reeloop

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can't you hear the broken vias at work when you floor it ?

xlcrew

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not really because it doesn't sound loud at all, like for instance vtec. it's a very slight tone difference that you really have to listen for and if you're in your car you can't really hear it. i know i can't, but's mainly because of my exhaust. i had mine mess up because i wired in my vafc wrong and i didn't know till i hit the dyno at maxus, without it working i put down 178hp. at maxus i didn't know that was the problem so we just took the shaft out and then my car made almost 200. that is something that i don't recomend for the fact that you lose a lot of torque across the board with it out. i fixed my wiring and it works fine.

here listen to this. it's dyno run with it working.
http://videos.streetfire.net/search/...3a014adfd4.htm

Nealoc187

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I don't know about the 00VI but with my MEVI I could never hear the actual switchover, but when I got up above about 6000rpm I could tell a difference in the sound, though it was very subtle. I doubt most people could notice it, I had enough experience up there in the nether regions of the tach with all the racing I used to do that I became able to discern whether or not my MEVI had opened.

krismax

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my 96 se with comfort and convienence package with no weight reduction except spare and 1/4 of gas. I had heavy 17x8 momo arrows the car weighed 3075lbs

michaelnyden

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with you in it?

my wheels are by no means light when I had it weighed as I had my street wheels on...and my car is fully loaded as well, but should come in just under 3100lbs with me in it (no spare or jack or floormats, etc.)

NmexMAX

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When should you weight it, or have you?

krismax

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the 3075lbs is without me and with me 3330lbs and might i add greddy exhaust and stillen highflow only mods at that time i ran 14.8's with this setup

michaelnyden

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I already have weighed it a few times...I was saying subtracting my weight, my car should come in around just under 3100lbs or so...

NmexMAX

iTrader: (22)

Now THAT'S what I wanted to hear ...
Where did you weigh it at? Weigh station?

michaelnyden

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a place that does suspension cornerweighting...which is by far the most accurate...

NmexMAX

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I need to get my piglet on there.

Max_Gator

Not so fast my friend . . . I still lurk occasionally.

I ran a 14.39 before I got the headers - so we are talking cattman y and cai, pilot sports, a great launch and a nice cold day. To get those times, you've got to be brutal on the clutch - slip it from 4-5k.

Prior to that Madmax2k beat me by one fricking one hundreth of a sec. 14.38. But I think I trapped higher. He could bust out 14.4s all day because he was better/more consistent at slipping the cluctch. He even had some good times after he blew his water pump apart speed shifting as we drove down the road next to each other . . .

I believe there was someone else on the site with similar times.

I haven't been to the track in a while, but last few times I went I consistently hit 14.5s.

I think with some tuning on my current setup I could do a bit better, but there just isn't much more there for the 2k-2k1 setup without FI. Although, I'm running the stock 17s so lighter wheels could pick me up a couple 10ths maybe.

Max_Gator

I think I was one of the first to go through the vias hell and can tell you that it is hard to tell if the vias is working or not, although you can hear a subtle difference.

The reason it is hard to tell is that most test it in 1st/2nd where the car stays above the changeover for a very small time. However, you can really tell you have a problem at the top of 4th - it just flattens out (ahem . . . or so I've heard). Now, try explaining that to the dealer as a basis for a new vias. They say

michaelnyden

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but you forget about emanage ultimate, weight reduction and other simple things such as udp, flywheel, headers as you mentioned, larger TB, etc. these could easily add up to a few tenths right there...

Max_Gator

I need to look into tuning alternatives. Mainly, it runs rich and I'm sure that leaning it out a bit will give me some more power. Don't know if emanage is a stand alone unit - but those are exp. plus require a bunch of dyno tuning to get results. Now, maybe if I can raise the rev limiter . . .

I had the udp when I did my best runs.

Not sure that a lightweight flywheel will translate into faster times - even though it equals better responsiveness on the street. The key to the best times is slipping the clutch and the lightweight doesn't give the same torque multiplier effect. I think several others indicated it hurt 1/4 mile times - as a result I didn't switch to it when I changed my clutch.

I'm not into weight reduction aside from taking the spare out of the trunk.

Has anyone shown gains from a larger TB?

brad kay

Maybe your knock sensor is bad, cuz thats exactly what I ran with a bad knock sensor and a 50 shot.

kbabas

sorry I know this is wrong area to post but you guys are acting like 5th gen is slow I had a 90' mustang with 350 hp after several thousand wasted I dumped it and decided to get maxima and its almost just as fast, off the line I can smoke most cars. I'll even take on your bigger clunkier (is that a word) maxima 'cause you got all that extra weight!

Hoooper

what year do you own? btw, where in SR do you live, i live in petaluma.

MaxBoost925

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HOLY CRAP.

Let's see. I'm getting nitrous, 75 shots wet ZEX

I'm lighter
I got more bolt ons
And I'm running just as rich as you were.


...With tuning do you see 13.5 in the horizon?