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guitarjunkie28 11-30-2004 11:52 AM

looks like the aux ports only build power in 3rd!! i'd like to disable them in 4th and do another pull--see where that takes it.

this leads me to reaffirmate what i said earlier about getting the air in not being a problem... with the exhaust porting, i expect to see quite a bit more power gain when the aux ports open, but without sacrificing ANYTHING down low....hopefully. but i guess we won't know for absolute sure until the ported n/a motor gets dyno'd.

Aoshi Shinomori 11-30-2004 11:57 AM


Originally Posted by guitarjunkie28
looks like the aux ports only build power in 3rd!! i'd like to disable them in 4th and do another pull--see where that takes it.

this leads me to reaffirmate what i said earlier about getting the air in not being a problem... with the exhaust porting, i expect to see quite a bit more power gain when the aux ports open, but without sacrificing ANYTHING down low....hopefully. but i guess we won't know for absolute sure until the ported n/a motor gets dyno'd.

Sounds great. I figured since you were going to port your engine and then turbo it that FI shouldn't be a problem with porting, but are there any risks involved with porting and then a turbo? Thanks.

zoom44 11-30-2004 12:01 PM


Originally Posted by abbid
those are some low ass HP numbers.

looks like a mustang dyno.

guitarjunkie28 11-30-2004 01:00 PM


Originally Posted by Aoshi Shinomori
Sounds great. I figured since you were going to port your engine and then turbo it that FI shouldn't be a problem with porting, but are there any risks involved with porting and then a turbo? Thanks.

yea, the turbo 8 project is laggin' hardcore--not by my own hand, mind you...i've been ready for the last week and a half. i haven't totally decided, but the canzoomer ecu looks like it may be the winner. i'd like to keep everything working basically how it does now, just with added fuel enrichment and boost timing delay. i wanna keep the obd2 stuff as well.

it just looks like the stock ecu with a piggyback will be the easiest option for now...

guitarjunkie28 11-30-2004 01:01 PM

and it was a dynojet @ 4500 ft elevation. same one i dyno'd my car on.

Snoochie 11-30-2004 06:54 PM

The average dyno for stock is what? 171hp I think. So taking away 9hp for being in the mountains looks pretty average to me.

zoom44 11-30-2004 07:43 PM

yeah you are right but that is just the lowest dynojet number for an 8 i have seen. i watched 2 8's go back to back up in the mountains of washington state awhile back and one pulled 175 and the other pulled 179. that was a dynojet. that's at a higher elevation than 4500 im sure and they were both stock. but it was also early evening just after the sun had gone down and high 70's.

rotarygod 11-30-2004 07:49 PM

Maybe those runs were corrected numbers for elevation and temperature where this one wasn't.

guitarjunkie28 11-30-2004 10:16 PM

if that was uncorrected, i'm really close to 400 @ 12.5 psi. me likey :)

rotarygod 12-01-2004 01:56 AM

You don't use correction for turbocharged cars. Since the air is thinner up high it obviously takes more of it to get the same amount of power. A turbo wastegate is set to open at a certain pressure. The turbo will just ingest more air to get the total air density the same as if it were at sea level. A nonturbo car will not do this. That is why they need correcction.

guitarjunkie28 12-01-2004 11:00 AM

gotcha

thanks for the info :)
i turned the boost up just a tiny bit more ~14psi...now i can actually claim 400rwhp with some validity.

guitarjunkie28 12-02-2004 01:14 PM

so snoochie, when we gonna do this?

Snoochie 12-02-2004 07:02 PM

Well if you have spare time we can pull my car on 2 or 3 sep days cause it'll take too long to do it in one day. Ima just get my Mom to get a rental and I'll use her truck for a while. We can do it down at my house. I'll clear room and we can use the whole garage. Lemme know if you wanna do this. I'll give you money for gas and whatnot coming down here. If we can do this we can do it soon.

guitarjunkie28 12-02-2004 07:52 PM

alright.
let me know what day you're thinking of and i'll try to schedule around it.

do you know anyone with a truck? i'm a lazy ass and i wanna bring my air compressor. it'll save hours and hours...trust me

Omicron 12-03-2004 12:37 AM


Originally Posted by zoom44
yeah you are right but that is just the lowest dynojet number for an 8 i have seen. i watched 2 8's go back to back up in the mountains of washington state awhile back and one pulled 175 and the other pulled 179. that was a dynojet. that's at a higher elevation than 4500 im sure and they were both stock. but it was also early evening just after the sun had gone down and high 70's.

