My car has been on some sort of "Stage 2" setup for 3 years now. I knew my next step was going to be FlexFuel, but it took me awhile to get to the point where I knew how I wanted to do it and what other mods to do that would be easiest whilst doing FlexFuel anyways. The floodgates opened up with possibilities but I still ended up going fairly conservative. I'm in no rush to end the life of the EJ257 under the hood, so reliability while still increasing performance was my main goal.
The end result has 357whp and 384wtq on E85. Figures are about 50 points lower on 91 Octane, so I'm very happy with the gains from adding some corn juice to the diet. At the heart of these gains is the COBB FlexFuel kit along with ID1050X Injectors, DW300c Fuel Pump, and some other bits we tweaked. The TGVs and Secondary Air Pump have also been deleted, too. To ensure proper cooling, we added a coolant line to Cylinder
#4 and then buttoned it all up for some tuning. I drove from Omaha to Des Moines to meet with Graham (Boosted Performance Tuning) and he was great to work with as always. We backed off a bit on the torque figures since I'm still on a stock clutch for now. He said this Dyno reads a little light on Torque and that I'm probably making closer to the low 400s to the wheels for that. I can certainly feel it!
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This bump in power is even more fun with the grippy tires I picked up earlier this summer. 2020 Plans are really starting to compliment eachother now and just in time for the 5-Year Anniversary. Got a few more touches to finish up and I should have a video of this build in October to cap it all off.