[Hawaiian]

Helping this thread "Rise from it's grave" (altered beast reference there).

So, I talked to Gem on wednesday but I was really busy and didn't get a chance to write in this thread about a few things we talked about. I also tried pm and convince Hachi to rescind his banning and tread it more like a temporary suspension for a warning(as you can see, no such luck).

He finally got his car strapped onto a dyno on wednesday and had both good and bad news for me.

The bad news is that with his 12psi pulley, he gained a vacuum leak, and it borked all of his numbers past 5k.

The good news is that the header made power. His conservative guess is that it was 7-10hp in the low end of the rpm range, and judging from that, he projected 10-15hp over his previous peak putting him in the 270 range on 91 octane fuel.

He really felt that the key though was the additional torque. In his words "the car is ready to go at any time".

He also told me that he's definitely buying the header.

Due to the vacuum leak, he packed it up early, and headed home. He will however be back once everything is sorted out later on (no eta for a return to the dyno), but I will let everyone know if I get any new information.