Update

Well, I've been MIA for about a month. Been very busy. Condo is refinanced, and now all my bills are at my credit union, nice and simple. The divorce is finally done and paid off. Massive amounts of birthdays were completed in the last 3 weeks, including my own (time to give up on the birthdays, we're all old now...). Talon is finally gone. Garage is cleaned up. Etc.

I installed an AEM EMS into the EVO and went speed density. That thing sucks up an incredible amount of time, and I'm still not completely satisfied with it. After losing a bunch of power, I realized that with 950s on the stock turbo IDCs are only ~50%, and the intake valve is only open ~31%, so I could be spraying all of my fuel on the back side of the closed valve. Spent a couple days really wracking my brain trying to figure out how injector advance works in AEM, when I actually want the injector to spray, etc. The result was having to lean out 15% to maintain the same AFR, and picking up 5 mph at the track. Progress at last. I ultimately sat down and built a spreadsheet that calculates injector advance on a per cell basis based on IPW. Sweet.

At that same point my clutch finally let go after 25k miles and a full year of street driving and weekly racing. Stepped up this time and dropped nearly 2k on an Exedy cermatallic twin disc with the HD (2900 pound) plate. I just installed that saturday on my back in the POS garage. I don't ever want to do an EVO clutch/tranny again. The clutch however is incredible. The pedal is much stiffer than the standard Exedy twin, but it should hold my planned power easily enough. Extremely grabby, and has a VERY narrow window of engagement. Maybe a quarter inch total out of all that pedal travel. Still having a hard time driving it, but AEM is at least 50% at fault thanks to some idle issues. ALL of my cold shift problems completely dissapeared. I would have sworn that was the trannys fault. I can't wait to try some high RPM shifting, and see if there is any impact on my drag times. I think the stock type sprung organic discs are just too damn heavy. The two Exedy discs combine are lighter (unsprung of course), and much smaller in diameter. Should make much less work for the synchros.

I also toasted O2 sensor number 4 or 5 this season. Just installed and calibrated a new one yesterday. I've spent as much on O2 sensors this season as people pay for say, a 16g turbo. LMAO. Waste of time and money... Just can't get them to last all of a sudden. I've got a couple days to retune the car now that that's done.

Idle is hosed, most likely because of all the oil I got in the coolant last year when the HG went. The rubber hoses are all gone to shit, one burst a few weeks back. I'm betting the FIAV is toast. I'm going to attmept to block that off Thursday and use the ISC only via AEM to control idle in all conditions. I should still be able to get idle up to 1500 rpm, which is the highest I want it to go during warmup anyway...

I still need to get 2 more snow tires after losing one on the way to the Shootout. Still rockin the Advans... Got a couple low-mid 1.6s at the last import event a couple weeks back, but the clutch really didn't want to cooperate.

The track closes at the end of this week, so I need to get tuned and get the clutch broken in ASAP. I'll probably run wed and fri. Hopefully I can dip into the 11s without nitrous before it closes. I'm upgrading the turbo either way this winter... The clutch replacement and finding out the tranny is fine covers a huge part of the mods I had planned for this winter. Still have to do turbo (leaning towards Buschur GT3076R turbo kit) and safety equipment (roll cage, harnesses, fire jacket, etc) that I'll need next season.

It's also time to finally upgrade the PC. The Nvidia 590 boards are out, so I can use my conroe Core 2 Duo (e6700) that I got free from work, and both of my 7800GTXs, and all of my other hardware. Should be a real nice upgrade from my 650 single core processor and one 7800GTX. The gaming season is upon us... :grinyes:

It's also time to remodel the condo. Kitchen and bath are getting gutted and completely renovated. It's a shitload of work, and I'm not really looking forward to it. But, it will do wonders for the value of the property (and therefore my bank roll) and I'll actually like the place a lot more. Inlcuded in the work is adding my own laundry machines, community laundry sucks, despite the newly upgraded machines. I really should just pay someone to do all the work and sit on my ass watching startrek and CSI all day, but it seems so wasteful when I can do it myself. This sucks... :icon16:

Wow, sounds like you've been one busy man Kevin... Glad to see your back in action with us though. :wink: :)

There has been much change brought to the forums if you didn't already notice. lol

Hey Kevin! Yes, sounds like you have beeen a busy man. Good to have you back. :thumbsup:

Glad to see your back cruising the forum Kevin. Good luck at the track, we expect some 11's by Saturday morning :)

Jesus has risen again. All hail thine great one! Nice to have ya back Kevin.

