Thread: What's everyone up to?

another DET this time. im probably just gonna build the one that i took out. with darton sleeves 90mm pistons, rods,VE head, GT35R... you know, just the basics. if that doesnt work out for me I Probably attempt the VQ swap. we'll see what happens

I'm planning on getting a few loose ends tied up on my car and then I have two choices. I can enjoy it for the year on the road driving it around town and such, or I can put its life on the line again at the track and potentially ruin another engine (I just don't feel safe with it since the last track day) and basically prove that it isn't up for track duty (and thus not worth keeping around).

The problem is there are so many cheap and/or free track days coming up this year it's hard to avoid them. =(


Other than that, I plan on continuing to save money and maybe this year will be the year for a home purchase. Maybe.

The reason the car isn't track ready, is because you refuse to make it track ready.

The only thing I'm worried about is detonation. I've pulled all the timing I can. If I pull any more timing the combustion event doesn't even happen anymore. Yet, still I feel like I'm getting detonation. On your 8.5:1 engine you ran 25.3 degrees of timing at 160 kPa without an ounce of trouble. I was stupidly running similar timing on the old 9.5:1 engine and ran into detonation. Now I'm running 19.0 degrees of timing there and I swear I'm still detonating. When I bring it down to 18 or 17 degrees I get retarded misfire.

This is anywhere from 11.5:1 to 12.0:1 air/fuel ratio.

What am I supposed to do? This is 11 psi. There's no reason this can't be reliable without crazy tricks.

What would it cost me for you two to tune my car? Mods are in sig. Pm me if you want.

What kind of tune do you want? Street or dyno?

Dyno.

It gets a bit more expensive. What I usually recommend is a street tune with a dyno tweak. I can usually get it dialed in very well on the street, and then on the dyno verify and play with the timing a little bit more.

$200 For street tune, $300 for street/dyno, and 500 for an all day dyno tune.

Price goes down if you can get more people on the dyno, since I rent it out the entire day for a full dyno tune.

Well tuning it on the street with the nitrous would be kind of hard lol. Plus I'd like to mess with the cam gears. I'll get back to you when I get the car put back together.

Yeah you are going to need a Wideband