mtnman82

+1 thanks for posting that Josh! Wish I had a dyno nearby - would have done this a long time ago...

e34nication

M tune is in after getting through the rich issue and the car is home for a bit. I put about 250 miles on it and the tune feels very close with a couple of issues to work out. AFR's seem to be pretty consistent in the 11.2-12 range.

With the Garrett t3/t4 turbo the car feels a lot different, a lot more power up top and the torque comes on much smoother, it will be interesting to see how my butt dyno compares to the real dyno.

While the car was down I managed to pick up a few more parts. Some new shoes:



I also picked up some sport seats that need recovering... and ordered some Studio Cloth from werk924. Once that's in I'll get them recovered, hoping they turn out something like this (not mine, found on google).


Next stop, suspension and LSD.... but I want to keep it at home for a bit and actually drive it!

raleighBahn

Hi Joshua, nice graph! How is the reference car set up, and what is the boost?

e34nication

Wheels on the car, some rubbing in the rear so will have to make a bit of room.


Cloth arrived from Werk924, excited to get the sport seats redone and in the car!

e34nication

The car is on the ground again with the new suspension setup (coilovers, bigger sways, 30mm TB) and should be corner balanced/aligned early this week after final ride height is set. Haven't driven it yet, will be fun to see how it feels compared to the old, severely worn suspension. Other than that, just waiting for the local upholsterer to finish the sport seats so I can throw them in and ordered a Texas Performance splitter. Looking forward to getting it on the car. The factory "overbite" is the only part of the exterior design I'm not a huge fan of.

PF

Thats a beatiful car with a nice stance! Kinda liked the look with the clubsports a bit more though, that hunkered down stock look is so nice.

Good luck with the tune!

e34nication

I really like the look of the clubsports as well. I still have them and don't plan on getting rid of them anytime soon... My guess is they'll end up on the car quite a bit. .

The polished lips and bright silver of the fikses are a bit much for me, I think I'm going to play around with the color of them.

e34nication

Texas Performance splitter is painted and on the car, very happy with the look.. it's a nice piece.




Ended up pulling the turbo to send it back for further inspection... Car has been smoking a bit after the new turbo install/rebuild and apparently there an issue on the exhaust side they are fixing...



Other than that, the seats are in the car and I like them... will do the door cards next in cloth.



Also ordered the SFR stage II intercooler... with the turbo out and everything out of the way it seemed like the right time to do it.

shortyboy

Do a search on the sfr intercooler if you haven't already. Be sure to have the intercooler angled back, the bottom going towards the radiator, to have enough clearance from the bumper. It's a nice piece but requires lots of trimming on the bumper and bumper support. Great looking car btw.

carlege

glad evergreen is taking care of the turbo.

e34nication

Good info, thanks for the heads up!

It's actually not evergreen this time. Evergreen put together the turbo that was on the car when I got it... Unfortunately that one came apart shortly after I bought the car. It's a shop down in Miami working on it.

carlege

thats a shame Evergreen has a very good rep especially on this forum. could you tell if it was something with the rebuild?

e34nication

I've heard a lot of good things about them. In my case, I bought a car that they had built a turbo for (per the paperwork it was about a year and a half old iirc) and the compressor wheel nut came off... it wasn't pretty from there. Completely destroyed the turbo but thankfully nothing else was damaged. I'm not going to point fingers, though, no telling what was done to the car between when that turbo went on and the day I bought it. Evergreen has a great reputation on here and I don't hold this against them.

e34nication

It's almost ready for the road again... SFR IC and hard pipes are in, required quite a bit of trimming as Shortboy warned, but they're nice pieces. Really nice flow with minimal bends.



Couple more recent pics.

ian

Love the seats, couple of questions on them:
How was it to deal with Werk?
Did you go with the expensive or cheaper version of the cloth?
Did you only do the centers because of wear concerns?