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for someone with an EMS on their vehicule and a good basic acknowledge of tuning, those courses make a lot of sense and are not pricey at all.

just to tune your frteshly installed EMS will cost you around 700 depending on the tuner / shop you go to.

...holy ****.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Nov 12, 2009 - 12:17 PM

Look !

That is crazy...I had no idea. This is why I'm researching a few years ahead of time...thanks man!

Now, would this also be necessary on a 3S-GTE swap?

Well, my mechanic/tuner refuses to have an engine blow because of detonation. He's too proud and people here talk smack with a quickness if you screw up. He doesn't trust a piggyback, so he went really rich and safe on my tune since I'm on stock internals. The timing was retarded to like last year, LOL, and I still made good power. He said that with forged internals and the Microtech LT10s, which is what he runs in his car, he will feel safe and be able to run a leaner mixture and also not retard timing so much. Right now he has the fastest MR2 in the island...with a stock head to boot. He knows his stuff.



On ANY engine. And yeah, tuning is expensive. Here in the island the cheapest I've seen is $300, which is what my tuner charges. He charges less to me because I helped him with something when we met, so now he gives me good prices.

Alright. Well, I guess it is money well spent. I know you did two turbo setups, and a tune for each I'm guessing, so do you think you would have spent less than a 3S-GTE swap if you had done only a single setup and single tune? Without any mods not absolutely necessary to turbo'ing, of course.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Nov 14, 2009 - 2:33 PM

Yes i have a stock C52, the tranny seems to have no problem with turbo power. I only got some problems with my synchronizers but thats due to the harsh shifting on the track.

Btw... i got a little winter project..

I just test-fitted everything to check the clearance, seems to fit with the 16 inch wheels.

what are the specs ( offset specially ) of your wheels ?

I have the same brake set-up but I needed 15 mm spacers to clear my wheels.
what disc did you use on your set-up ?

I used Cadillac catera

The wheels are 16x7 ET35, the brake discs are stock Toyota parts for the ST205.

Another Autobahn video , this time at about 12psi, the boost drops a little bit over 5500rpm and i think the T25 can't give much more than this at top end.... but i'm pretty happy with the result.

100-200 km/h

Got some new injectors.. SARD 650cc/min



The reason for those big injectors is E85, i'm still tuning the e-manage but so far the engine runs really great with this stuff.

NIIIICCEE!! bet those wernt cheap at all!
some of the guys on mr2oc have been having great results with E85, hope to see you have some too!

Keep us updated, man. I'm no longer in the 7A-FTE game but I will never lose my love for the engine. I still have mine sitting in my garage. I don't want to sell it. I want to install it in another car.

Is there anyway to make the synchronizers stronger?

I don't think there is some way to make synchronizers stronger, the only way to prevent them from getting destroyed is to shift properly ...

After over 1000 miles on E85 the engine still runs great and i completely retuned the E-manage to use the possibilities of this fuel.
2 weeks ago i went to the racetrack for the first time this year and with ~10psi boost instead of 8psi like last year. I really love E85.. no knock and the engine stays a little bit cooler than with regular fuel, perfect for track racing.

I currently boost about 12,5psi with my daily drive setup without problems but i won't go any further before the engine got rebuild.

What are the plans for the rebuild?

Some h-beam rods that i already got, Wiseco pistons (9:1 compression) and the basic stuff to rebuild an engine .. and maybe a GT28R turbo if i got some money left .

How is the pull with the 650cc injectors? Does that turbo only hit like 15 psi max? Do you have a write up on some of this besides what you have as a part list in the begging? Have you tried pump gas with those new injectors? Sorry for all the questions I'm still learning lol

The injectors don't make any noticeable difference, you just got more room left for power and no i don't have another write up.

I did some performance test runs with RaceChrono together with a 5hz GPS receiver, maybe not 100% accurate but it shows roughly what's possible. Max boost was 11,5psi.

Today i went to a dyno and i'm really happy with the results