beaterX project thread

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Wow! Sweet numbers dude! I can't wait to see what it'll do once you get the fuel system up to par.

[simulatedwood]

Congrates! Amazing numbers, beaterx has gotta rip. So what was the saftey tune number in the end after turning down the boost?

Spring cruise this year going to be fun with Beater-x making close to the numbers of your old setup.

[scheides]

Congrates! Amazing numbers, beaterx has gotta rip. So what was the saftey tune number in the end after turning down the boost?

Spring cruise this year going to be fun with Beater-x making close to the numbers of your old setup.

Prolly around 375-385whp/340-345wtq @ 22-23psi tapering to 21-ish@8000. Once it warmed up last week I logged the car on the street for some 2nd, 3rd, 4th gear pulls and even in only 3rd gear it was peaking 26psi and tapering to 24, too high! Also pegging 5v on the MAF. So I turned the MBC down another 1.5 turns and I'll log it more. Basically the tune is totally safe as long and the car won't see long/hard pulls over 7000. At least until I've logged and confirmed safety (i.e. boost is not through the roof).

This weekend I was finishing up some things and look what I found! The trans plug that I 'lost' during reassembly and ended up ordering a new one from Mitsu:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/x_trans_plug.sized.jpg

LOL damn that little thing! Oh well. Also I swapped my 'fixed' CAS back in (I straightened out the bent pin) and it works great! Thanks again to Murlo for letting me gank his in the middle of the night, freaking lifesaver! I'm just so pumped that mine works and I don't have to buy a new one. Got the heat shield back over it and double checked all of the nuts/bolts on the manifold.

Then I checked the oil (all good!) and yanked the valvecover one more time. Valve #3 on the intake side is still a bit wide, .012" gap (spec is .008+/-.001) but the good thing is that it has not changed in the 700 miles since I last checked it. There is a *little* bit of valvetrain noise when the car is cold but that is about it. Obviously this isn't affecting performance. It takes about 20 minutes to get everythign off, check it, and button it back up so I'll probably continue to check this. I had thought about swapping in some S2's and fixing this issue this summer but as of now I am *so* happy with the Kelford 214-B's that it may just stay this way indefinitely.

Last but not least, big day! I put the strut tower bar back on, as well as the engine cover. She's officially all buttoned up :)

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/X_buttoned_up.sized.jpg

[Murlo26]

YAY!

Now time to drive and have fun. Gas and oil changes from here on out ;)

[Kracka]

Bitchin' strut tower bar! ...but have you considered gold spray paint an an ARC sticker?

[scheides]

Bitchin' strut tower bar! ...but have you considered gold spray paint an an ARC sticker?

The paint is on the way from the ARC factory in the far east. The sticker I need to gank off of an intake, that might have to wait until we get to the cookout...I could at least get the thing painted up and then put the sticker on when we get there! :)

[awd-drifter]

NIIIIIIIICE!

[scheides]

Hughes made an interesting comment to me last night:


11:05:04 PM Chris Scheidecker: its so deceiving…these cars don't make a ton of torque….but hold WOT and let revs go go go and the thing just keeeeeeeps going faster faster faster!
11:05:18 PM Hughes: haha stock turbo they do though!
11:05:23 PM Hughes: stock turbo is a tq monster


Now my stock turbo setup wasn't the most powerful I've seen, but it wasn't the weakest either. Certainly torque-wise it was roughly on-par with other pump gas setups I'd seen locally (example1 (http://scheides.com/misc/pics/evox/overlays/scheides-evoX-pump-vs-lomker-evoX-pump.jpg), example2 (http://scheides.com/misc/pics/evox/overlays/scheides-evoX-pump-vs-murlo-evoX-pump.jpg)). Anyways, then vs now:

http://scheides.com/misc/pics/evox/overlays/scheides-stockX-pump_vs_scheides-K214B-BBX-pump.jpg

My point being that it is *amazing* how the headwork and kelford cams have woken up this car down low. Its freaking amazing to me! After I put the MAP tubular manifold on the car last fall it got a teensy bit doggy in the 3500-rpm area but honestly that is gone now and the car feels very very responsive. Even at only 22psi it just goes goes goes!

[goodhart]

Damn, Hughes was talkin to everyone last night in his drunken stupor hahaha

[cmspaz]

That wasn't Hughes:

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/168093_10100443685382870_13924409_68257917_5903612 _n.jpg