Update on my 3L turbo.
What happened before: After my last post, I came back to Excessive with my XCal2 and a wing & a prayer. Chris at Excessive took what I had, tweaked it out to a nice little setup, then everything went to hell.
The dyno's spark inducer (how it reads engine RPMs) started flaking out at 4100RPMs. Like clockwork. At first, he thought it was his inductor, so I re-scheduled, and he got a new inductor lead.
Brought it back, SAME THING AGAIN. Decided to say the hell with it, pulled off my FRWs and threw on a broke-d*ck set of stock wires with over 70k on them, and the thing woke up- Literally. Picked up 15hp on the dyno and it read all the way to redline. Incredible, but true. Chalk me up as a proponent of stock Ford wires, and no longer the person on the soapbox for the FRWs. Sorry, folks- Looks like they're pretty much crap.
On the the plots!
You've made it this far, so here we go. This was at 10.5psi, (50% of boost controller maximum), and once again, the cams fall on their face short of 6k RPMs. Not before they impress, however:
342.84hp/346.78tq.
Turned up the boost. Now at 70% of boost controller maximum (where we were before), gave it another shot. Had to shut down at ~4300RPMs due to some pinging (erring on the side of caution).
Um yeah- So 366.28ft/lbs of torque? Jebus.
Next step- Rip out the 3L oval intake/Mazda 6 exhaust cam combo, throw in a set of SVT cams, run it again.
Any donators?
