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[PandaCopyRight]

10 minutes ago, Velcade said:

*AHEM*

is that an i30N ?

 

[Velcade]

3 minutes ago, PandaCopyRight said:

is that an i30N ?

 

I guess you could call it America's i30N.  It's the Veloster N.  Fun little car to whip around.

[PandaCopyRight]

Just now, Velcade said:

I guess you could call it America's i30N.  It's the Veloster N.  Fun little car to whip around.

shit, the front is nearly identical and i had forgotten about the veloster ... whoops 
but man, do the i30n look great (this one being a fancier version) .... and they are cheap for what you get 

[MadyTehWolfie]

Welp tsage 1 on my ecoboost make tires spin, feel like stage 2 shifted the torque no spiny, then stage 3 today spins tired through 2nd gear. Not sure cobb should suggest a intercooler over a down pipe for stage 2. Clearly that factory downpipe is more of a restriction then the inter-cooler. Im sure their egg heads designed it that way for a reason im just not seeing it here.

 

Edit: while I was under the car it amazed me how big the transmission was for the ecoboost. Transmissions almost as big as the engine itself lol XD

[Bitter]

9 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Welp tsage 1 on my ecoboost make tires spin, feel like stage 2 shifted the torque no spiny, then stage 3 today spins tired through 2nd gear. Not sure cobb should suggest a intercooler over a down pipe for stage 2. Clearly that factory downpipe is more of a restriction then the inter-cooler. Im sure their egg heads designed it that way for a reason im just not seeing it here.

 

Edit: while I was under the car it amazed me how big the transmission was for the ecoboost. Transmissions almost as big as the engine itself lol XD

The reason is probably emissions and or parts sharing.

[MadyTehWolfie]

Just now, Bitter said:

The reason is probably emissions and or parts sharing.

Part sharing its the are transmission (slightly different gearing) from the GT just thought it was a little funny seeing a massive transmission for a 4 pot

[Bitter]

2 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Part sharing its the are transmission (slightly different gearing) from the GT just thought it was a little funny seeing a massive transmission for a 4 pot

I meant the down pipe but probably that too. Pretty sure the trans in my GF's 1.6t Escape is as big as the engine too, Ford needs to have lots of parts inside to break so it's extra expensive to get rebuilt later. I hate Ford automatic transmissions.

[MadyTehWolfie]

1 minute ago, Bitter said:

I meant the down pipe but probably that too. Pretty sure the trans in my GF's 1.6t Escape is as big as the engine too, Ford needs to have lots of parts inside to break so it's extra expensive to get rebuilt later. I hate Ford automatic transmissions.

Downpipe is bent different the other ecoboost engines. Trans is manual. Believe the escape uses the same transmission as the fusion not really a big trans but the engine is pretty small so makes sense. 

[ProfBrown]

25 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Clearly that factory downpipe is more of a restriction then the inter-cooler. Im sure their egg heads designed it that way for a reason im just not seeing it  

I wonder if they advised it that way as the intercooler would help keep IATs lower. Yes of course the down pipe is still a restriction, but I wonder if keeping IATs lower helps with the tuning and making the tuning itself easier (as aggressive as they can without harming the engine). Like when you are really running the car hard IATs will rise and you will lose power compared to the down pipe where as heat rises you won’t lose power? Just a guess. 

[MadyTehWolfie]

29 minutes ago, ProfBrown said:

I wonder if they advised it that way as the intercooler would help keep IATs lower. Yes of course the down pipe is still a restriction, but I wonder if keeping IATs lower helps with the tuning and making the tuning itself easier (as aggressive as they can without harming the engine). Like when you are really running the car hard IATs will rise and you will lose power compared to the down pipe where as heat rises you won’t lose power? Just a guess. 

True, though Cobb is very conservative with their tunes. Stock intercooler are pretty bad. My guess they probably thought temps would be too high for stage 2 with stock cooler. Though other companies tuned stage 2 with just intake and down pipe. Multiple good reasons for it but at the same time Can’t know for sure why they decided on it.

[bcredeur97]

7 hours ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

True, though Cobb is very conservative with their tunes. Stock intercooler are pretty bad. My guess they probably thought temps would be too high for stage 2 with stock cooler. Though other companies tuned stage 2 with just intake and down pipe. Multiple good reasons for it but at the same time Can’t know for sure why they decided on it.

My friend matt’s original ecoboost — he Did an intercooler with the stage 1 tune, made a big difference. Thing would heat soak super easily. 

 

Still threw a rod a few months later though lol

[MadyTehWolfie]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

My friend matt’s original ecoboost — he Did an intercooler with the stage 1 tune, made a big difference. Thing would heat soak super easily. 

