Woo!
:lol:
What unit in Westbrooke do you live in, looks like you’re by our old unit, and I think we may have even had that garage at one point. The guys next door had about 4 of them in that bank.
Great looking build though.
I used to live in Westbrooke, I bought a house earlier this year.
I found out something very important this weekend. Adam, one of our local supra owners, pointed out that the Weldon pumps require a voltage regulator to drive on the street, or else they burn out. I did not hear of this before, so I immediately contacted Weldon, to find out if this is true. Yup, it is.
Basically, the pump flows over 220 gallons per hour, and at this rate, the fuel is moving through the system so fast, it heats up, and to the point of boiling, and then it can damage the pump. So, what this controller does is using pulse width modulation, it decreases the flow of the pump, while maintaining my preset fuel pressure. So, if I was at 50 psi fuel pressure with the 1:1 regulator, it will keep that, but the gph will be much less. Apparently street driving only requires 10 - 20 gph, so you can decrease the speed, and greatly increase the life of the pump, pretty much indefinitely. So, I will be purchasing this control box, although it is expensive, it will save me from buying another $1000 fuel pump in the future.
Good thing I found this out!
–mark
:tup: to doing your homework.
Updates!!
So, Emery and the gang wanted to try out a new downpipe for me, so it’s pretty awesome. It’s a full 3" downpipe directly off of the turbo, and dumps out right behind the subframe. The dump tube for the WG has a 2.25" opening from the turbo, so why not! They welded on a rediculous 2.25" dump tube, which will flow anything we throw at it. Every little bit is a restriction, so this should be fun. It’s really a prototype, but I have a feeling it’s going to work out excellent. Thanks to Austin, here are some photo updates.
And is here is the final fuel pump that I ended up going with, the Fuellab Prodigy. I would have needed to spend a few hundred dollars with Weldon to get the fuel pump controller that I would have needed to use the pump for street driving, so I went with the FuelLab, that still flows around 180 gallons per hour, but won’t burn out with street driving, since it is internally voltage regulated.
The other new snky is the modification to the front of the car. Austin is moving the radiator over to the passenger side of the car, so that we can run a simply aluminum bend directly from the turbo to the huge opening in the bumper. To my knowledge, this is the first time someone is placing the radiator on the passenger side of the car, to get this “forward facing” style intake on the stock turbo mounting location.
The shop moved, so they had to spend time setting up the new shop, and getting the dyno up and running and all of that, but the project is really coming to an end. The battery was hooked up, and no fires started, and key-on worked, so, it’s just buttoning things up now, and then tune!
–mark
Looking Good!
:tup: STM
In general, this car has been planned out very well from the beginning. I hope the cams work out well with this small of a turbo, that is still the one factor that I don’t know, since no one runs these huge cams with the stock turbo. But, I think it will work!
That’s lucky considering their past history!
More updates, and a BIG good news at the end. Here are some pictures of the relocated radiator, the custom intake, and the bumper all on the car!
And the best part is this. We threw it on the scales to see how light it would be with the normal street trim. This is both seats, the factory wheels and tires, E85 in the tank. This is as I will be driving the car to work and back. Here we go!
HOLY BALLS! I bet we can get this to damn near 2500 flat race weight!!
All that’s left is tuning really. It will definitely be running and hopefully running well this week!
–mark
good to hear :tup:
jebus, that’s lite
This thing looks like it will haul ass.Plus you can sell that pump for some pocket cash.Why didn’t you use the free downpipe? although they look identical.I would feel bad if I bothered that guy for a free part and then was like meh nevermind.Car looks sweet!Can’t wait to see what it does.
It wasn’t free. They gave me a really good discount, and before they shipped it out, I contacted them and told them I would not be needing it. They were absolutely cool with it. I have dealt with MAP in the past, and they are easy going. This was a good way to let STM built a stock turbo downpipe, and truly customize it to my build.
Absolutely love this car.
I loved your last one too, I’m super impressed with everything. You are the sole reason I want a damn EVO so badly!
Keep up the excellent work.
Thanks for the kind words :tup:
Help me find a friggen evo since you bought that red one before I got approved for a loan!
I hope to see you at the track sometime. Hopefully I have 8 cylinders under my hood at that point.
Emery just called me up, and somewhat bad news. They were ready to fire the car up, and start tuning, but the AEM wouldn’t connect. I contacted the guy that I bought it from, and it was reflashed with custom software by Mark @ Turbotrix, and it needs to go back to Turbotrix or AEM to get re-flashed with the regular AEM software. That SUCKS SO BAD! We are this close to having it run and be tuned, and now we have to wait a week or so to get it working.
sad face
It’s always something. Can you barrow one from the shop to get the car running and tuned then flash the tune to your AEM when it gets back… Or doesn’t it work like that?
At least plug in a stock ECU so you can check for leaks and any other problems that may accrue
I am the only Evo 9 with an AEM around, so that isn’t an option. It’s a different box than the Evo 8 AEM 
JUAT? I modify boxes for use on other cars and I have never heard of that being done? Weird
What model box are you using?