beaterX project thread - Page 42

Kevin 1G Drummer · 02-03-2011

Wow! Sweet numbers dude! I can't wait to see what it'll do once you get the fuel system up to par.

simulatedwood · 02-03-2011

Congrates! Amazing numbers, beaterx has gotta rip. So what was the saftey tune number in the end after turning down the boost?

Spring cruise this year going to be fun with Beater-x making close to the numbers of your old setup.

**scheides** · 02-07-2011

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Originally Posted by simulatedwood

Congrates! Amazing numbers, beaterx has gotta rip. So what was the saftey tune number in the end after turning down the boost?

Spring cruise this year going to be fun with Beater-x making close to the numbers of your old setup.

Prolly around 375-385whp/340-345wtq @ 22-23psi tapering to 21-ish@8000. Once it warmed up last week I logged the car on the street for some 2nd, 3rd, 4th gear pulls and even in only 3rd gear it was peaking 26psi and tapering to 24, too high! Also pegging 5v on the MAF. So I turned the MBC down another 1.5 turns and I'll log it more. Basically the tune is totally safe as long and the car won't see long/hard pulls over 7000. At least until I've logged and confirmed safety (i.e. boost is not through the roof).

This weekend I was finishing up some things and look what I found! The trans plug that I 'lost' during reassembly and ended up ordering a new one from Mitsu:

LOL damn that little thing! Oh well. Also I swapped my 'fixed' CAS back in (I straightened out the bent pin) and it works great! Thanks again to Murlo for letting me gank his in the middle of the night, freaking lifesaver! I'm just so pumped that mine works and I don't have to buy a new one. Got the heat shield back over it and double checked all of the nuts/bolts on the manifold.

Then I checked the oil (all good!) and yanked the valvecover one more time. Valve #3 on the intake side is still a bit wide, .012" gap (spec is .008+/-.001) but the good thing is that it has not changed in the 700 miles since I last checked it. There is a *little* bit of valvetrain noise when the car is cold but that is about it. Obviously this isn't affecting performance. It takes about 20 minutes to get everythign off, check it, and button it back up so I'll probably continue to check this. I had thought about swapping in some S2's and fixing this issue this summer but as of now I am *so* happy with the Kelford 214-B's that it may just stay this way indefinitely.

Last but not least, big day! I put the strut tower bar back on, as well as the engine cover. She's officially all buttoned up

**Murlo26** · 02-07-2011

YAY!

Now time to drive and have fun. Gas and oil changes from here on out

**Kracka** · 02-07-2011

Bitchin' strut tower bar! ...but have you considered gold spray paint an an ARC sticker?

**scheides** · 02-07-2011

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Originally Posted by Kracka

Bitchin' strut tower bar! ...but have you considered gold spray paint an an ARC sticker?

The paint is on the way from the ARC factory in the far east. The sticker I need to gank off of an intake, that might have to wait until we get to the cookout...I could at least get the thing painted up and then put the sticker on when we get there!

awd-drifter · 02-07-2011

NIIIIIIIICE!

**scheides** · 02-13-2011

Hughes made an interesting comment to me last night:

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Originally Posted by random sat-night-drunk-IM

11:05:04 PM Chris Scheidecker: its so deceiving…these cars don't make a ton of torque….but hold WOT and let revs go go go and the thing just keeeeeeeps going faster faster faster!
11:05:18 PM Hughes: haha stock turbo they do though!
11:05:23 PM Hughes: stock turbo is a tq monster

Now my stock turbo setup wasn't the most powerful I've seen, but it wasn't the weakest either. Certainly torque-wise it was roughly on-par with other pump gas setups I'd seen locally (example1, example2). Anyways, then vs now:

My point being that it is *amazing* how the headwork and kelford cams have woken up this car down low. Its freaking amazing to me! After I put the MAP tubular manifold on the car last fall it got a teensy bit doggy in the 3500-rpm area but honestly that is gone now and the car feels very very responsive. Even at only 22psi it just goes goes goes!

**goodhart** · 02-13-2011

Damn, Hughes was talkin to everyone last night in his drunken stupor hahaha

**cmspaz** · 02-13-2011

That wasn't Hughes:

**Kracka** · 02-13-2011

Our stock turbo tunes were weak though so possibly not the greatest comparison. That one of yours definitely did have more midrange and torque than mine though.

**scheides** · 04-16-2011

2 months later and I finally got a fuel pump for this thing. I'm glad I found the limit of the stock pump on my setup, but only driving this car around at 22psi is just silly. I went with the Deatschwerks DW300 and MAP's evoX fuel pump adapter kit. Install was a minor PITA but an extra set of hands made it pretty easy.

Stock assembly, partially taken apart:

MAP assembly w/ DW300 pump. I ended up rotating it slightly to fit the filter in the hanger better. The MAP kit is nice b/c it locks the pump in place:

Coiled up, no kinks!

