Well it was a great weekend overall. Not nearly as many mechanical problems as last time and most of the tunes went very smoothly. One thing I learned as I tuned more and more small turbo cars at elevation is that you can really make some crazy torque up there! Significantly more it seems than down at sea level. Here are the charts:
Here's the last tune I did on Monday on my way back. This car is near Truckee so I stopped by on the way home and tuned it on some nice roads near their place. This was a very mild and interesting setup. Its an 02 WRX with a stock downpipe with gutted out cat, stock third cat in place (not gutted), stock catback, STI uppipe, P&P headers, P&P TD04, P&P throttle body, samco inlet hose, perrin maf pipe, and prodrive 3-port boost solenoid. This car was running out of fuel up top, so I had to keep it somewhat conservative above 5500RPM until the customer upgrades to a walbro. Nonetheless, considering the nearly stock TBE this car made great overall power and completely insane amounts of torque
. At sea level I would have expected this car to make about 205whp and 210-215ft-lbs at most. Instead this thing put down a whopping 231ft-lbs with a curve that almost looks like a 2.5l Here's the plot:
