how well does Porting an Eaton work?

[ronster]

Dave,

$350.00 per hour does seem on the high side. We get complaints about $125.00 per hour while on the dyno, but we believe we are in line with all the other shops in the area. If you are however the only game in town prices will go up accordingly.

Ron

[Dave B.]

Ron,,I know there are good people out there tuning these cars, I know your one of them, but theres just something about where I live that makes people go haywire.

I can tell by the way you write on this board that your not a bag of hot air,
this $350 an hour guy not only has a bad attitude, , ,but he also gives the impression that if he cannot rape,,,,,,then he wont dance.

Im just tired of dealing with it all, the Ford dealer my cars at now treats me like gold, they only charging me 1/3 of what these other yahoos where going to charge, ,,,,,2 hours on the dyno my AS&

[Big T]

Dave. You have the new ported eaton back on your car? Did you run your car on a dyno to get the new numbers in your sig? Are you happy with the results and how is your car running? I'm probably going to follow you on this one.

[Dave B.]

stage 4 is on the car and if you have been reading my posts you will see i have no reasonable dyno to go to here, and I have a business to run with four employees and do not have time to drive to Tampa just to dyno,,,,but I will let you know how it feels tomorrow

[Big T]

Originally Posted by Dave B.

stage 4 is on the car and if you have been reading my posts you will see i have no reasonable dyno to go to here, and I have a business to run with four employees and do not have time to drive to Tampa just to dyno,,,,but I will let you know how it feels tomorrow

I saw 518hp and 525 tq inyour sig and was wondering if that was before or after the port. I figured that you didn't get it dyno'd. I also have limited resources in New Orleans. Not too many places to do good work. I'm assuming that you haven't got on the pedal hard yet?

[Dave B.]

I guess I should have waited to put those HP/TQ numbers up there,
Stiegemeier swears I will see a 50HP and about the same Torque increase from the proven Dyno numbers I had before the stage 4,,,,,I just added 50 to the HP number and was a little more conservative on the torque,

but thats where I should be when its all said and done, if you look at what others with a stage 4 have gotten its about the same,,,,give or take,

I cannot wait to get the car back Wednesday (tomorrow) the dealership wanted to replace a set of intercooler O-rings rather than reuse the older ones and had to overnight them,,,cars got 33,000 miles and im one of those people that believes in replacing stuff while their into the engine already rather than waiting for something to spring a leak when they already have the thing apart,

should be an ear to ear grin for sure,,This must be one of the longest running threads ever uh?

[Dave B.]

Stiegemeier stage 4 installed and operating,

I picked the car up today after the Stiegemeier was installed,,
heres the deal, I know some of you are in Florida but for those of you who are not, please understand this small factoid, this time of year here it can either be 55 degrees in the day time or it can be 80 degrees in the day time, now when I dropped the car off on Monday, I think our high was around 65 to 68 degrees give or take, but it was rather cool and dry the kind of day were you would not even think of using A/C, so on my way there it had great power, now today (Wednesday) it was a good 79 degrees and humid A/C on max needed absolutly, so its a hard day to judge the power differance, it feels strong, but to be honest i think there would be a bigger differance if the old one were back on but with a 55 degree day ,
cold air is the greatest power booster for sure, I just need to wait for a cool night here this weekend, as far as the Air/Fuel goes, if i put it in 3rd gear at slow speed then floor it, I get an average around 11.7 I would say, still going to around 10,2 at high RPM but the traffic did not allow a good test, this SC sounds better than mine, a much louder whine,, but I will let you know soon. ,,,,,,,,2 hours on the Dyno my *%&

[mkkrs1]

were you satisfied with appearance of the blower, paint wise compared to your old one

[Dave B.]

Listen the most impressive thing about this deal was the way Stiegemeier packed and packaged it in the box,, it was absolutly first rate, these people cared about how it was going to show up at my house, as far as the paint goes well it looks like a brand new stock Eaton paint job, super clean, a nice Stiegermeier lable on top of it, when I looked inside before we put it on we can tell someone spent a lot of time polishing the inside to a "T"

I have no complaints, it was nice to see theres still a company who understands attention to detail,

[blk04cobra1]

you say it's going rich up top, well you could cure that with a custom tune and still get more power out of it. Im glad the tune is apparently not all that effected by the port job, just know that there's more power to be had with a custom tune

[Dave B.]

Yes i would very much like to get on a Dyno to see what I paid for, but even these $350 guys are too busy to get my in anytime soon,

I would like to ask any of you Stiegemeier stage 4 people that when you first drove your car after having it installed, did you notice a Holy Sh&% differance?? or was it kind of ,,,,EH,,,,thats a little better??

I dont have a Holy Sh&% ,,,,,,,just sort of a EH,,,,,its a little better..

what say yous?????

[Linn@Amazon]

did you have a custom tune before the ported Eaton?

[Dave B.]

yes I did have a tune showing 468 RWHP and 485 RWTQ

I finaly went out just a little while ago since the temps are down here in Florida so conditioners were close to the day I dropped it off to get the stage 4 installed, I would now say I notice a holy sh%& hard pull,,

Definatly an improvment, now I think Ill do a lower pulley, but I guess I should take the 2.76 off the top though, so to get about 16 Lbs boost, what top/bottom combination would be best?

[blk04cobra1]

2.93 and 4lb lower

[Dave B.]

is it a big noticable change?? Id think it would be a lower RPM high torque gain,,,??