Hi Eveybody, Finally installed the 1st Canadian Lovefab Turbo system
figured I shoud post on the details,
I have been very busy lately, its also Stampede week in Cowtown, but thought it was time to post some info on my New project, as most of you know I purchased Stacy's NSX with a few mods to finish.
I had Cody from Lovefab Turbo fly in from Michigan and help me install the Lovefab Turbo system for the Canada day long weekened, thats what I have been up to.
Well let me start by saying, that there was some organization involved on my behalf, but it worked out very nicely.
Cody flew in and stayed with me for the long weekend (Canada Day) and a day, we towed my car to my friends shop on the flatdeck from Calgary tow masters, and a great guy named Mike Hammer loaded the car as I was very worried it was so low thay would scratch something, well he was awesome took aroung 30 mins and the car was safe for the trip, after the unload at the shop we had to put the car on 2 - 2x6 blocks each tire before the hoist could go under the frame, car was Low Stacy
well finally she was up on the hoist and we started to work on the car.We went hard on our own hours as we had the shop from fri-monday, well after hours of work and not much sleep for me anyhow, Sunday Canada day around 8pm we fired my car up for the first time with the Lovefab turbo on it(Happy Canada Day for me), and it fired after maybe 1 turn, I was happy to hear the car run, she was purring.
The next day Monday we had plans to street tune the car, so away we went Cody had his laptop hooked to my AEM computer, and I followed his instructions as what to do, and we were off tuning.The car felt allright, it has a New RPS clutch that I am so not used to, I must have smelled the clutch at least 15 times that day, even today its still a hard clutch to get used to, i will admit it launches awesome but after 1 week driving I have a very small low rpm vibration in reverse and 1st gear, maybe the new HP is a factor on the driveline not sure, but its a stiff clutch and hard to find the sweet spot, I am now better after 500 miles on the car hehe, but still tricky and not recomended for rush hour or daily driver in my opinion.
We did many pulls in 2nd and 3rd gear a few in 4th this day also, it felt so great to actually drive this car for the first time, I was finally happy.
Hard to buy a car that you can not drive, hopeing everything is allright.Well we tuned for a few hours and hit some scenery and highway, I wanted to take Cody to Banff for a cruise but the speeds on the pulls we were doing would have gotten me tickets so we went elsewhere, everything was going good and I had 1 last day to pull off and that was the Dyno to see the area of HP we were at with what boost we were running. I scheduled the Dyno for 2 hrs,on tuesday as the holiday was monday and nothing was open.
Our first Dyno pull was 411rwhp I believe and we were running 8psi boost or so on the street, Cody played around a little and upped the boost and I think the second pulll was @ 451 rwhp, did another pull and got 479 rwhp I believe @ 10psi and we were happy with that, do not need overkill may lead to problems, just for kicks we upped the boost to 12psi I believe and did 1 last pull and ended up with 509.7rwhp, I was like shocked, specially because I am 3600 feet above sea level.
After all this testing we put the boost back to 10psi I believe where its at now approx 450rwhp I would say due to Dyno testing, many say different dynos pull different numbers, so I took -30 rwhp to compensate.
That was a cool project and everything worked out very well, timing was good as we stayed on schedule all weekend. It was very fun for me to help Cody install the system, He even messed his shoulder up 3 days before coming, and still made the trip, tough guy like a hockey player Thanks so much for still making the trip.
I have been driving my X for a week or so now as much as I can, and all I can say is WOW this thing is awesome, the guy helping us at the Dyno was amazed he said he has no seen that much power on that machine in 3 years he has been running it.We questioned other cars like corvette and z06 he said a z06 with a supercharger only produced 480 to 530 rwhp max, so thats pretty amazing power from a 6 cyl NSX in my eyes.
Also I did not know the X has 6 bolt mains, something I learned over the weekend.
So basically I now have a complete car with a few small things I need to adjust that is normal, I got my Out of Province inspection 2 days and now I am totally good to go.
Its quite a accomplishment and a great feeling when things work out.
