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Originally Posted by Longboarder

I keep toying with an idea of my own. Find one of those used non-intercooled ESS kits on the cheap, and then get a small 8-9psi pulley, larger injectors and use meth as cooling and octane, and get someone to custom tune it (maybe using the base ESS650 file). My frustration years ago was keeping the power that it made on the dyno with the standard ESS intercooled kits. Turns out the car really made 450 wheel with my 8 second 60-130's on the hot airstrip and made 580 wheel in perfect dyno conditions and who knows maybe low 500's in the cool evenings with low 7 60-130's. The air to water intercooler was terrible and although the addition of the water/ice tank helped a lot, i gave up my trunk. Sure the ESS intercooled kits may make a lot of power on the dyno and put up a glory run 60-130 in cold winter air, but the inconsistency in hot weather was always my biggest gripe.

Anyway sounds like yours is nicely sorted.

I can completely understand that struggle, I've through about putting meth back in the car to assist with air intake temps as the car pulled tuning hard in heat. Noticed if I can keep be temp below 100 for air intake temp car is happy but anything over that timing is pulled. When I did a test while on 93 a few years back cool night on the dyno I made 565whp at 8psi but at 90 the next day only made. 480. Turning on the meth with a very small cm3 nozzle spraying progressively the car made 535 so I know meth helps if you can keep the spray low enough that it doesn't cause a a rich condition. I have a spare manifold I might hack it up and remove the intercooler to give straight meth at 9 psi a try.