Legend

Found the business card regarding paintless dent repair:

 

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Went back to Terry for the 3rd year in a row to keep my LGT looking new. Took care of one tricky shallow 2" round dent and the only door ding I got since last year. He is contracted with the GO car dealerships and is in all parts of town. Tell him I sent you!

Got the VF52 out. Biggest pain by far was a DP-to-exhaust bolt that I spent over an our on and thought I'd have to cut off. I finally got the damn thing off and went and got 2 new bolts and nuts. Second biggest pain was getting the DP off. I could not slide it out of the tranny hanger because the still attached DP O2 would hit the heat shield over the exhaust. I ended up cutting away a little of the heat shield so the DP could slide to the side out of the hanger. I cleaned everything up and will install the BNR turbo in the a.m.

Here is a couple pics of my install. I only included pics that were different from what msprank already provided.

I used my overhead garage shelf to tie up the inlet as high as it would go:

http://beeez.com/lgt/install1.jpg

In addition I crossed a couple cables over the turbo. I figure I can use these as "helping hands" to suspend the turbo while installing, if needed. I doubt I'll need them but figured it might be nice:

http://beeez.com/lgt/install2.jpg

I definitely needed to put all 4 corners on stands as high as my floor jack would go. I was tempted to get out my 20-ton bottle jack and go higher, but this we just enough to be reasonably comfortable.

http://beeez.com/lgt/install3.jpg

Just for reference... I posted a how-to at RomRaider about reading data logs, with a big section on knock:

 

http://www.romraider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=6156

Your "how-to's" are awesome, NSFW. I think the mods in this forum really ought to sticky a couple of them (maybe if you posted them here also they would??)

Other supporting modifications: AP Stage 2 (with larger restrictor pill so I don't overboost), MR TBE, 225/40/18 Nitto NeoGens on 18x8 OZ Alleggerita Rims, Perrin STS/bushings, BC Coilovers, a few hrs (cumulative) drag racing on NFS Prostreet (Wii)

Good job. I don't usually find humor in mods, but I like yours.

The Boost Creep and 5250 Performance

 

14116 Valley Dr

Longmont, Co 80504

 

www.5250Performance.com 970-535-0539

www.theboostcreepltd.com 303-219-6071

 

 

AWD Dyno Tuning, Installs, Fabrication

Best tuner in the state. Hands down.

Total with tax and him coming to my work was $193.58 (this is with heater element)!!

 

I was quoted as high as $300 and as low as 250 before I found him. I will give it a week before I give the final judgment.

 

http://verticaltier.com/images/misc_posts/auto_glass_authority.jpg

He is doing mine right now while I eat lunch. Still $193 installed, after tax, for the heated version. He arrived with 3 options on the molding - 1) $65 factory molding, 2) re-use existing, or 3) fab some molding. I opted for #3 since he said he would do it free of charge and I didn't like my old molding because it was wavy. I'll report back in a week on how I like it.

When I first loaded it up all the cells in the table said 0.00, so I reset the ECU and drove around for probably 20 miles and ended up with the above table.

I agree with NSFW's statements. Post another LV in a week or so without resetting the ecu. This one had not fully set up, as evidence by 2 AF learning of 0.0. (I have a lot of time/iterations on my intake scaling and while my values are very close to zero, they are never 0.0 after more than a week of driving).

^^^ You have to take the ice our of the bag.

Oh. I figured the bag helped by melting plastic onto the TMIC and effectively adding cooling fins. Dammit.. I even read the instructions on the bag and it didn't say to take the ice out.

I iced down my TMIC last time I went to the dragstrip. I got around 10 runs in and only had ice on half of them and my times weren't any better with ice on the TMIC.

I almost always drive to the hoses after the turn-around and spray down my TMIC, turbo heat shield, and DP. Who knows... that might be a waste of time too.

I am going to try Auto Glass & Windshield Authority tomorrow. They are coming out to my work and install it . Scott (the owner) is doing the install and was very knowledgeable.

 

Hopefully everything goes well. Price was lower than Safelite and Preferred Glass.

Lemme know how that goes and if the guy travels up this way. If he also window tints, that would be a huge plus. Need my Jeep fronts tinted.

^i bet your vf52 made the most power out of all the other vf52's??? u really dont give urself enough credit... and ive been sayin that to u for the longest time now.... maybe u can think about tuning other peoples cars?!??! lol... not like you would have the time anyways.... those are some serious numbers u put up though...

No way man. I'm not tuning anyone else's car. I've only tuned ONE car and guys will come along and do at least as well as me. I'm happy to offer critique on logs but honestly there are other guys that are better than that than me. And another VF52 made 10whp MORE than me.. which is great because it both gives me motivation to tweak my tune and also shows that good VF52 power can be duplicated.

^^^when is the next one. That was a lot of fun. I wish it was a bit warmer, would have liked to stay longer.

I'm totally in next time too. Great venue for a meet. The guys from the south can meet the guys from the north at Starbucks on 120th for a spirited 15-mile 3-lane run up to the dyno. That was fun too. Nice not having any traffic.

Forgot how cool Harvey was too... good guy.

Unfortunately, the beer. Oh well, I love beer almost as much as I like you know...

Pacifico?

John I thought the dyno day was 1/2?

Yeah you are right about that. It's the Saturday.

John (Legend): You gonna show up?? It'd be cool to see my old LGT!

No.. we are hosting both sides of the family for Christmas Eve and Christmas too.. (ouch!) so we are getting prepped for that.

I was working 1/1 but now I'm off so I'm considering motoring up to 5250 for a while for the dyno day. I don't know if anyone else from here is going but I'm just a "tentative" for now.

I've taken good care of your LGT. Got in a little guardrail collision up front last winter so new aftermarket grill and bumper cover. Looks great, like new. Bought dedicated 17" snows and rims. UP/DP, TMIC, E85, VF52. 12.89@107.2mph and several 12.9's. Great for a fast spooling turbo with no top end. 67k miles, body/interior doesn't look a day older than when you sold it to me at 44k miles. Still love it and will keep it a few more years.

I went out and beat my old time. This time it was 17F warmer and I ran a little more boost and paid attention to tire pressure. Oh yeah, I put a new OEM paper air filter in my stock intake too.

http://beeez.com/lgt/1289at107.jpg

Corrected via dragtimes.com for 5860' and 80F to sea level it's 12.23@112.32mph.

Legend

9-09-09

Bandimere Speedway, Golden CO

5860', 80F

2005 MT

VF52 20psi, E85

No injection/nitrous

Tire pressure 38fr/42rr

Perrin TMIC, UP, Perrin catted DP, SPT cbe

Bone stock OEM intake w/ resonater, snorkel, and OEM paper filter

18" 5Zigen wheels/Kumho Ecsta MX

Tein S-techs

Romraider self-tune, mickeyd2005 mentor

That is not possible the HTA68 is faster!!!!!1

Quit egging me on. Oh wait, pass me some of that kool-aid... ahhh.. better.. okay now commence selectively ignoring data. Ignore, blame tuner, blamer driver, blame dyno. Okay data ignored. Check. Cheerleader outfit. Check. Got it! Now let me try it... "The HTA68 is faster!!" Oh man, that feels good. I should have done that a long time ago.