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Real St. is having a huge black friday sale all weekend long. So took the opportunity to pickup a set of Kelford VVTI 202-C cams (similar cam card specs to GSC S1). Almost bought an adjustable cam gear too for degreeing the exhaust cam, but decided against it. Like $98 for a BC or Tomei one, not bad, but decided not to.

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Cams came, that was quick!

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Well latest purchase. Wise choice, probably not. But I have been so excited to try one of these so I just said Eff it since Geoff @ Full Race gave me a really good deal on it.

This is a new Borg Warner SXE-300 8776. So it's the 64.5mm comp wheel, which can be paired with either the larger (73mm) or smaller (67mm) turbine wheel. I went with the smaller turbine as its actually very similar in size to my current turbine wheel. And if you think of it in PTE terms, this turbo would be called a 6467, so from that perspective it seems like a pretty good combo to me. Plan will be to reuse my current .91AR T4TS turbine housing, but I may switch to a 1.0 T4TS just to see if I'm choking it out.

Geoff said he expects it should spool very similar to my current SX300 8475 (61mm) but obviously have some top end gains.

Plan is to keep the current SX on the car and get it tuned on a good amount of boost (30ish). Run that for a little bit, then maybe in late summer swap this on, and see what kind of difference it makes. And hopefully some dyno sheets to show the difference.

It came packaged very nicely. And just in case I thought this was a big single, they remind you on the box that it is in fact NOT, it is actually a small turbo, make no mistake about it!

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Damn, you should let me borrow your "small turbo" :KANE:

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Sexy! Cant wait to see this thing rollin soon.

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Damn, that looks remarkably close to the turbo my brother just picked up for his rx7. Borgwarner but I can't remember model specifics. Looks like a "bigger" turbo to me lol. Looks nice.

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^^ask him what he got. It'd either be an SX, SXE, or EFR

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You are gonna love that turbo. Personally been really enjoying the Borg efr 7670 I installed on the fd this fall. Spool is so early compared to what I am used!

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SXE 366 I want to say

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Very nice. That is what I was also strongly considering and almost bought, but decided I just don't need that much power.

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Thanks for posting up your home address. :D

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^^ You plan on coming by tonight with your spy glasses and some kleenex later and peak through our window? :D

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Car starts and idles like a champ. Had my 3rd brief remote tuning session with Vlad. We are about as far as we can take it now until I get my flex fuel sensor plumbed and wired. But I'm just happy this thing starts and idles cleaner than it ever has since ditching the stock ECU. Already feeling good about my choice to switch over from the MS3 headache!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikhyKOOdlU&hd=1
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Awesome!

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Nice, but MS3 so cheep!!

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Now I know why haha. #MS3NotMyStandalone

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Woohoo! Cant wait to see her on the road in a couple months. :)

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So I had a second tuning session with Vlad. For this session I drained as much e85 out as I could and filled it with 4gal of pump. And I also installed my flex sensor. These 2150 injectors on pump, combined with no idle motor what-so-ever, was tricky to get to idle nicely, but he did it. Doesn't idle as nice on pump, but not bad, and doesn't really matter anyway since it'll have e85 in it 99.999% of the time.

So the car starts and idles better than ever. So I started buttoning things up and got the car on the ground off jack-stands for the first time in over a year. Pulled it out of the garage. First time she's seen daylight since 2015 Fall Proving Grounds! She's dirty but not too worried about that yet.

I drove it just around my little neighborhood area, and everything appears to be working perfectly! I took a couple logs for Vlad (low/med throttle stuff). He'll update my tune to reflect, and I think we'll be doing a few rounds of back n forth until we're happy.

Definitely getting the itch for spring now!

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Awesome sauce!

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so pimp and Vlad the Impaler is your tuner!

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So starting to get the misc stuff buttoned up.

I got the rear seats back installed.

Got my new CanBus gauge connected and functioning, I think its going to be perfect for me! Was trying to figure out a nice clean spot to mount it. Another SC guy made a drawing of a gauge holder that would go under a single din stereo. I really like it, so despite really liking my dual din receiver, I decided to ditch it and bought a new single din stereo. So I installed that. And none other than Mr. Sean DoughtCom will be 3D printing the new gauge mount for me.

I also ordered 2 AEM 12 position switches. They will be wired into Infinity and used for adjusting boost, and traction control, from inside the car. Those are included in that 3D gauge cluster and will be mounted on either side of the CanBus gauge.

Decided to try out my Basslink again since its so much simpler than my separate sub\amp setup. I'm not sure if this head unit is better or what, but the Basslink sounds phenomenal now. So Ill be keeping that installed now. Its a Lexus, so gotta have dem beats! Also, it might sound corney, but I had my gauge cluster and HVAC recently redone by Tanin, and chose a hyper white / red accent color scheme that i really like. This receiver has two lighting zones that you can customized. So i got the screens white matched pretty close to the others. And did red accents\buttons. So it matches the rest of the lighting very well, and I'm probably more excited about it then I should be lol. Even the CanBus white matches pretty closely too, ErMaGerd!!!

Got a lot of the dust off the car, cleaned the engine bay and got all the little accessory pieces installed in the engine again.

So car is really starting to come together. I'm still working on getting more logs for Vlad when the roads aren't terrible and full of salt. And I have a small tick list of things I still need to get done as well. But the way it's looking right now is the car will be ready for spring. Much Excite!


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Pimp that basslink sounds good even from way back there.

Glad to see you getting it together, you were sounding a bit fed up a few months/weeks ago.

Nice work man, badass street car you got there.

