Arizona FRS/BRZ Dyno Weekend! (PHOENIX AREA) August 23rd & 24th - Featuring FA20CLUB

[ChandlerSwyng]

Excited for today, ill probably be there around 10!

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by RedLeader

It seems the unofficial motto for this dyno weekend, at least judging by the first day, is: I don't wanna talk about it. I started out heading towards phoenix this morning at around 9am by being redirected to get Jack43 to his car and getting it on the road so we could hopefully get it up to Goodspeed. Apparently Goodspeed's dyno had problems with the weather station in the morning, so while Jack was running behind, we weren't too far behind on the schedule of cars. I arrived at the shop where @nelsmar met me with "we have to go get Jack, he's on the side of the road."

Back in the car after my ~2 hour drive, we do half a dozen loops on the freeway trying to figure out where on the 101 Jack is stuck. Once we finally found him, put some more gas in his car and got it moving, it was about noon, Jack's car was missing it's exhaust, was having issues with fuel starvation and CEL's, and Jack hung around for about 10 minutes before getting a rental car and driving straight back to Tucson. Dyno tuning was taking a little longer for each car than I suppose was originally expected, and the turn around time between cars wasn't the greatest. The day dragged on.

A few NA tunes out of the way, as well as an underwhelming bone stock AT baseline (I don't wanna talk about it), all served as a backdrop to discussions of what had happened to Nelsmar's car, what we were going to do with Jack's car, was @evo4g63's car going to make it to the dyno (I don't wanna talk about it); Oh, and suddenly a last minute drive to Tempe to pick up the "we're just cleaning it up" exhaust from JDL for Jack's car (and the search for an O2 bung plug since @Ninjin took the last one earlier in the day).

More tunes and pulls and oh look the sun is going down and whew everyone is getting tired and hungry and while still optimistic we realized that we were in for a busy Saturday. With the last car of the night off the dyno (once our ears stopped bleeding from the 'because racecar' exhaust volume) and some last minute schedule shuffling for tomorrow, we divided the pizza and sodas, set plans for the night and dispersed. I headed the whopping 2 miles north to my hotel, checked in and fell asleep with the TV on while laying down trying to get motivated to unpack my things.

Now it's 3 am, my midshift sleep cycle is keeping me awake, as is the anticipation of finally getting on the dyno tomorrow, hoping everything goes well for the AZ innovate cars, cursing the lack of an intercooler option in this country (thanks Innovate ), and desperately wanting it to be 8am so I can get this day underway.

Today should be a blast, I look forward to seeing what all the cars do today, hanging out with everyone that shows up to spectate or get strapped to the rollers, and generally come back from the clusterfck that was Friday. I don't wanna talk about it.

Oh, @Dezoris turned up last night as we were finishing up the last car for the day, so I'm sure there will be great video and pictures posted in the coming weeks, narrated of course in the dry, seemingly unimpressed, and yet brutally honest tone we've all come to know and expect. I'll see you all at Goodspeed in the morning.

Originally Posted by Ninjin

Time for CEL because racecar.

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Originally Posted by mattles

cant wait to see what kind of shenanigans tomorrow will bring XD

Originally Posted by evo4g63

Car smells like gas but I will be there early to get my runs in right away

Dude.... I already said... I don't want to talk about it.

lol cya all at 9 You innovate asses better tune fast so we can finish my car!!

[Yruyur]

Nice cold morning car is driving gooood.

I need some 5/16 AN adapters anyone know a place I can puck them up. Hoping good speed has them.

Gonna try one of the bigger checker auto parts.

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[RedLeader]

Originally Posted by nelsmar

lol cya all at 9 You innovate asses better tune fast so we can finish my car!!

We're probably gonna take awhile. May r you shouldn't have such an unnecessarily complicated setup. :P


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[RedLeader]

So I got here really early, I'm hanging out here at Goodspeed. I kinda wish I'd brought a tent just so I could set it up here and make them think I was camping out all night. But alas, I just have a chair.


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[Yruyur]

That makes two of us

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[jack43]

I heard a rumor that Nelsmar just ordered a case of champagne in the dyno room.

[Yruyur]

Lol, yup. over 300hp. We dont have the official number yet.

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[jack43]

Big highlight of my weekend. @RedLeader says
"If this were an airplane I'd say you're OK to fly in it."

[dsrttigr]

Videos I recorded of my Dyno runs.

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[thesleeper]

I think the dyno day (more like weekend really) was very successful! Although there were hiccups, it was a great experience and lots of fun hanging out with everyone!

Special thanks to @Boblhead for bringing shade, @Ninjin for bringing a grill, @Pizzman for grilling the entire time, @nelsmar and @evo4g63 for organizing the event, and of course @FA20Club.com for tuning all our cars!

[evo4g63]

I have decided I will wait to post my dyno numbers once I get on one that shows un realistic numbers. Seems to be the norm on the Innovate thread.

[JDLAutoDesign]

Wish I could have made it out but I caught up on some much needed sleep and time with my son


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[mattles]

Originally Posted by JDLAutoDesign

Wish I could have made it out but I caught up on some much needed sleep and time with my son


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It might be for the best that you didnt make it out, there were a couple of issues with atleast one of the cars running the JDL header. D: