Brian, celica2EVO, has changed his set up. He's ran the last two years on our Stage 3, 2 liter and ran quite a few 9 second passes. The last time the car was on the track he ran 9.8x at 149 mph and when he was loading it on the trailer he heard the dreaded "knocking" noise and assumed it was a rod bearing.
Brian pulled the engine out and brought it to us complete with the trans still bolted to it.
The decision was made to try the new 2.1 liter engine I had just put into my RS. Upon taking his trans off his old engine we found the actual knocking noise, ended up it was nothing more than the flywheel bolts being lose. Keeping a great attitude, Brian just sold off the old parts (which looked like new after 2 years) and continued on with the plans for the 2.1.
The build looks like this:
BR Stage 3, 2.1 liter with Manley pistons and GRP rods.
BR Stage 3 head
BR 272 cams
BR double pumper (standard)
BR fuel rail with stock regulator
ID2000 injectors
AEM EMS
BR 3" turbo back
BR forward facing turbo kit with FP HTA86 turbo
BR fabricated intake manifold
BR upper and lower i/c pipe kit
BR battery kit
BR Race FMIC
BR coil on plug ignition
BR 65 mm throttle body
BR dual stage boost controller
Bushwhacker Stage 1 trans
Tilton clutch
Sunrise E85 for fuel
We built the complete engine, Brian put it in the car himself and did a great job. The car had not been started before today. It was pushed off the trailer, I loaded in a new program for the injectors and E85 and it fired instantly. It ran flawlessly from that point on. These new injectors are just freaking incredible. Every glitch that was ever felt with the cars before that I blamed on ignition, AEM EMS issues etc., are GONE with the ID2000's.
Anyway, car was started and loaded on the dyno. Within 3 pulls the power was way over 500 and I knew that was only a start.
The car was tuned first on low boost, 31 psi and the power was within 2 whp of what it made previously at 40'ish psi on Q16. Check out this dyno sheet at 31 psi:
Then we turned up the boost to a peak of 38.26 psi and power rose easily to 665 and 510 ft lbs of boost, easily beating the previous combination which was at over 40 psi of boost.
Here is the dyno sheet at 38 psi:
Last is the dyno sheet of the 2 liter VS the 2.1 liter that is in the car now. The difference everywhere is fantastic but the biggest change is the low/mid range. Where the power/torque cross at 5250 rpm there is a 140 whp gain in hp and torque, THAT is something you can feel for sure when driving around on the street and is going to make this car a lot more fun to drive than it was. Check out the comparison:
