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

[mlomker]

pretty cheap I think for what you get :)

Reach around? j/k.

I genuinely hope you get all the luck that I didn't. You do realize that you'll be the first X on a Black on E85?

Is Shane a fucking world-class tuner or what?

[goodhart]

Is Shane a fucking world-class tuner or what?

Yup! :D

[Murlo26]

Stopped by DB...motor is very very close now, the missing parts from FP will be there Monday and probably Tuesday they will start putting it in the car I would assume, so next Friday is looking good for starting the car up :) Jake's car should be running now, it was basically done when I was there, if not then Monday for his ;)

Snapped a few pics of the motor basically all buttoned up.
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Rust spot, damn you MN winters!
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A shot of the intake port, it looks like the did a good job porting it, i could easily fit three fingers in there, almost 4.
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And I realized I haven't posted a pic of my actual car forever, so here it is...so Sad looking :(
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Man, I can't wait to drive this thing...I am going to get them my stock injectors for startup just in case my DW injectors have problems like some have been seeing.

[Murlo26]

After seeing Scheides' results for his tubular mani, I know my stock ported one will be holding me back...so winter time I have the ultimate question to address...get a tubular mani and another 30-50whp (I would assume gains on an FPblack E85 will be bigger than that even but being conservative, also I have a ported stocker so that could be right) or stop screwing around with stock frame and go T3....

I am thinking I will keep screwing around with stock frame as the whole reason I like it is you can keep adding pieces 1 at a time to help with paying for it and I would lose quite a bit of money on selling the black etc.

[Kracka]

Engine looks good! Is that a coated valve cover or the plastic one from a '10?

[Murlo26]

Coated, primo matched it to my AMS IC pipes and my new primo intake...all the stuff is flat black :) Lomker has an oil cap like mine but black that he offered me, so maybe I will try that out to keep it all black.

[Kracka]

Yes to black oil cap!

[Murlo26]

Motor and Trans are back in, just got word from Danny this morning :) WOO WOO.

Now all the little crap time, which will take a few days I assume, if all goes smooth.

Hopefully picking up Lomker's stock injectors for the break in period, as my new 1300's could be an issue.

Man so close I can taste it.

[turbotalon1g]

Hot tune time!

[Murlo26]

Not just yet, lol.

Need it to drive from point a to b first for a while :)