 

Still threw a rod a few months later though lol

-knock on wood- Mine has been fine so far. Which tune did he go with?

[bcredeur97]

9 hours ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

-knock on wood- Mine has been fine so far. Which tune did he go with?

it was just the cobb stage 1 afaik. He wasn't even on it much when it blew up according to him, was heading home after an event and all of a sudden kablamo and there was a window in the crankcase

He actually got some pics of the failed parts, it looked like one of the rod bolts may have loosened or was too loose from factory. Ford actually covered it under warranty. He then got rear ended like a month after he got the car back lol.

Few years went by, he missed the car so much, so he just got a GT350 about a week ago. Lol

 

 

[MadyTehWolfie]

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

it was just the cobb stage 1 afaik. He wasn't even on it much when it blew up according to him, was heading home after an event and all of a sudden kablamo and there was a window in the crankcase

He actually got some pics of the failed parts, it looked like one of the rod bolts may have loosened or was too loose from factory. Ford actually covered it under warranty. He then got rear ended like a month after he got the car back lol.

Few years went by, he missed the car so much, so he just got a GT350 about a week ago. Lol

 

 

Well thats too rich for my blood but good for him its a pretty sweet car. Some of the earlier ecoboosts had those issues thankfully ive been fine. Its like silicon lottery but for ecoboosts. idk lol Granted when I bought the ecoboost they had a whole 2 years to iron out tunes for it.

[RasmusDC]

On 1/6/2020 at 12:53 AM, EZTutty said:

lol, i used to have a Turbo'ed 172 Cup i put together, but got rid of it for the evo.

 

must admit i do love the Gordini Clio´s more than the EVO, the natual aspirated engine is just awesome.

 

Was looking for the V6 rear engined version, found a great one for 6000 euro´s 4+ years back, but danish import taxes ended in +20.000 Euro´s and for such an old car, that was just a bit to much, and the V6 has driveshaft issues.. 

[iDeFecZx]

3 hours ago, RasmusDC said:

must admit i do love the Gordini Clio´s more than the EVO, the natual aspirated engine is just awesome.

 

Was looking for the V6 rear engined version, found a great one for 6000 euro´s 4+ years back, but danish import taxes ended in +20.000 Euro´s and for such an old car, that was just a bit to much, and the V6 has driveshaft issues.. 

6k for a Clio V6?!? Be mad to pass it up even with taxes now a days

[RasmusDC]

37 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

6k for a Clio V6?!? Be mad to pass it up even with taxes now a days

well it was a longer time ago, they were cheap on mobile.de

[chaozbandit]

 

[TVwazhere]

On 1/12/2020 at 12:22 AM, MadyTehWolfie said:

Well thats too rich for my blood but good for him its a pretty sweet car. Some of the earlier ecoboosts had those issues thankfully ive been fine. Its like silicon lottery but for ecoboosts. idk lol Granted when I bought the ecoboost they had a whole 2 years to iron out tunes for it.

I've been running their stage 3 for the 2.0 Ecobbost for a while, but I need to get it custom tuned. The Turbosmart Blowoff valves starting to intermittently release the pressure when under a load above 2750RPM's (basically any time at highway speeds going up a small incline)

[bcredeur97]

9 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

I've been running their stage 3 for the 2.0 Ecobbost for a while, but I need to get it custom tuned. The Turbosmart Blowoff valves starting to intermittently release the pressure when under a load above 2750RPM's (basically any time at highway speeds going up a small incline)

I think the 2.0L ecoboost is the best one. Or at least the most reliable one it seems. I never hear of any complaints of that engine itself.

[iDeFecZx]

8 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I think the 2.0L ecoboost is the best one. Or at least the most reliable one it seems. I never hear of any complaints of that engine itself.

You obviously havent seen the focus st owners page on facebook

[Levent]

Not a fan of harleys but they were the first to release an electric bike. 

[bcredeur97]

6 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

You obviously havent seen the focus st owners page on facebook

and you'd be right.

[TVwazhere]

15 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I think the 2.0L ecoboost is the best one. Or at least the most reliable one it seems. I never hear of any complaints of that engine itself.

6 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

You obviously havent seen the focus st owners page on facebook

Just now, bcredeur97 said:

and you'd be right.

They're reliable but not bulletproof. Plenty of people have gotten serious power gains (350whp, up from 252) on stock internals, but beyond that you need to upgrade a lot of shit like pistons, cams, etc. Also not WOTing in 6th gear is important  

[vetali]

7 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

You obviously havent seen the focus st owners page on facebook

Compared to the reliability of other ecoboost engines they may as well be made by Toyota.