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Originally Posted by BRZ_STI
What all have you had done to your car?
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- Scratch made exhaust manifold
- Scratch made 3" downpipe and section leading to 2.75" J2 exhaust (when they were under $400 shipped on eBay over a year ago - when I'm not lazy I will be making a full 3" all the way back to, hopefully, dual tipped mufflars). No cats.
- Billet, ball bearing PTE5558
- 3" compressor inlet/intake pipe
- 2.5" intercooler piping from the turbo all the way to the intake (well, up to where the cold pipe goes to 3") with stock washer tank and all the stuff other kits replaced when turboing these cars was a new idea
- Rather large intercooler (everything was purchased with the idea of running 450rwhp, so it's a bit overkill for only 360)
- ECUTek
- ID1000 port injectors
- Deatschwerks DW65c pump (to my surprise it hasn't failed)
- TiAL MV-S wastegate
- Tial BOV
- Our spec'ed ClutchMaster clutch and their off the shelf light-weight flywheel
- E85. My pump map is basically a limp-mode map to get me to an E85 station and that's it. Don't know, nor care, what the power is on pump gas.
- Full boost is curbed at 11psi until I get a minute to put it back on the dyno and retune it to a nice round 400rwhp, whatever boost that may be (there's a good bit of meat left on the bone timing-wise too)
-Dyno is same car (bone stock vs current setup/tune), same dyno, same driver, different day.
-Was our first crack at tuning a twin, and the first time ever with an ECUTek, so I know full well it's a "crap" curve compared to the more experienced players nowadays - we now have a much more firm grasp on the platform (note: I am NOT, in any way, promoting a business, services, or any remotely-related-to-vendor things - we are an MR2 shop)
-You can clearly see there is plenty of power left to be made by how it never levels out or drops off. Like I said before, we bought everything planning for 450rwhp, but were given false info once we were at the tuning stage, so we went ultra conservative on the tune. Now that we know ~400rwhp is considered "safe" enough on stock internals, I will turn the wick up when I get a minute.
-Blackstone oil analysis at 6500 miles (~8400 on car now) was perfect, and that was after about 6000 miles of being at this power level.
-Setup was designed to be 100% removable, so nothing was cut or otherwise permanently modified to fit anything.
-I still average ~24mpg on E85 (highway, ~22mpg mixed) with a good amount of boosting (via calibrated mpg gauge and doing the maths).
-Desperately needs brakes, especially after our group MR2 run in the mountains of Kerrville a couple weekends ago.
At this power level the car is just plain fun. It's not a monster, a killer highway roll racer, or anything to "fear" on the track or streets. It drives like a 100% stock car. Just a tad quicker. So if you expect something else with your 350hp goal, you will probably be disappointed.