For anyone not familiar - Headgames Motorworks is in Princeton, NJ. They are a small team of 6 people, best known for their porting and valve jobs. The owner Dave is a long time mustang enthusiast. His team's interest in the 2.3L ecoboost platform is very strong so I sent a pair of cyl...
I spent all weekend and all day at Headgames Motorworks, flowbenching different prototype manifolds and tweaking on this cyl head. We tried some different ferrea valvetrain setups. Camshafts are proving to be tricky! Even with detailed cad models we had to sacrifice this cyl head to the R&D...
these OEM garrett turbos use an unusually simplified bearing assembly, with only one journal bearing and 2 seals, thats it... there are no thrust bearings. strangeness
LOL the wing is functional and built for grip. Some people love it, others hate it. The car is naked right now, no wing at the moment
Headgames has been doing radius cuts on the seat for as long as ive known him (14 years?) they have some very nice machines and I consider valvejobs as their...
If anyone is able to attend the Carlisle, PA Ford event June 5/6 please stop by the Full-Race tent! we will have a few interesting things on display :ford:
Our 3" catback exhaust production begins in the next 2 weeks. I am really excited for this one
in regards to the upgraded turbokits -...
I am from monmouth county, NJ. If you are looking for a shop you can trust and rely on for tuning and quality work - i strongly recommend Evans Tuning in PA. www.evans-tuning.com
we put these 6 piston monoblock brembos on our Mustang ecoboost. nobody "needs" them, but they rock!! great initial bite, modulation and will take a lot to heatsoak them -- it really makes sense if youre making bigger power and plan to spend any time on a track (not dragstrip).
hi guys - we are now sponsors here on the site, it's a good one to support and we intend to be here for a long time. Last week we finished final round prototypes: getting our catback exhaust, downpipe, oil cooler and intake into fixturing and final CAD models - soon to be production ready...
you have a good understanding - there is no question that "over-stressing" an engine will cause a failure like this. pistons/rods only see cyl pressure vs time. so if cyl pressure spikes early, the pistons and rods do not transfer all of that energy into crankshaft rotation... like they would...
you are on the stock turbo/small AR housing pushing over 25psi.. your cylinder pressure and EGT was likely very high... a bigger turbo will allow for higher power/tq levels with less cyl pressure
thanks, glad you like the intercooler. We've had excellent response from customers who've received them. One prominent tuner said he will post his unbiased data next week..
The stock tune is conservative and designed to be optimized for the stock engine, it is perfectly fine to upgrade...
AGREE. here is a good visual video explanation of inertia:
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/e-thirteen-finally-answers-the-age-old-question.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response
no problem. Clockwise rotation is the accepted standard for 99.9% of aftermarket frame turbochargers - whether its BorgWarner, garrett, turbonetics, comp, precision or anyone else. The difference is that a reverse rotation turbo is literally mirrored from standard rotation. this requires...