HomemadeTurbo - DIY Turbo Forum

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Originally Posted by BLAAST

Nice job!! exactly the kind of stuff I like to share! That's a real HMT post!!
Too bad I'm not consitent enough picturing sufficiently the progress of my own projects.

Can't wait to read your initial driving impressions. ^-^

Hehe, it's already street worthy. ;D

I'll share my driving impressions.

It's ------- amazingly fast. Some people arranged a friendly sqirmish about a month ago with a guy in a nice early 80's cutty. He ran 12.7's on e.t. streets. Not only did I outlaunch him on my nitto's, but I pulled on him too.

Two weeks ago a guy offered his g-tech for my use. With 8lbs of boost, melted sparkplug wires, conservative timing and a piece of wiring harness tape covering half of my driverside turbo it gave me a 12.5 @ 111mph. I believe in that state of tune, a low 12 second 1/4 time at the track with a decent launch.

I couldnt resist however upping the boost to ~10-11lbs. It's freaking amazing what just a few lbs of boost does. It's rediculiously fast now. I've already converted atleast 3 guys at my local hangout into making there own setup. 2 of them are stang drivers, and the other a ls1 guy.

With the upped boost however comes consequense. I believe the heads are lfiting from the higher boost and pressurizing the cooling system. Every time I get into it hard the temp goes up until the sytem burps out again. It's no biggie though. For the time being I'll just take the boost controller off and run 8lbs. When I get some free time and money, I'll buy some quality arp head bolts (or better yet, studs) and some cometic head gaskets. Tis the price to pay to play. ;D