Well, yesterday was the worst weather for my tune. lol. Very humid and 80 something degrees. The wideband was reading 10.8 @10psi WOT and the car wasn't feeling as good. Set the boost to about 15psi and the AFR's still sat at 10.8-11.0 haha.
Today, was about 80 but not as humid and a little breeze. @10psi AFR's was 10.9 at tip in then steady 11.3 at WOT. Feels decent. On the way home from work it was about 50 ish maybe 60 degrees and the wideband was reading 11.5 @ 10psi. Drove around a little since the wife was with her girlfriends and got smoked by a modded Subaru. Sounded different from other Subbies with a TBE. I also missed second gear, caught me off guard. Excuses excuses. Blah Blah Blah.
So I headed back home and decided I'd play with the boost controller. turned the knob about five times and boost was up to 12psi (Hallmans In-cabin is kinda shitty IMO). Found an open road, pulled over, popped the hood and made sure all the clamps were tight and I went. From a 30 roll in second gear BabyG pulled harder than I have ever felt and sat perfect at 11.3 @12psi. Behind my in-laws place there is a long stretch of road maybe a mile long. Stopped and launched it @ 3k and roasted it in first and half way through second. Going about 90-100 and I miss 4th gear. D'oh! lol.
She feels awesome at 12 psi. I cant wait to get the wedding over with so I can get her on the dyno and get a re-tune for 12-15psi on a tephra patch. I turned the boost back down to 10psi just beacause I felt a little bit of a break up in the upper RPM range. Very miniscule break up though, I'd rather be safe than sorry. The plugs in the car is about 2500 miles old and with the way I drive it it probably needs to be replaced. I figure I change the plugs with every oil change anyway, or atleast every other.
On another note I bought the rear disc swap from Dion (Deeznuts) and two pot front calipers with the big rotors from Chris (Kolio) and I've been cleaning them up. cut the rotors and painted the hats along with the calipers. I also ordered the SS braided brake lines from RRE and they got them to me in less than one business day (ordered it Saturday afternoon and I got it that following monday). I also have been meaning to address the exhaust manifold leak and upon inspection I notice the other two gaskets will probably fall apart once I unbolt the whole manifold spacer set-up so I had to order two more Fel-Pro manifold gaskets from rockauto. The Fel-Pro gasket's quality is 10x better than the ones I got with the flanges. Hopefully I get that during the week and I'll install them before my shift at work. I'll be installing the brakes on monday.
Well, everyone likes pictures. Only two iphone pics but it will have to do.
One last thing, this might be the last couple of months you will see her silver. Going to get a major make over. Going to keep the color hush hush until I post "After paint" pictures.
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