GD Rehabilitating an abused bugeye

[jswansti]

Im no expert by any means but I looked at your mod list to see what i think you'll put down. But first I have a question, does it have a swapped STi motor in it?

With those mods and an STI motor I would hope you'd be putting down at least 320 whp. I dont know the limits of stock injectors on 93 octane... On a non-STi engine i wouldn't have much of a guess, but I would hope around 250ish whp.

Again, I am no expert, these guesses are just based off of other tuned cars i've seen with similar mods...

 

[Z1107]

Feel free to share, I'm looking for any educated input. I'm assuming non built EJ205 but after wrenching on this car I think the dealer was talking out his ass about the previous owners mods. This car was not lightly modded by the previous owner. You can see under the hood where aftermarket parts were taken off and stock parts thrown back on plus some pretty expensive parts left on the car. Regardless though it's an EJ20.

 

[jswansti]

Hmm...wont pretend to know much about the ej20 so i'll leave the more educated guesses to the powers above (fuji, holy, reks)

 

[Vermont]

Did a little bit of reading and research for you man. Best you will be looking at is 270ish. More likely to be around 250 depending on the dyno. Highest I saw was 307awhp but that was on e85. The injectors are going to hold you back. That 270 i found was on pump but with DW650cc the other mods were very similar to yours beside that. Also depends on how hard your tuner wants to push the car. I would say be happy with a solid 250awhp. Also you might wanna find out what a stock sti reads on that same dyno just for comparison for the rest of us.

 

[jswansti]

Well based on Vermontz research im not that far off! Im excited to see the tune and progression of your ride!

 

[Z1107]

I'll be completely happy with 250. If I remember Cobb's dyno runs on a stock bugeye whp was 169. So thats a pretty good increase. Thanks everyone.

 

[Z1107]

So I ordered a strut tower bar today, should be here in 3 days. Go ahead and rip on me but I bought a eBay special. $30, so I'm going to test it out and put a review up. Oh and my tune has been postponed due to my company laying off employees so I'm having to pick up the slack and will have no time.

 

[Z1107]

Ive learned a valuable lesson with my car, never buy a car with out maintenance history in hand. Im really dreading spending $700 on parts and labor for my timing belt. Ive checked the timing cover and the bolts have for sure been removed before, but I have to play it safe.

 

[Z1107]

yeah im trying to keep it conservative until I do the EJ207 or EJ257 swap.

 

[Z1107]

Pulling an all nighter doing bodywork on the Rex. Sanding and painting front bumber, tomorrow the wing comes off and filling in the holes. Will be ordering a mines type lip spoiler in a few weeks.

 

[Z1107]

A pic from 2 am. Right bumper getting ready to paint.

 

[jswansti]

I'ma slap you into the 80s!

Keep up the work mang! Best mod: blood, sweat and TEAR. Driver mod doesnt have shit on that!

Real men only cry one tear when working on their rides.

 

[Vermont]

Real men only cry one tear when working on their rides.

Lol yes I was hoping some one else caught that besides me.....

@Z1107- :tup: keep on with the ride man. By the time your done with it, that is going to be one bad ass rex.....

 

[Z1107]

Driving down the hwy took a bird strike and lost the vortex generator. So pissed.

 

[Vermont]

Driving down the hwy took a bird strike and lost the vortex generator. So pissed.

lol dude I had the same problem in my GR..... I was driving up too High plains race way back in Colorado for a track day. As I am driving along minding my own business, when a bird on the side of the road freaks out due to my EWG and flies right up and into my wind shield...... I had a huge red and yelow( no clue what the yellow was from :|) smeer in the middle of my wind shield. Took me a good half hour to scrub out all the birg guts at the track..... My instructor was laughing at me the whole time.....

 

[Z1107]

Strut bar installed.

 

[Z1107]

Starting work on the trunk to go wingless.

 

[Undecisive]

Why not do a trade for a wingless trunk???

Agreed. It's too easy to find a wingless trunk already done.

 

[Z1107]

This is cheaper.

 

[Z1107]

Clutch went out today. Fml.