Those are some really nice colours. Looks amazing!!

Also, did you notice a difference with the logged air temperature after putting in the box for the intake?

I should do a log with an without the box in place but I have a log on open right now of a 1st to 4th gear pull and the highest the GM IAT logged was 69F. While cruising it was around 53F, temps where in the high 40F's here today.

Wow. I've been seeing temps around the 150* area, no box or heat shield on the manifold during cruise. And that's during these colder days. Lol

The 2g with a manifold and turbo blanket logged about 70* during cruise, and up to about 100* sitting in traffic for extended periods during the hottest days last summer.

That's really cool Jason! Mine are usually around 70* after a pull, that's really high stephan.

Took the car to the 1/8th mile track tonight for the first time.

It was a "pre-opening" night, no track prep so traction was pretty much non existent and the tune is still in the early stages for sure, just no time to get out and work on it. I was actually breaking loose in the top of 2nd, that was a little sketchy!

First pass was a 7.70 @ 94 at only 23psi!

I think I got one faster than that but no one saw the time and this place doesn't give slips on Friday nights.

Real excited to see how far I can push it this year

no biggie, consider it a warm-up. SD is accurate so it has more tuning potential. Can't wait to get mine on SD again. My sticker expires in June...after that is SD
Feel any difference not recirculating anymore?

[quote=Jason Drew]So as most have probably seen, the car is out and running well on speed density, ecmlink is controlling the meth injection as well now. All in all, it was pretty easy to get going.

Jason how do you have the meth controled by link? adding meth to mine and this sounds like the right way to go.

PS nice pass: First pass was a 7.70 @ 94 at only 23psi!

Fuel pressure solenoid output activation based on load in V3, automatically sets the aux fuel maps as well to correct the fuel mixture, works REALLY well.

Thanks! Felt really good for the start of the year!

Here's a vid from Friday.

Not really an issue for us here in Canada but if you ever have any intention of running the flexfuel setup then you'll have to get rid of the ecu controlled meth.

Ya that'll never happen here.

Ecu controlled meth is probably way better than the AEM controller I'm using. 1st gear suffered from no meth syndrome so I couldn't up the timing.

Figured I'd get my worn out rear diff bushings replaced before the first competition this weekend. Only 1 of the three were still good and had fluid in it.

Took me all of about 90 minutes to swap them out. Drilled out the rubber, notched them and air hammered the old ones out, wire brushed and anti-seized the holes and drove the new ones back in.

Still got one more surprise coming for the rear

Brilliant work Jason as always
I recall Paul B (RTM) was working on the wright-up for this job

Well....not too impressed with these bushings.

I put about 200 miles and 8 launches on them and they are toast.

On the last pass at the SSPA event I heard a noticeable clunk between gear changes and knew something was up.







Contacted the manufacturer today and they agreed there's an obvious defect in them, likely the front one failed first, followed by the rears. They offered to replace them with express shipping and everything was taken care of quickly. I opted to replace these with the solid bushings though this time, I don't feel like changing these a 3rd time.

Wow that's brutal I was reading about the the ones that snowboarder and the other guys built on tuners as they looked identical and they seemed to like them.

That was my motivation for them as well, didn't work out so well for me.

Bought time I update this thread.

Well most of you've now seen the clutch issue I suffered a week and a half ago.







I want to give a HUGE thanks to Jamie Valcamp for helping out a fellow DSM'er, he offered me up this very lightly used Southbend disk for an offer that I couldn't refuse. I will be upgrading later on but this will get me through the rest of the year for sure and kept my down time to a minimum.



While it was down, I took the time to actually wire in my water tight quick connect for my boost solenoid.





And finally, back out on the road.

Nice work Jason, I just went with the old boost solenoid connector, seemed to work well.

I deleted mine when I did the wire tuck, never thought I'd need it again. I actually had to open up part of my harness to get the wires back out.

Haha wow, that's pretty wild than. It definitely looks nicer!!

Well done and welcome to boost by gear universe! Hopefully redesigned SB disk will hold this time.

Are there any AWD guys that use boost by gear?
I was debating on it but my plan was higher boost in the lower gears, I wish there was a way to adjust timing by gears.

I was toying with the idea of dropping my boost in 1st a little, track conditions need to be good to hold 28psi in 1st.

So I guess it's time to update on 2015's plans.

First off, pulled the intake manifold off a while back, it's off to a new home, it's getting replaced with a shaved and coated Evo 3 intake manifold.

Here's the progress on that so far:





Motor is ready to pull as of a couple nights ago.



I'm also moving on from the Southbend SS/TZ, it's been a great clutch, I really enjoyed it but it just doesn't deal well with hot lapping the car at my power level.

It's getting replaced with a PTT twin disk.



I didn't ever think I would go to a twin but I'm willing to try it out. If I don't like it I can also switch back to a single disk.

I sold my HKS 264/272 combo and replaced them with a set of GSC S2's, along with Evo 8 behive springs/retainers, so that should open up a top end along with the Evo manifold.

I also have a girdled rear diff cover to install at some point.

There will also be a lot more wire tucking and maybe even a respray of the entire bay, we'll see how much time I have. Also toying with the power steering pump relocation as well. At this rate the roads won't be in good condition until May, so time is on my side.

Looking great man. I'm a big fan of the manifold.

ya.. some fool sold it to him for halfnof what is worth!

Someone got a nice set of HKS cams for a nice price as well

Looks wicked!!

Oh, I forgot I also picked up a Walbro 400 fuel pump.

Gonna get a staging brake to help with the launches with the twin?

It's a possibility.

I may not race the car a whole lot until I find a set of slicks for it but then again I might lol.

Sounds like a nice pack of upgrades to punch 2015 like never before. I hope stronger pump, twin clutch, and EVO manifold will work together nicely to break new records this race year. Hopefully i can make to the shootout to meet you and your beast in person.

Keep up the great progress

I read this thread over in its entirety every so often.

<3

Edit: Mitsu-media is down by the way

Hmmm, thanks for the heads up Michael.

Small little update, intake manifold is ready for powder.

Before



After

Gonna purpleize it?

Probably not

Aww come on!!

It's gotta be the purple, or possibly black chrome.

Looks good! What's that thing that runs perpendicular to the runners?