:rofl: Not my fault FedEx enjoys gargling sperm. I'll get some pics tomorrow.... It'll be late, like really late. Maybe even Saturday...... wait, it's already Friday, so yeah, pics by tomorrow the latest ;)

Our FedEx its pretty cool here. Its always the same guy in his Ryder rental truck(... his FedEx one must have broke or something... times ARE hard right now :rofl:) and he happens to be a fish tank and car guy. He typically hangs out for a bit, after dropping off my constant influx of parts, and asks about the 200 gal aquarium by the front door as well as my FC and my friend's STi (the FedEx guy owns a Subie himself) that's over every once in a while to be detailed.

She's ALIVE!!!!

Started right the hell up @ ~6 this morning. Ran great until the t-stat opened then the coolant temps SHOT to 205*...... fucking air bubble. Oil temps stayed @ 160 though. Shut her down burped the system, started right up again and we sat there and idled for about 1/2 hr. Then I go some much needed sleep, droped her off the stands and so far the first 10 miles have been flawless. Ran a comp test this morning too........ after ~ 1/2 hour of idle she's making 125+ psi in the front & ~130psi in the rear. I are very happy. Now I just need to log a metric fuckton of miles before the dyno on Wed............. anybody wanna come to CT and break my car in tonight while I sleep?

I would've but I left the USA on saturday :lol:

Good job man, can't wait for power results!

Fly me to CT and I'll do it

Congrats!


and....




NICE WHEELS!:icon_tup:

I'm sorry I couldn't resist :rofl:

I love your build man, so badass. I've debated having my engine in the 8 blacked out when I rebuild it, you are really convincing me :) Also on the harness tuck- love that.

Brian, what's your brake setup? Glad to see her back again! I need YOU at our local tracks! Would be nice to drive with ya!

Damnit, oh well.... next time ;)

:rofl: it was tempting.... it really was

Yeah I did promise those didn't I.... Aight, I'll snap ONE tonight just to relive... whatever ;)

i had it done by Anthony Bulger @ Sport Tuner. Awesome guy to work with, great prices and his turn-around time is what he says it is. how can you ask for anything more. I had everything done in their high-temp ceramic coating which honestly makes a huge difference. One of my pipes broke and I had to weld it. The coating rejected the welding heat like no-ones business. Great stuff.

As for that harness tuck :banghead: I'm dreading helping my buddy do it. It's nice when it's done but I suggest alot of booze after the fact to help you forget the pain that you went through

Hell yeah it would be nice to drive with ya Johnson. As for my brakes, right now they are stock 4-pots with KVR x-drilled and carbon pads. They work great. Over the winter though I have something nasty planned :suspect:


Aight........ so on with the update........ or lack thereof. First let me comment on Dave @ KDR. The guy is a fricken SAINT not to mention a hell of a mechanic and tuner as well. That being said.........

I left work late last night and made a 240 mile loop around CT for some miles, since none of you sissys wanted too ;) Got home ~2 in the morning, cleaned my garage up so I could change my oil in the morning. Got to bed around 5, woke up @ 8 to help a buddy move his rig the alignment shop. Then I changed my oil and left. I got held up in construction traffic, then a car fire stopped 287 in both directions (I got pics of the carnage though, a Camry somehow managed to spin, bust up both ends, roll, land shiny side up and then errupt into flames. Had I been 2 minutes earlier I would've missed it all but instead I got to watch them put the fire out...) regardless... I was like 3 hours late. So we strap her down and make a few mild pulls. Problems right off the bat, WAY lean.... like high 13's in boost lean. Also the boost control was non-existant. Spikes to 20. I'll spare the details but it ended after swapping maps, checking vaccuum diagrams, dicking with this, horsing with that, pulling and changing fuel lines, swapping them around thinking the feed was feeding the back of the reg and destroyed the diaphram, reagardless of what we did, we couldn't get the girl to fatten up. To add insult to injury the FP sensor puked completely on the way out. So we had no idea what the FP was as one of Daves friends borrowed his kit. So we had to set the fuel pressure off the rail with a tranny system tester and I left, after keeping Dave late for a while, like a long while. I was all set to get a hotel and hit her again in the morning but Dave was jammed Thursday so we decided to just set the pressure and nurse her home........ guess what I found when I got home? Another clogged fuel filter. (Yes it's 1 in the morning & I'm on 3 hours of sleep, a few Redbulls and it was a high tobacco consumption day... yet I still had to know WTF was going on & I'm still gonne get pics of my rims.... bastards ;) ) Yeah, after maybe 1200 miles my filter clogged again. Not to mention ~ 700 miles ago I dropped the tank to clean it out BY HAND.

