'97 Cayenne's 1997 Eclipse GSX

[Norcalgsx707]

I feel in love as soon as I seen those rotas on there sweet ass ride man

 

[nickfromfortfun]

Love your car man!!!! It is incredibly beautiful!!!!!!!! I just ordered a set of hood supports like yours I'm glad to find some that don't cost 200 dollars. But two quick questions what rota rims are those? And what sort or suspension do you have going on? Like are those coilovers or just lowering springs? Thanks ahead or time and again amazing ride man keep it up!!!!

 

['97 Cayenne]

thanks guys!

the wheels are rota p45R wheels 18x9.5 ET30. and im on megan coils with ignalls front camber kit and DIY rear camber kit with longer bolts and washers

 

[my dreamt dsm]

Thanks for not being greedy on the secret of the size and off set
Did you run any spacers? I was thinking of xxr 527 17*9.5 by 30

 

['97 Cayenne]

Nope no spacers. If you go with 17s I highly suggest going with a 45 profile for a tire. Otherwise you get insane wheel well gap with these 2g's. I put on my buddy's 17s with a tire profile of 40 and it was rediculous. So much wheel gap it just doesn't look good IMO. I like an 18 with tire profile of 40 to fill up the wheel well, with some stretch and poke. I like what I ended up with here

 

[my dreamt dsm]

Like this guy.
http://www.picssr.com/photos/giuseppeho?nsid=24883842@N07
He's also a member on here but I forgot his screen name. Sick dsm. Hes running 18X10 *30et I think.

What size tire you run?

 

['97 Cayenne]

My tires are 215/40/18

 

['97 Cayenne]

Got the car back down to the shop. Left it there from one saturday to the next like i always do because i work full time and only have weekends available to do anything. When dropping it off and talking to Brian, I mentioned that with the current setup, there shouldn't be any reason it shouldn't make between 450 and 530 mustang dyno power. He was very skeptical and said its hard to make that kind of power on pump gas (that's what I'm running). So we left it at that and I made the drive back home.

In the beginning, Brian ended up finding out that I had wired up the BCS wrong, as he had no control over it when tuning. I told him to not worry about it as I was only scheduled a certain time for dyno time and didn't want to waste time troubleshooting the problem. So I'm now on a hallman pro MBC for this year.

He also found that the motor wasn't knocking when he started making pulls. this was a concern to me as to whether or not there was a wiring issue with the knock sensor. we later found out that the knock sensor was working fine when brian decided to richen it up to force knock it, and knock it did. Come to find out, the car was just behaving well to the tuning at hand

And so it was time to start making some power with some WOT tuning.

First pull at 28lbs. 450WHP! Brian replied to me soon after and told me this info, and that he was very surprised at how easy that power came to be. I was excited and told him to keep going.

Later pulls were made and the car was quickly making power after 28lbs.

Brian followed up with informing me the car was at 531/461, and asked if I wanted more. I said to get it to 550 if possible. he said one more pull then that was it and he would smooth it out. that changed.

I broke the old pump gas record with 531/461 and I currently hold the new Dynotech Tuning pump gas record at 547AWHP!

Brian tried one or two more pulls after that, but couldn't quite break 550. I start to lose power after 7500rpm. These HKS 272s are holding me back.

After smoothing it out to really make the car drivable, the car currently sits at 514/444 on Dynotech's mustang dyno. That's a 13% increase in power when putting it on a dynojet or the street. That's 580awhp/501awtq! And on pump gas!!

Fastest car I've been in and driven. And it's mine which makes it that much sweeter. All the time and money put in this thing is starting to pay off.

Big thanks to Brian and Dynotech Tuning for the time that's been put into getting this car running right. Just goes to show that when you bring something to somebody that's worth their time, they'll make it worth your time/money.

A few pictures because build threads are worthless without pics

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One of the graphs after a pull. not the record holding one but still respectable

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[92AWDHX40]

Hey nice numbers i cant wait til i get mine tuned using speed density, by SIM here in town, then next year with a built engine and holset. Keep it up.

 

[kevin15]

one of the nicest gsx on this site!! awesome build!!!

 

[tay97gst]

Always love seeing your progress, it looks amazing

 

[kevinbad97eclipse]

The size of the tire you said is 215/40/18 ? Is that what you did to make your tire poke out ?

