Hey, I got the redline finally! I'll get there eventually.
As far as the transmission, yeah, I'm going to call it good. If it breaks then it breaks. I'll get a used one and do it up right now that someone I know has the correct tools. Besides, it works beautifully and no noise anymore. I take that back, it does still have that slight final drive whine at certain speeds, though I don't remember if it was there before the diff or not. Anyway, the diff is working like its supposed to and the transmission still shifts like a knife through butter. The clutch has actually broken in quite nicely now though I have to say when its hot you have to be carefull how fast you let it out...it threatens to snap my neck off if I let it out quick. At least I can slip it now that I'm used to it.
Thermostat? Whats that? I'm just lazy. My turbo is located pretty close to that T-stat housing and I may have to unbolt it to properly change it out. I'll do it eventually. Right now I'm just happy that the car seems to be doing so well. It almost feels like I could have bought it this way now. This current reburn on the chip is running really good. I have the emanage off still right now so the pcm can adapt, then I'll start looking at fuel trims at various speeds so I can see how the new MAF function I made is working. So far though it looks good and I've got no CEL's even though the eManage is not active.
I think you would really like to drive this thing around as a daily driver now...It is smooth and fun and powerfull when you want it. The problem is all the other cars are afraid of it now...no fun little stoplight jaunts against other cars.
Tom
