Finally got everything squared away and got the damn thing dynod. Feels like turboing this car was such a pain and took forever. Although I did a lot of things and some things were on back order and then bla bla bla. One thing about this kit, the wastegate gave some problems with its location. My routed it slightly to not effect the flow, but so that clearance is never an issue. Here's a pic of the re-route. Works great.

Now, I am quite pleased with my results. We were able to get 340 @ 15 psi and 255 torque! I can't scan my dyno sheet right now but i will tomorrow. It feels great and pulls HARD. The lag issue isnt that big of a deal. Like static said just downshift and there ya go. Spools right up. I am not keeping it at 15 psi tho because it does misfire on occasion so we ahve it set at 13 right now. The ignition upgrade would be the best. I would be getting that right away as well as meth inj. but I am still selling the car so.....yea. I am just glad to get the numbers I was looking for.

As far as any technical questions you want to ask me...lol I'm not very savvy on that but I'm sure someone will chim in and I wil do the best I can.

 

I'm so freakin jealous, are you going to get some kind of ignition upgrade?

 

I would and its a must for more power....but like I said pointless since Im selling the car.

 

Congrats bro, glad you got it working. The thing did look mean at the dyno meet. Hope to see it in action sometime this summer. As a side not do you know how much you were making at 9 psi. Their site claims 300+hp, just wondering if thats accurate.

 

the reroute of the wastegate looks pretty good

 

Yea...all engines are a little different, and mine made a little less at 9 psi. I got 275 whp. So, thats why some who get 15 psi might be a little more than 340 whp. BUT....this was all done on a MUSTANG dyno as well so numbers are generally kinda low.

 

340 is a nice number.

I would be afraid to run it with the vacuum tube exposed though. It would be too easy for something to catch on the vacuum tube and pull it out / tear it.

 

Yea....the whole wastegate position is something after it was all put on a real concern. The lines LOOK like they are hanging, but they are tight against wtvr it is they have it by I haven't really gotten a GOOD look under there.

But, there IS a possiblility still of maybe a stick or something that I might runover and gettin caught. But, it's not that much of a problem anymore.

 

you can kinda see the zip ties.. lol

 

zip ties are not something to be ashamed of! My entire car is held together by zip ties.

 

lol...they are great

btw....there will be a vid on youtube of the car sometime soon....they have like 20 other cars that they dynoed that need to be put on youtube before mine.

 

If you are selling the car, I wouldn't bother with further upgrades. In fact, you are sure to get more by taking off all your mods, selling them separately, and selling the car stock.

 

Thats Awesome Louie! Congrats! I'm glad you finally got things running the way you expected. I was beginning to wonder about you because I had not seen a post from you in a while.

 

mine too!

 

seems to be a common theme around here - turbo your RX8 then sell it . What is up with that ?

 

Can some body.. anybody take one of these dyno queen cars to a track please...

 

Nice numbers man! So when can I get a ride now

 

only way I would part the car is if someone was gonna buy the turbo kit....i dont have time to wait for that.....or else I would

 

Well...I ran against my buddies Trans Am...who has gears....ls6 intake ...full exhaust...I would think he is HIGH 12's.....maybe like a 12.6 area? I belive around 340 hp would break into the high 12's ....he BARELY beat me...highway I would kill it

 

Then I don't think I'd bother with the ignition upgrade. I'm pretty sure you won't get your money back, and you'd just be putting yourself deeper in debt.

 

Never mind, I read your post wrong - I see you've already come to that conclusion.

 

I take it Dave at PAW did your final tune then? Good to know there is someone local who can tune an 8.

 

Yea he did the tuning. With some help from Jeff of course. This was the first RX8 theyve done. I think they did a great job!

Here is my dyno....its really hard to see most of it. But, the BLUE line is torque (255 ft./lbs.) and RED line is WHP.. 340 whp. Right side of the graph are my AFR's bottom is 12.3 and top is 14.0 He didnt use the WHOLE graph as he only took the peak hp portion. the RPM is the bottom of the graph going from 3005 to 7990. So, it looks like peak hp is at about 7990 rpm huh? Maybe some more tuning is need to get it all the way to 9K what do you guys think?

 

This is also a Mustang dyno...so the readings are a little low to my understanding. And the ambient temps were 90 and humid lol. Not exactly the greatest but still got numbers

 

you shouldn't get peak hp at redline. It drops in the 8k range.