hit about 500 miles today.seems to be running strong.made a custom gauge pod for my boost and a/f gauge looks pretty tight . not to sure how to upload pics. when i figure that out ill post them . only thing that sucks is no cats so i get to smell the fuel since its not tuned right now.

 

yikes! Can't wait til you put the charger back on.

 

whats your a/f?

 

Step 1. Sell truck-$5K
Step 2. Sell bike-$1K
Step 3. Buy friends CR-X
Step 4. Drive from Columbus to VA!!!

 

air/fuel gauge

 

he's asking what's your air to fuel ratio

 

Supposed to be nice. Take a trip this weekend to rack up some miles.

 

at idle 800 rpm it jumps from 14- 15. still have the compressed fuel regulator for the supercharger in so think its tryin to push more fuel. likke i said really just need to get it tuned . im sure im gonna have alot of funky smell till it gets the charger back on and the car tuned in right.either way its always gonna smell no cats , j pipe, and test pipe. shes breathin boys

 

hard to take long trips got kids i need to take care of baseball games and so forth.plus dont like have the kids in the car dealin w the carbon. so i either drive my 04 tsx, or my 02 tl when i got the kids on road trips. 02 tl just has tinted windows. 04 tsx black on black , eibach sportlines,injen cold air, lip kit, bmw m3 lip spoiler on trunk fits perfect, tv s in headrest for the kiddies. anyway so ill just keep tryin to put the miles on the tl so i can show everyone who is intrested what this thing can put down.

 

You can't just sit back and wait to put the blower on with it running like that. If it's running real rich you'll wash down the cylinders and cause cylinder/ring wear very quickly.

 

dont believe its riunning real rich was told perfect a/f is at 14.6 . dont real thing its running rich it bounces when driving from 13.8 to 15.0

 

agree. me and friends went through this problem and the car barely started. and apparently a few injectors went bad?

 

im not an expert, but isnt the ideal a/f at idle/normal driving suppose to be around 12. then at WOT 10.8-11.5?

 

14.7 to 1

 

Not true, at all.

My local tuning shop, Jotech, has built a 739Hp Scion tC that has performed flawlessly on the track & autocross events.

 

That is fine for light throttle cruising.

 

No, that is pig rich and will destroy cylinders.

Idle 14.7
Light cruise 14-14.7
NA WOT 13.5
FI WOT 12.5

 

Not true.... If its part throttle driving around the city it could 14.5 : 1 or somewhere in the ballpark +/-. You just need to make sure you keep it around 12:1 or so when your wide open and WATCH the timing!

NVA-AV6 I agree with you
NA WOT - I like 13 to 13.5
FI WOT - 11.8 to 12.3 (some might say thats a little rich but just my experience)

 

my friend built a TC to 300+ fwhp. sold it because he never gained any traction. like they said, all he got was a whole bunch of spinning, noise, and smoke.

i guess the tires helps with that xP

 

Depends how you drive/launch your car also. along with tires. but that's not what the thread is about.

a/f discussion is a very interesting read

 

I completely agree with you guys.

I set my target AF at 12.5 on race gas and not meth.

10.0 when running meth on pump gas but stoich is lower on meth anyway.

Just for fun I've set the target at 15.7 for easy flat ground freeway crusing to see how much mileage I could pull out of it but it then requried premium gas to do so without detonation.

Nice to see people who know what they're talking about on this board.

 

How much lower is the stoich range on meth anyways? Is meth completely safe or can you blow your pistons running too rich on meth?

 

Then he was doing something wrong. Jotech's is running on sponsored Nitto tires, but at 700+Hp, it still runs without any spinning unless it's floored.

 

Going from an old memory, I believe it's around 6.5 on pure methanol. But since we're mixing it with a majority of gasoline, stoich will be much higher than that.

It's very safe. 130 octane so it's very resistant to detonation.

You're no more likely to hurt the engine in the short term running rich on meth than you would on gasoline. However, due to the corrosive nature it's not a bad idea to shorten your oil change interval if you run it rich for a period of time.

For what it's worth I run a very large shot on the GN, around 20% of my WOT fueling comes from meth and I haven't noticed any ill effects.

 

Are you sure it's a true 700hp? On drag radials and 602rwhp I can't put the pedal to the floor until I'm going 70mph and even then it's a little squirrely. My car is known as one of the best hooking cars in town. Maybe he's on slicks?

 

^ has to be slicks. I really cant imagine 700+hp not spinning. My uncles T88 supra spun at 103mph when he floored and hes pushing 792whp 712tq

 

That's one car I wouldn't want to mess with on the freeway!

 

Thats insane.

OP, whats the approximate time until completion?

 

You talking about Kenny Tran's shop right? My girlfriend's cousin are best friends with Kenny and told me he would buy and install my supercharger for 5k which, to me, is kinda overpriced. I'm heading to Dallas later on this year so I can see if anything he could do to our cars. And yes his Scion TC was going 700+ HP, but with basically a non-scion motor or whole car was rebuilt from bottom up, two fuel pumps, forged pistons, etc... They spent too much on that car anyways, with the money they spent they could've bought a M3, messed with the ECU, and other stuff and got 600 HP with a better looking car and engine!

 

http://www.nittotire.com/#index.microsite.scion_tc

For Kenny Tran's TC.

Imma contact him later next week and talk to him about anything he can do with my Acura TL. I just talked to my girlfriend's cousin (which his best friend) and they may take my car as a project and will do everything for free! Well, possibly.

 

The car is still 90% Scion from what Tony told me. And I highly doubt they care about the cost considering Nitto & a couple other sponsors basically gave them a huge selection of parts to build it.
You can ask Kenny, but I wouldn't be surprised if he can't find anything more for the TL than what's already available.

I think, though, he's more concerned with a GT-R they've been building up on.

 

Rebuilt Engine. Yeah I dunno Imma see what he can do. I don't mind paying either (if reasonable), but I gotta make sure it will work. But I got some performance shops in Houston that say they can get this turbo going for our cars.

 

Sorry for this slppry

There is a meet here this sunday for those of you who wanted to come out. Here is a link on where it is posted.

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...1#post10786629

Tunergirl

 

Regardless if you can somehow find tires sticky enough to hold that much power down on FWD, the driving characteristics just aren't as good.

Like champ and I both said, tuned m3 FTW!

 

Great. Who cares.

 

agreed

 

I think your on the wrong board man.. Who gives a shit what a e46 can do.. We all know they are capable..

 

this will shut you up...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZG3lr23bw

 

Nice one Siggy, what's the status of your build?

 

is this the op's ride out of comission???