I would like to thank some people that made this dream come true for me, starting with Stacy'sNSX, thanks bud for being so imformative and honest with me, I do not think I could have bought a car from a better guy, and all the things you did to the car and for this community is truely amazing.
Stacy and I have been keeping in contact even up to today,I have been letting him know how things are going with my new project, he has answered many questions and has been very helpfull to me.
A Big thanks to Cody for coming to Calgary and helping me install this Turbo that Stacy purchased, he was originally booked for Vancouver mid July, and well with the car deal we all worked out a plan and it happened Cody bumped me up to 3 weeks after my car purchase.I spoke with him a few times and booked him a flight, everything was shipped out and he arrived 1 hour late due to plane delays.
We worked together and even with a sore shoulder Cody was trying to wrench as much as possible, Cody knows alot about the NSX, I learned so much in such little time, haveing the car on the hoist was nice as I could understand it alot more.
I can not say enough about Stacy and Cody, so much thanks for making this happen for me, both of you made this go-fast-crack-pipe happen and yes now I am addicted hehe, also I made 2 great friends setting the car aside.
I have to also thank a few of my close friends Dean and Shawn, Dean got me the 3 bay shop for the long weekend and helped me endlessly all weekend, as well as shawn putting in some good hours too helping me alot, I had to drive around for a few things and was away for some hours and I got back and alot of work was done on the car,
Thank you so much for making this project a success, I would reccomend anyone wanting to have some real horsepower to contact Cody @ Lovefab turbo, and now SOS I believe is doing them also, its a nice system tucked up there very nicely.
I have some pictures and some edited clips of video to post, as some of u were asking.
The sound and power is so amazing, specially when the turbo kicks in, yet at low rpm it can still drive like a honda.
Thanks guys you are awesome people.
Maximumyield
Here is a few pics, a scan and a few links to some small video footage.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ynMgcy1m0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iAaPxVhGX9w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aNiNJtm9SYs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gVdnw4tTehA
figured I shoud post on the details,
I have been very busy lately, its also Stampede week in Cowtown, but thought it was time to post some info on my New project, as most of you know I purchased Stacy's NSX with a few mods to finish.
I had Cody from Lovefab Turbo fly in from Michigan and help me install the Lovefab Turbo system for the Canada day long weekened, thats what I have been up to.
Well let me start by saying, that there was some organization involved on my behalf, but it worked out very nicely.
Cody flew in and stayed with me for the long weekend (Canada Day) and a day, we towed my car to my friends shop on the flatdeck from Calgary tow masters, and a great guy named Mike Hammer loaded the car as I was very worried it was so low thay would scratch something, well he was awesome took aroung 30 mins and the car was safe for the trip, after the unload at the shop we had to put the car on 2 - 2x6 blocks each tire before the hoist could go under the frame, car was Low Stacy
well finally she was up on the hoist and we started to work on the car.We went hard on our own hours as we had the shop from fri-monday, well after hours of work and not much sleep for me anyhow, Sunday Canada day around 8pm we fired my car up for the first time with the Lovefab turbo on it(Happy Canada Day for me), and it fired after maybe 1 turn, I was happy to hear the car run, she was purring.
The next day Monday we had plans to street tune the car, so away we went Cody had his laptop hooked to my AEM computer, and I followed his instructions as what to do, and we were off tuning.The car felt allright, it has a New RPS clutch that I am so not used to, I must have smelled the clutch at least 15 times that day, even today its still a hard clutch to get used to, i will admit it launches awesome but after 1 week driving I have a very small low rpm vibration in reverse and 1st gear, maybe the new HP is a factor on the driveline not sure, but its a stiff clutch and hard to find the sweet spot, I am now better after 500 miles on the car hehe, but still tricky and not recomended for rush hour or daily driver in my opinion.
We did many pulls in 2nd and 3rd gear a few in 4th this day also, it felt so great to actually drive this car for the first time, I was finally happy.