Then a few other things to get ready for spring. Bled the brakes with fresh ATE blue, checked pads (plenty of meat left on DS2500s), swapped on the rotas/sumis, cheese fries and cherry coke at checker w/ spaz, swapped gear oil in the rear diff....ATF fluid drain for the AYC was stuck (bent my cheap 10mm allen), topped up xfer case, and just generally checked things over from the bottom of the engine bay--no leaks yet!

Went for a quick test. Car runs just as before driving gently. DW300 pump is *silent*. Under WOT, AFRs are consistently half a point richer across the board and a full point above 7000rpm. Step one, check! Step two: moar boost! I cranked up the MBC 2 full cranks. This results in peak boost right around 25.5psi. Third and 4th gear the car holds about 24psi. It feels like a new monster has awoken from within!

On the dyno, with an extra crank and some on the mbc the car would do 27psi peak and taper to 22-23 IIRC. I'm going to lean out the afr a little and leave the boost right where it is for the cruise in two weeks. More to come after that, gotta do something about this pesky maxed-out maf sensor before dyno day

Thanks again for the help spazzy!

**Kracka** · 04-17-2011

YUM, cheese fries FTW!

**Kracka** · 04-17-2011

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Originally Posted by scheides

DW300 pump is *silent*.

That's good to hear! I think the X insulates pump noise quite a bit better than previous generations (the plastic housing can't hurt) b/c I've never heard my Walbro or Tom's Bosch either.

Looking at your pictures, MAP could easily just lop off that whole lower porting of the aluminum adapter to save on materials, cost, etc.

**cmspaz** · 04-17-2011

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Originally Posted by scheides

Thanks again for the help spazzy!

No problem, sir!

turbotalon1g · 04-17-2011

Nice work.

awd-drifter · 04-17-2011

very awesome. more fuel for the monster!

**scheides** · 04-17-2011

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Originally Posted by Kracka

Looking at your pictures, MAP could easily just lop off that whole lower porting of the aluminum adapter to save on materials, cost, etc.

Actually the pump slides down in there and there is a small bevel at the bottom to keep the pump from sliding all the way through. Then there are a few set screws/locknuts on the side (that hold that plastic ring as well) to keep it from spinning within the housing.

My only complaint (and this will be no different from any other pump kit) is how the filter gets smashed up inside of the plastic housing...the stock pump has a round filter on it, if they could find one that worked for this application it would be awesome!

**Kracka** · 04-17-2011

Ahh, that makes sense then. Agreed on the filter!

**scheides** · 05-09-2011

Spring is late but right on time for my budget

Been slowly making plans for the next steps, all of which will be unfolding over the few weeks! Started with that DW300 fuel pump about 3 weeks ago. Car has been running perfect, like stock pump but with more fuel capacity. I finally got to turn the boost back up to 25-26 peak but still couldn't utilize my hybrid BCS setup due to my MAF being completely maxed out. If I did any tweaking at all to boost, it would invariably flatline at 5v from 6000rpm+ and no matter what I did there was this little boost spike at like 6500rpm.

With the added boost, I finally burned through this coupler that is who knows how old:

The car was at Primo for their up-and-coming 2.75" LICP (no pics yet sorry) and picked up one of their 3.5" intakes just today. I ordered a generic-sized aFe 3.5" pro-dry filter to go with it as it is IMHO an evolution of the tried-and-true K&N.

We had originally talked about them doing a custom intake for me to keep the stock BOV placement, but after thinking about it I decided to just go with their standard setup and ditch the like 30 feet of pressurized-hose from the stock setup.

This is a *really* nice piece! Install was simple, I did it over my lunch hour. I had my laptop with me and rescaled the maf initially to 1.48*stock maf tables. I tweaked to 1.45 and might drop to 1.43 to get it juuust right for my car. Higher was safer, so I started there, but all in all I have about 25 miles under my belt with it already and the car starts, idles, cruises, putts through stop-and-go traffic, and idles down my alley just like it did with the perrin/aFe intake: very very nicely!

We have a few fan shield designs to play with in coming weeks but its not quite warm enough here for necessary AC usage yet so I'm not too concerned. I'm stoked it uses the stock air scoop though.

For exactly two revisions of ecuflash, I'm *extremely* happy. Stock-like driveability, fuel trims are already down to -2.8%, afr's are nearly where I want them, and boost is a tish smoother (no hose going back into intake anymore, I think thats why):

Today is monday--saturday is the spring dyno day. I plan on tweaking AFR a tish more this week and seeing if I can't get boost to stay nice and level ~26psi at 8000rpm and see if we can't get into the 41x whp range at DB this weekend on just pump gas and the DW800cc injectors (which are just touching 100% IDC).

Next week (or I guess this weekend if nobody signs up for the dyno day), these will go in

0280158827 in da house! These are FIC 1680's, I picked them up with 100 miles on them from a buddy in chicago. Nom nom nom nom.