I fought and fought with mine too. They are a C.h. too small.. finally got em on but I was a but frustrated

 

17.5 PSi???? I have a 15% pulley and see 13.5 ish...wow.

 

Yeah just to make sure his scangauge was working, we plugged in the Torque app and took a spin and it still only reached about 15.5 Psi.

 

cold weather here made me peak at 19psi. 6400 rpms 3rd gear pull 17% pulley

-B

 

thats great branden! i havent looked to see what i can get yet with this cold weather.

still need to find out why im getting this lean code. Thread found here... https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...g-out-why.html

all the vacum lines look all set. and i removed the Vgs mod i didnt like the way it felt.

and i switch to me 175/60/15 all seasons today and wow what a mpg boost i got now seeing over 30mpg!

 

This was one of my runs from autox last sunday, first official time with the mini last time was seting up the course with my brother he wanted to make sure it was the way he had planned... car was stock back then. other wise the RX7 gets autox..

this is the only video i have the gopro died on me after run 2 and run 1 the camera flopped down. so did show anything..

this lap was 55sec my fastest was 51. it was very very cold and nobodys tires were griping that day. plus the car was still kind new to me with all the mods. i was stuck into SM too. so i was getting no trophies that day. other minis where getting 48-55 sec that day. and FTD was a 42.9 for refrence and raw times i placed 90 of 130 people. that was another problem lol to many cars so by the time your next run came up you needed to relearn the tack. it was litterly do a lap then wait an hour or more.

anyway with out further adou my bad lap....




http://s228.photobucket.com/user/Gre...6e1ff.mp4.html

 

You guys get 15.5 PSI with torque app :(? I only got like 11.5 PSI @5500 rpms, did you guys edit some settings or something?

 

no, but it makes a big diffrnece whne it comes to elevation, also condition of your sc/ engine, and if there's any belt slipage. i have seen 17.5psi on my car with a 17% pulley

 

Pretty sweet. Looks like a lot of fun. Dad took me about 10 years ago in his 1990 5.0L 5-speed Mustang to an event that our local Porsche club put on. One of the 911 guys went home and got his 308 Ferrari. They created a "non-Porsche class for me". I think they were a little miffed, cause I was a 19 year old kinda punky kid then, and I beat him by a whole second in my last lap. Granted I had 2.0 liters of displacement on him, but really I think it was the Tires -Dad had some super sticky ones then.

Anywho, thanks for sharing your lap, sounds like you got up there in 2nd gear a ways -seems like a pretty fast track. Maybe someday I'll be able to get into it as a novice again.

Edit, -20 years ago. Dang, I forgot how old I'm getting. I'll be forty someday soon.

 

Well i tried today and got around 12.3~ psi at around 6300~ rpms, Michigan elevation (700 ft above sea level?) and 110k on engine..
New belt also and 15% pulley.

engine is bad? the car feels pretty fast tho

 

sounds normal for a 15% your good dude

 

That's good to hear, thanks. I also wonder if your boost reading in Torque is actually full boost if you floor it or it keeps increasing to full boost by 6000 rpm? 2nd gear run


Also, great car you have there. Wish everybody took care of their cars like that!

 

so after putting on my all seasons for the winter time I decicded to get some snow tires instead, my allseasons were dead and I looks like im going to be doin a lot of traveling this winter so I picked up a set of Nokian Hakkapeliitta R2. from my understanding and research they are the best of the best. and people love them in the colder climates of the world. I kept the same tire size for my steel rims 175/65/15. now to see how well they do in the snow and slush!


oh and I have forgot how mushy snow tires feel.




here is a stock image of what they look like

 

my Genesis 380CC injectors came in. i think im gonna wait to put them in untill i buy a header and a cat-back. i think it will be to much fuel if i put them in now, and will run way to rich. besides i dont really ring out the engine at all right now with the snow tires on, and no snow..

 

just ordered a detroit tuned bypass valve. i will be installing this and the injectors at the same time as to prevent me from doing double the work.

 

Let us know how you feel about the bpv. I'm curious about it.

 

You should do a test fit of the injectors!

 

no thanks I'll do it all at once. I'm not doing double the work.

 

Hey Greek been tracking your progress from the get go...nice work.

Just curious on a few items.

1) internals - did you end up rebuilding the motor?

2) swift springs...thoughts and where did you get them from?

 

no I did not rebuild, I didn't have time.
and I got my spings from one of the dealers listed on swifts web site. I got free ship plus somthing else so they came outs little cheaper than the usual $ 314

 

Thanks and Ireland fixed camber plates to address the negative camber right?

 

they are there to increase negative camber. they give -1.25* and when you lower it it gives you more. i have not put my car on a rack to see how much but from what i have read most see anywhere from -1.5 to -2* with lowering springs. a very good friend that has an eye for these things says i have about -2* degrees.

 

anyway i knew i didnt like fedex for a reason, they are sneaky i didnt even notice or hear them drop off the package lol

anway my detroit tuned bypass valve is here. looks good! for those of you who have dtbpv this amount of light is ok? just want to see what others have seen with theres. i was under the impression that there was supposed to be no light.






and this was a very pleasant surprise... how did you guys know i needed one!

 

Did you ever figure out if the "gap" where the light shines through, is normal?
I'm thinking about getting one of these..

 

from what i heard thtas normal. what i would like to do is use that "paint" they use on throttle bodies of motorcycles to seal up the edge. bit dont know what its called.