Good to see your back noticed ya kinda vanished.

Sup Kev? Long time no see.

busy man

I hope to see some 11s too! In the parking lot at work this AM I spent 10-15 minutes assing around with the DSMlink to try to get it back to where it was before the O2 sensor died. I got the idle much smoother by playing with injector timing some more, and got the AFR where I want it. It's much easier to drive with the twin disc now that it will actually idle well. Cruise tuning is back to normal, but WOT is still too lean. Hopefully that will be sorted out on the way home today, since I go to the track tonight. The clutch is also breaking in nicely too. Combined with a little more practice, I can actually drive it and not make the EVO look like Fisher Price "My First Manual Trans Car." It's gonna be cold and windy tonight though, hopefully I can get some traction. I have a feeling tonight will be mostly for tuning, practice, and more clutch breakin. The weather (and odds for running 11s) looks much better for friday.

Wait, wait, you are running AEM and DSMlink?

Oops, that should have been AEM. At any rate, I set it up so I can swap between the two in 5-10 minutes. ;)

Update again:

I got an email notification from an old thread, which reminded me to come back and check in. I'm glad I still see the same good ol boys rollin in this forum. Still feels like home...

Since the last update,

-I've upgraded to an FP EVO Green/Buschur 20g-LT turbo. It's a 50 lb turbo that makes full boost around 3800 with 272s. With the 280s and Revolvers it's more like 4200, but still quick enough.

-The AEM is much closer to being dialed in. I had buschur tune it so I could get more appropriate injector timing settings, big difference. It idles well cosidering the setup, throttle response is fanatstic, gas mileage is normal, etc.

-Cams have been upgraded to 280s and then to Revolvers. The Revolvers are nasty cams, extremely rare and for standalones only for the most part. I get very little vacuum (like 8") and a mean idle, even at the 1100 rpm I have to run it at. :D Torque increase was insane. It already did 420 ftlbs on Buschurs heartbreak dyno on 272s, no idea what it is now.

-I installed a boost actuated cutout inline with my exhaust to act as a boost actuated baffle, to get around the cops. Way too much info on this to even try to talk about it. As part of this project, I upgraded to a 3" stainless buschur v-band turbo back. This thing is an absolute work of art...

-Gauges installed in the center panel, pics on my site. I like it.

-WBO2 upgraded, got the newer techedge 3B1, and sold my 2A0. The 2A0 has been with me for a long time... At least 4 years. It was like losing an old friend...

-Just picked up another Cummins turbo diesel, a 92 Dodge D250. Much older and crappier than my doolley, but no payment is a plus. The EVO is enough... :D

And many more little things I'm sure I'm forgetting...

Took a second place trophy in the local Import event Saturday, but the car was still slow with an 11.9 at 117. I've come to the conclusion that even though it's open, my exhaust baffle is costing me a significant amount of airflow. I have no airflow sensor, but there are still ways to tell with the AEM. If I'm right, and my bench math is still good, it should easily breach the 120mph mark tonight at the track. Not too worried about the ET, I can't launch with my nearly broken transfer case (shep is building me another one as we speak) and I still don't have a cage (don't have the heart to pull the trigger and ruin this car).

In the near future the new shep Tcase goes in, FMIC gets upgraded from the 24x12x3.5 SBR unit to the 24x13x4 buschur race core, snow tires get swapped for summer tires, and the tuning process continues. Then when it traps that 122-124, the NAWS gets hooked back up and I go for one glory pass before the track boots me... :D

My car gone kevin, Im getting a GM soon. BTW its good to see your update man :wink: .

Wow... Kevin lives on... lol

You never cease to amaze me dude. I can't wait to see what you run with the new setup at a perfect tune and run...

It is awesome to see that you are still alive Kevin. I hope you are able to keep some free time out there for us :naughty:

I am very jealous of your set up right now. I wish that I had the money to put something like that together. But congrats on everything man and make sure to take care of yourself.

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Had to throw that in there. Nice to see you back Kevin and it sounds like the EVOs doing real good.

Ninja masta' Kevin! Good to see you around man. I was begining to think the rest of us werent cool enough for ya :frown: :icon16:

Thanks guys. :)

I'm off to get a mini test pipe welded up and then off to the track. Hopefully I can get something done without scattering the Tcase...

