^ congrats man! It going to be a fun car.
Can't wait for the results.

 

thanks for all the answers! I concur that this will be a really fun car. Following with interest. Great build man!

 

Thank guys for the good words. I hope everything will go smoothly during the tuning. Stay tune for the result in a few days or weeks....depending on mother nature as there is 10"+ of snow 1.5 hours from here....

 

i figured that it was your car...lol...nice man...it's good that you are happy with what you are getting...
but i hope its going well with the tune...yeah it's true that elliot is a good guy and easy to work with.
his knowledge is free..lol...he likes to give advices too...

my manifold cracked too..but, i reweled it..lol...just keep rewelding it till can't be welded anymore, then i will go to stock..
can't u use sohn adapter for your car? is the space downthere really tight?
steven

 

Steven

Yes the tubular manifold took lots of room. It can be made to work with OMP but I choose to premixed. I have alway premix my engine since I installed turbo kit because I don't trust the OMP if it dies and I don't know about it. Elliot is great to work with. He will tell you exactly what work and what not. I hope that things will go well during tuning. Will find out in few weeks. It is snowing 6+inches here so can't do much for couple days at least.

 

you should have an OMP *and* pre-mix

 

2 (omp and premix) are always better.....that's what i have now by covering the OMP
i love the set up...
steven

 

what's the story? how many psi do you run?
steven

 

Probably 10-12 psi.

 

and? update? i just wanna see what this turbo produce..
steven

 

Hoping to fire it up tomorrow.

 

Cool nice to hear keep em coming ( updates )

 

It runs, but waiting on a replacement ECU..

 

wait, i thought it always run? he just change to your set up right?

steven

 

say what? OE or aftermarket?

 

Its got an Adaptronic select.

 

wait, isn't it what was in the car? in the pic, i saw adaptronic...
how is tuning with adaptronic? is it hard?
steven

 

I hopefully start road tuning tomorrow. I've been out of town for the modified tuner shoot out.

 

How did it go ? How did MM get on ?

 

Went well. Car finished, unlike a lot of the cars. I rode in the car for 10 laps on the roadcourse and was surprised at how much traction it had even on the street tires they made you run. There was a slight tuning issue for the Dyno portion, as the car was switched over to e85, and too many late night spent on fuel starvation issues( which finally got finished hours before event). We had a good time. I will post a bunch of photos on our Facebook when I get time.

 

So did this car ever get on the dyno or was it another 'zoom zoom boom ' story ?

 

Street tuning starts in a few minutes..dyno follows if all works out well

 

dude, I don't even get good traction NA on 140 treadwear semi-race street tires ....

 

I just want to make sure everything is working mechanically correctly, so we don't waste time on the dyno..

Haven't been in boost yet, but the car runs well( outside of an idle control issue). Closed loop idle control works well, took about 5 minutes for the vacuum portion of the engine to be tuned..

 

news?