I will try to have a sign-up for private test sessions but I need to negotiate with the organizers. No promises yet until I have a confirmed approval from them to do so.

cheers

W

 

Woot! Can't wait for FC!

 

When is fall colors?

 

Oct 22-25 in Pittsburgh, PA

 

Update???

 

Bump, fall colors is over!

 

Bump, time to give it up Wael El-Dasher.

 

I have seen this turbo in person, at a dyno day, very impressive, he still has some tunning to finish up, but very impressve so far! Wael is a great guy also!

 

Wael was up at Fall Colors with the car. So now about 160 other had a chance to see the kit installed. Also it had a little track time. So thing are still moving forward.

 

Car was great, the extra torque was wonderful at the autocross portion of the Fall Colors event. Car can get into a nice drift at 4-5000 rpm, hold that slide all the way through a turn, using the 100 lbft extra in that range to drive the car (220 ftlb @4k rpm!). It was awesome.

At the track the car was great too. I had an odd hic-up through out the v-tech range all weekend long, car just sputters and falls flat on its face. I was stumped for so long and absolutely ruined my day at the track. Turned out to be -1 deg. of timing at 7000 rpm caused it. As soon as I zero out all the timing, car ran strong again...if only I had tried that sooner.

The 285/30 tires in the rear offered phenomenal mechanical grip, especially at the last turn, the tough 2nd gear right hander uphill onto the the front straight, again the torque was great. The car really feels nice overall. The JRZ were hard but compliant. The truth is, Beaver Run is an easy track with very smooth surfaces that flatter the driver. I sort of felt it made me and the car look better than we actually are. Some track do that.

I kept getting check engine lights due to the large amount of fuel being dumped at idle because of the aweful 550cc injectors. I just posted that I want to trade them for 440cc injectors on the For Sale forum.

Had a chance to talk to Shad from Comptech and pick his brain a bit, he also had a chance to drive the car so it was interesting to hear his feedback, very smart guy. We both found that with the forced induction systems most customers are under the illusion that a adjustable rising rate fuel pressure regulator (RRFPR, also refered to as FMU, but its really a RRFPR) is a cheap solution, but the truth of the matter is, I have logged 8000 hard miles with a RRFPR and e-manage and never had a single problem, nor did I ever get any codes. I switched out to the 550cc and had a lot of trouble right away. We were able to clean the map quite a bit with help from Giles (hollyroller dyno) but the tuning was not refined until my 10 years old daughter grabbed the laptop and reconfigered the map to a much refined scale (long story).

The car now is much much better than the last dyno session I had in Rhode Island, but the codes are all due to idle. Shad suggests the 440cc injectors due to the better spray pattern but also the problem with the 550cc injectors are to do with the extremely low duty cycles. We managed to see 20%-25% duty cycles, which means these are way too big. Also the pintle design of the stock injectors is much better than the 550cc.

The odd thing is most people believe that the 550cc is the way to go and that the regulator is not, however with about 10k miles of turbo driving so far I have found this to be not true. We would still like to offer this system with injectors, so we will try the 440cc injectors. If we are successful then we will wrap up the project and be ready to sell the kit and apply for CARB.

Thanks for all the support folks, I appreciate this. Shad was a wealth of knowledge and we hope to work with Comptech in the future.

cheers

W