The Project Pad

Vegas is at, what, 2000 feet? so a little altitude. The car is down with Colin in Southern Nevada for a little while now. He had plans of driving that daily for a little while, but seeing as the headgasket picked an ideal time to esplode, looks like it needs some stuff and things done before that happens.

Turbo cars don't really have to worry about the DA as much as N/A cars do.

Either way, that's pretty impressive for a heavy car. Bet it shocks a ton of people on the street

Great Projects ) interesting to watch !

So, some things have been happening.

"One of these is not like the others"

Upgrade time!

So. Found a bent rod, found where the gasket blew up, got the steering rack swapped out, found a decimated pilot bearing, rebuilt the head with new Valve seals. Among not shop things, the mule DESTROYED a 335i, had some delish food, Got some fun rides in a quick car, saw some bad-ass projects, and had some fun times with Colin and friends.
Not a bad weekend overall.

Wow, great progress in such a short timespan.

Nice! What is the mule running now, an efr kit?

That is where the FB EFR graph came from, I think... (the mule)

Wait, what?

Which EFR are we talking, for those of us not on facecrack?

7163

Nice work, that's the turbo I picked too.

Can someone post the graph? (Do I have to ask? )

I don't know why it wasn't put here in the first place.

I can do it tonight, travelling with the family today.

I can't make my phone do it.

Mule on 6758

and currently mule on 7163

That is hilarious. Hank is going to have to get a new dyno that reads below 2k at the rate this is going.

I should mention, during the destruction of the 335i Colin left it in 5th and just stomped on it and STILL managed to decimate the poor guy. The spool on these things is crazy, and the powerband is fantastic. Neck is a bit sore from the pulls.

Stock ic too. Corn is amazing

Both those pulls were on the stock IC, He managed to fit a bigger FMIC in there recently, albeit a not very good one.

Definitely made a lot of progress this weekend on Phil's car! Could have gotten more done probably but Phil wasn't down here that long and birthday celebrations and hangovers put a dent in motivation. Plan at the moment is a 6758 on the 5K. I've got almost all the parts to start putting it back together, just need to do it! And swap new trans and diff in aswell but that's a one day ordeal.

Dyno numbers were stock IC, The Mule has an FMIC now. (That is probably much too small, but way mo' better than stock)
Destroying the 335I was hilarious. He came up on me at 100+, I was going about 75, he went for the pass and by the time he was half a car length ahead I pulled him like a freight train to ~140. I think The Mule should just be renamed the giggle mobile, because that's what I do every time I drive it...

If I had kept the 4k I think it would have seen an efr with qsv eventually. Damn I wish I had the money to buy that car back lol

Those graphs are awesome. So the 6758 spools like a k24 and the 7163 spools very similarly to an rs2. I would really love to see some pump 93 dyno pulls.

Spools nearly the same, transient response is (far) superior on the EFR. Especially the 6758.

I'd like to see some pulls on 91 octane for us poor saps stuck with it, 93 would be good too though.

please forgive me for being out of the loop, but what car is the mule?

dana wrote:please forgive me for being out of the loop, but what car is the mule?

Iroz shop car/my daily. 93 S4