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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    Yes. We discovered the car was basically locked at 16 degrees of timing advance when cruising on the highway at low loads. Zero'd out the torque protect tables and... it's magically perfect. Fuel economy seems more like what i'd expect. Absolutely no clue what was causing it to go into torque...
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    used a fuel rail pressure tester and a ridiculous amount of adapters to test exhaust backpressure. <2psi at 4000rpm. That seems fine.
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    bah. I meant the front oxygen sensor. Had a brainfart because it's on the "rear" of the engine. Zeph's PAU on E85 with the same mods as mine gets 29 indicated, 25-ish actual. I'm getting 14 indicated, 12 actual. that's... broken. Yet we can find no real differences between the two.
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    Running into weird issues with fuel economy... it seems that most people see about 25-29 highway indicated after doing E85 and a pulley. I'm seeing more like 17 indicated on the highway, 10-12 MPG actual when I fill up. Less than ideal. Here's a list of things I did trying to remedy this...
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    So I just went back and looked at some videos from when I first put the 3.4" pulley on and I guess it *never* made more than 9psi, I'm just remembering wrong. It's probably fine, then.
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    Yeah... driving this car straight up didn't happen this winter. We were only able to add like a degree of timing before the car got slower. Still get random KR on shifts that I'm fairly certain is phantom. Yeah... I did realize it was <40 degrees when I saw 10lbs and now it's 70-80. Duh-doi.
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    ohhhh I've been around. usually I'm standing with my hands in my pockets watching Zeph tig weld an intercooler together out of lawnmower parts and a minifridge or something insane that somehow works.
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    Dirt Cheap L67 adventures (corn star)

    Hi all, I've never actually made a post here before but now that I'm a few months into absolutely ruining owning my first L67 car (3rd 3800, but the others were NA) I'd make a thread. This is my '03 Park Avenue Ultra. It was a christmas gift from my buddy Tyler who bought it at an auction...
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    3800 M90 Montana Van

    I think I love you
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    3800 - Ford GT blower swap

    You had me at "shark cum"
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    Sleeper buiild thread: KISS edition

    Oh thank heavens.
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    Update: This engine is cursed by some sort of Egyptain god of WTF and after replacing a smashed spark plug it runs on all 6 with decent compression.
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    Keeping the 3800 dream alive

    woah, Wichita guy with a manual 3800 drag camaro? ...we need to hang out.
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    Now put that beast of a powerplant in something that looks the part.
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    I approve of hx52
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    yeah that explains why my Riv trans was garbage. Obviously the nice couple in their 60s was doing neutral drops in it. :jg:
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    I'm impressed that 65e-hd has lasted this long. Didn't those have longevity issues at stock power levels?
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    "recommended" ahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    https://youtu.be/N3soi5QHOuQ It's alive. Running on just turbos because the boost switch is absent for some reason. Makes really nice noises, from the outside you'd have no idea it was anything other than a beat-to-shit end-of-live crusher-bound Bonneville with a hatred for viscous couplings. I...
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    Focus ST turbos as twins. What do you think?

    This is a beautiful bromance. I'm sad I will probably be in Oklahoma at a drift event while Zeph is blowing up transmissions :(