Backstory:
This guy (Robin) owned an EJ9 with D14A3 or A4 and performed an IM swap. Within two weeks the engine died. It was locked up due to bad lubrication somehow, very unfortunate for him. After that he changed the engine for a D14A8 he found, got it in the dyno with me twice. Between 1st and 2nd time only some inlet stuff changed (from a crappy sharp inlet tube to a descent rounded one). Unfortunately both times he struggled to get 105 bhp. Yes it was D14A8 engine + D16Z6 IM + I/H/E. In the same days Baz would be there procuding over 120 bhp with his EJ9...
Now Robin came back with the same setup. Only did he change the chassis and engine block
. In other words, he had an accident with the previous one, now bought a new EJ9 with D14A4 and put all the bits and pieces he had for the old one on this. So D16Z6 IM, and all the I/H/E. Instantly when he rolled inside the dyno shop he got 118 bhp. We could not get another hp out of it. And yes AFR is very rich as usually for this setup, but he clearly is in 'ball park'.We plotted both graphs on top of each other and its like another engine. To my opinion this indicates the A8 is very different from the A3/A4... or the D14A8 was in very bad shape, but nothing has indicated that so far until the accident. Unfortunatly the A8 has been shredded now. But still, I will get his scan from the graphs and put it up here.
. I will be upgrading to multipoint gas injection but that is indepently mappable.
