The GVR4 build

[turbotalon1g]

Let me know when you are ready for a turbo, I have that billet 16G aka MAP EF1 that I'm hoping to run a 10.99 on
I'd really love to see it on a 5 spd car.

[Constant_Project21]

I wish I could find a decent, beater GVR4 for winter. I love seeing clean built ones though! Id say ditch that MAFT idea though. Honestly ecmlink is a great tuning solution and you can get a great tune to keep that new motor safe. I never had link in my cars, and it would have saved a few of my cars from death. I have seen it work its magic over and over on our dyno, can't really argue with its versatility for the price. Tuning my mustang with the 5-OH in it, is a nightmare, I wish I had link for my car haha. HP tuners will be more friendly down the road. /my dsmlink rant.


Let me know when you are ready for a turbo, I have that billet 16G aka MAP EF1 that I'm hoping to run a 10.99 on
I'd really love to see it on a 5 spd car.

Alex is putting one on my old maroon 1ga :) that's a 5 speed, built motor. Just got to get him to race the damn thing. Haha.

[gvr4]

I wish I could find a decent, beater GVR4 for winter. I love seeing clean built ones though! Id say ditch that MAFT idea though. Honestly ecmlink is a great tuning solution and you can get a great tune to keep that new motor safe. I never had link in my cars, and it would have saved a few of my cars from death. I have seen it work its magic over and over on our dyno, can't really argue with its versatility for the price. Tuning my mustang with the 5-OH in it, is a nightmare, I wish I had link for my car haha. HP tuners will be more friendly down the road. /my dsmlink rant.





I guess I don't quite know what all my options are as far as tuning goes. Once it goes back together, I don't expect the setup will change much, since the TA is a bigger money pit. If the setup doesn't change, I don't need the ability to tune it myself. What do I gotta do to have MAP be able to tune it once and be done with it?

[turbotalon1g]

DSMlink all the way with these cars, anything else is a waste unless its a race car and there are a few making 900+ with link anyway.

[gvr4]

DSMlink all the way with these cars, anything else is a waste unless its a race car and there are a few making 900+ with link anyway.


:mad: Quit trying to make me spend more money on this pile! Lol, but I am more about "bang for the buck" than "cheap", so if nothing less than link will work...


What do you mean by looking you up when I need a turbo? gonna give me that EF1??

A couple days ago I finally put 2 and 2 together, and drew a conclusion that really shows how much of a newb I am about turbohs. When I was tearing the GVR4 apart, I noticed the turbo to manifold bolts were loose, I thought WTF, and made a mental note to make sure I torqued them properly on reassembly, and re-torqued them during break in. Then I was thinking about how nice my eBay 16g still looked, and wondering why the hell it would be soooo damn slow to spool....... Ya don't think a giant pre-turbo exhaust leak would have anything to do with that do ya? Where's that damn facepalm emoticon..

So yeah, for now the plan is to run my ebay 16g.

[turbotalon1g]

Even if you buy an old version of link its totally worth it, should be cheap. Or the lite version.

[gvr4]

Even if you buy an old version of link its totally worth it, should be cheap. Or the lite version.

Off the top of your head, do you know the differences between v2 and v3? Looks like v3 lite would work just fine for me, I'm wondering what functionality is lost when going back to v2.

I'm also guessing that tuning DSM's without a wideband is about as useless as when I was burning chips for my OBD1 GM setup.

[Constant_Project21]

Yea a wideband and link should be the first couple mods for most people. Seems people have good luck learning how to use it. I have only played around with it a few times, and was able to get the settings for a couple start ups. Nick at MAP (Nick@MAPerformance.com) is the guy you want to talk to about a dyno checklist, he is our service writer and sets all that stuff up. Email is prob best, hes a busy fellow.

V3 lite is a good start and you can always upgrade to full for some extra bucks down the road.

[turbotalon1g]

I don't remember, but you should get v3 because it uses usb rather than serial cable.

[gvr4]

I don't remember, but you should get v3 because it uses usb rather than serial cable.

yeah, that sorta seals it. I've never used a serial to usb converter that wasn't a PITA.