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

[cmspaz]

With a MAF setup, it's plenty easy to mess up an intake, as ETS clearly demonstrated on the 8/9.

[Murlo26]

Gotcha, well as far as I know many people have had success with their products on the X and their intake has always seemed to work well.

Edit:

Also, Jon (aka my tuner) said to go with this intake. He said it flows better and just works better. So I guess ETS is out all together.

http://www.maperformance.com/aq-motorsports-cold-air-intake-mitsubishi-evo-x.html

[Murlo26]

All parts have now been ordered. Looks like the porting/coating stuff with MAP will be the bottleneck. I am hoping to have the car running by end of May.

I also changed from the AGP IC to the Greddy one per a recommendation from my tuner.

But ID1300's should be here this week and my fuel pump stuff is in stock at MAP. My new IC piping arrived today and my new stock turbo/manifold arrives tomorrow and will drop all that off at MAP thursday/friday.

Quesiton, my E85 that is in my tank has been there since last July sometime. Should I drain this or is it ok to run the car with this until I burn through it just idling and cruising?

I have no idea where I would dump the fuel if I needed to do that but that is another question.

Anyway, this weekend I am going to put the fuel pump back together and install the new AEM 320. Then I am going to start hooking up my new gauges in my new gauge pod and also work on the ethanol content sensor and the zietronix.

[Halon]

I'd definitely drain the 9 month old gas out of there.

[Kracka]

It's fine for low-load operation. Dump a bottle of fuel cleaner/additive in with it to make sure your new injectors don't get gummy.

[Kracka]

Nice looking intercooler too. I didn't know GReddy even had a kit for the Evo X. What did it cost? Retail is $$$.

[Murlo26]

Nice looking intercooler too. I didn't know GReddy even had a kit for the Evo X. What did it cost? Retail is $$$.

Well, it was more than the AGP lol.

I paid 785, bought it through Jon. He said the flow on it is awesome and it looks cool with the dual channel deal.

So is there a special e85 additive I can use for this purpose?

And seems like Halon said drain, should I drain or do the additive and then just cruise around town to drain it?

I just don't know what to do with the fuel once I drain it.

[Kracka]

9 months old isn't too bad as long as your system is sealed, especially if your tank is closer to full than empty; it'll sometimes sit in tanks and railcars longer than that :)

Lucas makes a special E85 additive, or you should be fine getting some Chevron Techron.

[Murlo26]

It should be sealed pretty well. There were some holes in the cover of the fuel pump assembly that had connectors in them that I covered with electrical tape. But otherwise I bolted the cover back down with the gasket on there.

I will try just throwing in the additive and see how it runs, if its missing I will drain the tank.

[Murlo26]

Car parts day! yay! Never thought I'd be happy to see a stock turbo, but sure enough the thought of my car running again makes me happy. Time to see what we can get out of this little guy.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b252/Murlo26/photo3_zps1faa014f.jpg

New IC pipes showed up too.