And another one…..

Hello,

 

I am back. I have been super busy lately and have sworn off forums for the most part so I have been focusing on building cars a lot more and tuning rather than fighting with E retards.

Well I guess a short run down of what the deal is with me.  I have been tuning as usual but I also have been helping put some cars together for people at the shop and out of state.

 

I am currently wiring a Mazda RX-8 that has a 20b and a GT4094.  It has been quite the task but is coming along swimmingly. I think just a couple more months and it should be up and running.  Pretty cool deal.  I will take some pictures of it and write a seperate blog about it some other time.

 

Here are 2 cars that I just did in New Mexico last week.  Both were super clean and very fast:

Evo 8

Now onto the other stuff, dyno sheets:

 

Silver Evo 8:

This car is an Evo 8 with a 2.3l and Cosworth Head. Turbo is an HTA 86. Very fast car for sure.  This was done on E-85 and can probably get close to 800whp with closer to 40psi.

 

Evo 9:

 

This Evo is  a normal GT35R and a 2.3l stock head with some cams.  This is on just 91 crap octane.  Really smooth power band and the car ran great.

 

Both of these cars were tuned on the AEM EMS.

 

Well I hope to be back soon with some updates of the RX8 and the Audi R8 I have to tune next week. Maybe one day Pigeon Jon will make a guest apperance once he stops beating his bags.

 

Jon after 10 hours of playing Final Fantasy 300

Thanks for reading,

 

Mitch Mckee

Pigeon Jon AKA Danny dont do that AKA wheres my whisky AKA Peter Parkers little sister

 

VE Engineering

Holy Shit!!! A new blog from VE!!

Hello Hello,

It has been awhile for sure.  I have not been on here in a minute to update the blog.  So much has happened I dont even know where to begin.

Well first off in my personal life I have been working out a ton and in the best shape I have been in a long time.  Hooray for running.

Anyways most of the 5 people reading this don’t give a shit about my personal life and/or appearance so I will get onto some car stuff.

I have been testing turbos with Geoff from Full Race a bit when I get a free second ( which I don’t get often lol).  I will post the results as soon as we are done so stay tuned for that.

Pigeon Jon AKA Terry Tate’s Taint has come and gone a couple times to help out and is busy with school in Colorado, the home of hairy chicks.

My Subaru is getting built as soon as I figure out if I am getting kicked out of my house ( long story) and then it is getting to get sold.  I think next on the build list is a 1976 Caddy on bags.  Why you ask?  Just to be different.  I have been building turbo 4 and 6 cylinders for just about 10 years non stop and want to drive something a little different for a minute.

Ohhhhhh and guess what this is:

Yes an F1 car.  Now mix that with this:

What do you get???????? Me going to the Monaco Grand Prix this year.  I don’t know what I did to be able to deserve this but I must have done something right, or be good at what I do to go for free, well almost free.

Should be a good time and I am stoked.  Got tickets for the race, go to the Cannes Film Festival and maybe make it to Germany to say whats up to my peep Chico, The Mad Mexican at Nur.

Stay tuned I promise I will update this a bit more often.  For those of you in the dark check the site www.veeengineering.com and jump on the forum and say hi.  Not on much as I have been super busy but I will have a little free time this week as I will be in Colorado attending a funeral.

That is all for now,

Dr.Mckee

Pigeon Jon AKA Flacid Flute Loops AKA Froggy Style AKA Terrance the Trout

Jons Senior Picture

VE Engineering

Well it has been awhile.  I have been busy and we have been getting our new site and forums up.

So if you get a chance go and check it out and register and start chatting.

www.veengineering.com  or tuneordie.com

Thanks and I hope everyone had a good New Year.

Mitch Mckee

FP Red Turbo, Cosworth Long Block HOOOO RAAAYYY!!!

Hello All,

Well this has been a crazy week for us here at VE.  We have been breaking in engines and tuning cars and it is almost over thank god.

