Bad news: My SCG-1 boost controller/wideband is malfunctioning so I had to remove it to RMA.
Good news: Got retuned off wastegate pressure. Made less WHP but gained about 40 WTQ until the wastegate cut in. This means motor is almost done breaking in!

Blue line is the last highest run, red line is today's last run.


My tuner took it for a road test:

 

Lol at setting off the car alarm, damn that makes some serious sound & power, lord help those poor tires

 

This is super clean!

 

Pretty impressive dyno run, Tony. I wish I was pulling that kind of torque!

Those tires definitely aren't going to last trying to put down that kind of power.

 

My GoPro came in and I took a few videos on the way to work today.

 

Saturday morning I drove through a shoot my friend was doing and he was nice enough to take a few snaps.





Then in the afternoon I went to a friend's baby shower, of course he wanted to see how the car runs. We took it around the neighborhood but couldn't even get onto the highway because I broke the driver side axle turning onto the frontage road..





Luckily it happened early enough in the day that I was able to get the car towed to Jtran and they were able to get me back on the road the same day!

 

Sorry to see this happened Tony

 

^ Thanks, the car does have 93k miles and is driven daily right now (a long story). So these type of things, although unwanted, are anticipated in the back of the head still. I am just glad it wasn't the clutch or the diff as those are substantially more on the wallet than the axle was.

 

tony, you shouldn't say/type such things out loud. You ought to prepare yourself now.

 

What's that badge on your trunk, Tony?

 

^ It's a sticker that says jtranbuilt - I put it on at the Mayday Garage RiceBowl show I went to right after getting the car back to rep Jtran Motorsports. I planned to take it off after I have had a chance to detail the car properly, but now that it is back on daily duty (a tree fell on my wife's QX60!) I have been too lazy to wash and do a complete detail. Maybe this weekend I will have time to pull the porter cable out.

 

That sticker is a keeper. All those window stickers, and giant windshield banners and whatnot... meh. But that trunk decal is fantastic.

Love it.

 

^ It was put on in a hurry so it's not exactly centered or straight. I too have grown fond of it and would consider putting another one on after detailing the car properly first.

I understand you like the cleaner look without the clutter, but the other stickers are supporting the supporters which have helped or which I have obligations to so unfortunately they will be staying, at least for a little awhile anyway.

 

A tree fell on your wifes' Q and yours wound up on a flatbed
Sorry about your rather bummed out weekend, glad you weren't in harms way when the axle snapped.
Back on track ASAP I'm sure
G/L T

 

I get that, Tony. It's part & parcel to the process you went through, and the shows you take the car. But as a car that you drive down the street just for the fun of it... that rear trunk decal is all you need. I think it's the difference between being impressive and being artistic. The "jtranbuilt" decal is artistic. The rest is just go-fast stickers.

No offense intended. You're car is built way beyond anything most of us do on this forum. At this point, all I'm qualified to talk about is what badge you put on the trunk.