Looks good JET, congrats on getting it running!

Congrats, we're lining them up at the shootout right? ;)

I am game! MN should have a hell of a showing at the SO!!

I am showing some low oil pressure on my car. I think it is just the way I have the gauge set up though. I am going to switch it back more towards normal tomorrow and see if it is any better.

The 2900 is a little stiffer than a 2600, but still not terrible. It doesn't seem to be as grabby as a 2600 either.

Damn I need to fix my car just to go there damn it. My lifetime goal right now is just to drive my car full throught the gears all the way down the track. If I pull a high 12, a low 14 or a high 16, either way it would be somewhere to start with!

I have a new front case coming for my car with the latest and greatest oil pump gears. Hopefully that will solve the low oil pressure issue. It damn well better anyway!

I had reused the front case from my 2.0 (max of 87k on it). I wouldn't think the crank walk would have hurt it, but who knows. The damn things are spendy though, $256 with 2 gaskets!

I will also be dyno'ing Friday at 3pm. Does anyone have a video camera and want to come watch?

well I can watch I suppose. I know of a few people that have video cameras, Ryan and Brian, Ither one could show up or let you use the camera.

~John

Sounds like party to me, since I missed dynofest for my friends wedding, I would be more than willing to come and videotape.

Are you living up here now or something?

Does your Intake Pipe hit the shifter? or did you get it to clear?

Also did you get the CF hood on there or just the stock one for now? (picts picts)

I really think you should have taken some picts with the intake pipe 90 degreed out the hood that was funny. (but might actually have worked like a ram air system since it put the K&N Filter STraight into on comeing Air. :3gears:

Yep, I modified the 45 bend and just used one flange. It sits in there really nice now. I did notice that the lower radiator hose is hitting the shifter for 1st and 2nd though. I will have to shorten the hose a tad to get it out of the way. I still have the stock hood on for now. I should be switched over by the SO I think.

Well I went to the dyno today.

I'll just say that my car went up in flames on the dyno. :( :fworld:

Hopefully it isn't anything too serious, the head gasket had a catastrophic failure due to boost creep. It went from 20 psi to 28.2 psi in .7 seconds at 6k rpm. There was no knock, but the AFR's did go lean right at the very end. I will be pulling the head Mon at the latest or whenever I can find a 2.4l head gasket. I may try a stocker, but I really don't want to.

I did make 353 whp and 321 torque. The torque was flat from 4k to 6.2k, partly due to boost creep. It started at 17 psi to 5k, then up to 20, then it went balistic from 6k to 6.2k. So, the lesson for the day is twofold. Do your first dyno on C-16 for safety's sake and a stock PTE housing won't flow enough out the wastegate with a 2.4 and a larger turbo.

it could be on backwards...check that, i know from experience...

i know this is the least of your problems...but just thought ide throw it out there

Adam

sorry to hear that man, that's a total buzz killer.

I am pretty sure it is just the head gasket. It didn't get lean until the boost creeped so bad that the boost comp table in the AEM couldn't keep up to add more gas. The AFR was good for all but the very end, and for a split second it went to 13.8-1. But the car didn't hardly knock at all. Not enough to cause that kind of blow out you wouldn't think but something happened in there. We won't know until we pull the head off and see what happened.

CRAIG

That is sad to hear, hopefully there is nothing major wrong and a HG is all thats needed. What type was on there?

Cometic HP.

CRAIG

:(

it could be on backwards...check that, i know from experience...

i know this is the least of your problems...but just thought ide throw it out there

Adam [/b][/quote]
I had to bend my water pipe back to clear the turbo. That is what caused it to get closer. And the fluidyne radiator is also thicker. I cut off 1 1/2" and all is good now.

Well, none of us know exactly what happened, but the melt down was more severe than we were hoping for. The car never went lean except for the very end of the run (like .2 seconds), but something was definately off. I am thinking there must have been a value in the AEM that was setup different between mine and Mo's ECU.

I melted some good sized channels into the head, matching ones through the head gasket and melted the sides of the pistons a bit. The head looks fixable (you will be seeing it sometime Mike) but she needs new pistons and probably bearings too. I am thinking it had to be something with timing to do it, but I am still unsure.

I will post up pic's tonight.

OH damn dude, that's horrible news, especially with the shootout right around the corner. If I were rich I'd buy ya some new pistons, but I'm in the military, I can barley afford converse shoes.