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Forced Induction From out of the shadows... it's ALIVE!

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    Vamp Gunmetal 2001 Corolla S

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    From out of the shadows... it's ALIVE!

    Yes, I finally got some time to work on the car and got the new engine up and running. It was weird to drive my car after having it sit for 8 months in the garage. The engine sounds incredibly smooth. Tonight will be spent street tuning it using PCMSCAN to datalog the fuel maps so that I can get it as close to perfect as possible. We did give it a little bit of boost during the test run, which is fine since my setup causes the car to go rich as soon as 1 psi is reached. It was pretty scary how the car just wanted to get up and go at only 40% throttle. I'll need to break in the new engine before I can get it Dyno tuned, but once that happens, I'll post up the results. It might be a few weeks though, since the shop I use is booked. Also, I may have some 550cc injectors up for sale. I have them in now and my car has an increadibly smooth idle with them. I'm swapping them out for 630cc's.
    Vamp, Sep 24, 2007
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    SkyAce2004 New Member

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    very nice. so what was wrong with the engine so that you had to have it shipped out? and congrats on finally get it running.
    SkyAce2004, Sep 24, 2007
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    Vamp Gunmetal 2001 Corolla S

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    The VVTi cam gear was messed up when we reinstalled it, so it was a few degrees off. Because of that, the new engine got messed up from fuel fouling. Once the engine was taken apart and reassembled with a new cam gear, it started up just fine.
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    hehe had to disassemble the poor thing to find out it was a problem with a top level object that could be replaced without tearing the engine apart... gotta love it. :)
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    Congrats on getting your car up and running again, hope all goes well this time around :)
    rayray1, Sep 24, 2007
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    turbo4age Love to Hate me

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    how much for those 550s?
    turbo4age, Sep 24, 2007
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    Vamp Gunmetal 2001 Corolla S

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    Actually, looking back on my paperwork, they're 460cc's. $250 for the set including connectors.
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    Oh MY! Man...Vamp you are bringing back memories of my Rolla days. I see you are still rocking the Rolla, nice. I'm an old timer from the VVTI.net days. Have not lurked onto a Corolla site in a decade probably...lol. But it's cool to see you still going strong on it. So, catch me up to speed on things, you had a motor before on boost? What happened to it? What is your turbo setup now?
    rhythmnsmoke, Oct 2, 2007
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    Vamp Gunmetal 2001 Corolla S

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    How much were you putting down on the stock motor? Did you run it at the track.
    rhythmnsmoke, Oct 3, 2007
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    Vamp Gunmetal 2001 Corolla S

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    ~230WHP. It never made it to the track because I had a torque converter seal leak.
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    Cool, what about tQ, were you able to get a tQ number? How much boost were you pushing?
    rhythmnsmoke, Oct 4, 2007
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