MaczPayne's Turbo II

[Phoenix7]

Originally Posted by MaczPayne

I was hoping no one caught that, damnit! lol

I'm on at odd times...I'll edit my post above soon. I LOL'ed at the contact ryan part though. I like how the car is coming along too, FAT tires! No rubbing issues at all? I gotta clean out my interior to look like yours...You gonna hit the track soon?

[MaczPayne]

No rubbing whatsoever, and if I do have some rubbing, I'll just 86 the 3mm spacers I have up front to get more clearance

Car needs a slight retune for safety's sake, and it'll be ready to tear it up at the tracks!

[MaczPayne]

A few more, need to find a replacement triangle for the dash haha. Damn I missed driving it!

[Whizbang]

so what wheels are those in the rear? not sure if i missed it

[Gregory Casimir]

hey did your buddy ever come around to making more of those big brake upgrades that you have on your car?

[MaczPayne]

Wheels in the rear are MB Competitions

My buddy is still away on a work assignment, I don't know what his plans are for releasing the brakes as of now

[MaczPayne]

Graduated with my degree in Mechanical Engineering, finally.

Big things to come as soon as I finish paying off some debts, feels good to be working now!

Car's waiting for a tune; I'm trying to chase down a supra fuel pump, plus I mysteriously misplaced my microtech laptop adapter... can't find it for the life of me - stupid 95 dollar piece of plastic.

[Gregory Casimir]

there is a guy on the evil forum that has a supra fuel pump for sale
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=884659
if you're still looking for one

[MaczPayne]

Got one on the way

[MaczPayne]

Car's tuned Ahh I missed power, the jeep was so damn slow

Left:

Tires
New brackets for the corbeau buckets
Corner Balance and Alignment
Charge up the A/C
A front lip

[TitaniumTT]

Looking good Johnson, Couple of questions for ya though

What size wheels/tires are you running F&R that you were able to squeek a 255/275?

What's she making for power?

Did you buy that supra pump used or new? and if new, from where? I need a new one too...

And easy on the Jeep/slow comments... yesterday I showed someone up who was driving an X3 like a douchebag.... I enjoyed that small victory for the mighty 4.0L

[MaczPayne]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Looking good Johnson, Couple of questions for ya though

What size wheels/tires are you running F&R that you were able to squeek a 255/275?

What's she making for power?

Did you buy that supra pump used or new? and if new, from where? I need a new one too...

And easy on the Jeep/slow comments... yesterday I showed someone up who was driving an X3 like a douchebag.... I enjoyed that small victory for the mighty 4.0L

I ran a 17x9 +24 (A popular mustang offset) for a good while, but after the accident I ended up with 2 bent wheels.

I purchased a set of 4 17x9 +17's as a temporary replacement until I can find either new wheels or fix the old ones I had. I'm currently running 275's in the rear on a pair of 17x9 +17. I am still running the 17x9 +24 in the front with 255's along with a 5mm spacer.

I've got some things to take care of before I get new tires, but eventually I'll have the 17x9 +17 on all corners, with 255 nitto nt-05's.

As for fender modifications to use the 17x9 +17, I had to roll and flare all corners a good bit - I even messed up a little on the driver's front fender. That steel is so thin.

I haven't put the car on the dyno, so power is still unknown, but the last motor I had put out 230whp and 210tq at 10psi, with a pretty flat torque curve. I think my current tune and new motor is much better this time around. It's nothing impressive to talk about though haha.

I purchased the Denso pump from www.titanmotorsports.com $190 shipped brand new - everyone else was backordered, but they came through for me and had it shipped to my door before my tune. The pump went in flawlessly - perfect fit. I'm used to the walbro's whine, so I thought I wired the pump wrong when I turned the key, haha.

I learn how to drive better by driving the Jeep . Gotta be smooth when going through turns with no swaybars. My brother is going to use it for a while since his 10th AE got stolen a few months ago, I just have to do some maintenance and repairs on it before I hand it off. Best thing I ever purchased for 600 bucks.

[TitaniumTT]

Cool, thanks man. I've got a set of 17x8 and 17x9 Works, +35 on both with 235 & 255/40/17. The D1SS that I'm running seem to be narrow, It looks like I could have gone to a 255 & 275/40/17. What do you think on fitment for those wheels on those tires?

I broke the rear sway bar link in my XJ a while back and just pulled the whole bar. not exactely a noticable difference with the front still in so yeah, I bet you're driving that thing a little slower than I haul around in my XJ. Shit, i had some asswipe in a audi A4 tailgating the snot out of me one night on a road that I could drive blindfolded. I was pulling away from him until I got picked up on radar doing 57 in a 25

I'll take a look at titanmotorsports, thanks for that link. Gotta make a decision tomorrow and MAYBE get the fucker up and going for a trip to KDR on Thurs, I'd love to drive it at least once

[MaczPayne]

I've never run that setup in the front, so I can't say anything much about it. If you look at my rear tire the corners of the tread sort of bow up. I would expect that area of the tread to be fairly cool compared to the rest of the contact areas. That would also mean I'm not using the whole tread effectively.

I can give you real answers on the 275 + 9" wheel fitment the next time I take it out to the autocross and measure temperatures at multiple points across the tread width. From that you can probably derive an answer for going from a 235 to a 255 on an 8" wheel.

[TitaniumTT]

Nice, thanks Johnson, I appreciate it.

So thosd 17x9 in the rear are a +17 you said? What are the chances of getting a 17x9 +35 with a 275 in the rear? What's the clearances like? It looks like there's a decent roll/pull on the rear of your car