 

[stephen_gst]

was this car by any chance at the uti boston strong meet this year?

 

['97 Cayenne]

Yes it was 👍 @Stephen_gst

 

[99GS_Turbo]

Next time you go to DTT let me know...I'd like to see this badboy up close

 

['97 Cayenne]

Sure thing. It's broken right now with a bad Trans so it's down for the winter, and that means go bigger. So ill start posting in here again once I'm not so lazy and start ripping it apart again.

 

[vr4joe]

Damn! Really nice build man! how'd you break the trans? didn't you just pick up a stage 3 shep tranny?

 

[2GbTalonGuy]

Very nice build! And you have to love that color!

 

[strobes20]

Nice car man I really enjoy reading through this build!

 

['97 Cayenne]

Yeah idk what happened. Fourth gear synchro just went. It's for sale now, shoot me a pm if interested

 

[GofaST4life]

Your selling this beautiful thing!?!?

God I love Cayenne Red Pearl. I need to wash mine.

 

['97 Cayenne]

No no. The Trans is for sale. Basically everything is for sale, changing the setup to go bigger

 

['97 Cayenne]

Update. 2014 build has begun. i mentioned a little while before that fourth gear synchro went bad. not sure on the cause. well I sold that trans and will be getting a new and stronger one. looking at TMZ right now.

Got everything dropped on a friday night after work to get the trans ready to be sold

And this is where my wheels end up every winter. right next to my bedside

On a side note, I come home from work one day, go up the garage steps, reach up to hit the garage door button and nearly shit myself when I looked up to see this

Sorry about that. Had to share my scare with you guys though

Here's something a little nicer to look at. Just a throwback from earlier this year. I love this shot

Ill update a little more tomorrow.

Alright guys. Sunday night update.

I had previously done a wire tuck. but when i did it, I had almost the entire harness cut up and lengthened/shortened, and i really didn't like how many soldering points there were in that harness. So I decided to redo the harness entirely by getting a hold of an engine and fuse box harness out of a GST at a junkyard nearby

here is what the old harness that was in my car looked like.

I don't have pics of the new harness that i've dropped in, but I will say that instead of cutting and shortening this one, i've just coiled it up and ONLY lengthened the wires that I needed to.

SO. Here we are at the current stages of my next build. the long block is torn apart and I've sold the HKS csam and spring setup that was in there.

Last night I put the new stuff in which consisted of GSC S2 cams, GSC high rev springs and GSC viton valve stem seals.

 

['97 Cayenne]

Haven't been updating this thread like I had planned to. But I'll try to get some info in on this update as to what happened this year for 2014. We left off with the tear down of the last setup. Ended up selling the HKS valvetrain in the head, the transmission, turbo and manifold. I found light score marks along the cylinder walls of a couple cylinders. So I decided to disassemble the shortblock to check it out. It was a good thing I did because those marks turned out to show that the piston to wall clearance wasn't right and the pictons ended up grazing the cylinder walls a little bit which in turn also ruined those pistons. Upon further dis-assembly, I found the number one rod bearing was pitted and eaten away. The car still ran fine like this but it probably wouldn't have been long before it started knocking.
Needless to say, the block was sold bare, and so were the rods which were still good. Pistons are in my basement and I actually used the crank in my new block now.




So begins the actual build for 2014. If I haven't already mentioned, my ultimate goal for this car is to get it to 800AWHP.

With the old block no good, I had a brand new one machined and assembled. This shortblock consists of pauter x-beam rods, wiseco HD 8.5:1 pistons, stock uncut crank, kiggly girdle, ACL tri-metal bearings, all ARP hardware and a moroso 6.5qt oil pan.

The head now consists of +1mm manley valves, GSC high rev springs/retainers, GSC viton valve stem seals, GSC S2 camshafts and a kiggly HLA pressure regulator. I already have pics up of me installing everything. here's one before i unpacked it all.

The long block is held together with a fel-pro permatorque headgasket and MAP H11 headstuds.


I'm now running a JMF top mount divided T4 manifold. Attached to it is a Borge Warner S366ET.

 

[Eclipse'd]

He'll yeah good work man