Some updates.
Haven't really been doing anything except beating the **** out of the car and having a lot of fun doing 1000ft burnouts with the one tire fire haha I did manage to find a small strip of mexico on my way to work. Hooked up pretty decent after I aired down the tires to around 20psi.
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Original tires finally died.
Have a new set on there. Went with a MASSIVE 195 tire instead of the 185 I had on there...
. I put a feeler out there on a local car FB page and asked what people had lying around for burners and got REALLY lucky. a local guy who mounts/balances/aligns cars had a set in his shop. So for $150 I got 4 tires with a TON of tread mounted/balanced and a front end alignment which I needed very badly.
While it was on the lift I took so decent photos to give anybody a few angles I may not have taken already.
Car drives beautifully on the highway now. Still high in the RPM but once the 8.8" goes in and I regear it to around a 3.2x gear the rpm will come down and be much nicer do drive on the highway.
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Got my boost control issue fixed by adding the second wastegate you see on the crossover tube. I have a 3 port MAC valve on the way so I can integrate the boost control into the MS3 Gold Box. I will also add a rotary dial and then have that control the duty cycle so I have a boost select switch for fun on the run lol
Spent a bunch of time rewiring the tail lights so they actually work. It's nice not having to worry about getting pulled over for something dumb. Been driving the car to work a lot. Over the last month I've put 1k miles on the setup and it's been doing great. Gas mileage is pretty **** on e85, I'm averaging around 10mph right now... I'm always doing nice pulls on it though so I don't expect much lol
I'm going to be buying a set of steel wheels off Jegs to mount a set of slicks on. We will see how long the Volvo diff lasts at the track with slick. I can't wait
The track is only 5 min from my house and I have a few buddies that said they would throw the car on the trailer and bring me home if I break it.