So excited, had to share with somebody who cares...
 

Picking up my car from dyno tuning tonight. Tri-Point Engineering in Canoga Park, CA built my engine and dyno tuned my AEM EMS for 12psi on pump gas. It's been about 3 months since my motor blew, and I am so excited to pick it up I can barely sit still.

It's funny, when Mark called to let me know it was finished he remarked, "You might want to consider upgrading your suspension, your car is putting down a lot of power, so it gets a little squirelly in the corners." Like I said, I am fucking pumped... might not live through the weekend. Just kidding, Ma.

thats good to hear...tri-point is a good shop

good luck and be careful

Congrats. Did they do anything special to it during the rebuild? How did the old motor fail, by the way?

-s-

Scotty305,

That's interesting, I bought my car in Pomona when I was in school in Claremont.

All the details of the build up are listed in my profile under VbGarage. Among them, 3mm seals, AEM stand-alone engine management, wideband 02 sensor, etc. Basically a build up capable of handling much higher levels of boost, save for the massive turbo and extra dowel pins. And to Tri-Point's credit, it looks immaculate, will pass visual inspection without raising an eyebrow.

It's a mystery to us all how the old motor failed. With 65,000 miles on it, it should have lasted for quite a bit longer. It was bone stock when it failed. I was driving along the PCH, just cruising, minding my own business, when all of the sudden I hit the proverbial brick wall. I could instantly tell that one rotor was not firing, but it happened so suddenly, and under normal driving conditions, I figured I had an ignition problem at worst. I limped home from Santa Monica to Hollywood on surface streets and had it towed to Tri-Point. Under further scrutiny, I was told the front rotor had flawless compression, but the rear was completely dead. The shattered apex seal gouged a deep groove in the rear rotor housing and destroyed the stock turbos. The best explination that we can surmise is a bad batch of gasoline. As contrived as that sounds, it could have caused the apex seal to slowly deteriorate and eventually give out due to detonation. If anyone has a more practical theory, I'm all ears...

:rlaugh:
Yeah I know this feeling, I couldnt sleep the night before.

It seems a grip of people are getting their FDs back together recently, finaly some good news for a change.