that exhaust you got is definitely slowing your spool time, but there is somethign else wrong with your setup to make it spool that slowly.

I forgot to mention that I have a 3" exhaust.

 

forget the damn 2 1/4" exhaust. ditch it and go at least 2 1/2" with mandrel bends or get an e-cutout.

for b16crxt, full boost on 5th should be instant. check out that stupid hissy noise from your BOV.

 

i just moved from minnesota to wyoming, and w/ the ------- elevation up here and because i havn't re-tuned it yet, i can't get that ****** to spool up until 5500.

 

the hissing noise is only during idle. if I give it any throttle at all it closes right up. I dont know whatr it does while under boost.....It's a Type S and it was new when I bought it so there shoudlnt be anythign wrong with it.

 

pretty sure that some bov's stay a lil open at idle and close as soon as you give it gas

 

If you're running the SSAC Tial knock-off w/g make sure you didn't forget to put that metal ring in when you installed the w/g...Leaving it out causes an exhuast leak past the w/g and slowed boost response/spool.

 

yea I got that in....thanks for the advice though. I currently have teh front suspension in pices so I will pull the bumper and check all of my couplers tomorrow.

 

hmn.. you got a leak somewhere. i got the same turbo on my LS. and it starts spooling at around 2700-2800. and full boost around 3200-3300

 

well, a b18 should spool it a little quicker. We arent that much apart. Do me a favor and get on the highway in 5th at like 3.5-4 grand and floor it. tell me exactly how your boost gauge acts. Does it jump up to a boost level then build?
Thanks

 

lol, i drove my car around like that for 5 months with the first turbo set up i did. i didn't even realize it until i put a boost controller on and it wouldn't work, then i took the wg off and noticed a huge gap, luckily i saved the ring and knew right where it was, man, what a difference, i was stoked!