Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big difference. I've had my car for 24 hours, you've had yours for 24.....years (or so it seems like)

 

LOL. I think its left him speechless. Either that or Ed's writing a novel about it.

 

Ed,

Glad you're enjoying the car. I will have a couple of pics for you tomorrow.

Cheers,
Ian

 

The best way to test that bad boy out is to take a drive from Fountain Hills to Payson and back.

 

Few initial impressions since I picked up the car yesterday:

-GT2 clutch slave conversion/Sachs Stg III racing clutch:
First thought: oh s&*t. I'm never going to make it out of the parking lot It's heavy. No doubt about it. I creeped out and did a few gingerly pulls behind EVO. Engagement is much closer to the floor (which I prefer). Not sure I would say I can feel the engagement point better but slipping it as it engages is easier to modulate despite the significantly increased effort (does that make any sense?). This mod would be very annoying in stop/go traffic. Need to break in the clutch for a few hundred miles, so I haven't killed it yet, but so far, I likey

-It's a 'sleeper'
aside from the mish mash of aero I put on the car, it's a relative 'sleeper'. Nothing to distinguish it from a stock-powered turbo at first glance....oh wait....open up that center console....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3042MEp0J4

Very clean install.

-Very streetable
Aside from the clutch, the street manners of the car really haven't change too much. The power comes on much faster than a stocker, but unless your foot is to the floorboard, it's very controllable.

-Getting on it
I have a few stretches of open road behind the house. Thought I would try to get a better sense of how it felt leadfooting it. Well, I can tell you...I really don't know because I couldn't go more than 3/4 throttle at any point. Although somewhat deserted, any cars in front of me would come up VERY quickly even after giving them a pretty wide berth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6K4_FqK76Y

-Zero-to-Jail time in 3 seconds flat
Ok, I don't really know how long it would take to get to straight-to-jail time, but it ain't long
No clutch dumping, easy shifts, again 3/4 throttle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veSbBOriuaA

I think Santa may bring me a PBox this year, so I all I have for now is worthless butt-dyno data.

Leave you tonight with a glamour pic, courtesy of Ian@EVOMS



More with a friend's VW
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1547924...th/5235688023/

 

absolutely BEAUTIFUL during the whole photoshoot my mouth was just open and dropped to the floor, props to an AMAZINGLY beautiful car ed

 

Great write up and videos Ed!!

Now I hope you were good this year so Santa will bring you a P Box!!

Beautiful pics and car!!

Mike

 

man Ed, I am so jealous............................in the first vid I couldnt stop staring at your temperature gauge, 71 oh how I miss the summer. Its 31 here in NYC today. lol

Oh yea, and 775 kit aint to shabby either, lol, many happy miles Ed.

 

Thanks Jon. Let's get together for coffee sometime. You're welcome to drive the car if you'd like

Thanks Mike! I hope so too. I know you sticklers for numbers turn your noses up at the butt dyno

LOL, Danny! Yeah, it's the best time of year right now. 70's all week And I'm a very recent Westchester, NY transplant, so I'm all too familiar with December in the Northeast

 

Ed,

Glad you're enjoying the car! Thanks for the plug on the photos. We'll have another shoot here soon and get some rolling shots.

Cheers,
Ian

 

What a fantastic build bonehead, I'm sure ur enjoying the new found power!

Congrats,
Ken

 

Nice vids Ed! Do you live in Kuwait? ha, just kidding.
Sounds like a beast. What does the button in the centre console do?

 

It gets just as hot here in the summer as it does there.
Switch in the console is the Warp Speed button....duh....

Seriously, though. It switches between the pump and race gas files. Latter advances timing/boost to take full advantage of higher octane fuel. The tach shows a slightly higher idle with the race maps turned on.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVKWCpNFhY

Ed, could you explain why you went with the dual ECU switch? I thought EVOMSit was supposed to "automatically switches to the best-suited ignition map creating an automatic “race mode” if race fuel is utilized." [from their website.]

 

That is one sick car!! I love everything about it!