That car had basic stainless valves. My personal car made 800whp through a TH400.

We have made nearly 1100whp on a stock 1G, unported casting. The car was out of turbo. Not cylinder head.

If you want to know how much timing your engine wants, start reading your spark plugs. A new plug with a singular fresh pull on it will tell you if the combustion cycle is happy or not. It may be just fine for all you know. I wouldn’t worry about EGT’s until you have a fresh plug with fresh data...

I sand EVERY single head and set of caps I am servicing. I haven’t seen a head in over 15 years that didn’t have some sort of damage to at least one journal and cap.

In our FuelTech 2G, we are running the stock coolant temp sensor and FuelTech pressure sensors otherwise.I my own cars(non 4g63 stuff) I am running the GM coolant sensor and a mixture of FuelTech and auto meter sensors on one car (at the time FuelTech was in back order) and all FuelTech...

Run the FuelTech sensors. Affordable and reliable.Use the Nano and save an input.

Yes. Stupid phone.I agree. That is why I said I highly recommend a crank and cam pickup.Our big boy FuelTech DSM car runs that. As is one I am putting together for another friend right now.

We use it with both a 12-1 Kiggly wheel and a modified 1g sensor with the Yoshifab trigger disc. The Yoshifab disc car runs the car sequentially with just the disc.I highly recommend you run the Kiggly setup if you want to run sequentially and have true clarity. There is a difference...

After three long, hard days the car has been modernized. I tuned the car today with all its fancy new parts. The owner is thrilled and got to drive it for the first time since he was a teenager.Glad to see one back on the road.

Time to breathe life back into this thing. This was the customer’s first car he ever bought. After chewing up the motor and getting above his head, the car has sat for 19 years. Time to modernize it and bring it up to today’s standards.

Depending on the ECU and sensor, you can indeed run an ABS ring. I run a FuelTech on my race car as well. The front of my car is a Chevy S10. I just both front and rear wheel speed for traction control. I use the front 52 tooth S10 ABS sensor and it is a fantastic signal. It is a 2 wire VR...

The answer is easy. Install a 2G sensor and wire your three wires in. That is how we did it with FuelTech.

Alreco is where I get all of my aluminum. They literally will have everything you need Eric.

The Galant used a forced four box. I used an AEM 10 channel for my truck. You just split the signal if you need or have odd numbers. The Galant we just didn’t use the other two channels.Pretty simple. It is just wires. Everything was ran as staged but, we’re turned on pretty low. That seemed...

It was a problem spraying a lot of water on my Festiva. That was a little baby 1.3L motor. It had compound turbos and I was spraying before the low pressure turbo and the high pressure turbo. So it would flood the cylinders easily. I finally found the correct sizing through testing.The new...

In a laboratory, sure. If you spray enough water. In a motor sports application, no. You don’t flood the motor. Only mist it.I flood it but, I am also a max effort, four digit horsepower car.And didn’t I already say we road raced a Galant for years with no intercooler? We used two 950’s...

I have sprayed both fuel and water before the compressor. I currently spray water both before the compressor and inbetween the compressor and throttle body. It is actually in the compressor housing as my compressor outlet is attached directly to my throttle body.I use straight water as an aid...

How does spraying fuel in your exhaust help your cylinder temperatures? That’s right. It doesn’t.I have been 230mph in a dsm at Bonneville with no intercooler. We road raced a 500whp Galant for YEARS with no intercooler. I made 800whp with my 4G63 rat rod with no intercooler. As you can see, I...

Or do what I do. Run no intercooler and spray a ton of water or fuel down its throat.I am not a fan of methanol injection. Straight water, or add to your fuel system and put as many fuel injectors between the turbo and throttle body you can tune for and tune the engine to the same ratios you...

Huge advocate of anti 7 bolt talk.The few I have been forced to deal with however, were all done with a torn down block. Punch them out, drill/tap and insert the corresponding plug with thread locker. Then reassemble.

We road raced to our Galant for years at 500whp and never had an issue. I agree with most here. Remove the oil squirters and don’t overthink it. Watching them back out and fail, I personally have no interest in ever using one. The same goes for using a 7 bolt.This is 24 years and nearly 300...

With only 21 cubic inches more and both being small displacement, most end users will not see or notice the difference. I have never stepped out of a 2.3L or 2.4L car and thought, man, that thing has all the torque.In 54mm and under cars, there could be an argument to be made possibly. 55-67mm...

Our current 2g makes 765whp 615tq with a 6466 and a basic 2.0L that has been put together. I stand by my statement.I have built over 275 4g6x’s and built countless cars and tuned even more than that. I speak from real world experience. I have had far more issues consistently with the large...

We seem to run into head gasket issues before block issues with 2.4L blocks. And frequently. I have never personally seen a failed or cracked 2.4L block. I have seen my fair share of failed head gaskets though.However, I have seen more broken crankshafts than blown head gaskets. This is first...

