Re:My first freeway boost experience
 

haha thats interesting same thing happened to me when i first boosted. i just gunned first and then second then boom. i was like wtf. i feel like im all motor again. my lil bro's like what the ---- was that. u fucked it up huh. i was like nah i think i know what it was. i just laughed. its pretty funny mang. atleast u were ahead of the bastard. imports 1 domestics 0

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Sorry to Jack ur thread trance.. The first night i was boosted.. no wastegate... so i was hitting about 15 psi or so everytime b4 my couplers blew off. My cousin was over my house and everytime the coupler would blow id drive back to my House N/A and then put that coupler back on and drive out boosted, it was like midnight and all my neighbors were like wtf. I must have blown each coupler off 5 times that night because i was so excited. i didnt even bother tightening them all the way.. i just wanted to get right out there and boost, ------- felt like my car was gonna lift and fly that first night. You gotta love the nice boom u get when a coupler pops off though, scared my ass a few times... the final boom i ever heard... i thought it was my charge pipes.. cuz my car wouldnt boost anymore... searched those fuckers up and down, finally saw that a blew a chunk off my intercooler, lol
Sorry Steve

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I never would have figured out what the ---- was wrong with my first setup if it hadn't blown a hose off. I had no Missing Link and the car would shut off at 4 psi. One night I blew the hose off the MAP accidentally and it idled like ---- but would boost to ten psi. Other than that, never blew a charge pipe off. I took all my pipes and fucked the surface up with a grinder where the hose seats on them. Seriously. oops yeah, forgot. Dave blew one of my charge pipes off once.

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i used to blow couplers like projekteg blows coke.... often

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Just take a sharp exacto knife and mark the edges where the couplers attached. that should make the surface rough enough to hold em on.

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im boosting 10-11psi on my d16. im using the Lowe's rubber couplers with pipes with nothing done to them. I blew off a couple the first day, but i havent since.

tighten them down with a ratchet and socket.
make the pipes achieve the best "butt joint" as you can so there is more rubber area on the pipe.
I use three clamps on some of my connectors.. 2 on the outside ends, and one in the middle.


works great.

Re:My first freeway boost experience
 

Hahahaha, that's EXACTLY what happened the first time I was boosting on the freeway; it was around 8:00 or 9 and I was like, "sure, let's try it out" except with me it was a riced out Prelude. :P POP went the chargepipe.

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my coldair on my NA car would pop off sometimes, but then i tightened up the pipes!! ;)

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Good story!!!

Whats your setup....

Re:My first freeway boost experience
 

Hah, glad to hear I'm not the only one to experience that at such a horrible time. I just hope the guy heard the loud POP and knew something happened after he passed me ;)
As for my setup I posted some crappy disposable camera pics of it a few weeks ago, but I've got a digicam now I'll get some more detailed pictures to my fellow HMT members with.
Setup is a T3 .60/.48 turbo, Charge pipes were all made by me, 2.5" downpipe made by me, open dumptube made by me ;), Turbonetics Deltagate wastegate, HKS SSQV blowoff, SS autocrap mani (Fully braced and re-welded and have absolutely no problems), Uberdata fuel management, "High flow" (straight through) cat, back to a full 5zigen catback system, and of course all the oil lines etc.
Setup rips and starts to spool about 3000 RPM, pulls absolutely crazy up to redline and just keeps bulding power. Actually it started spinning tires around 5000 RPM going around a corner in third gear at one pont :o
more pics to come.