Here's my thought. I've seen a METRIC FUCKTON of boats blow motors, clog carbs, eat filters from the inside and detroy fuel tanks from the Ethanol that was put in a few years ago. It's very prevelant in the marine industry where tanks tend to be very old and sedimenty being that they sit 1/2 thier life with the same fuel just fermenting. Years ago the ethanol would break up all the sludge and send it throught the rest of the fuel system. That's pretty much how I got my boat as cheap as I did. The first tank of ethanol fuel and the boat ran for 20 minutes before 4 out of 6 carbs were clogged. CLOGGED. Over powered the fuel filter and bam. Done. So I bought the boat, drained the tank, rebuild the carbs and it ran for 30 minutes before she started running like shit again. I put a drainable fuel/water/sludge seperator on and the bowl was BLACK, as in the fuel was BLACK. As in it looked like 20 year old coke was being poured out. This was after I drained the tank mind you. So I drained it again and the shit that was coming out was disgusting. Then I opened it up and put a pressure washer in there. MORE shit came out and it looked like there was no end. SO I hauled the tank from the boat - 32 gallon tank. Then I took a length of chain and put it in the tank and rolled it around, put a few gallons in, drained it and continued this for hours. The crap that came out was UNBELIEVABLE. So this was year one of the ethanol in the marine industry. After a bunch of tanks were cleaned or replaced, the next year it was just water in the fuel. So much to the point that engines were still blowing and carbs were still getting clogged. Not from sludge, no no no, that's all been cleaned out. Now its water in the fuel. Apparently the ethanol attracs water. Alot of boats actually have mold around the vents... charming isn't it? Incidentally, there is no real "charcoal canister" crap in the marine world. They are all pretty much vented to atmosphere. Like the tank in my 7 :)

This year I have heard a bunch of stories about fiberglass/epoxy tanks being replaced. Apparently the ethanol wasn't content with collecting water, dispersing sludge and blowing motors constantly, now it's attacking fiberglass. There is one tank in particular that I worked on that is so soft you can leave a fingerprint in 5 year old fiberglass. When I drained that tank, CHUNCKS of epoxy were coming out. It was ridiculous. The floats were "epoxied" shut and the thing is in need of some serious carb work.

So, what does all of that rambling have to do with me? About 5 years ago when I painted my car I dropped the tank. I peeked inside and saw a shit-ton of rust. So I did what anyone else would do. I took it to a shop to have it boiled out and EPOXY COATED. The only thing that I can think of why I clog so many socks and now 2 filters in 4k miles is the ethanol is attacking my coating and sending epoxy through the entire fuel system. Now I'm debating whether or not I should pull my injectors and send them to Marren to have them double checked. He's local so overnight is the same as standard UPS and I have an appt with Dave next Wed (I'm getting a hotel room local so today's crap doesn't happen again, becuase this is the second time)

So that's the story. 1 all nighter, one night till 7 in the morning, and one till 5 in the morning all so I can make today's (@ this point) track day @ Limerock and Sundays auto-x. Maybe I'll e-mail a few of the BMW/Porsche clubs and see if they'll let me beat up on them at the track under thier club for a day seeing as mine only has one day @ Limerock. I know the club I belong to allows provisional one day memberships. Anywho, lemme go snap a pic or two of meh new rims, that I was hoping to have bolted on today.

The only bright side to this, I have tomorrow off for the track day. Now since I'm not going, maybe I'll uncover my boat, it's only more than half-way into June :banghead:

Work VSXX - 17x8 +35 & 17x9 +35 wrapped in shaved Toyo Proxes RA1's. 235/40 & 255/40. Identical to my BBS's just more grippy. Therefore more gooder for the track day that I was supposed to be taking part in today

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245304382

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245304382

Happy now? Map I PLEASE get some sleep now? ;)

Nice wheels. Too bad my SE can't use them or i'll jack them... :suspect:

Being that you have had no sleep, I wont crack on your spelling of the words "Map I"... but yet, go get some sleep, lol.


I can only hope that by your dealing with all these setbacks and issues that your car will be simply a force of unstopable rotary power when you do finally get your track day in!

I havent had time to snag that software yet, but when I do - I'll hit ya back on the PM..


Keep it up man, you're keeping us other SE guys alive with hope...

Ah shit man...... yeah, lemme know when you want those. I did some light tuning tonight... I'll post up a few data logs. I got her down to .75L. Pig nasty rich but safe. I also changed the AIM around a little to keep a better eye on things such as L & MAP... Lemme hop a shower and I'll post up a few data logs. She's strong though. As strong as the old motor. Rich as all get out but we'll take car of that next Wednesday and squeeze some more ponies out of her. Getting the basline fuel map should be pretty quick and painless. Now I need to decide if I should up the revs, or go for the low RPM high load sites while on the dyno and then start horsing around with the sequentials? I think I'll go for the sequential stuff as I found a different clubs autox on the 28th that I want to hit up.. meh, we'll see.

Log coming soon, Bill, hurry up and snag that V3.x software so I can send you a few maps to play around with. You won't be disapointed, I promise.

~68* night, mostly highway runs, but the ones you see are 1st & 2nd gear pulls. The AIT's are in F and the coolant/oil temps are C ;) HMIC FTMFW

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245393616

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245393616

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245393616

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1245393616

Brian, what kind of EGT probe are you running and where's it at?

Just curious on your readings as it appears to steadily rise the longer you're in it. My probes do the same, I feel I can only get an accurate reading of EGT by doing a full 1st through 4th gear pull redline. At which point I will see approx 900C by 7500RPM in 4th.

And those datalogs are sweet BTW, awesome software.