you, so sorry I missed you. PM me and let me know your address - I'll mail it. :)

Thanks Mike ! Sorry couldn't stay to long.
& it was nice to meet new people !


David did you get a compression test ? I'm curious what your at. :)

TANKERG, where's the pics and vids?