Welp, that is all I am posting for now. Back to keeping to myself to do what I do.

Why should I even post anymore here. You see what happens when I do. Such a waste of energy.

Or that tuner. :shakes head:

… what happens?


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Yeah, he sucked big rusty Rhino roots.

Everybody and there brother comes and reads my thread that are not members. Not giving anymore secrets away for free. Costing me a mint to figure stuff out. I am my own development department. This stuff is not cheap.

So, what happened to my engine. It was either one of 3 things or a combination of the 3. High IAT's, Drive pressure, or I had detonation in cylinder #4. We have nothing to monitor some of that with Ecutek. If you are not monitoring it you are guessing. Guessing is what get's you in trouble and you end up with a hurt engine. If you keep trying to make the engine respond, you have a hurt engine. As we all have seen recently. It either makes it with ease or you end up with scrap metal.

Didn't you say at some point in this 5k+ post thread that you were doing this to spread knowledge as you wanted to avoid being like every other builder that had grand plans and then disappeared?? I get people change their minds and that is what you did, but why post about it? Why not just say it once, like you already have, and move on? Your thread, you do you, but access to this site isn't kept under lock and key. To your credit, you really had me convinced you were done with the VQ a few posts back.

Yeah, that's out the window now. F it. I was done until I found out it will be over 100k to swap over to a VR38. Plus, you can't get a Motec M150 right now if you wanted too.

I will give you an example. When Vince at RT tuning tuned my car for 900whp, it just made it with ease. He tuned my friends car with a BP kit and it struggled at 700whp. It was done. He stopped and had a new midmount turbo kit made and changed turbo. It made it to 996whp or so and then had an issue with his top fuel hop motor where it pucked coolant. He found out why and is fixing that. Then you have another guy who just can't accept his car is not making power and keeps trying to force it. In the end, the motor is destroyed. I will leave this last post. I am done for a while. Have fun and good luck everybody.

With all due respect, I have not learned anything from this thread and I doubt that others have either. Simply spending $100k in the platform and dropping off your car to random shops does not constitute a development department.

If you make an effort, Ecutek can monitor all of the factors mentioned, including IAT, drive pressure, and detonation. However, careful modeling is required for knock sensors to detect detonation in built motors.

Regarding the VR38, you have to pay to play.. The VQ engine has been repeatedly shown to be unreliable for generating four-digit horsepower levels, trying again and again and expecting a different result is something..

Are you the guy who sells GTR exhaust manifold adaptor kits to fit the 370z so folks can install GTR turbos? Yes, We have one factory IAT sensor in the passenger side MAF. Yes, we have two knock sensors stock on the 370z. It can't monitor drive pressure. I will leave it at that.

Well, when you pay somebody to help you with your car and you are asking for things that have never been done before you are paying for development work. Do you think Gidi has to pay for development work? Yes, I am sure the shops he uses charges him. It's not for free.

As far as the comments on the VR38. It's just not worth the money to do it. I will turn my car down a bit if needed. +900whp is not really usable on the street.


This is exactly why I don't like to share anymore.

By the way, who do you think paid for the development work on SOHO's top fuel hoop motor. Ben and Nathan did. They didn't pay for all of it, but they paid for it. They both said I want to do this and opened their wallets.
For me I am more involved. I have successes and I have failures. It's all part of the journey. I am just not posting about my journey anymore because of the A-holes.

I thought you wanted to share your journey, the good and the bad so folks could get educated on what it really takes to push the envelope on a big build.?

I get secrecy if you’re racing competitively and/or for $$ but I’ll never understand the “secrecy” regarding a personal type build. That’s not just directed at you but at anyone/all the folks and shops that pull that type of sh1t.

We’re supposed to be a community of enthusiasts, we should support each other.

Dude, you’re my forum/internet friend but you gotta be the most antisocial social person I know. :rofl2: