Hi there people!
I got good news about the e36. I got it back from the paintshop and they did a great job as expected. I went with a gloss black paint which I think fits the car really good. Sure it doesnt show all its lines but whatever. It looks good in my eyes! I took a quick picture of it outside Dxg's shop and it reminded me how much has changed about the car. I mean, it went from a boring grannymobile with a tired engine to a streetsweeper which I can take long trips in and not have to worry about the engine failing on me. I gotta say im happy how it turned out!
Anyway, enough about that.
We didnt waste no time once the car was in the shop. Before any dyno-testing began I had some parts to install. I didnt have time to do it back at my shop but Dxg was nice enough to lend me some space and let me work through the night with installing the parts. I began by changing the injectors. Previously I had 400cc injectors and were running 98 octane gas. Well, that didnt cut it for me so I bought a set of FIC 750cc injectors and went ahead and got them installed. Along with that I also upgraded the fuelpump and got braided fuel lines. I should have got that before with the old setup but I didnt bother. The biggest change, atleast to the fuelsystem, would be converting to methanol. I've never ran it before and wanted to try and I thought what better way to start then with this!
Oh, I also upgraded the turbo. Instead of running with the stock RB26DET turbo I instead picked up a Garett GT35R. I bought it used but you can barely see it. Anyways, I got that installed and turned the boost up to 2.50 bar(37 psi). I would like it to be reliable as i'm using this as a daily on and off. Obviously not with the shitty tune it had but before that.
About the tune. As stated above I went to Dxg's shop to get the car tuned. We fiddled around a whole lot with the air/fuel mixture to try to make it run efficient yet pack a punch when I floored it(which happens from time to time). We eventually found a nice setup to where it's not pushing any parts limits. Remember, I wanted a reliable car yet a fun car for the streets. After that minor job we looked over everything in the tune. Every single calculation to make sure it was good and ready for the dyno. Everything looked good so we went ahead and did the first dyno-pass of the evening. We got 594,5 hp which seems like alot but I knew it had more coming. SO, Dxg started changing a whole lot of stuff which to me looked like a whole lot of letters and numbers and crazy dialogs and just a bunch of stuff I couldnt understand. Thankfully the car was in good hands!
Once it was ready for it's second dyno-test the suspense was killing me. I couldnt stop thinking about the engine blowing up, generally negative stuff that would happen. Thankfully that didnt happen. Once we got the result I couldnt believe the results. It went from 594,5 hp to 643hp and 424 ft-lbs of torque. It seemed crazy since everything we did was adjusting the tune. We even ran multiple times afterwards to see if it was a consistant number and it sure was! With this great result I couldnt wait to shred some rubber but it was still a little bit to early for that. We had to see how it performed in normal street driving so we went to pick up some food. No suprises, the car ran smooth the whole way. The one thing I noticed was the throttle response. Man, it took of! Even at half throttle it still gave you a kick in the ass. With that said, we went back, I picked up my stuff and headed home. Thanks Dxg, I really apreciate the time and effort you put in to make the car perfect. You know ur my go to guy when It comes to tuning now right?
