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"Tuned by Sean @ Full Function - The car feels amazing!...Just wanted to spread the word about the
great job Full Function did on the install and tune!"

-ITR2MR @ NorCalEvo

FULL FUNCTION - SNOW PERFORMANCE METHANOL KIT AND APS EXHAUST SYSTEM INSTALLED AND DYNO TUNED

Snow Performance Methanol Kit and APS Turbo Back
Tested and Tuned on Evolution 9

You just had your Evolution tuned for Ca 91 and your 300tq and 300hp at the wheels is just not enough. So you have the car tuned for race gas. Now the car performs how you always wanted but the price of race gas just isn't appealing to the wallet. What do you do now? The answer is Methanol Injection.

Methanol Injection has been around for decades and the first widespread use was during WWII on supercharged and turbocharged aircraft. In 1942, the German Luftwaffe increased the horsepower of its' aircraft from 1776HP to 2240HP using 50/50% water/methanol injection. Later it was used in the Formula 1 racing circuit before being banned for adding too much power.

Speaking from FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE on Daily Driven Shop cars and countless customer cars, methanol/water injection is safe when the car is owned by an educated meticulous person. If you don't know how to maintain your car and/or don't like to constantly verify everything is correct there is good chance you will damage your car. We have never had any of our customers methanol kits ruin an engine to date. Reason being good installation and good owners. Yes we have had a pump fail. Good thing for the Safe injection being installed CORRECTLY.

Our test bed vehicle is a perfect stock Evolution 9 with less than 1000 miles on it. We began our testing with some baseline Dyno runs. The baseline testing netted approximately 219 HP and 222 TQ. This happened to be 4-5 HP less than a majority of the stock Evolution 9s we have base lined. This could be due to the extremely low mileage of the test Evo.

The 3.5" piping of the APS exhaust components dwarfs the factories restrictive exhaust. Pictured left is massive 4 bolt APS exhaust flange compared to the factory 2 bolt.

Pictured left is a comparison between the APS downpipe and the factory one. Even with the heat shielding still on the factory downpipe the APS downpipe is still much larger visually.

One interesting feature about the APS System is the adjustable silencer. It resembles a daisy when open :) We never tested how the car performed on the dyno with and without or with closed and with open so don't ask.

The APS turbo back exhaust system fit so well that it was pleasure installing it. Other well known exhaust systems tend to require some manipulation of the flange alignment to keep from rattling against various parts of the car. The APS system fit without any rattling or rubbing despite it's large diameter. Pictured left is a troublesome spot for most downpipes. It's a tight fit but still no rubbing.

Here is another picture of how the anaconda of a downpipe snakes it's way between the sub frame brace and transfer case. Notice the aluminum spacer between the sub frame and brace. Due to the extra girth of the APS downpipe these spacers are a requirement.

Pictured left is the hanger of the downpipe. It has a beefy construction and also provides a fair amount of clearance.

The last APS system picture is of the muffler. The muffler itself doesn't look very intimidating and doesn't appear to stand out from any other shiny performance exhaust system. it's what you can't see under the car that makes this setup exceptional.

Pictured left is the Snow Performance Stage 2D Boost Cooler installed on the test vehicle. The Stage 2D Boost Cooler is made specifically for the Mitsubishi's With Mass Airflow Sensors and works on all year models.

It references two inputs for pump pressure. a) manifold pressure and b) MAF output signal (200-2000hz). The internal 2 dimensional map delivers a water-methanol mist that is proportional under all conditions. This increases drivability and broadens the power band.

We weld on a bung when installing a methanol nozzle on a turbocharged vehicles. It's important to mount the nozzle in a manner that would cause any boost leaks. When mounting on thin wall intercooler piping we always weld on a bung for the nozzles. Do NOT waste your time and install the kit by just tapping the thin intercooler pipes. This is a guaranteed way to have boost leaks and should not be done. If your shop is trying to just tap your thin walled piping take the IC pipe to have a professional TIG welder put a bung on the piping.

Pictured left is the mounted Snow performance meth/water tank. At Full Function we make our own mounting kits for the Snow Performance injection setups. This takes the headache out of mounting the tank and pump. The kit even includes the weld on aluminum bung for your nozzle.

The Snow Performance pump is installed under the factory intake box and is not visible once the intercooler piping and factory air box is installed.

On request we offer Snow Performance's Safe Injection product. This flow meter sends out a signal if the methanol/water injection volume falls off due to a clogged line, failed pump or large bubbles in the system. The signal is then used to either/both cut mass airflow signal delivering an instant fuel cut and/or boost solenoid bypass dropping boost to the minimum wastegate pressure. When tuning with a meth/water system the tuner should not start making any adjustments to the fuel or timing maps at or below the minimum wastegate boost pressure.

The Blue Lines (Run#3) represent the horsepower and torque curves of Evolution 9 in stock form. This Evo base lined about 5 horsepower lower than the average Evolution 9.

The Green lines (Run#2) represent the horsepower and torque curves of the Evolution 9 with the APS turbo back exhaust and custom Full Function Dyno tune. The Full Function custom dyno tune raises the peak boost to 21PSI and tapers off to about 17.5PSI by redline. The modifications Full Function performed realized gains of approximately 79 all wheel horsepower and 66 all wheel torque. We could have made the horsepower and torque even by raising the peak boost pressure up to 22-23, but this customer requested not to since he doesn't floor the car at 3500RPM while racing.

The Red lines (Run#1) represent the horsepower and torque with the APS Turbo Back exhaust and Snow Performance stage 2 kit after Full Function performed a custom dyno tune. We left the Boost pressures the same as in the Run#2 dyno graph (21PSI tapering down to about 17.5PSI by redline.) With the addition of the Snow Performance Kit using a 50/50 mix of water and methanol the Evolution gained over 107 more HP and 98 more TQ over stock.

 
   

 

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