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Old 11-01-2010   #155
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Re: Project GC8 AKA USDM STi Killer

"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.
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