But yesterday we did a car that I wanted to share with people.  Vivid did a full build on this car and it was gangster.  I dont have finished pics but the body kit was from a company that starts with a V and ends in Oltex.  Murder she wrote.

Anyways who cares about the way a car looks anyways.  ( Well I do)  On to the power.

I tuned this car on the stock Ecu and the car had the following list of mods:

Cosworth 2.2L stroker Longblock

Cosworth M3 Mivec Cams ( Murder)

FP Red

1200cc injectors

91 octane

This car had a cat in it which I was not thrilled about but what could I do.  But the car came out awesome anyways.  I really like Cosworth stuff BTW.  Everytime I have done a head or motor the cars just have a different tone to them and make great power.  Rock on Cosworth.

Dyno Sheet:

FP RED COSWORTH FTMFW!!!!

Car feels awesome on the road.  I think the customer is going to go to E-85 and really start to crush skulls with this setup.  Look out people cause this car will damage 90% of the cars on the road.

Anyways that is all for now. Have fun and be safe.

Jon and his Prom Date

Thanks for reading,

Mitch Mckee

Jon H AKA Sally Sleeps Sideways AKA Danny the Dinosaur AKA The turtle that didn’t beat the hare.

VR GTR

It is time to start the GTR project.

I really did not know how I was going to react to the new GTR.  I saw one at a time attack ( COBBS) and it looked neat and all that but I was a little skeptical of the overall performance that everyone was claiming.  Everytime I read about it or saw them on track they just seemed to defy laws of physics.  How can they be that god damned fast?  Then I told myself they can’t be THAT fast.

Well fuck,…………I was wrong.

This thing is fucking bad.  I dont usually cuss in my posts but fuck this thing is bad.

GTR is kuwl

So it came out and just crushed my dreams.  First pull I got out of the pull cause it pulled so hard and so fast stock.  Thing is no joke.  This dyno reads really low.  Like 160hp for a WRX and 230 for an STI.  I had to rerun this car and test some different settings cause I just could not believe that this thing made as much power as it did.  But here is the final no bullshit number.

Pretty fucking nuts ehhhh?  God damn this thing eats babies out of there beds it is that bad.

A video?

http://s128.photobucket.com/albums/p189/Magnumpsi/?action=view&current=P1020324.flv

Check it out kiddys.  Have fun and as always thanks for looking.

Jon and his Sister

Mitch Mckee

Pigeon Jon AKA Harry Hold Me Harder AKA Franklin Folicle AKA Wally Waldorf

2008 STI Tune

Hello,

It has been a while and I have a good amount of stuff to update but we will start with this one thing for now.

I have some big things happening in the next week so please keep checking back and follow the chronicles of the VE Engineering crew.  One of them involves tuning of something that does not drive. I will leave that up to your imagination.

Also trying to work on a totally new website so keep an eye out for that.  It will be ten times better than it was before.  No more Fisher-Price “My First Website.”

Anyway on to what I was saying Jon and I had a rough night thursday night involving Saki, so I decided to make Friday an easy day and start building my 2008 STI maps.  I have been able to tune Cobb now so I worked with a friend of mine on getting his car all set up and tuned.

This car from the factory made great power.  I have never seen any Subaru ever dyno this high but this thing did really well.

As some of my faithful readers know these cars have to get tunes on them as soon as you do ANY aftermarket part for performance.  The pistons, like on the 2007 STI, blow dudes.  They are super weak yet again and that makes tuning them a blast.  You have to keep them a tad rich and they can not show any detonation, IE- Lower timing numbers.  So get a tune if you are doing putting exhausts or anything on as it can take a motor down if you dont.

I did an initial tune going off the basic Cobb Stage 1 map and it turned out great.  Another quick point,  Cobb is a fantastic company.  They have top notch support and there product works great.  To top it off they are a good bunch of guys.

Anyways take a look:

2008 STI Dyno before and after

The following are the modifications done to the car:

Perrin Panel Filter

That is it.  That is the only thing the car had on it was just the Panel filter.  This gain was made in just tuning which is pretty fantastic.

