GheyrodX - bigger, fatter, gheyer!

[Kracka]

What was your baseline? Hows it feel now?
It feels awesome on the streets. Not as powerful as my IX obviously, but so much smoother and more enjoyable to drive. We sat in some pretty nasty stop and go traffic on 94 afterworks and it idled and drove perfectly smooth.

I didn't get a baseline number since I installed the MBC this morning and arrived at DB only running 11 psi (wastegate pressure).

[Murlo26]

^Nice. Your car looked good...little dirty from the drive, but looked great, i love those side skirts, I might have to buy some.

Funny thing is how many people online said that i was crazy when i said my car was strong, because i used "rice math" to compare to their numbers. But after seeing lomker with a lot more bolt ons do the same power, scheides and you...maybe my car "was" strong, maybe thats why it blew up, lol.

So do you feel the tune big time? Usually the first one is always the biggest difference, then you get the diminishing returns.

[Kracka]

What sort of gas mileage are you getting?
According to the dash computer, 24 MPG driving from Dallas to Minneapolis with the cruise set at 85 MPH and 26 MPG driving from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis with the cruise set at 65 MPH. I expect the open filter and tune should help me get a bit better mileage so I'll update once we're back home. As a comparison, my IX got 27-28 MPG doing 80-85 and touched 30 once keeping it under 65.

[Kracka]

So do you feel the tune big time?
Oh yeah, for sure. Spool-up is much more responsive and pulls are quite a bit smoother and clean feeling.
^Nice. Your car looked good...little dirty from the drive
It'll get a good scrubbing once back in TX. I left home fully detailed, but all those highway miles, bugs, and rain really made it look like crap.

[Murlo26]

According to the dash computer, 24 MPG driving from Dallas to Minneapolis with the cruise set at 85 MPH and 26 MPG driving from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis with the cruise set at 65 MPH. I expect the open filter and tune should help me get a bit better mileage so I'll update once we're back home. As a comparison, my IX got 27-28 MPG doing 80-85 and touched 30 once keeping it under 65.

Gearing! The X gearing is way shorter hence shitty gas mileage ;)

[Kracka]

Gearing! The X gearing is way shorter hence shitty gas mileage ;)
It's actually identical to the IX GSR gearing (64 MPH at 3k RPM in 5th gear). VIII's are geared longer.

[Murlo26]

It's actually identical to the IX GSR gearing (64 MPH at 3k RPM in 5th gear). VIII's are geared longer.

Thats what she said!

But seriously, the 9 5 spds are the same? You sure?

[Kracka]

But seriously, the 9 5 spds are the same? You sure?
Yup :)

[goodhart]

pfft. Shitty mileage. The best my WRX has ever seen was on a road trip to Grand Portage last summer and I got 23.9mpg ALL highway miles. Usually averages about 22mpg highway.

[scheides]

Woohoo gheyrodX! Congrats hughes, you have a damn nice car once again. I feel like shit that we forgot to do the wga crank mod, but it seems we hardly had time for the stuff we did do. Just think, if you had gone ecu-controlled boost, you wouldn't be able to do it w/o a retune. Now, you can just do it at your leisure, get some before and after logs, tweak the mbc if needed and you're doneski :) Or just wait till you get back, but I'd say its worth just doing on your own.

I'm still up in the air on your short-shifter. Maybe if I hadn't driven it through dead-stopped traffic I could have experienced it more!

Also, don't forget to cash those lottery tix! :) Hope you had a good bday man!