Archive April 2009
Press Release: Street Tuned Sponsorship
The Rochester DSM One Lap of America team is proud to announce Street Tuned Motorsports has signed on as an official team sponsor.
Street Tuned Motorsports Inc. specializes in Tuning, Performance Parts and Installation for the 4G63 Turbo Eclipse, Talon, Laser and Evolution. We are also a parts retailer for the popular tuner cars and buy direct with numerous companies.
http://www.streettunedmotorsports.com/
STM is the proud home of the one and only “RICER” Evo VIII. This car has been our face for the past 4 years and our work/tuning ethic with this car has been to: Push the Limits!
The STM Ricer is the “fastest and quickest” stock-block 4g63 Evo VIII on the planet.
It is very important to us to convey how much dedication we have in a tune and maintenance. You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on your car, but if the parts don’t work well together and are not “set up” correctly, you might as well park it and look at it.
STM is not about the numbers that follow a dollar sign, but the numbers that light up at the end of the quarter mile: Results.
If you are looking for a shop that will give you the best bang for your buck and some honest, reliable options, you’ve found it.
STM has donated there time and expertise to dyno tune the One Lap VR4. Just so you know what they can do we rolled in making 244hp and rolled out making 355hp at the limit of our injectors.
0Dyno Tuning at STM (Video)
We rolled the car into Street Tuned Motorsports yesterday afternoon to put the car on their dyno and to enlist the aid of Emery in getting the car tuned with the ECMLink. It was a bit of a learning curve for us all, getting to play with the new ECMLink version 3 software.
The car was on the DYNO for 4-5 hours, as Tim and Emery sat in the car and transformed the car from a pile of parts to a unified working machine. While Tim learned the workings of ECMlink (which I am mildly jealous about), my job became sharing it with the world. We went live with the Ustream feed and were able to share the event with many of our supporters and followers out there. I did record one video stream to Ustream but the laptop I was using was mildly slow, and soon the record uploads were not working. I grabbed the video camera and recorded most of the runs from the day.
We still owe a huge thanks to STM for putting us on the dyno and providing us with the tuning time we desperately needed.
0Dyno update from STM tuning
Its been a long day and I won’t have time to share all the details yet. I haven’t looked over the logs carefully enough but at the end of the day we are out of injectors. We were seeing 95 to 100 percent duty cycle and the link said we were at 52.9lbs/min flow so although we could turn the boost up for a quarter mile run it wouldn’t work for road racing.
We did a bunch of pulls at 22psi and then one at 24psi. The next pull we tried for 25psi but it hit 30psi instead. On that run Emery got off the gas at 6000rpms. That run made 372hp and was climbing fast. It was also without any knock.
We pulled the plug because the oil leak on the turbo drain line was getting worse and with the injectors running at there max and the turbo already at over 52lb/min there was no point. We also didn’t run the car past 7500rpms and in fact we did most of the tuning running up to only 5500rpms. The goal was to get it running right before we turned up the wick. That’s why there were a bunch of 300hp numbers coming out.
At the end of the day the car is running 25psi on pump and meth making 355hp on a Mustang dyno scaled for a 4000lb car. If the scaling was set to the cars real weight the numbers would have been higher but I am not a big fan of dyno numbers. I know two cars that came off that dyno that made at least 60hp less that run 11.9′s at 115mph. That puts us firmly in the 120′s where I wanted to be.
There are a few things that could wring out more power from the car. First is injectors. It will make power at 100% duty cycle but I think the torque curve showed the break down in the spray patten. 850cc or even 950cc would be better suited for the job. On a good note guess how much power it takes to max out 660′s? Over 400hp to the wheels so we are in a good place. Cam gears would help and so would a better set of cams. The car has 272/264 HKS and I think they ad to the fat torque curve but more exhaust cam would help.
I’ll work on a blog with more details tomorrow but for now I am happy and the One Lap VR4 is fast.
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UStream needs the better laptop
UStream is working out pretty awesome, but the old tuning laptop I have been using is really coming to a screeching halt when trying to stream and chat at the same time. Considering the wireless connection I was on, I am pretty happy we were able to stream the 5 plus hours of tuning runs, without mishap. That being said, I wasn’t able to get the record function working on the video streams, except for the first short run. Here is the first 5500 RPM run of the day.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1414949
OR here on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxkefRSP10
I recorded most of the other runs on a hand held camera, to at least preserve the moment. I am sifting through video now, to make something usable online.
0Press Release: TunersNation new Team Sponsor to One Lap
The Rochester DSM One Lap of America team is proud to announce that TunersNation.com has signed on to the Rochester DSM One Lap of America Team as an official Race Day Sponsor.
TunersNation.com started out in supplying hard to find parts for the 6g E39A Mitsubishi Galant VR4 for friends in 2000 & finally turning the hobby into a full fledged import go fast business in June 2008 specializing in Mitsubishi High Performance. It is a perfect match for the Rochester One Lap team to represent TunersNation, who continues to support and preserve the Mitsubishi cars we enjoy so much.
Garfield Wright over at TunersNation.com sent us over an authentic set of JDM hood vents that not only look bad-ass but they are fully functional as well. They will be keeping the One Lap Galant VR4 temperatures down under the hood while preserving that authentic look to the car.
Be sure to checkout their website at www.TunersNation.com
PH# 954-404-0733
sales@tunersnation.com
