500mi update, clutch is broken in and I'm back to 22psi of blissful boost! The 4.30 gears really help with spoolup, car is pulling harder than it ever has before, was a great commute into work this morning
Tracked down my fuel issues, I bought one of the new Walbro E85 400lph in tank pumps because I thought my 255 was dying, turns out the filter sock was completely clogged with little rubber globs which I've traced back to the coating on my surge tank. I've never had an issue with Al deterioration on non-anodized parts in the 7yrs I've been running E85 in multiple cars but it seems some of the lower grade alloys like what I'm sure my ebay china special tank was made out of have issues so I remove the tank and am just running the 044 inline for now with the 400lph Walbro feeding it which seems to be working pretty well thus far. I've been running the fuel setup for ~5 years with no issues but the car also never sat as long as it did while I was rebuilding the trans and I didn't think to put an additive in to protect everything which I'm doing with every tank from now on.
Eventually I'll upgrade to one of
these with the corrosive fuel upgrade when I have the time and $ to get back to road racing...