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Knoxville · 05-15-2012

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoJ5eR0HWs&hd=1

Tested it out knoxville's G8. Looks great, just wind noise! His car sounds nice though regardless.

I like how it sounds at 1:22 before the wind kicks in.

turbotalon1g · 05-15-2012

oh snap I know where that is!

**Halon** · 05-15-2012

Lol, it's off tha chain in Blaine! Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets those purple fuckin bags on my driveway.

**Murlo26** · 05-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Halon

Lol, it's off tha chain in Blaine! Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets those purple fuckin bags on my driveway.

God I know, its annoying as hell picking those stupid things up all the time! I want them to stop. All I do is pick it up and throw it in the recycle bin.

**goodhart** · 05-16-2012

Sounds like you need to put a piece of foam around the go-pro to cut down wind noise. I know Josh (Bramage Dained) actually killed a little stuffed animal and stuck the camera inside of it for wind noise.

bramagedained · 05-19-2012

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Originally Posted by goodhart

Sounds like you need to put a piece of foam around the go-pro to cut down wind noise. I know Josh (Bramage Dained) actually killed a little stuffed animal and stuck the camera inside of it for wind noise.

Hey now, that was a legit fix. Besides, the look on people's face when they saw the head from a stuffed cat sitting on my desk when they did a barracks inspection was priceless.

**Murlo26** · 05-16-2012

^Yea knoxville said people use foam to shove in between the camera and case for this. I will find something to cut the noise down a bit. The picture looks great though, now I just need the sound to be a bit better.

On an Evo note. Picked up stock injectors from Shawn at lunch today. Going to try swapping those in soon, maybe tonight but probably tomorrow night as I have a few other things I want to do tonight (mow the lawn etc).

Never swapped injectors but it can't be too bad. The only thing I don't know is if I need injector O ring grease of some sort? Or will like WD40 work? I am guessing I am going to make a fuely mess but gotta figure it out sometime.

rose0529 · 05-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

........ I have a few other things I want to do tonight (moe the lawn etc).

Who is Moe, and what are you doing to him!?

**Murlo26** · 05-16-2012

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Originally Posted by rose0529

Who is Moe, and what are you doing to him!?

LOL, fixed in my other post...its been a rough day, I wanted to kill Moe, like from the simpsons...

Must kill Moe..WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe...MUST KILL MOE...WEEEEEEEEEEEE

Revobasher · 05-16-2012

lol

so it's like when I MOW down showsol's girlfriend?

**Murlo26** · 05-18-2012

Car is going back under the knife next Wednesday at MAP.

Head is coming off, timing cover etc etc.

New headgasket (cosworth 90mm bore 1.3mm, went a bit thicker for a little more clearance and better sealing), new ARP 625+ headstuds (better than my standard ARP's), new beefier OEM mitsu timing chain and cleaning up my oil leak that is coming from the head.

They are going to do the remaining fluid changes I have as well while its there as its quick with the lift etc (rear diff and tcase).

It'll be nice to see if any det damage is present which I expect none and I like when a shop does the work as they sometimes spot other trouble stuff. So I am happy that I am getting close to a tip top shape running evo until something else breaks lol.

In other news I went WOT last night and the car felt awesome, but is running a bit lean. I wanted to test it out as I fixed a boost leak I found at MAP last week over my lunch break. At 25ish psi my UICP to IC coupler was leaking so I pulled the bumper off as its a PITA to try and do without doing that and reworked it. I think I got it.

So WOT my car was around 12.3 AFR's so its leaned out some from when Shane had it last. Not sure if its from fixing the boost leak, exhaust leak or just true E85 coming back but changes will need to be made for sure.

edit: I am also switching my double pumper, hopefully this weekend, to ECU controlled for my 2nd pump. Basically I am tapping into a stock relay for a trigger which will now energize a SPST relay near my 2nd pump. The relay is the low-high voltage trigger for the main pump (I believe). So in other words that same switch over point will now activate my second pump which will be wired right to the battery. ECUflash has a table for adjusting this point so it will be nice to be able to tune the point at which my second pump comes on and now I won't have this silly blaqbox controlling it which seems to just complicate things. This is essentially a hobbs switch through the ECU

A few guys are running this with success, one is a 650whp evo 10 so I figured why not. Just need to run two wires back to my pump from the engine bay, install a relay and rip out my old setup.

**scheides** · 05-19-2012

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

Car is going back under the knife next Wednesday at MAP.

Head is coming off, timing cover etc etc.

New headgasket (cosworth 90mm bore 1.3mm, went a bit thicker for a little more clearance and better sealing), new ARP 625+ headstuds (better than my standard ARP's), new beefier OEM mitsu timing chain and cleaning up my oil leak that is coming from the head.

wat.

**goodhart** · 05-19-2012

Hopefully you get the car back quick, this is drivin season son!!!

turbotalon1g · 05-19-2012

what's with the HG?

becauseracecar?

**Murlo26** · 05-21-2012

The car is going in tomorrow and they are starting Wednesday and should be done end of the day Thursday but I am planning to pick it up Friday just in case they need some extra time as I will be out of town for work this week anyway.

Remember the oil leak I mentioned back several weeks ago? Well I want it fixed and if the head is coming off I am upgrading the dumb mitsu chain that stretches. Also I don't want to reuse standard ARP's a 3rd time so I am getting some new headstuds and obviously a new headgasket is a good idea so that is going in as well.

When I said my car should have no problems I meant it and I knew I had this problem. The problem wasn't going to magically fix itself. The car runs/drives perfectly fine right now, I just don't want a stupid oil leak that is getting worse on the car, it makes a big mess and I don't want to end up driving on low oil for any reason. I want the car running perfect and sadly I need to pull the head to fix this problem but it is what it is.

It's getting close to being 100%...

turbotalon1g · 05-21-2012

I hate leaky cars no matter what they are.

But whatever makes you feel good man, its your car and piece of mind goes a long way.
(i'm dead serious here, not sarcastic)

But with that said, you prob. could reuse the arps and HG, just let map know and they can vote if its bad or not.

**Murlo26** · 05-21-2012

The headgasket is cheap enough where I wouldn't even bother re-using. Yes its more money "down the drain" but like you said peace of mind goes a long long way. And I need every bit of that for my car as I almost hate driving it with how nervous I get about it breaking.

The headstuds could maybe be re-used I know, but re-torquing them for a 3rd time (i have had these on the last two motors) just seems like too much, especially with how much boost I ran before on the car. I already bought the newer ARP's too so its too late now, but they are the new ones and I was always skeptical of the standard ARP's. I think these are more like the L19's or whatever all the 4G63 guys run.

**Kracka** · 05-21-2012

Reusing headstuds and headgaskets is just asking for a failure. Smart move getting everything new!

**Murlo26** · 05-25-2012

Well MAP should be finishing the head reinstall tomorrow, should be done in the morning I think or early afternoon.

Looks like the car was leaking in several spots. Oil feed to the turbo, banjo fitting to the oil cooler and the timing cover were all leaking. They are making sure the motor is perfectly sealed up before they tell me its done. Feels good to know it will all be fixed when I get it back.

They also changed my tcase and rear diff fluid so now I am pretty much all ready for the summer, just need to keep fiddling with the tune to dial it all in.

turbotalon1g · 05-25-2012

Nice, hopefully I'll get to see it on the roads more!