jimculp

Will do Sparky. I hope to be there again in mid January.

jimculp

I took some pictures of the (finally) clean car this weekend:





New shifter **** that Tracy made due to the stock one breaking upon removal:

jbossolo

As Borat would say: "Nice!"

schnele

Looks all business.

JBL930

Looks great Jim, did you manage to get control of your boost in the end, what was the outcome?

Also, did you find out where the oil was coming from?

PorschePhD

Looks really good.

jimculp

We have temporarily disabled the EBC module, so I'm running purely off the wastegate and the stock spring.

We think the oil may be coming from the oil tank vent. I have zero smoke at start-up, so there is no oil accumulating in the turbo this time.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

Guns951

Absolutly stunning, very detailed and beautiful work. Very nice photos

LA964RS

Jim what wheels are you running?

JFairman

"I have zero smoke at start-up, so there is no oil accumulating in the turbo this time."
You probably already know this, but f your turbo has oil leaking past the hot side oil seals into the turbine housing it wouldn't instantly smoke on a cold start. There is not enough heat there yet.

The exhaust is hot enough as it leaves the exhaust ports but by the time it goes through the cold headers, and cold turbine housing it is not hot enough to burn any oil that might be pooled in the turbine housing right away.
The motor has to run a little bit before the turbo housing and turbine gets hot enough to start burning off any oil that might be there already.

If oil is pooled in the compressor side, then it's going to be blown all through the intercooler, BOV, TB, and intake manifold and will be somewhat pooled in all the low spots. Then it will smoke on a cold start and even more as everything gets hot.

I hope your turbo last like it should this time.
Hope mine does too.

Jim

jimculp

Lindsey 9's and 11's with 255's in front and 315's in back.

jimculp

Right back at you. Thanks.

LA964RS

Jim...Sorry my question was not specific: are they 17s or 18s?

jimculp

Sorry. 17's.

jimculp

I took the 930 in for a fender repair (looked as if someone intentionally opened their door hard into the drivers rear fender) and Tracy took some time to fine-tune the Autronic programming. I was getting some jerkiness on throttle tip-in. The fuel was a little lean, so it was fixed and drive ability is much improved.

I now have heavy wheelspin in first starting at about 4K rpm and the tach naturally races toward redline at that point, so I have to be careful. Wheelspin shows itself again in second at the 4500 rpm level. The car is a real handful now, but very fun.

Here's a dyno graph of the latest pull:

It's making about 442 to the wheels and with about a 17% driveline loss, it's making about 517 to the crank. There is only on real blue line on the graph, the others were added by my 2 yo daughter with a crayon. Boost was at 13 pounds.