I got 179 at 5300 ft elevation back when I first got my car, and hadn't done anything to it except the Borla.

Omicron 12-03-2004 12:40 AM


Originally Posted by guitarjunkie28
... i haven't totally decided, but the canzoomer ecu looks like it may be the winner...

That being the case, you really should talk to Maurice (Canzoomer). He's been working on a supercharged '8 with his Canzoomer unit for quite some time now, and pretty much has all the bugs worked out. PM me for info.

guitarjunkie28 12-03-2004 12:20 PM

already talked to him :).

Snoochie 12-03-2004 12:53 PM

The air compressor I have at my house says on it

6.5 @ 40 PSI
5.1 @ 90 PSI
125 PSI MAX

It's pretty big so will this work so you don't have to tote yours down here?
Also anybody know what the cheapest car rental place is? :D

First day we could start on it could be monday I suppose at around 1ish.

guitarjunkie28 12-03-2004 02:49 PM

that should work for the air tools..

rotarygod 12-04-2004 01:49 AM

I guess you guys don't want me to come out there then?

guitarjunkie28 12-04-2004 04:00 AM

i don't know what's going on.

Snoochie 12-04-2004 01:37 PM

Kinda mad at myself for not pushing this forward so here we go...

Does monday work for you? I'd be game for it. I would say I'd pick you up but I wouldn't have a car to drive you back with. :D Also could we do more/maybe finish pulling it on wednesday? In the same sense we could start on wednesday if monday isn't good for you. I would just like a timetable down so I can know how long I need the rental for.

Do you think it'll take 2 or 3 days to pull it? Probably depends on our schedules and how long we have to pull it. For me I could work on monday from 1ish till sundown or later. So here's a recap...

1. Can you come down on mon the 6th/wed the 8th?
2. Also what about the next mon/wed (the 13th and 15th)
3. How long can you stay down here if in fact you can come down on those days?
4. Is there another day that works for you? I can switch up my schedule to fit what you need...

And where is the cheapest rental place??

Alright hopefully this thing gets underway now.

rotarygod 12-04-2004 03:08 PM

I would like to show you guys how to construct a very cheap but very useful flowbench so you can test those ports. No more guess work! If you've got a shop vac, Home Depot has the rest.

guitar: If you've still got those ported housings lying aroudn unassembled, I'm wondering if you can make a mold of the runners and ports and send them to me for flow testing. I'd really like to have an original untouched port mold too. Here's a link to a website that shows how to do it on piston engines. Yes it has to be apart. The technique is the same. I've done it with some of my housings. Once I get these molds, I can make a copy out of fiberglass or plaster and then flowbench them. I don't even need a motor in my possession. This is a neat way to develop port shapes all day long without ever touching a motor plate. Once you get it where you want it, then you try to copy it on the real thing. You can get in the ballpark. Flow testing isn't accurate from the standpoint that you know how much a rotary engine actually flows. It is a good frame of reference though when you are comparing it to other parts of the intake and exhaust system and to tell if what you did actually was better or not. There are other things it tells you but I'll get into that later. Try this and see how it works. If you get one good, send it to me.

http://www.diyporting.com/molds.html

zoom44 12-04-2004 05:48 PM


Originally Posted by rotarygod
I don't even need a motor in my possession.

speaking of that..... check your pms in a about 1 minute:)

guitarjunkie28 12-04-2004 07:04 PM

very good idea!!!
only problem is it's been 30's at night and 40's in the day here....it'd take forever for the rtv to dry.....i'd get killed if i brought the irons in the house. :p


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