Project GC8 AKA USDM STi Killer

[cmspaz]

I WIN! :rollinglaugh:

[ylimert01]

sick dude! hahah!!! thats awesome.

[DoughtCom]

Got the car aligned today by Jeff the alignment guy. Great guy, very helpful and tuned Sarah into a mean handling machine. I need to get the front sway bar brackets still but other than that it looks/operates like a real car now.

I'll be bringing it to the Halloween party tonight so you guys can see the ugly bastard car in person.

[turbotalon1g]

^nice, I can't wait to see this bitch.

[DoughtCom]

"Sarah" was tuned today. Shane was very patient with the car and as always super helpful and nice. The end of the day tune was 257 and I believe the same tune made 263 a few pulls earlier. Not bad since my realistic goal was 250 and my "world is perfect" goal was 270. This puts me in the Fuji power range.

I would have made more power but for some reason my VF39 was tapering to 10PSI no matter what. I think I have a boost leak at 15PSI though because it whistles, so I'm going to take a look at that. The car performed very very well, did about what an STi does at a stage 2 on that dyno.

A recap of what Shane had to deal with and how awesome he is.
11:00 AM: My car goes on the dyno
11:30 AM: Car is showing different speeds on the rear than the front? Shane has to trick his dyno into allowing my car to keep doing pulls.
12:00 AM: Car goes into limp mode because the throttle goes past 100%, fixed that shit with 9 pennies and some duct tape.
12:00 PM or so: We do the first full on pull and the cheap ass mishimoto radiator cap pops off and spews coolant everywhere all over his dyno.
12:30 PM: We start doing pulls again and my PS CV Joint boot clamp comes off and starts spewing axel grease all over my down pipe and Shane's dyno.
1:30 PM: My clamp breaks off again spewing more axel grease everywhere.
3:00 PM: We finish.

Overall it was a stressful day but Shane stuck through it with me and got the job done.

[19TsiAwd90]

sweet man, how heavy is the car?

[DoughtCom]

I would say with the stock engine/transmission it would be down to 2500-2600 lbs with everything I've pulled off, but the STi tranny adds weight so I'm going to go with 2800lbs right now.

[19TsiAwd90]

wow thats gonna be a fun car!! lol i bet it puts you in your seat really well!!

[Kracka]

Awesome to hear man! Sorry I couldn't talk when you called, today was insane hectic at work (still here actually) :(

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, that things gotta move pretty good.