Evo X upgrades - Page 15

**mlomker** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by Matt D.

If you can wiggle it by hand and it stays together then it's good enough.

Good point. It looks great in the engine bay compared to stock--created all kinds of room for my catch cans, etc. I will have to get use to the sound, though!

**Murlo26** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by mlomker

Good point. It looks great in the engine bay compared to stock--created all kinds of room for my catch cans, etc. I will have to get use to the sound, though!

I love the sound

I have heard with the upgraded turbo it is only going to get louder...so get ready.

twack · 02-22-2010

cant you just use pliers to bend it back

**mlomker** · 02-22-2010

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Originally Posted by twack

cant you just use pliers to bend it back

I did enough that it appears to be sealing. It just sucks to spend 3 bills on an intake and then scratch the piss out of it bending it back into shape. The good news is that it'll be covered by a filter anyway.

**Murlo26** · 02-22-2010

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Originally Posted by mlomker

I did enough that it appears to be sealing. It just sucks to spend 3 bills on an intake and then scratch the piss out of it bending it back into shape. The good news is that it'll be covered by a filter anyway.

bummer

I know how you feel. I was scared last week when I switched out all my clamps on my IC piping to T-bolts and didn't want to overtighten them and bend the piping. I have seen a few threads of people bending their pipes so I didn't tighten them down super tight. And strangely on the way to MAP...bam UICP popped off, lol.

t-revzr · 02-22-2010

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

bummer

I know how you feel. I was scared last week when I switched out all my clamps on my IC piping to T-bolts and didn't want to overtighten them and bend the piping. I have seen a few threads of people bending their pipes so I didn't tighten them down super tight. And strangely on the way to MAP...bam UICP popped off, lol.

Ha Ha I hate when that happens!

**mlomker** · 02-22-2010

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

I was scared last week when I switched out all my clamps on my IC piping to T-bolts and didn't want to overtighten them and bend the piping.

My problem is that I tightened them using a screwdriver and I had the connection at the turbo pop off while I was working on the other end. That wouldn't do, so I took a 1/4" ratchet and gave each one a couple turns, which of course was too much. A fine line, for sure.

**scheides** · 02-22-2010

With practice, you'll figure out what just the right amount of torque is on those little clamps to get them to seal but not leak. Or, if you have SS pipes (a lot of people do), you break the clamp trying to over-tighten it. Don't sweat it too much, happens to all of us.

**mlomker** · 02-22-2010

I feel like I made some real progress today so no big deal. I hope tomorrow is as productive.

**Shane@DBPerformance** · 02-23-2010

Don't go crazy boosting the car with that AMS intake on it. They usually lean the Evo X out a lot.

**Murlo26** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by ecoli

Don't go crazy boosting the car with that AMS intake on it. They usually lean the Evo X out a lot.

If it leans the car out "a lot", I would've hated to see my car with stock intake on your dyno, lol.

I was still below 10's with the AMS intake.

**mlomker** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by ecoli

Don't go crazy boosting the car with that AMS intake on it. They usually lean the Evo X out a lot.

Yeah, I'll be short shifting from here on out. I tried to keep it below 3500rpm on the way to work.

Going to attempt a fuel rail install tonight and see if I can find a way to run a power cable from the pump to the engine compartment. Have to figure out how to pull up those trim pieces this afternoon.

I'm still waiting on a few pieces: vacuum fittings for the distribution block, a couple of those 'add a circuit' taps, and the rod bearings. I think I'll have to create a mounting plate for some of these electronics under the hood. I want to put that where the fuel filter is right now, which is why I want to swap out that and the rail tonight.

**scheides** · 02-23-2010

^Yea, stock fueling is in the low 9's yo. Rich enough to make the car choke up top, remember the rom update mitsu released?

**Murlo26** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by scheides

^Yea, stock fueling is in the low 9's yo. Rich enough to make the car choke up top, remember the rom update mitsu released?

Nope, but i remember the tune I went and got from Shane to make it not suck

**Shane@DBPerformance** · 02-23-2010

Did you do the fuel pump relay swap already, or does the double pumper bypass that?

**mlomker** · 02-23-2010

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Originally Posted by ecoli

Did you do the fuel pump relay swap already, or does the double pumper bypass that?

I do have the upgraded (green) relay already. The new setup will run the first pump off that relay and the second pump off of another relay/controller.

**Murlo26** · 02-25-2010

well did you try the double pumper install? Have fun?

**mlomker** · 02-25-2010

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Originally Posted by Murlo26

well did you try the double pumper install? Have fun?

It was postponed until tonight. I'm confident that it won't be fun nor look pretty...I just hope I have everything that I need to make it functional.

**Murlo26** · 02-23-2010

The factory relay still controls the main pump on the blaqops kit. Blaqop's provides another relay for the secondary pump. I swapped my relay last week

**mlomker** · 02-26-2010

Shawn (simulatedwood) is the man tonight! He allowed me to run over to his parent's place since they have a great heated garage with a lift.

We swapped out the fuel rail, underhood lines and filter in pretty good time. The Boomba rail has a fitting for a fuel pressure gauge and that came in super-handy as the night wore on.

There were a couple surprises with the BlaqOPs install. One was that you have to cut off the stock hoses from the hard lines under the car and add new ones. No big deal but it would have been handy if they were included or the procedure actually explained in the instructions. The second probably represented a few hours of troubleshooting--BlaqOPs reversed polarity when they wired my pumps. Took a little time to figure that one out since it's the last thing we had expected.

I took one photo of the sender transferred over to the Full Blown hanger. I'll take more pics tomorrow...at a civilized hour. lol