xluben's FogTurbo Bugeye

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Over the weekend I did a few updates to my car:

• Installed an IAT sensor in my end tank
• Replaced fuel filter
• Cleaned the bugs off my FMIC
• Installed Aluminati solid mounts (motor, trans, pitch stop)

3rd gear pull (~90mph) goes up 2°. 4th gear pull (~130mph) goes up 10°.

No photo of the transmission mount because it's not coated yet.

Torque Solutions mounts that came out.

6-16-2015

Yesterday NF dropped a new clutch disc in for me. Last time at the track I did around 10 bunouts + launches (on slicks) and then on one of my passes the clutch wouldn't disengage after I got off the line. I got it out of 1st, but it wouldn't go into 2nd. I eventually got the clutch to disengage and got it back in gear but it was really rough whenever releasing the clutch. Especially from a stop in 1st. I drove the car home and after a few more starts it smoothed out mostly.

NF had experienced a similar occurrence with their Speeding Bullet STI a few years ago and suspected the clutch had welded itself and then eventually pulled apart chunks of the disc. Based on this, the decision was made to replace my disc before the Proving Grounds event this weekend. Once the clutch came out, it was confirmed that mine had experienced the exact same thing as the Speeding Bullet. The disc had chunks missing and he pressure plate had parts of the disc embedded into it.

The flywheel was replace with a freshly resurfaced one, the disc was replaced with a new ACT 4 puck solid disc, and the pilot bearing and throw out bearing were also replaced. Also drained fluid and refilled. The chunks were removed from the pressure plate and it was re-installed. It has some obvious hot spots but no major cracking or warping and should be fine to use. I'm hoping this will get me through this season and then I'll probably end up with one of the triple disc clutches next year.

6-18-2015

I had a brake light out for a while and I finally got around to fixing it the other night. Turned out that the bulbs in my round inner portion of my light are the dual filament style. One of the bulbs had one of the filaments burned out. That made it so it would light up when the lights were on, but when the brakes were pressed that same bulb would go out.

Got a new bulb and it's all fixed. The auto parts guy tried to give me a single filament one at first so be on the lookout for that if you don't know what part number you're looking for and ask someone for help. Changed my oil last night and I'm heading to Proving Grounds in Brainerd this weekend.

6-20-2015

Yeah, I guess we will see. I just have the regular ARP's so they are definitely a risk.

Huge lines to get in to BIR yesterday. Took me two hours at the gate. Made some passes on the Mickey Thompson drag radials and no boost off the line. Got it down to 10.2 but then 60' didn't seem to be improving so I quit for the day.

Hopefully it dries out today and I get make some passes with boost off the line and maybe the top end bumped up a little. DA is quite a bit higher this weekend than when I was at Rock Falls.

6-22-2015

I ended up doing 10 passes throughout the weekend and then got booted for no cage during eliminations. No one in my class (62mm turbo) was running faster than about 11 flat. My best pass was 10.1 @ 140mph. I picked up a few mph by not shifting into 5th. I couldn't hook well enough on the street tires to do 9's. I was consistently 10.2 or 10.3.

I will try to get some video up from the 1/4 mile runs soon. For now I have a video from roll racing against a couple EVO's. One is a custom PTE 66mm and the other is a forward facing PTE 6466. Both were at around mid-30's for boost (according to their owners). Runs are from 40mph to about 150mph.

I drove the car to and from the track (2hrs each way) and didn't have any issues throughout the weekend. In the last month the car has seen about twenty low 10 second passes as well as over 1,000 miles on the street. I hope it keeps it up, but I'm sure something will fail eventually as it's being pushed very hard for what the setup is.

6-24-2015

Event: MAPerformance Proving Grounds
Location: Brainerd International Raceway, MN
Ambient Temp: ~80°F
Elevation: 1,200ft
Density Altitude: 3,123ft
Weather: Sunny and Clear
Tires: 26x9.5R15 Mickey Thompson ET Street Radial on 15x7" +35 Rota Slipstream Wheels

Car: 2002 WRX Sedan
Tuner: Nuke @ NF Performance
Transmission: 2012 STI 6 Speed
1/4 Mile ET: 10.141s
1/4 Mile Trap: 140.14mph
60': 1.610s
Target Boost: 36psi
Target AFR: 11's
Fuel: E85

9.9s @ 139mph @ 35psi on E85

Drove the car 2 hours each way to the track and back.

Here is a video of some of the drag passes. I was running mostly 10.2's.

After the drag racing I did some roll racing against a couple Evo's.

6-26-2015

My exhaust dump was off center last weekend and ended up melting my bumper with all the high speed runs. Last night I took the bumper off and got it back where it should be, so hopefully it doesn't get any worse. I'll probably have to pick up a new bumper eventually.

While I was doing that I also pulled off the Hella Sharptones. They are normally yellow with blue. I pulled off the yellow cages and spray painted them matte black. After installing everything back together they are now much less noticeable (although the blue can still be seen if you look close).