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I'll be looking for a full piping kit to go along with a pretty decent sized core, closer to spring. I have no idea who designed the turbo to IC piping for the car, but it's weird. Literally goes, stock j-pipe, pipe with bov flange, curved pipe, into the top tank of the intercooler. It's super short route, literally 1ft of piping. Also have never seen a bov before the IC.

Asshanson pm'ed me about some brakes he has, hoping they're still around in the spring or until I have some money to spend :). Might be asking what I plan to do with it. Well, I reallly want to make it to the track at least once. I loved racing at MAP's bir event, so hoping they have that again (plus getting hammered and singing journey to a crowd of about 50 was a good time too...hahaha). Would like to try out auto-crossing as well, but no paul, no rally-crossing ;) haha (he will eventually try and get me to do it, cars too pretty for dirt). Power wise, 300-325hp and similar torque numbers, would be adequite. I only plan on using my small 16g, but if a deal on a 20g and some injectors come by, I may upgrade.

If I do the brake upgrade I'm planning, I will need rims. (rota haters look away) I would like some rota p45f's, but may just buy some evo rims, since they'll clear the calipers going on there.

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Was looking at Rotas the other day...decent looks for the money.

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I rock Rota's. I don't care if they are knock-offs. They look good, came in the right size/offest, and a good price tag. Like a sore dick, can't beat that!!

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I don't have a problem with them. I can't afford works or volk, but like the looks of them. I was in love with the p45r's (just a more aggressive rake on the spoke), buy no way they're fitting under 1g wheel wells. I would want a different set then everyone has, half the Honda guys have slip streams on their cars (or at least 2 of the on the back lol).

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I've had Rota P45F's on my evo for 3 years now, I love them. Sometimes I wish I had got the R's, but the F's have a really nice, clean, basic 5-spoke look to them...that's what I was after.

http://www.scheides.com/gallery/evo8/IMG_0555

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Thats what I'm going for. The r's look nuts on evos, but I talked with some wheel guys and they won't fit on my 1g (without some changes being made). Oh, and the will be black, call it played out, but I really couldn't give 2 shits..haha. With the black top, on a white car, with black rims...think it will look really nice.

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tear :(

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^^huh? Are ya crushed I'm not doing rallyx?

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maybe. At least come out and watch, and ride along with me sometime.

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I def wanna come watch one this year, but the way I plan to set up my car, it just doesn't seem dirt friendly haha.

If I still had the maroon talon with blizzaks, I'd be down. But a lowered street car with street radials doesn't seem like a good time.

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I've been doing nothing the past couple days, and find myself on tuners more and more. Reading about some of the evoIII 16g cars, has made me decide to bump up to one of those. Also, my reading has made me decide to move to e-fuel in the spring. There's a station right by my house, and one right by my grandparents, and those are my usual 2 areas I'm around, so availability won't be a problem.

Now I would plan to ditch my safc, and depending on when ecmlink lite comes out for dsm's, I'd prob go that route. Anyone have any info on when they're gonna be releasing it? I figured a set of fic 1000cc injectors would do the job just fine, so thats what I'm planning on getting (if it's overkill, just call me out on it, cause I'm no expert when it comes to the e-fuel switch).

So my goals will change a bit. I have a good tranny, and a good condition act 2600 in the car, so not too worried about that end. Plan to do a bit of porting, nothing crazy, just a mild port job on the exhaust manifold, turbo, and port matching the head. I'll be going through the drivetrain, so I hope to make it a reliable 350-400hp car (somewhere in that range). I just don't wanna blow it up..hahaha

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1000's should be good into the low 400's at DB. Once my build is done I'll be pushing the 1k's that I have fairly hard but there aren't many injector options on the X right now.

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i really don't know a whole lot with the e-fuel, but i know that that'll be pretty good and deffinately not overkill. you could even use higher cc ones if you want.

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Well then I'll be getting 1000cc's. Maybe some of the 16g guys, that are pushing/have pushed their 16g's pretty hard, can chime in with some tips on how to get all I can out of one. Those crazy English racing guys, are getting like 450+ out of theirs, but on e98 and 40psi spikes!

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whats the skinny on the motor? are you going to rebuild it yourself or what?

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Not sure. Danes more than capable of rebuilding a shortblock for me. If I have the money though, I'm gonna send it out to have it done (ill be sending it to gosh, to have it honed and decked regardless) Ill end up doing the final assembly (putting the longblock together), taking my time, and doing it by the book. I still haven't dug into exactly what happened, so I guess come spring, I'll know what failed.

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I maxed out a big 16g (34psi spike dropping to 24) and maxed out a small 16g with the same boost level on my 950's and never had a problem. Now I'm moving on to a bigger turbo so I'll def be needing bigger injectors. When I put mine up for sale I'll have to PM you.

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What numbers did you see with the big 16g at that level? Idk if I'll push the evo 3 16g that far, but would be nice to have an idea. And def let me know when you sell those injectors.

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u getting rid of the fmic setup? if u are im in need of one

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If you're interested in it, I can pull it during the winter, and sell it. It's a top tank style, so the end tanks are on the top and bottom, it's very short route intercooler piping. Pm me if you're actually interested. I need to dig the car out anyways, and throw a either a car cover, or a tarp over it anyways.