Anyways I have gotten to Stage 2 maps so I can now do the Stage 1 & 2 for the 2008 STI so if anyone is interested please let me know.

Thanks for reading,

Dont we all....

Mitch Mckee

Pigeon Jon AKA Fast Freddy Five Fingers

I’m Back From My Hiatus in the Bahamas

Well, I’m back after seven month’s in the Bahamas. So I’m sorry I haven’t had a chance to keep in touch with everyone, I was pretty much cut off from the real world for half a year. While I was down there I was an engineer on a set of three 65′ sailing sloops which were purpose built for SCUBA diving. We strictly did SCUBA diving charters for a week at a time around Grand Bahama, Bimini, Andros, Gingerbread Grounds, as well as the Berry Islands.

Morning Star – One of the boats I have worked on

North Bimini

Bimini

The Sapona

So that is what I have been doing for the last few months, but now I am back up in Colorado getting back to school but more importantly VE Engineering. We will be doing more testing and tuning in the next few weeks so keep a keen eye out and we’ll keep you updated on Mitch and I’s daily grind.

As always thanks for reading,

Jon

Evo X Turbo Testing

Hello All,

Last week I did some turbo testing with the Evo X and have somre great data.  I graphed out a lot of stuff so I figured I would share it with ya’ll.

Here is some of the datalogs graphed out. ( I had some time to mess with it on the airplane.)

First off this is just from one log towards the end of the tuning session. I have more that I will go through but my other computer died while I was transferring the data.

Well onto the data. I have spent a good amount of time with the Mivec on these cars with the stock turbo, the Dominator and the GT35R. I really have to say that the Mivec on these cars is a wonderful system. Now that there is control over both cams you can really get it to make some sweet changes. I have tried to methodically figure out the Mivec in conjunction with reasons for making power but I have yet to figure it out completely yet. I do know that by applying the same methodology from the JDM Evo 9 Mivec map you can yield serious gains. My basic method is to use the JDM Evo X map and then I made some tweaks on the Mivec from there. With that being said I can effectively get the turbo to spool in most occasions about 400-500rpms faster which is great for the bigger turbo cars as they can really benefit from it. That is for another thread though onto the Dominator data.

Mivec

The load which I was talking about was pretty remarkable. I made a slight mistake in saying the highest load I ever saw was about 320. Going back and checking my logs I had a load spike that read to just about 350 g/sec which needless to say is awesome. This is only at 24psi as well so I see no reason why this turbo is not capable of achieving 50 lb/min of airflow.

Load

I am going to put this against the 35R data and see how they compare later on today.

Full boost was reached between 3800-4100 RPMS which would be quicker but Tucson and where the customer lives is above sea level by I believe 3000-4000 or somewhere around there, so the spool is going to be slightly slower than at sea level.

Boost

Knock count just for good measure lol.

Knock

As you can see on this run it knocked slightly with one count. To make sure I kept runs consistent I did runs back to back to make sure the car is at the right operating temperature to assure that timing is going to be spot on. The learnt knock retard never changed from 100% during any of the runs so it is safe to assume that this knock event was not really much of anything. Problem was corrected and made great power.

Last but not least is the IDC. Meth is great for these cars as it really keeps the IDC down quite a bit. I would still say doing a fuel pump would not hurt by any means, but in this case not quite necessary.

IDC

I think that is all for now. I will create another thread outlining the differences in this turbo and the GT35R, if anybody would like that is.

Also stay tuned for the cam results I should have them next week sometime, at least some basic tests that is.

So that is all for now.  Thanks as always for reading.  Stay tuned for the return of Pigeon Jon aka Diet Diabetes aka Full Tilt Tammy aka Nancy Williams for his return blog.

Down with the Down Syndrome

Mitch Mckee

VE Engineering

Big Baby Boostin…………..

Hello All,

 

I am in Phoenix tuning some cars and testing some cams.  I tuned a friends car and it made some big power on pump.

