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Originally Posted by idahotuner
i have reved mine to the 8000 mark on several occasions not on purpose though. my power peaks at 6900. but its nice to know my head can handle it. with my new springs and cams. i am gettigna bee r rev limitor so i can adjust my rev limitors in 2 stages to my satisfaction
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Certainly good to have it built, but once you get above the 8k plateau, you're next week link are the HLA's....have you ever considered going solid and revving yours out? That's about the last thing I may do to mine...but we'll see. I just don't think I want to deal with the Solid HLA's and the constant shimming and shat. My car is a street car, so I like to keep it street able.
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Originally Posted by usdm180sx
Screw dyno time? codyace all I can say is that u got really lucky with your setup. I'm sure the extrude honed turbo housing and exhaust manifold helped, but mail order rom tunes will never out do real time dyno tuning. If you have a reflash done real time on the dyno your car would run even better but since you already shelled out the cash for your mail order rom tune it wouldn't make sense.
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Lucky? Who are you to say? Why not just give credit where it's due, and realize I spent some good time, and have the experience with these things to create a pretty easy hot rod build. I'm not saying I'm an SR master build like we have on this forum, but when it comes to bolt on stuff and throwing together a street derived bottom end, I've got a grasp on stuff.
Don't take things literally when I say 'screw dyno time'. That was in regard to the JANK BC cams and the time required with gears to run them. Have you ever had an SR on a dyno, trying to set in cams? I have, it sucks, that fugger gets hot as heck, you're dicking around with the stupid valve cover, dropping the stupid rubber washers/nuts (I usually just put 4 in when doing this), worrying about the VC gasket.....and branding your arms with 'koyo' gets old. I'd rather get the right cam, plop it in, and be done, no degreeing needed. If you have done this, awesome, and my fault for assuming.
Mail Order tunes are just that: Mail order. They are made to work everytime, and act as stock as possible. Now there are certainly compentent tuners everywhere that can make a car work like stock, but why bother with some wacky standalone for a 300-400 hp car? To me that's overkill for 97% of the cars on here. I don't need to highest hp, the most timing jammed in, or all of the extra dial a boom capability at all. I like going 'Hey Clark, here are my mods, send me a chip'. Done. First time out of the box, it works great.
PS: For just a 'crappy mail order' I also have Launch Control, and Water Injection (which I have yet to wire up). Not to bad for some generic over the phone stuff huh?
And I'm certain the car would work marginally better, but the car makes over 400 whp, gets 30 mpg cruising, starts and drives like OEM....heck my mom has driven my car with no issues....I think that's a testament to a solid, thought out build...heck speaking of economy, I got 18 MPG during an entire track day monday....I know some people that would love to have that for normal city driving....
I need no lesson in how to build 300-400 whp SR's...and I have no urge for any more.