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

[scheides]

I'm with hughes, there's better ways to spend the money...I think that golden donkey manifold looks like shyte compared to the stock X mani....unless someone shows some crazy awesome dyno numbers from it and then like 10 more people do to I officially give it a 'meh.'

MAP Rev3, mil.spec TB, aluminum driveshaft, and some misc weight savings would be a better investment...and less impactful on teh entire setup.

[Speedfreak]

Small brakes is a terrible idea.

So is changing the mani/turbo etc.

Touch stuff you haven't already.

[goodhart]

I vote two piece rotors, alum driveshaft, and other rotational weight mods.

[simulatedwood]

Dave,

Don't make me have to slap you in the nuts... Seriously let's try to drive this thing this next summer. Also, you forgot the most important mod to to invest in... the driver mod.

Sincerely,
Shawn

[93gtpeater]

I agree. just drive the car and stop modding it.

[JET]

I say drop some weight off it too. Makes it more reliable and faster, win-win!

[Tachyon]

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DAVE!!!! ............ STAHP.

[C3L1CA]

Any actual dyno results showing a power gain?

I know dsm's usually picked up some decent power with a SMIM. If there are proven results and you got the money laying around I say go for it! If no results don't be the test dummy and wait it out, intake manifolds can be swapped out pretty quickly so there wouldn't be much down time besides maybe modifying your upper intercooler pipe.


Light weight stuff would help you go faster too as others have stated though.

[Murlo26]

Ok, seems most people agree on the rotational weight stuff, that is easy and safe I think.

I was just toying with the idea of a full t3 kit but it seems like most people agree to stick with the EF4 haha.

Zero results from that intake mani, so I will stick with the idea of doing the MAP rev 3 and milspec 64mm TB, those are proven.

Shawn, driver mod is #1 on my list and in order to do that I do need the car working so I guess you win, no more "big upgrades". Intake mani and tb I'll do in spring before I pull the car out of storage.

Seats are also on the list this year though. People have dropped almost 70 lbs from doing lightweight seats. Then after that I'll just workout more to lose some more weight maybe :)

[Shane@DBPerformance]

If you can pull just 100lbs out of the car, it will be like gaining 15-20whp at your power level/vehicle weight.

Shawn, no driver mod needed. It's an X. :)