 

I can not control the boost as it is just run off of the wastegate spring so boost could have come in sooner.  This car is a GT40R with an .83 hot side. 2.3l and all the other goodies that make this cars go fast.

 

He switched from the head he had to a Cosworth head and mother of god.  These heads are no joke as the last time I ran this car at 24psi I think it only made 440hp or so.  Now I am not going to say that the car gained 60hp from the head but something went very well with this car.

 

Dustins Dyno Sheet

 

This is no record by anymeans but it is a shit ton of power.  For those that aren’t in the know this dyno typically dynos a stock Evo 9 at about 230hp.  So with no meth just pure 91 octane this thing fucking screams!  It may be one of the higher powered cars on 91 in the country, maybe not but I wouldn’t want to race it on the street.

 

Log

There is still more left in it for sure.  Above is the log showing the knock count raw.  Less than 1v of knock is awesome!

 

Well thanks for peeping,

 

Mitch Mckee

VE Engineering

Lands End Hill Climb, Not so Grand Junction, CO

Hello All,

 

This past weekend Gus, Big “e” aka baby biter, and I all attended the Lands End Hill Climb in Grand Junction, CO.  For those that dont know Colorado all that well Grand Junction is about 5 hours from where I live in the FO CO.  It seems like it is longer than that as you are driving to the edge of the state, and Colorado is a wide state.

We got there Friday night and went straight to the car show that the local Suabaru dealership put on with some of the rally cars there.  It was lame.

 

Anyways went out that night and had some dinner and some food at this little local hangout which I guess it the local “spot” as it was crawling with hot girls, and flat bill platapusses. ( More on these guys in another post)  For some reason the whole city of Grand Junction was crawling with hot ass girls and wierd ass dudes.  Who would have thunk it.

 

Anyways on to the rally stuff.  We went up on Saturday which was qualifying and hung out for half the day.  A lot of the cars were out in full effect and most looked really good. The Kerns ended up finishing first in Qual so they got to pick there starting spot on Sunday.

 

Now on Sunday was race day and everyone was stoked.  Redbull gave us 2 tents and 20 cases of redbull so that was pretty cool of them.  Day went like this:

-Prostock guys go– Couple crash wow suprise

-Quads go– Couple guys crash one gets carted off in an ambulance

-Rally Cars go– Kick ass!!! I think the worst that happened was the escort cosworth ran out of gas 3 turns before the finish lol.

 

Anyways here are some results as best as I can remember.  The record for this hill climb was 5minutes 3 seconds.  Dave and Allison Kern crushed that with a best of 4 minutes 52 seconds.  That is an astounding 11 seconds which is amazing.  The Salta boys came in second in AWD rally class with a 5.14.XX.  Congrats goes out to Steve and Brain for showing once again why they build the best rally cars in this state.

 

Now onto Pics:

Rally is dope.

Redbull Photo

More of the Cars

Dave getting ready to get down.

John Boooster Himself AKA Dave K

Jon Conleys SRT-4 thing is fast!

What is this? And is it real?

 

Now I want you to look at this car above and really get a good look at it.  This is a real Ford Escort Cosworth.  This is one of the coolest cars I have ever seen, Period.  This thing is so well put together from a 7 speed dog box, Dry Carbon Door Inserts, you get the idea.  This car will be at Rally America where me and Gus will be competing.  I am going to go up a couple days early and retune this thing.  There is talk of next season of redoing the ecu system and switching to a Pectel system.  If you ask yourself “what is  pectel”  then dont ask anymore as you dont need to know.  Stick to your S-AFC’s and UTECS and let the real men build real cars.

 

More Pics:

Rock On

This thing runs on Baby Blood

Sick Interior

This thing is a Fetus Factory, this is really how babies are made

The money shot

 

So stay tuned for more on the Escort Cosworth.  Gus and I have something else in the works as well already for the next rally car which is going to blow your minds.  Most of you wont even know what the car is lol.

 

Anyways I hope you all are enjoying your day as I know I am enjoying mine. 

Thanks for looking,

 

Mitch Mckee

VE Engineering

www.veengineering.com