Dave's Evo X Build/The Life of Dave blog

[Murlo26]

Who is Moe, and what are you doing to him!?

:)

LOL, fixed in my other post...its been a rough day, I wanted to kill Moe, like from the simpsons...

Must kill Moe..WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe...MUST KILL MOE...WEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Revobasher]

lol

so it's like when I MOW down showsol's girlfriend?

[Murlo26]

Car is going back under the knife next Wednesday at MAP.

Head is coming off, timing cover etc etc.

New headgasket (cosworth 90mm bore 1.3mm, went a bit thicker for a little more clearance and better sealing), new ARP 625+ headstuds (better than my standard ARP's), new beefier OEM mitsu timing chain and cleaning up my oil leak that is coming from the head.

They are going to do the remaining fluid changes I have as well while its there as its quick with the lift etc (rear diff and tcase).

It'll be nice to see if any det damage is present which I expect none and I like when a shop does the work as they sometimes spot other trouble stuff. So I am happy that I am getting close to a tip top shape running evo until something else breaks lol.

In other news I went WOT last night and the car felt awesome, but is running a bit lean. I wanted to test it out as I fixed a boost leak I found at MAP last week over my lunch break. At 25ish psi my UICP to IC coupler was leaking so I pulled the bumper off as its a PITA to try and do without doing that and reworked it. I think I got it.

So WOT my car was around 12.3 AFR's so its leaned out some from when Shane had it last. Not sure if its from fixing the boost leak, exhaust leak or just true E85 coming back but changes will need to be made for sure.

edit: I am also switching my double pumper, hopefully this weekend, to ECU controlled for my 2nd pump. Basically I am tapping into a stock relay for a trigger which will now energize a SPST relay near my 2nd pump. The relay is the low-high voltage trigger for the main pump (I believe). So in other words that same switch over point will now activate my second pump which will be wired right to the battery. ECUflash has a table for adjusting this point so it will be nice to be able to tune the point at which my second pump comes on and now I won't have this silly blaqbox controlling it which seems to just complicate things. This is essentially a hobbs switch through the ECU :) A few guys are running this with success, one is a 650whp evo 10 so I figured why not. Just need to run two wires back to my pump from the engine bay, install a relay and rip out my old setup.

[scheides]

Car is going back under the knife next Wednesday at MAP.

Head is coming off, timing cover etc etc.

New headgasket (cosworth 90mm bore 1.3mm, went a bit thicker for a little more clearance and better sealing), new ARP 625+ headstuds (better than my standard ARP's), new beefier OEM mitsu timing chain and cleaning up my oil leak that is coming from the head.


wat.

[goodhart]

Hopefully you get the car back quick, this is drivin season son!!!

[bramagedained]

Sounds like you need to put a piece of foam around the go-pro to cut down wind noise. I know Josh (Bramage Dained) actually killed a little stuffed animal and stuck the camera inside of it for wind noise. :lol:

Hey now, that was a legit fix. Besides, the look on people's face when they saw the head from a stuffed cat sitting on my desk when they did a barracks inspection was priceless.

[turbotalon1g]

what's with the HG?

becauseracecar?

[Halon]

Not sure why, but I feel the need to quote these from just a couple weeks ago.

...There is no reason my setup shouldn't last for at least 30k at my power levels.
... motor should be good for plenty of miles...


... I think you are going to end up disappointed if you think that you're going to be issue free for the next 30k miles...

[Murlo26]

The car is going in tomorrow and they are starting Wednesday and should be done end of the day Thursday but I am planning to pick it up Friday just in case they need some extra time as I will be out of town for work this week anyway.

Remember the oil leak I mentioned back several weeks ago? Well I want it fixed and if the head is coming off I am upgrading the dumb mitsu chain that stretches. Also I don't want to reuse standard ARP's a 3rd time so I am getting some new headstuds and obviously a new headgasket is a good idea so that is going in as well.

When I said my car should have no problems I meant it and I knew I had this problem. The problem wasn't going to magically fix itself. The car runs/drives perfectly fine right now, I just don't want a stupid oil leak that is getting worse on the car, it makes a big mess and I don't want to end up driving on low oil for any reason. I want the car running perfect and sadly I need to pull the head to fix this problem but it is what it is.

It's getting close to being 100%...

[turbotalon1g]

I hate leaky cars no matter what they are.

But whatever makes you feel good man, its your car and piece of mind goes a long way.
(i'm dead serious here, not sarcastic)

But with that said, you prob. could reuse the arps and HG, just let map know and they can vote if its bad or not.