Auto- 13g, staggered wheel, 40mm Manual- 14b, even wheel, 43mm

I generally setup customer cars in the 2-2.5 second range. Just depends on how I feel that day. My wife’s Saturn and my Geo I have yet to time. I am betting they are in the 1.5-2 second range though.

We went 228mph at Bonneville with second hand, actual used rods and pistons (Manley H beam, Ross pistons with .190” wall pins) with a $150 Holset HX52. Crower 64413 cams.Far from ideal.I chuckle with you.

I was targeting this race and wanted to make the trip from Denver. Maybe next year as the car was just not ready in time. Disappointing they won’t come back to Colorado.I hope to be racing in Arkansas this fall and try for a Shift S3ector event next year. I am looking to do 200 in the half mile.

Just got off the Dyno with the new engine for my race car. Just a few more things to go over before it’s race next month.Ran out of turbo easily. The Garrett G42-1400 wasn’t even close to being enough.

Not in my experience. They have been terrible from the onset. They were a cheaper option and Tom and Dave offered the plug and play harness for them and the GM map sensors. Everyone was always so worried about wiring in their own pigtail it was just the east button for most.That being said, I...

Hmm. Shocking. The fact it is down/off more than it is on is the dead give away. More eloquent than I stated. I just didn’t feel the need to go as far as you did with the screen shot. Yet, another of the hundreds if not thousands of Chinese Omni sensors to take a dump.

Pretty sure you can find at least one in the 1,800 posts I have here.I would also like to see you get off my nutsack one single time. You have been chasing my handle around for years. Maybe get a life and avoid mine.I will take care of that for you. Blocking you now so I don’t have to deal...

I served in the same branch you did. I also fought in a war you did not. I also do this on the side and represent no one but, myself. So given my life experiences and views, I will continue to do as I please and carry myself as I see fit. Especially when it comes to retards on the internet. I...

Obviously I have no clue as after 24 years, I still haven’t earned my stripes apparently.I guess you have to run a tax paying business in a brick building with a website and social media to be the real deal. Word of mouth isn’t worth shit if you aren’t on the internet somewhere.

You clearly are still a f***ing *****. And yet, through the power of the internet you think you have an actual opinion of someone you have never met, let alone even seen a picture of.I have been tuning since 1999 professionally. PROFESSIONALLY. Easily 600-700 cars across multiple platforms...

If you want help and need it done correctly, I am affordable and local for your tuning needs.

Dyno numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. It is merely a tool for testing and comparing repeatable results. We don’t race the Dyno. So the numbers don’t mean anything. If it can lay two graphs on top of each other back to back with no changes, then it can be used for measurable gains...

Normally they stop in the 13-15* total timing range from what I see here. Especially at this power level. The plugs said they wanted more, so I gave it to them. He came in 4* too aggressive. I pulled six and added a degree back at a time until it said it was happy.And he is right on the edge...

With the tire he currently has it would take a miracle pass to run a ten second pass at altitude. I think the car will run low 11’s to high 10’s in the real high 120’s from what we learned today. Low 11’s is highly likely given we went 10.99@142 with a similar shitty tire with 60hp more.

I think 730-750 is doable. The spark plugs say it could take another degree of timing. It picked up 40whp going from 16* to 17* total timing. Another degree would have been 10-30whp I bet.And it was out of ignition. It wasn’t far from being out of turbo but, it would not hold any more than...

Until someone has lived and raced at 6,000ft, they truly cannot understand. Turbo cars as well as motor cars are affected the same. Plain and simple. I have been tuning for far to long and it is the same struggle no matter the make, model or combination.This Dyno is very honest. This same car...

Totally normal for us. We are idiots though.

87mm bore blocks will eventually crack and will always have head gasket issues.100mm cranks in a 2.0L block break the crankshafts far to often and make terrible power at high rpm for me to put my name on one.A 67mm small shaft turbo is not a 900whp on a 4G63. Plain and simple. Sure, maybe if...

6466 Maxed out at 38psi(verified through backnoressure)

Very poor choice on the bore size. You need to stick with a 2.0 if you think you want any serious power.2150’s and a 450 will not get you there. Not even on gasoline.The turbo definitely will not get you there. Especially in a T3 footprint.Choosing an H beam for 1000whp is also an...

I use 220 grit sand paper and clean them up with my fingers. That will get them glass smooth by itself usually. I have repaired and ran far worse than that.I never step it down anymore than the 220 either. Obviously if you do it only gets better from there.

People literally from all over the country send their crankshafts to Dave for a reason. He is no stranger to a 4g63 either. Obviously.

We have one of the top crankshaft grinders in the country right here in Colorado.Mile High Crankshaft. He has my 3800 crank right now. Been a long time customer. He has machined literally hundreds of crankshafts for me.No need for him to outsource to some shop in Washington who is going to...

Glad I could be of help. I just treat them like I would my own. Just slowing down and looking at the whole picture is the best way to get the desired results. Hopefully the car keeps kicking ass for you.