Work has been killing me but I've plinked away at a few things on the car in my insanely limited free-time.
First off the car got insanely lazy...CEL told the whole story and after a few weeks of laggy laggy EF4 I got my hands on a used rear CAS...mivec does not work so hot without it I guess because it improved spool 500-800rpm (depending on the run)...the car is SO much more fun now, EF4 drives like my BBX:
Also noticed a clunk from the rear when leaving parking lots after I swapped on my summer tires a few weeks ago...turns out one of the rear sway-bar mounts loosened up a bit. Whiteline bar is looking healthy and the bushing was still there and fine, so 1/2 turn of each of the mount bolts did wonders!
I've been planning and planning and planning next-steps on the fuel system to keep up with the EF4 and I have good news: as of now I won't be doing hardly any of it! I picked up a Boomba fuel rail from MAP on Friday:
The thing looks nice and slick! I swapped it in in about 30 minutes and jimmy-rigged the stock fuel return line to work....but the thing leaked like a siv from the FPR
After a weekend of drinking and running around finding o-rings and sealants and basically dinking around with this thing I realized that I am a dumb-ass and didn't read the directions....
I thought I was being all clever installing the FPR the way I did so I could have a nice clean return-line setup...I bought 4' of new fuel line and some new vacuum hose to make all of the lines perfect--uncluttered, not a ton of fittings and clamps to eventually leak on me:
And best of all, finished product (LOL):
So yea like I said, I was thinking I was all clever with the way I mounted the FPR 180° from how I'd seen Lomker mount his but it turns out there is a reason...there is no problem with the o-rings or sealant or anything, there is a problem with the clearance of the stock FPR bolted on the way I did it:
Notice the lip of the FPR hitting the body of the rail...GAH! it was tweaked and causing it to leak like crazy no matter what I tried with the o-ring. DOH. So I bent it up a bit and made sure it was all clamped nice, used the o-ring supplied and voila, no leaks and the nice new rail works great!
One thing I noticed when I was troubleshooting was that the housing of the FPR itself was sorta bent from the prying...I THINK I basically made my FPR a one-time adjustable FPR by slightly elongating the body because with the new rail and everything buttoned up my fuel pressure with the car idling and vacuum hooked up is 40-41...it was ~50 before on the walbro 400 pump....what does this mean? It means hell yes! My next step was going to be a full AFPR kit to try and lower fuel pressure and try to get a bit more flow out of this thing at high boost levels...
Well, here are the results...the car has more fuel everywhere but seems to be down a tish on power...I think the next step is dyno time as timing is still a bit all over the place but my main goal with the w400, dinking with the siphon, and this rail was more fuel and I got it!
*virtual dyno* don't read into this too much
The car should have enough fuel system now as we go from E70 to E85 here soon...hurray!
Need to make sure I have my ducks in a row before it hits the rollers. Work schedule is insane lately but the car is running great! I'll hit it when the time is right 
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