{"id":4550,"date":"2013-03-10T22:24:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:32:57","slug":"dyno-tune-with-steve-kan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2013\/03\/dyno-tune-with-steve-kan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyno Tune with Steve Kan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rotaries are a dying breed and there are not many people knowledgable in their tuning. I didn’t want to take chances and let someone inexperienced with rotaries handle such a crucial task. So I decided to get Steve Kan to do it. Although he is quite a popular and well-known rotary tuner, the catch is he lives in Texas. <\/p>\n

In order to make this work, I had to set up a group tuning session of at least 5 people and he would fly out. Back in December around Christmas time, I made this thread<\/a> on RX7Club to start gathering others for the tune. To put things into perspective, I had only just taken off the stock turbos<\/a> around this time. How’s that for project management? <\/p>\n

Obviously the actual prospective tune date was set for around late February, but nonetheless all of this needed to be done in advance. Right from the onset, I knew I didn’t want to sit around for months to years for this car to come together. In order to achieve my lofty ambitions and goals, I needed a lot of determination, copious amounts of hard work, and a bit of luck. <\/p>\n

Eventually the tuning session filled up and we had enough people for a 2-day event. I collected the deposits and sent them over to Steve; the date was set for March 2nd-3rd. It was time to get busy. <\/p>\n

It came quite close because I chose to redo the fuel lines<\/a> and radiator fan’s mounting<\/a> at the last minute. I literally finished up the fuel lines last Friday, a day before the tunes started. I was originally set to go in on Saturday, March 1st – but I moved myself to March 2nd so I could actually get the car started.<\/p>\n

On that same Friday night, I primed the turbos and the scene was set for start-up the next morning. Come Saturday, I placed faith in my work and quality of the parts I chose… and turned the key. It fired up on the second try and was uneventful. I then set the FPR’s idle pressure to 40 psi and spent the rest of the day double checking things. Later that night, I put the stock wheels on and dropped the car back onto the ground for the first time in over 3 months. Just like that, the car was ready for its dyno tune the very next day. <\/p>\n

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My hood was still at the painter’s and I didn’t want to drive the car without a proper tune, so I coordinated with a flatbed to pick me up on Sunday morning, and then drop me back off once the tuning was over.<\/p>\n

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Steve was using Tech3 Performance’s DynoJet in San Jose. <\/p>\n

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A couple hours later, the car was tuned and ready to go! Check out the video below.<\/p>\n