Hard to buy a car that you can not drive, hopeing everything is allright.Well we tuned for a few hours and hit some scenery and highway, I wanted to take Cody to Banff for a cruise but the speeds on the pulls we were doing would have gotten me tickets
so we went elsewhere, everything was going good and I had 1 last day to pull off and that was the Dyno to see the area of HP we were at with what boost we were running. I scheduled the Dyno for 2 hrs,on tuesday as the holiday was monday and nothing was open.Our first Dyno pull was 411rwhp I believe and we were running 8psi boost or so on the street, Cody played around a little and upped the boost and I think the second pulll was @ 451 rwhp, did another pull and got 479 rwhp I believe @ 10psi and we were happy with that, do not need overkill may lead to problems, just for kicks we upped the boost to 12psi I believe and did 1 last pull and ended up with 509.7rwhp, I was like shocked, specially because I am 3600 feet above sea level.
After all this testing we put the boost back to 10psi I believe where its at now approx 450rwhp I would say due to Dyno testing, many say different dynos pull different numbers, so I took -30 rwhp to compensate.
That was a cool project and everything worked out very well, timing was good as we stayed on schedule all weekend. It was very fun for me to help Cody install the system, He even messed his shoulder up 3 days before coming, and still made the trip, tough guy like a hockey player
Thanks so much for still making the trip.I have been driving my X for a week or so now as much as I can, and all I can say is WOW this thing is awesome, the guy helping us at the Dyno was amazed he said he has no seen that much power on that machine in 3 years he has been running it.We questioned other cars like corvette and z06 he said a z06 with a supercharger only produced 480 to 530 rwhp max, so thats pretty amazing power from a 6 cyl NSX in my eyes.
Also I did not know the X has 6 bolt mains, something I learned over the weekend.
So basically I now have a complete car with a few small things I need to adjust that is normal, I got my Out of Province inspection 2 days and now I am totally good to go.
Its quite a accomplishment and a great feeling when things work out.
I would like to thank some people that made this dream come true for me, starting with Stacy'sNSX, thanks bud for being so imformative and honest with me, I do not think I could have bought a car from a better guy, and all the things you did to the car and for this community is truely amazing.
Stacy and I have been keeping in contact even up to today,I have been letting him know how things are going with my new project, he has answered many questions and has been very helpfull to me.
A Big thanks to Cody for coming to Calgary and helping me install this Turbo that Stacy purchased, he was originally booked for Vancouver mid July, and well with the car deal we all worked out a plan and it happened Cody bumped me up to 3 weeks after my car purchase.I spoke with him a few times and booked him a flight, everything was shipped out and he arrived 1 hour late due to plane delays.
We worked together and even with a sore shoulder Cody was trying to wrench as much as possible, Cody knows alot about the NSX, I learned so much in such little time, haveing the car on the hoist was nice as I could understand it alot more.
I can not say enough about Stacy and Cody, so much thanks for making this happen for me, both of you made this go-fast-crack-pipe happen and yes now I am addicted hehe, also I made 2 great friends setting the car aside.
I have to also thank a few of my close friends Dean and Shawn, Dean got me the 3 bay shop for the long weekend and helped me endlessly all weekend, as well as shawn putting in some good hours too helping me alot, I had to drive around for a few things and was away for some hours and I got back and alot of work was done on the car,
Thank you so much for making this project a success, I would reccomend anyone wanting to have some real horsepower to contact Cody @ Lovefab turbo, and now SOS I believe is doing them also, its a nice system tucked up there very nicely.
I have some pictures and some edited clips of video to post, as some of u were asking.
The sound and power is so amazing, specially when the turbo kicks in, yet at low rpm it can still drive like a honda.
Thanks guys you are awesome people.
Maximumyield
Here is a few pics, a scan and a few links to some small video footage.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ynMgcy1m0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iAaPxVhGX9w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aNiNJtm9SYs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gVdnw4tTehA
Im jealous, I think I'm gonna start saving up for the lovefab turbo!!!:biggrin: !!!
