So I regained traction in 2nd gear this year with the bigger, wider, and stickier tires.... Today, with a rich tune and a little additional timing, I went back to breaking it loose in 2nd again.
Nice work. Are you going to be able to run e85 all the time? For what ever reason my truck says I must run a tank of gas though it every 5 tanks if I were to be using E85 in it. Its a F150. I haven't looked in to e85 that much to see why there asking for this.
Yes, I will be running E85 all the time. I *may* store it for the winter on gas, but I haven't decided yet.
They may want you to run gas through it every so often to **** parts up. Ideally, that's what the other 15% of E85 is for. One of my buddies here has been runing E85 in his 2006 STi for about 5 years and even stores it that way in the winter. E85 has allowed him to run consistant 11.8's on a stock turbo and motor. To convert to E85, literally all he had to do is swap to a 255lph pump (not even rated for E85), swap injectors, and a tune.
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and they said nobody could do anything new with the old SHOs... Nice work Jason!
Nothing really special. Given the area I live in, pretty much ever boosted performance car is going E85. In the last month, I've converted 3 - 2.5L WRX's (with STi turbos) to E85 and the results are stellar. On my buddy Mike's car, I was able to go fro 18 PSI up to 24 PSI AND add timing. On the gas setup, his car did 300whp/320wtq @ 17.5 PSI on the dyno.
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With E85 and the added boost, it started feeling pretty decent... I then added about 3 degrees of timing and the very next 3rd gear pull resulted in a slipping clutch.
Ross' wagon on a mild tune (21 PSI, very little additional timing added) has surprised quite a few people and he's got a set of equal length headers coming now too!
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This car is pretty damn amazing. As far as modded/boasted SHO's go this has got the be the cleanest build out there. I love it.
Thank you. It's an old SHO, I just try and take care of it an have fun with it as well. I've got a few more things in store over the next year, but it's just fun cruising around here as it is quite 'rare'.
Per our texts... Yes Tim, E85 is that good. When will you join the E85 Army???
