Ok, just woke up, what a party! I had in total about half of a beer because I had wrenches in both hands most of the night. Let's get a run-down of what we accomplished. Not a ton, but for a Friday night and bunch of desk jockeys, not bad
Hughes and Zac (hellomynameis, just registered) drove to BFE wisconson yesterday to pick up Zac's new Silver Evo IX GSR. Very sexy car, I just didn't manage to grab any pics of it. It got its clutch restrictor's cherry popped by craig, who somehow managed to pull the whole slave cyl off the car before anyone could say, 'no you don't need to do that!' then promptly left. :P Turbo timer install, MBC, and EGT probe tap.
My car, I wasted SO much time on installing that blox mount, I stripped the rear-most crossmember bolt and drove all over hell to find a 12x1.25 tap. We found one at fleet farm in a $56 set, 5 stops later. Car feels awesome and amazingly sounds different with this weird, great, cheap mod. Review to follow.
Stryderlis (evomn) came and not only drove Mark and I all over the place to find that tap, but once we got my car buttoned up and had that half-beer, we took his car apart for the insane project of: installing a MBC! Simple enough, but his car is mostly stock w/ Exhaust, VII tails, and a nice front lip. Had to pull off part of the undertray (I HATE this thing), the whole stock air box assembly, UICP, and intake pipe. Once done, we managed a nice clean install. I wish I had a pic of it completed, the MBC is stealthy and just sticks out right below/beside the stock intake snorkel.
Tee (stryderlis) then had this crazed, happy smile on his face for the next hour as we set the MBC at ~22psi peak and did a little street tuning. The car picked up great power and great responsiveness. Tee has had the car for 41k miles and 2.5 years, has kids that ride in the back, etc. so while a MBC sounds like a simple mod, yes it is but yes it's 100% worth it, look at this guy!
Rosey (rose0529) also showed up with his virgin black IX. He had just picked up an AMS catback, but he also now has a testpipe, and downpipe on order, so rather than take the car apart twice in a week, we're just going to wait until he gets the other stuff and we'll do boost gauge and tweak his factory BCS for a little more boost while we're at it. Rosey, you were a good sport last night, good to have you around!
Mean face:
Hughes, tapped his exhaust mani for EGT, his $7,200 defi gauge now works, it was just the EGT probe all along, even though it was tested to work fine before he bought the car....yeash! Oh, and the BLOX mount that took me forever to install? Took this a-hole 5 minutes. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it actually took 10, but I wasn't there, and Mark(TKR) was helping, so it could be true
Kevin, I am 100% in crack, ignore me. For some reason I thought we talked about you stopping by to do a boost leak test? Well I'm here all weekend if you still want to come!
I also came to the firm realization yesterday that I need to clean up my garage and get rid of some of the plethora of spare evo parts I have sitting around:
You hang onto this and that thinking you'll totally use it later, but now it's like yeow! Need to sell some stuff! Anyways, we had a FREAKING BLAST last night, hope we can do another one soon! Thanks to all that helped!
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