Well got the car back yesterday. Here is a list of all they fixed/replaced.
Cosworth Headgasket (90mm bore, 1.3mm thick)
New ARP Headstuds (625+ ones)
New revision "beefy" timing chain from Mitsu so no chain stretch
Change Tcase fluid
Change rear diff fluid
Valve cover gasket
Water pump gaskets
Oil Cooler crush washers
Thermostat housing
Oil drain o ring
Front main seal
So lots of fixes for gaskets/seals, should be nice and sealed up now hopefully
Last night I drove it to Wisconsin to drop off Knoxville's G8 for his cam, ported head and torque converter install out in the boonies of WI. So after 200miles the car seems to be running pretty good. (Trying to get knoxville to start a build thread here just for fun, they got his motor out so damn fast, I want an LS motor, seems so easy).
I don't know how to get over it but i feel like I always hear sounds and I am not sure if I do or not. I think I need someone else to drive it for a while to see if it sounds normal lol.
Regardless, I did some gopro testing tonight on the car and tried to scale my injectors down for real E85 more. Well the gopro still has dumb loud wind noise, I tried some fabric to cut down noise (aka cut up sock
) that didn't work. Also I had to let off the throttle at 7500rpms as it is around 13.0 at WOT. No more WOT for me...need retune I thinks.
However, my cruise LTFT is +5% and idle LTFT is +1% so my changes seem to be working
I am going to be stopping at MAP next week to double check all the leaks are gone.
More to come over the next week or two..I have a lot of work to get it ready for MAP's event, still not sure if I will make it honestly. I am not going unless I am 100% confident the car will run correctly, even if its on a low power tune, I don't need full power to have fun, just working right.
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