Evo Forum

[Warrtalon]

Ok, well let's see. You just simply have the wrong combo of mods and need to start over. Here are my points:

1) Intake and IC pipes were expensive but not needed nor helpful.

2) There is no 2600lb clutch for the Evo (at least not made by any of the major companies).

3) Do you not have an MBC or BOV?

4) The 720s aren't necessarily too big, but they certainly aren't needed on the stock turbo. The only reason to have them is for getting gains out of the SAFC that are equal or similar to a basic flash that costs less than the injectors themselves. They should not be hurting you as long as the SAFC is tuned properly.

5) SAFC...ok, well, the whole point of having an SAFC is so that you can tune yourself. You shouldn't be taking it some other place to have them tune it - that would be why you get a flash, so that you get maximum power for the least money with the best tuning device. Buying an SAFC + injectors, then paying someone to tune it is a huge waste of money, imo. Even worse if the shop says they hardly ever tune SAFCs - to me, that means they aren't good at it. I can't say if your settings are good or bad, because it depends on the car. I'd have to see AFR, timing, and boost logs as well as LTFT/STFTs. One major problem I see is that your low throttle settings are 0!!!! You can't have a car that runs well if you have 720cc injectors and no fuel compensation at low throttle and idle. That may not hurt you on the drag strip, but it sure as hell makes the car a POS for daily driving and when idling. Have you not noticed the ill effects of this?

6) Race gas. Unless you were rasing the boost and/or leaning out the SAFC settings, then the 100oct wasn't helpful.

I suggest selling the SAFC and injectors, put back in your stock injectors, get a Forge UNOS MBC, Forge RS DV (or JDM MR DV), and then get flashed. You can get a mail-in flash from Dynoflash or go find some local tuner in your area. I am pretty sure there's several. This is a much better bet than trying to figure out your safc or paying someone to tune it, imo. You also would have the luxury of tuning yourself with free flashing software if you ever had the desire. 1000X better than an SAFC, which is now obsolete.

Yes, you will need a retune with cams, but again, you have an SAFC that can be retuned anytime on anyday, so the natural thing to do would be to retune yourself properly now and then do it again after adding cams. If you can't do that, then get flashed.