2012 Veloster

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carbon wrapped my roof last night, and like a dumbass i tried to wax it today. should have probably done some research before doing so, but heres a question, happen to know how to get the white haze out of the texture?

Also, I put up an injen photo request in the Dilbeck 98 GSR thread.
 
Light heat and a power washer.

Most power washers transfer enough heat to the water that it'll work.
 
another wonderful autocross. 1st place FSP and a top 15 finish.

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here is my run video, the last lap really shows how youtube's IS technology works. better than expected, since my camera suction cup is fucked-
9/8/13 CART Autocross LAZ Parking - YouTube




The course was a double curly-Q or pigtail, it was so much fun!

some comparable results -
xp 87 John 65 Cobra 48.214
ssm 383 Chris 07 Chevy Corvette 49.235 *supercharged
dp 10 Bob 92 Mazda Miata 49.589
str 9 Matt 01 Mazda Miata 49.658
stu 427 Scott 08 Subaru STI 50.357
fsp 401 Chris F 12 Hyundai Veloster 50.687
smf 412 John 07 Honda Civic si 50.852 *supercharged
smf 1507 Colby 00 Honda Civic 51.238 *r-swap
xn 666 Andrew 05 Lotus Elise 51.614
bs 46 John 04 Subaru STI 51.701
csp 39 Kevin 95 Mazda Miata 52.641
dsp 112 William 10 Mazda RX8 52.722
yn 668 Ryan 00 Subaru Impreza RS 56.737
 
the car is very fast! but it's not all the car. alot of it is me. after nearly 10 years i can turn fast laps in anything. and i'm getting back into my groove from years ago.
 
SO today I went to Turbokits.com to get tuned by BTRcc. Canned / custom tune.


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Car has 31100 miles
1.6 NA Manual
Turbokits CAI and ABE
Nameless Racing poly dogbone mount
eBay catch can
89 octane


The first pull, load up and roll up 151whp 128wtq. They run the car again.. Same numbers. It's a factory freak. There have been zero modifications to the tune at this point. The men pull the ECU and do their magic run the car again. 154whp 131tq. I'm only building extra power now due to the extra 400 rpms generated by the tune. Last run full bore 160whp 134wtq. It was tuned conservatively, timing advanced 1.5 degrees and makes power from zero to go.


SO very unexplainable. This was witnessed by no less than 12 folks. It was not the first car run that day, and all the cars run that day ran consistent numbers with BTR's findings. But not this one. Unfortunately this means that there is no way that BTR can use it in their findings as it is inconsistent. So please do NOT ask BTR any questions about the tune or how it was achieved - it was done the say way as all the other cars that day. This is I believe the first manual NA stateside that they have run as all the other NA cars so far were autos or DCTs. BTR may correct me on this. This also means the same for the TK equipment, please do not use my car as a baseline or achievement because chances are it's a 1 in a (insert proper ration number here) chance for this to happen. Other things that happened : increased fuel cut to 7200 rpms and removed 5% of the throttle delay.

I've always thought my car had more oomph than all the other NA cars I've driven or run with. This obviously proves that fact. I've attached a dyno to show the difference between the TK demo car with the same performance enhacing modifications. It is obviously, very different.

I can't say anything but great things for Sam and his crew at BTRcc. They were all very professional and Sam offered sound advice for alot of folks interested in achieving more power and the safe way to do so. Plus they worked really fast! Jesse and Rob from Turbokits.com are always great and it's only because of them that I had this opportunity.

I've put about 65 miles on the tune since I had it done. So far driveability is completely normal. The throttle response is great. The 1-2 lag is still there a little bit if you shift very quickly but MUCH better. I'll still be throwing the switch when the timer is running at the track ;) The car does feel really good! Average mileage is a little higher at the moment. The car pulls in 6th almost immediately even on a small incline at 65+ mph. The extra revs does great justice to keeping the car in the flat torque band!


Here is the video of the process and findings.
BTRcc tuning day at ECS \ TurboKits.com - YouTube


Here are the photos -
This is the dyno settings.
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baseline 1
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run 2 vs tk demo car
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run 3
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run 4
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This is the one, the only TK midpipe ever created with a hi-flow resonator. This was never sold with the ABE due to it actually losing a little power. We're going to test it out on my vehicle and I should be back in a week or two to get another run with this pipe. Hopefully it works out and makes some power, or at the very least I'd be OK with losing a little top end to gain some torque!

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Nice! that is a nice torque curve. Strange how it made so much more power, take it to the drag strip and see what itll do, you might have the fastest na veloster on the planet :ph34r:
 
Everyone is all like "No, don't flog the engine while it's new!"

Hopefully this goes to show those people.
 
put my sticker on finally -

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and put the TK midpipe on. it was a PITA since the front studs were super rusted. but with some time, perseverance I was able to get the nuts off without destroying the studs! go me.
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the comparison-
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and the fitment.
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it sounds MEANNNNNN. its louder down low, but up top it just screams. i really hope it makes power since i really like the sound :) more dyno time on wednesday at TK!


and a shot of my daughter OWNING this pinata, and the V in the back.
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so the midpipe which was found on the demo car to lose power, actually makes power on mine! woohoo! we're thinking maybe the demo car was too few miles on it when they were developing the parts. i don't believe TK has any intention of manufacturing the midpipe for sales.

167whp, 138wtq. dyno conditions were about the same. low 70s, no humidity. so exciting :)

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and the video :)

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i also had a remote start installed with a crazy sequence so i don't start it in gear.
 
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well that looks fun :no1:
 
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