Here's a pic of the old slut hooked up to the "new" truck, LMAO.

http://www.posracing.net/files/Trailer_001_op_800x600small.jpg

long time no see, still no pics though...

man, you called 11.9 slow... my goal is to hit 12's... lol... you never cease to amaze me... gl with the setup


Edit: haha, I was idle for a min and then I post, in the meantime you had posted a pic :P

yeah, I was wondering what you have been upto.

Went up tonight with the exhaust baffle removed, no change, car is still slow. I suck at cars... I need to get with Revolver this week and get some answers, these cams are acting strange at high boost pressure.

A 50k$ car hooked to a 1k$ truck.............AWSOME!

just curious, was that trailer originally a boat trailer?

Sure looks like it lol

I can't see the pic that you posted Kevin? But if I try to quote you in the post that you posted the pic in I see its there but I can't view it?

It does seem to have been a boat trailer at one point. The jack looks like it's from a boat trailer, and the hand winch as well. It's pretty beefy for a boat trailer though. Who knows...

My website has been doing some funny shit lately. I can't even get on it now. Usually clearing my temporary internet files sorts it out, but it's not working this time. Does anything I own work as it should? I can't think of anything....

A 50k$ car hooked to a 1k$ truck.............AWSOME!

50k? they sticker for 33

I don't think I have 17k in mods (yet), but that may be what he was driving at, with some exageration for added point making ability and drama. :D

I think if I sat down and added it all up though, I would probably just end myself...

Your website works fine for me.

Yeah I can't get on it either.

Yeah I can't get on it either.

it works fine for me http://www.posracing.net/

I know what the site address, but I'm getting a server not found error.

hmm... I figured you knew what the site was, just posted the link to make sure you didn't misspell (no offense, and I copied that outta the browser, AFTER I loaded the page.)

I'm not sure what the problem is, because the page loads for me. It has to be something with your browser/connection/security settings...

What are you running?

I cleared all my temp files through Tools>Internet Options>Browsing History>Delete, and it's working again.

Edit> Another thing worth trying, someone tipped me off that Java released a new update. Go to www.java.com, click on the link for "Do I have Java?" and it will tell you if you are up to date or not. If not, it's a free dowload.

hmm... I figured you knew what the site was, just posted the link to make sure you didn't misspell What are you running?

I was actually clicking on the link in kevins sig and its still not working so its got to be my browsar which is Mozilla Firefox.

link works fine for me! WELCOME BACK KEVEN!

I was actually clicking on the link in kevins sig and its still not working so its got to be my browsar which is Mozilla Firefox.

Link works for me and I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4. And the page does load Java, I can see the little icon show up in my taskbar. I bet your issue is Java and not Firefox.

I even updated my Java but I don't know, doesn't matter though.

Well that sucks. When I get some time I'll have to look into things further...

Back to my POS EVO, it would seem that I just don't have what it takes to make these huge Revolver cams work. I think it's time to go back to 280s. Anyone want a set of very rare and highly sought after revolver cams for about the cost of new HKS 280s? :D

I've got a spare set of 272s laying around until the end of the week, I'm tempted to toss them and take some new logs. I'm getting real tired of working on this car though...

I'll trade you for my neon and we'll call it even how about that?

It would definitely be easier than figuring out what is wrong with this pile. :D

What do those Revolvers compare to, like a HKS 312 or what, they just SOUND huge.

The advertised duration is actually pretty short, 262/264. But due to the aggressive ramp rates, the effective duration is much higher than most cams. Add to that lift somewhere around 11.5mm (All HKS cams are 10.2/10.8mm) and you end up with a pretty aggressive cam. They're pretty difficult to run on a car that has an airflow sensor, but work well enough with a MAP based setup. Some cars make a ton of power on them, others struggle with them. Buschur has had 3 cars on the same turbo as me with the revolvers trap 127-128 mph. That's huge for a 20g sized turbo. I'm not so lucky for some reason...

Welp, swapped in a spare set of 272s when I got home from work yesterday morning, took a 2 hour nap, and headed up to the track. I spare you guys the long drawn out detailed version, but suffice it to say I got a lousy 1.75, missed second, and ran a 11.60 at 121.6. LMAO.

I'm going to give the Revolvers another couple weeks with some cam gear adjustments to see if I can get them to work before I sell them and go back to HKS 280s.