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I threw an EvoIII 16g on my car last spring and decided to keep the external wastegate run off the o2 housing the same way I had my GT3076 set up. I'm planning on bringing it to Shane this spring for a tune on E-fuel so I'll see what I can wring it out for. I'm hoping for anywhere between 375 and 40, and as much boost as the turbo can handle and still be somewhat efficient.

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I never really did get a clean dyno session in. But at MAP I put down 370whp on the small 16g. Still not on the best of a tune do to a failing bov.

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I haven't decided whether to go with an external wastegate set up or not. I'm not trying to get a ton on my plate, cause the more that gets added to my list, less likely I have money to do it.

Also have to ask where you got your headlights (kevin1gdrummer), I know it's OT, so if you could just pm me with where ya got um, or just reply to the thread I made. Mark had said something about you having blackhousings, and I'm looking for a set.

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Thats promising, I hope to have numbers like that at db on an evo 3 16g.

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Those are also FWD numbers...



95tsi on here has a 2.3 stroker, 272's, SMIM, E-85, FMIC, pretty much the works, and makes 347hp and 361tq @ DB Just for a comparison

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I know they're fwd numbers, and thats also at MAP on a small 16g. I'm not looking for giant numbers. Honestly 300+hp at db is more than fine with me. I'm not out to make a horsepower monster, just a fun street car, that I can take to the track everyonce in a while.

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Hmm...so as I stated earlier in this thread, if the right deal on a bigger turbo came along..that I'd go bigger. Well, I got a deal I couldn't in my right mind pass up. Ill post up some pics when I get it, just sent my paypal payment :)

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So my new turbo got sent out yesterday. Bought it needing a rebuild, so got it dirt cheap. It's an PTE scm6152e, set up for an external gate. So I'm heading in quite a different direction. I'm not dead set on using it, and since my car isn't gonna get touched until spring, I got some time to mull it over. Ordering a set of super low mile Rc 1200cc injectors (again, no way I'm paying full price haha) tomorrow, or Friday. Gonna be ditching the safc as well, and I'm still waiting to find out when ecmlink lite is coming out. Once that's out, I'll swoop that up. Have an EPROM somewhere (hopefully, recently went missing), so well on my way to the set up I want.

Best part is, haven't really spent any money so far. Parts I've been getting rid of, have managed to fund all the new stuff. So I'm keeping with my budget build goal. Still need to find some 3kgt vr4 brackets for the 1g...*cough chim55117 cough*.

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You should just have Shane burn you a chip with the Eprom if you're working on a bit of a budget. I'm probably going to go with an Evo 8 ECU, just have to find someone to make a harness for me...

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I didn't really have a good experience with the last chip I had used. I had one for my 560's and 16g, and my car just didn't seem to run right (used a maf-t as well). Idk couldve been something else wrong with the car, guess I could give it a shot.
Ecmlink lite is like $325, which doesn't hurt my feelings too bad. Either way shane will do some sort of tune.

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^^Shane will burn the chip custom to your setup though dude. Really not any different than Link, just that you can't really make adjustments to it without buying an emulator/chip burner/etc.

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I'll have to give them a call before I go out and buy link then. I don't feel the need to make adjustments on the fly, because hopefully once I have this all put back together, I won't have to worry about changing stuff up. I'm trying to make it somewhat reliable, which is making me rethink the big turbo route. But I don't see why it can't be reliable, as long as I take my time, and do everything right. I'm not in a huge rush to drive it, more excited to work on it. Gets my mind off crap haha.

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So I just bought a set of FIC 1150cc injectors for $100 brand new in the box. Am I gonna be pushing these pretty hard with my scm61, or should I be fine with those? I'm buying them either way, if I need to go bigger, then I'll just sell them, and get bigger ones.

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Some guys prefer big turbos since they're out of boost more and give you better gas mileage. Not sure how big an scm61 is. I know that you'll run out of single Walbro before you do 1150 injectors. Is that turbo over 450 at DB?

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I believe 1150s should about max out a single 255lph pump. So you'll be pushing both the pump and injectors probably, if you're going for over 400whp.

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I'll be looking for ~400hp out of the turbo. I guess I'll pick then up, and just sell them, and look to get some bigger ones, and look into different fuel pump options. I didn't even think about maxxing the pump out. The turbo (I believe) is rated at 350-630hp, I think that's what I read a while back.

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You'll be fine with your setup at 400whp. I think most people start maxing out the pump around 440whp at DB.

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I haven't settled on a goal, which is not the way to head into a project, I know that haha. I don't wanna get stuck maxing out parts, cause that's when they end up failing. I would be ecstatic with a 425hp street car, but need reliability to be part of that as well. Have to keep reading up on stuff lol.

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The cost to beef everything up pretty much doubles somewhere in the 400's. Shooting for >450 at DB is an investment.

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Yea which makes me wanna not go higher then 400. I'm not planning on driving this car, until it's the way I want it, and so it's to the point where I'm not wrecking stuff every month. Getting an ugly, but reliable, 91 sentra to cruise around in, in the meantime.