About 6 months ago Rob announced that SpecialtyZ would be making another trip to Edmonton this summer for a tuning event. I quickly google mapped out the distance from my location and realized that I could make this happen since the drive was about 3 hours less than making the trip down to California.
My car has coilover suspension and a fairly loud exhaust. The wife wasn't thrilled with the idea of riding 12+ hours and to be honest neither did I so I rented an auto transport trailer from uhaul and loaded her up the night before our departure.
After driving about 3 hours north we hit the Canadian border. Border patrol was pretty painless and only took about 20 minutes to get through.
Temperature was around 60* and sunny for about the first 75 miles. Then Canadian mother nature made me her bitch. Temps dropped to 34* and snow began to fall. I could not friggen believe it was snowing in August! This slowed the trip down quite a bit as visibility was poor and I was towing ~4500 lbs behind me.
What in the hell is this white stuff falling from the sky?
I found Canada's marshmallow farm! :D
Other than the snow the drive was pretty nice. We passed through a small town where Canada's worst rockslide in history occurred. It was pretty crazy to see half the mountain gone and piles of rock everywhere.
So after 14 hours of driving through snow and mountains we finally made it to Edmonton. With all the rain and snow I decided to pull off the nose panel and check my filters. They had gotten a little wet on the trip over but were still clean inside so I reinstalled them and unloaded the car. This was perfect height to work on the car!
Arrived at the shop after getting lost for about 45 minutes. I swear 113th street is the hardest street to find in Edmonton when you don't have any sort of navigation system available.
Got the car loaded up on the dyno and let Greg and Seb work their magic. I had a single tune done on 92 octane along with cam gear tuning on both the intake and exhaust cam gears.
Greg pointing out and explaining the hp/tq changes after making adjustments to the cam gears. He's got this down to a science. He only had to make a few adjustments to dial in the gears.
Here are the results after 10 pulls on the dyno. All runs were done on WA 92 octane fuel. I removed a few of the runs that were baseline and boost controller adjustments.
And the runs made while tuning all four cams gears.
This was the 9th pull but sadly there was some detonation so Greg/Seb pulled back the timing and turned down the boost a bit.
Youtube vids if the embed feature doesn't work.. Behind Car
Of course I couldn't leave Canada without a few souvenirs... :D
I had a blast this weekend and it was great to finally meet some fellow tt.net members. I'd like to thank Rob for doing an excellent job organizing this event and hope this continues to be an annual occurrence.
Follow Ups
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