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Originally Posted by sw20kosh
If you woudn't mind I'd like to ask you a few Q's to predict the health of my seals:
1. Did you track your car NA? How many times? If not, do you often redline shift and bang through the gears quickly on the street?
2. Did you have cooling system mods (radiator/oil cooler) NA?
3. Do you currently use cooling system mods FI?
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(Only 93 Octane)
1. Only one track day, and it was about 35 minutes worth and in COLD temps 40s-50s, running at 7/10ths. 2 Autox. My driving has always been for efficiency. The car is slow, I never shift fast, but have often shifted from redline in 2nd to 3rd. And hit the rev limiter about 20 times in 10k miles in 2nd. In 10k miles.
Car was bone stock for 10k miles.
2. At about 10k miles when I did my final video review I did a baseline dyno, and was seeing coolant temps at 217 and was unhappy with it. After which I installed the larger radiator before doing FI.
3. At 10.5k Vortech installed with Oil Cooler. Oil and Coolant temps have been VERY stable and low.
4. At 11.5k Did the follow up dynos. No track or autox yet as I am far from confident with this kit, even street driving has been much less agressive that it was when the car was stock.
5. First long trip after FI was installed. 80 Miles one way 1.5 Hours. All economy driving, and all logged. 31MPG, coolant high was 195F and Oil high was 194F.
6. On the trip back 50 miles in with more agressive highway driving still managed 30MPG however back in more congested area, my buddy was next to me at a light and wanted to hear what launch control sounded like. At the light I started launch control and it revved to 4k and held. I did not launch it just tested the feature.
Next light I switched to MAP 3 of the rom and took off from the light normal not tire spin. Shifted from 1st 2nd at 4000RPMs then in second floored it and at 5000RPM the loud pop sound appeared. And I lifted throttle.
7. Life of the car has been at about 3/10ths or 95% at 2000-3000RPM.
I have been much less aggressive with this car compared to even my old Honda Insight as it just has no balls and no point of pushing the engine and trans.