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Project BlitZen (AKA WRXKiller)

I know you guys have wanted this, as much as the women want me when I'm driving it, but the car is finally making some progress to post about.

The Evo (P00n) is down, which will soon have it's own project thread, so I wanted to make my DD more fun to drive.

A little history, I bought the car for my birthday last year, mostly to piss my ex off at the time and it worked, so the car holds a lot of sentimental value to me :) The dude was a crazy Texan Turbo Dodge guy, which I've come to find are cheaper than DSM guys, think of a used sock as an upgrade piece on this car.

At any rate, I got it with the following parts, maybe more but this is what I've found.
Stage II GLHS ECU
Upgraded Coil
Cheap crappy intake filter on the turbo by the firewall
An MBC the dude made out of tubes and T fittings, with NO boost gauge.
A BOV from something, but had a sock as a filter (+ 3HP I imagine)
No Cat in the exhaust but sporting a 2" system (That's what she said)
1 Piece Turbo 1 Intake Manifold
Pull Through converted to Blow Through
52mm Throttle body
"All" emissions ripped out, I'll explain later.

The car sat for a while, no TX registration. Hughes and I, as you know, had an epic journey picking BlitZen up and bringing it back here. Since then I've done the following.

I first got a Prosport (from MAP) boost gauge to see what she was even boosting at, found that the MBC didn't do much, silly fucking TD guys. I put that on and bought a MBC from DB Performance and turned the boost up to 10PSI, installed a new distributor cap, new plug wires and autolite 65 plugs. Red and I also moved the battery to the trunk and got new terminals along with the *Red Performance* Stage 1 Heat Shield. This is how you saw the Omni at the dyno day at DB.

The result was a mind boggling 117WHP/157FTQ, enough to shatter some parts of the universe.

Completed: 10:30PM 05-27-09

A few weeks later I decided to put on a few more parts. With the increase of power just from turning the boost up to 10PSI, I was hooked. So I added the following and turned the boost up to 13PSI then to 14PSI and eventually 15PSI.
Stock EVO FMIC
1G BOV (got from Kevin)
Custom intercooler piping (thanks to Brandon!)
Stage 17.5 Red Performance Heat shield (Type R)
Autolite 63 plugs (1 step colder gapped to .27 from stock .35)

To do all of these things, we had to move the radiator over about 5 inches and get a "slimline" radiator fan. We went to U Pull R Parts and paid 8 dollars for a daewoo fan that cut off 2" of depth. We also had to cut a lot of the front of the omni to put the FMIC in behind the stock crysler grill. Along with this process we pulled out ALL of the remaining vacuum lines, all that's plugged in now is the MAP sensor and FPR, I also moved the MBC to the turbo from the IM. The result was a loud ass BOV and a stock looking omni that actually started well and didn't have idle surge.

The car as it sits now pulls VERY hard, it's very easy to bury the needle, which isn't saying much since it's only 85.

Future:
Next up is an A523 transmission, a stronger clutch as it slips now in 4th/5th gear :) A 2.5" swingvalve with a 2.5" TBE, hand port of the exhaust manifold/intake manifold and then hopefully a tune. I'm not really expecting the engine to last forever, after that happens I'll get a stronger Turbo II shortblock/internals (for like $200) and turn the boost up to 18-20PSI.

The car as it sits is most definitely around if not over 200FTQ on DB's dyno, it doesn't take much to get 300 out of the TII blocks, so I'm hoping going from a 2" to a 2.5" exhaust will bring me up quite a bit. I've also been told with this setup it's probably around a low to mid 13 second car with only me in it of course :), which should walk most WRX's and keep up with Evo's/STI's. Only time will tell :)