TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[WE3RX7]

But not too blue - I have dibs on the IBM, half the car is already in that color :P

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

DAMN this vile powder substance!! Hibernation is about to start for me and sad thing is my FC has been a jack stand queen the last three weeks because of DP flange and v-band issues. Weather has been sweet the last couple days.

I can wait to see the FD Brian. Make it blue

The temps needed for that vile powdery shit are a complete catch 22. 50*F AIT's but the tires never get hot enough..... can't win either way.

I LOVE your color Sean, but I dunno about a blue FD. It's already MOSTLY Montego Blue Honestly I was thinking either Black or Ferrari Grigio Mettalic

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

But not too blue - I have dibs on the IBM, half the car is already in that color :P

Multicolor PJ cars FTW.... First order of business with the FD is to rotisserie her and get her into primer.

Actually first order of business is a 28 hr road trip to pick her up

[FC3S Murray]

Blue is nice, I am a blue man.

[FC3S Murray]

blue mnmmm BUT Grigio is sweet(last FD)

[need RX7]

^mmmm... Blue looks nice on FDs, don't see that very often (I don't know if it's just me, but Montego Blue looks more green than blue to me)

[TitaniumTT]

'nuff said. Highest seen today was 404.56RWHP & 323 ft/lbs of torque. We're pleased. Not for nothing but this car has recorded 83 dyno pulls...... Going back next week for more and to dial in the sequentials. Found another SLIGHT problem with the fuel pump in the wiring...... yes, Dave is a genius & it seems that everything compounded itself to lead to this fuel system debouchery. Details to follow later. I have one thing to fix, slapping some race tires on and going to bed.

There's also this vid...watch it under my channel, the quality is much better for some reason.... I'm a bit of a YouTube newb.... http://www.youtube.com/user/0PSTNS#p/a/u/0/PFOuQn2fPMo
need to do something about the wind noise. I should have some auto-x vid's up tomorrow as well

[FC3S Murray]

[project86]

thats awesome. sounds sweet too

[BigIslandSevens]

Nice job man!!Impressive how many pulls you have done. Supporting Dave's alimony I imagine( Don't know if he has any, just sayin!)

[Whizbang]

congrats!!!

[Max777]

damn, so 80 dyno pulls at around $100 per hour... assuming we're talking around a 1pull/ hour average here, that's around $8,000!

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

Your turn next pal

Originally Posted by project86

thats awesome. sounds sweet too

Me loves my Magnaflows

Originally Posted by Gravity Fed

congrats!!!

Thanks

Originally Posted by BigIslandSevens

Nice job man!!Impressive how many pulls you have done. Supporting Dave's alimony I imagine( Don't know if he has any, just sayin!)

Originally Posted by Max777

damn, so 80 dyno pulls at around $100 per hour... assuming we're talking around a 1pull/ hour average here, that's around $8,000!

We did 17 pulls that day alone. My car doesn't build heat quickly at all. After 5 strait pulls in a 20 - 30 minute back to back raping, my oil temps were ~160, coolant @ 185* after the pull and coming down to 180* before the next, AIT's started the day @ 55* and never got above 77*. My car kicks ass

Negative, no where near that. Dave's pricing structure is no where near greedy like alot of the other shops around. Factoring in the $60+ worth of gas I need to get there and back.... not to mention we use between 1/8 and a 1/4 tank ON the dyno, it's still way cheaper than going at it local. Dave is just a hell of a guy in generaland bills what he thinks is fair. His tuning/dyno is not billed on an hourly basis and that's all I'm going to say. Dollars in vs his expertise, time and everything else, it's honestly worth a drive from hundreds of miles away, a hotel room if needed, and maybe an internal organ to go see him. That may be why his que is pretty busy and he has clients that cross more than 6 state borders sometimes. I literally could go on for hours about him..... in fact, see below.

[TitaniumTT]

So yeah, onto more fuel related bullshit on the dyno.... it literally never ends.

So.... Get to Dave's saturday morning and get the car all strapped down and we start making pulls probably around 12:30 ish. Made 15 pulls over the course of like 3 hours before she started going lean again in the higher revs......... no I'm not shitting you. Look at FPSI and it's falling off again but by only 25% as much as before. Ok, new filter, new pump, new sock, lines are clean, tanks clean, Dave looks at me and says, "No offense to you, but it's you're wiring. It HAS to be. Can we get to it easy?" "Yeah, I need a phillips, a 5m Allen and 3 minutes."

4 minutes later we're holding the wiring and the relay in our hands and they're warm to the touch, not good, showing ~12V with the car running, even worse. I've got, err HAD the wiring as follows. 10GA from a breakered powerpost to a breaker, to the relay dropping down to the factory wiring into the pump. The wires in the pump being new. The ground was just runto the neared nutsert where I pulled power for the stereo as well. Upon REALLY close examination we found that there was a slight bit of corrosion on the eyelets and the relay contact itself was getting burned slightly. Dave explained to me that the way he wires pumps is to send a constant hot to the pump, and trigger the ground. This stops the sparking that occurs when the relay closes. He also runs the ground directly back to the battery to greatly reduce any chance of corrosion or resistance.

So, that's what we did. After about an hour or so or cranking away we were getting 13.9V to the pump........... Dave is again, proving himself to be the man.

I've got a little bit of re-wiring to do to clean up what we just didn't have the time to do. I've got a comandment that I live by when wiring. With regards to the battery, Thou shall not use more than one wire per terminal on the battery. I've got two seperate powerposts hidden under the storage bins. So over the next two days I need to strip out the seats, the stereo, a good portion of the interior panels on the drivers side, the bins and even the fiberglass deck to run the ground wire a little more neatly.

Then it's back to Dave's on Thursday or Friday to FINALLY play with the sequentials. We we're hoping to get to those on Saturday, and probably could've if we didn't run into this little problem. Oh well, it would've been nice too to have that extra power down low for this



Shaved 4 seconds off a prior run and whopped up on some STI's as well I was happy

[MaczPayne]

Looked like you had great traction!

[TitaniumTT]

Slight understeer in some corners and you could feel the tires just trying to grab and hop. Was running old Toyo RA1's on a chilly day. They never got to 90*F surface temp and they need alot more heat than that. Also had the boost turned down as well to help keep traction.

I need some dedicated auto-x tires for next year. I'm thinking A6's or V710's. 255F 275R