I know I've been a ghost here for a while. I graduated from college (7 years of it for a 4 year degree) and I'm working on getting a place with my GF. The car work has kept going, but not so much on mine. My car has seen some suspension installs and some suspension problems, etc.
As for VEMS news; I got the car to a dyno and was able to do some meaningful tuning. Just in time too, as the warmer weather had brought on some detonation. It turned out I was about 6-8 degrees too advanced at WOT. Can't get blood from a stone they say, but I apparently was trying.
So, the timing was brought back to reality. I was running leaner than I'd planned, so that was fixed as well. After working out the bugs, the 4th pull resulted in somewhat of a record for a stock SR20DE. Not official or anything, but it takes most people a cold air intake, headers, exhaust and in some cases mild cams to reach the output I've got.
That's 150 WHP and 129 WTQ if you missed it at the bottom. This is a mustang dyno as well; expect a dynojet to read 15 HP higher. I'm some 31 - 46 HP over stock with engine management as my only modification and I believe there's another 5 hp or so left on the table. The power delivery isn't as perfect as either of danmartin's cars but the two issues have been taken care of since the last dyno pull. A new pull should result in a beautiful curve. The first minor hump is a lean condition I've taken care of, and the tiny dip in the torque peak was detonation that I've taken care of as well.
Anyway, that's the news. Since the tune (the tables at least) are about perfect now, you can plan on seeing the tune posted up here soon.
Cheers.