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I like the matching lights a lot. I kinda don't like when there are a bunch of different color lights/gauges etc in modded cars(my Dsm included).

Basslink is pimp. I've had a couple and are my first choice anytime a car needs some bass to fill out a weak stereo.

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Looking good B-man. Funny, I did the same thing switching from double to single din, I think I even have the same deck as you (Kenwood BT), now I need or order a gauge mount under that as well so I can dump the a-pillar mounts and get it looking a bit more stock.

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Looks great! Whats the plan with the tan interior? Summer project to get that all black or grey?

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Peter,
Interior is undecided. But my old plan was to convert it to black/brown (kinda like the black/brown you'd see in a BMW). I think that's going to be a slow gradual process. Like I already have the black front seats now, I have black floor mats, black e-brake boot. I have two new door panels since mine are shot. They are grey. So maybe I'll get around to dying those this summer and swapped in. Slowly but surely. If you have any ideas of what you think would look good, lemme know cuz I suck at that kind of stuff lol, i lack artistic vision!

Steve,
Yeah it's a Kenwood Bluetooth / HD Radio deck. It's the KMM-BT515HD. It's their multi-media series, so it doesn't have a CD player at all. Which I thought about at first, but then I started to think about the last time I actually played a CD, and I can't remember lol, so decided it's not important.

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Well won't be needing these anymore.

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Yep, that's the exact same one I have as well. I had the same reasoning about not playing CD's anymore, and I own hundreds of them. I might be old but I've completely gone to Spotify now, bluetooth in every car including the boat. I'm a little jelly about my wife's 15gig HDD in her MDX though, that's pretty cool.

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Well we are officially done with the pump gas tuning. I have a little over 1/4 tank of premium I need to burn off so I can start filling it up with Ethanol. I figure with the weather and roads being halfway decent, and the car running so well, why not take it to work today to burn off some of that gas :)

Blurry cell phone through a dirty window pic!
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Nice! Hows she feel? I suppose no traction at all in these temps haha. Makes tuning hard unless you are flyin.

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It's not that bad, but I'm on a 10psi pump gas tune right now. I'm sure it'll get interesting as we start turning it up, lol.

Car feels good in general though. Drives/Idles/Starts great. It doesn't feel that fast yet, but again probably because of the low boost / pump gas tune. I'm sure it'll start feeling like a handful very soon!

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Out with the pump gas, and in with that winter blend!

Did I mention I love this BTI CAN gauge!!

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That is super cool, only works with AEM right?

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I like that a lot. Guessing those will not work with my series 1 AEM's though. That's a bummer.

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CAN is just a generic term for a communication bus. I'm sure it'll work with anything that can talk over a CAN connection. But I don't really know that much about them. I bought mine along with my Infinity as the guy selling it to me already knows they work together, so I just knew it worked for my setup.

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Awesome, so what are your impressions of the infinity so far? Looking great!

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Well to answer your question briefly, I absolutely love it. I'd buy it 10 times over if I had to. It's an unmeasurable improvement over my old MS setup.

To answer it in longer form, I was absolutely fed up with my MS setup. I had constant issue, nobody to really help me, shops flat out refuse to tune it because it was MS. I decided it was time to move on. I didn't decide on Infinity right away. What I decided was I wanted to run a modern Standalone. Lots of options (ProEFI, Infinity, etc). And I wanted to buy it and have it tuned by someone who was both extremely fluent with the ECU, and extremely fluent with applying it to this platform. I didn't just want an ECU in my car that somebody could tune and get it running. I wanted someone who could tune it to it's maximum potential.

That pretty much ruled out anyone locally that I could think of as I didn't know anyone locally at the time that was fluent in both a modern standalone, and applying it to my car. I first got ahold of Sound Performance about having them tune it on ProEFI. They responded to my first initial/brief email quickly. My follow up one though where I started talking details, they went dead silent. After a few weeks I decided to move on. I found this fellow Vlad who tunes Infinities for National Speed all day everyday. He's an infinity guru. And he owns a Supra, SC300, and GS300, so he knows how to apply it to this platform. Got ahold of him and boom, replies immediately, no problem answering my questions, said he can remote tune it, and confidently told me (without coming off as a jerk) that his out of box Infinity tune for 2JZ's is better than most peoples finished dyno tunes, he's just done that many and has his baseline tune that dialed in. Done, so I bought it from him and I can't be happier.

So what I'm getting at is I love that the car is running amazing! I can't say that's all because of Infinity. It'a combination of it being a great ECU, and in the hands of a guy that knows everything about how to use and maximize the ECU, and how to do it on this platform. It's not just one or two of them, all three of those are what makes it great. So yes I love Infinity, but only because it's in the right hands.

It's true, don't just pick whatever ECU, talk to whomever is going to be your tuner and go with what they recommend. If anyone wants Infinity, there's 3 of us know running Inifinty remote tuned by Vlad in the last year. Everyone is beyond satisfied. If you want to go Infinity, I can get you his contact info, but I can't recommend him enough. He knows his shit, and really makes the entire process so much less stressful!

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hmmm GS300

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Still going through various tuning sessions. We're finally to the point where we get to start turning the boost up higher than WG Spring pressure. So the fun is about to start!

In the mean time I've been trying to get it cleaned up. It was nice today so I snapped a couple pics in the sun of the engine bay cleaned up. Made me realise how bad I need a new fuse box cover (such scratched!).

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That reminds me that I need to get out and start working on my pile. I've been so busy working on other car projects that I've neglected mine, and after it's giving me some grief taking it to that show last weekend, I'm reminded of all the little projects that need to be done.

Looking good B-man, love the black wrinkle paint under the hood.