All Hail Megatron Build - MAP 2.4LR by Levar

4 minute(s) of a 95 minute read

5-22-2012

OK. This weekend was pretty good. I was able to get a nice speed density intake fabbed up by Archie @ PSI in Tucson, Arizona to go with the rest of the engine bay them. I believe the engine bay is coming along rather nicely. The only thing remaining that I can see to do is replace the bland looking black vacuum lines with blue vacuum lines and the black wires protector sleeves with blue protector sleeves. I was also thinking about removing the windshield wiper fluid reservior since I never use it. Well, here are some updated pictures of the progress made. 

http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...nt=exhaust.mp4

And here is a short video of the exhaust note for the GSC S2 cams doing their "blop, blop, blopping". 

I am not sure how to get the video to imbed in the thread like I have seen others. Maybe it is because I use Photobucket, right?

Lastly, 

Tom made a few tweaks with the pump 91-octane "water" tune yesterday. It was nearly 100-degrees during this time as it is that time of the year in Arizona. I am pretty impressed with the results and cannot wait until I start the E85 tune which should be just after Memorial Day. 

I am not trying to extract every last ounce of power from this fuel as the condition and quality could get worse as the temperature increases. Tom told me that there is plenty left on the table (~ 430whp safely). We will more than likely do 1-2 more pulls once I put in new spark plugs that are gapped at .022 as well as change from the Amsoil break-in engine oil that is presently in the engine.

As for the fueling, well..., that was an exercise in learning, my friend. When I was addressing the fuel aspect of the build, the DW301 was just coming out and everyone was ranting and raving on what it was capable of doing. I saw these results from Afghanistan and the price caught my attention. Fuel pump bought immediately. Well, shortly after that, the negative results started to surface and I knew that my fuel set up was not as strong as I would prefer. The decision, see what I can make with the fuel pump. And how much power did I make? Zero horsepower as the pump failed on me before I could even get a baseline tune done. The quick fix was to throw a single Walbro 255lph just so that I could bring him home. At this point in time, a double pumper will be purchased and I will go ahead and install the Magnus 100cfm fuel rail that is still sitting in my garage.