beaterX project thread

[goodhart]

Looking forward to updates! Sooooo, 430? 440whp-ish?

[mlomker]

430? 440whp-ish?

460 wouldn't surprise me. I did 450 but I'm conservative with boost and my motor has low compression.

[goodhart]

Oh snaps. Well shit might as well crank it to 11 and shoot for 500!!

[Matt D.]

Awesome. With the BAP going inline with the fuel pump for power is there any worry about either pump lacking voltage? I would have expected it to need to be hard wired.

[mlomker]

I would have expected it to need to be hard wired.

I couldn't get the BAP to work predictably when wired inline. My suspicion is that it doesn't like the dual-voltage that comes from the car. I used the wire from the car to trip a Bosch relay so it was fed from the battery. The BAP can also draw some crazy current to maintain the higher voltage and the stock wiring didn't look that confidence inspiring to me.

[awd-drifter]

Oh snaps, can't wait for the numbers!

[Murlo26]

Oh snaps. Well shit might as well crank it to 11 and shoot for 500!!

500 is awfully tough for a stock frame on the X...the black barely gets that, but I think 450-460 is the area he could see if everything works great.

Great work though Scheides, can't wait to see your results...I will need another ride!

[scheides]

Looking forward to updates! Sooooo, 430? 440whp-ish?

Right around 430 is all I want, that's what my evo8 had and I was very happy with it. If it makes more, then well...we'll just call it gravy :)

I couldn't get the BAP to work predictably when wired inline. My suspicion is that it doesn't like the dual-voltage that comes from the car. I used the wire from the car to trip a Bosch relay so it was fed from the battery. The BAP can also draw some crazy current to maintain the higher voltage and the stock wiring didn't look that confidence inspiring to me.

I hear ya, I thought about it quite a bit but half the reason I bought the BAP was so I could maintain the stock dual voltage setup. Now I have a tri-voltage setup! 8-14-17.5 :D Down the road I might look into a FPR setup and see about eliminating other restrictions in the fuel system and then rewire it as you described. It may not be needed now but there's still plenty more mods to do on this thing--ported IM/TB, bigger cams, bigger turbo....who knows what the future holds!

[mlomker]

was so I could maintain the stock dual voltage setup.

Right-o, I forgot about the return issue since I wasn't on the stock hanger at that time. I was just annoyed that it couldn't be tested at idle (it can't make the leap from 9->17volts) so I rewired it.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

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