We sure do!!
Timing belt + waterpump installed at 73,000mi. I had it installed at Elma Automotive INC, they did an excellent job. The rate was good, and the car was done in about 5 hours after I dropped it off. Excellent service as usual.
The timing belt was looking very worn, I can see why they recommend it at 60,000.
While at Elma automotive they also realized that one of my injector o-rings had failed and was letting in a ton of un-metered air and leaking boost. I ordered a new one and also installed that.
I also just bought Evoscan, and once I get my stuff squared away I’m going to start data logging my car to get my injectors properly scaled and the rest of my tune finished.
Good deal.
About the belt being worn, it’s not a sign of just wear its of abuse too. There’s people out there with Evo’s who didn’t replace the factory timing belt till 120k and the belt still looked good.
My car was abused with love haha.
IDC the thing runs awesome and passed a boost test, compression test and my personal inspection with flying colors.
That’s good, lol these cars can handle some tough loving.
Glad I could help you out buddy! I could do those all day long.
Just sent my incomplete map over to Tamer @ 4WS tuning to straighten things out.
I was considering going to emery @ STM but from what I heard he doesn’t like tuning stock ECU’s. However, I also want to see what they can do for me in the future when I actually start changing parts out.
Just started getting into the nitty gritty of the tuning with my tuner.
So we’ve decided to start from scratch. First things first was upgrading to tephra v7. He shot me a base tune to get things rolling and also shot me the xml to upgrade to tephra v7.
So far I’m estatic. This is the original tune on the car. Note the size of the maps and also the organization of the stuff in the ecuflash window.
Here is the V7. Notice the number of options( Neatly organized ) and how much larger the maps are. Also included is stuff for No lift shift, launch control, lean spool, map switching etc. All of these were not seen on the original rom.
Tomorrow I am going to start on wiring my wideband into my ECU. It’s going to be set up for easy access to my AFR’s as well as a fail safe incase something happens.
We’re also going to change the car to boost by ECU for more precise control.
I love it.
I loved it hard
Hard love is good love.
Nice. When can I no lift it some more? That shit is fun!
you’re going to need bigger injectors to run e85
Let’s race 
I’m game for it even though you’ll crush me haha.
I need to get my ass in gear so I can buy go fast parts 
I’m rigging up the car to be boost by ECU this weekend hopefully. No more MBC bullshit.
Nice work and :tup: to Elma Automotive
Oh man, MBC is way better! Less to go wrong, so much more simple. I love simplicity!
On a FWD car, people can argue that the MBC may not be good, since they will spin in lower gears (I say get a better tire), but since you don’t really spin in an Evo, I would say all power right away!
That’s just me though, simple simple simple!!
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Almost every person I know running 9’s to 17’s are using a Hallman Pro MBC. EBC’s are for FWD. Unless you are using it for gear based boost that is the only reason I see to switch to it but honestly I don’t see a reason for it on your car.
you will hate ditching the MBC.
I have heard good things about using the ECU to control boost VIA JDM map sensor.
It also is beneficial for datalogging and making adjustments on the fly that are more precise. In addition to that it will adjust the car to be prime regardless of ambient temperature and give me a safety net in the event something happens to the car.
I don’t see whats not to like. I dislike the idea of running in and out of my car and turning a knob to change my boost. I understand it’s simple. But theres really nothing complicated about using a solenoid and ECU either.