Mawnee

Did some more logs today for more tuning. Saw over 420g/s multiple times. A couple of the logs were while completely toying with an XLR......That guy must have been confused lol

Things are coming along well and the car is a beast

Brettus

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how does that compare to your g/s before the last dyno run ?

Mawnee

I had seen over 400g/s before the dyno, but when I did it was hitting the target AFR. Back then I really was playing darts with my maf scale trying to get it right though.
Also I now have my Aux ports opening at 6000, whereas before(including dyno) it was set to 4800.

Baseline has helped ALOT in trying to nail down my tune. There is a big difference in the car.

Brettus

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6000 - funny that is what I've settled on as well


at the risk of getting jumped on - what boost are your running ?

Mawnee

I keep switching between 8 and 12, thats my two profiles on the boost controller. Both run with the same cracking pressure setting of 6.5PSI

Brettus

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last time I looked your timing was pretty retarded (compared to mine) have you touched that yet ?

Mawnee

Still havent played with timing at all. Only giving it 13/2 or so in boost

yomomspimp06

update?

Mawnee

Car is still running fine after a year of daily driving.

Been busy with work so I havent had time to work on it. Still have my fuel pump sitting in the box and a list of things I want to do to it. Hoepfully I'll find some free time this summer

yomomspimp06

looking forward to video

Brettus

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when are we going to see another dyno ? - if you run 12psi you should see around 350 whp !!!

Mawnee

I haz no time 12-17 hour work days ftl

Hopefuly find some time in July....when its hot as hell in my garage

-Need to install my Walboro fuel pump(from BHR)
-Need to relocate my O2 sensor, some recent talk on the forums has confirmed what I've known since last year. The sensor being 5+ ft. of pipe from the exhaust ports is making my crappy tune crappier.

Brettus

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Stop working and get tuning - simple

yomomspimp06

i like the way brettus thinks

Mawnee

LOL sure.
If anyone wants to sponsor me so I can work on my car full time I'll gladly work on turbo kit development :P

Mawnee

Felt good tonight so I went out and did some work on the car at 4am :P Relocated my O2 sensor to right after the Turbo. This is about 3 feet closer to the engine than it was previously. I would like to have put it pre turbo on the manifold, but there is no way to drill and weld that while on the car. I'll put it there if I ever get around to doing my 2.0 manifold.

I took it for a quick lap of town and my idle and cruising AFRs are much more stable. Before I would get alot of oscilation, now it is pretty steady. Should make tuning ALOT easier. now I jsut need to find time for my fuel pump

Also I noticed on my drive that I picked up 2lb of boost. Before I would peak at 12psi, I saw 13.9 on this drive at 7k rpm The only thing I can think is that maybe my UIM or coupler right before the throttle body wasnt sealed before. I removed those to reroute the O2 wire......

Brettus

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shiess - that is a lot of boost at that rpm . Must feel insane ...

FazdaRX_8

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so when will mine be shipped?

Mawnee

I really do wish I had the time and spare cash to start producing these. Would make for a fun hobby and I would love to see more turboed Rx8s out there.

FazdaRX_8

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well if you make a new manifold for your eight I could take the old one off your hands

Mawnee

The original would get cut up and rewelded to match version 2.0 and serve as a model/template for future production

FazdaRX_8

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that sounds promising!!!

Mawnee

I've rolled around the idea of offering a kit or at the very least a manifold and downpipe pretty much since the start.

So when I do 2.0 I will probably go ahead and get setup so I can make more. I'll make the modifications to the original manidfold(split it into two pieces and slightly move the WG) then make a template from that. The downpipe just needs modified so it will bolt up to the stock exhaust then I can make a template for that. Then I'll build a fresh manifold/downpipe setup strictly from the templates to make sure they work. If it does then I can make up a setup whenever I have spare time

The parts for the manifold and downpipe arent all that expensive. They are just the most time consuming and labor intensive parts to make. But once I have templates I could do it in my sleep

Honestly the only thing holding me back is I need to pull the trigger on a decent TIG welder and I need to find some spare time to get it setup.

09Factor

isn't that the case in almost everything? Time and Money, that is.

Mawnee

Yep, its more time than anything. I make decent money. So its hardly worth it for me to take time off to make car parts that would sell for a small profit. Thats why this has remained on a backburner. If I ever do find myself with some free time though I'll get it setup for something to do.