Turbo BS Thread

what does it mean corrected or uncorrected ?

 

Uncorrected is the actual HP and TQ made at my altitude (~5000ft). Corrected is what it would make if at sea level.

 

And your still running stock insides, and head gasket ?

 

Yeah motor is completely stock. Right now I'm just at 6.5psi with the Megasquirt and 550's. I haven't had time to install the EBC and tune for 10psi. Stock motor is good for ~12psi with a good tune. I would like to build a motor for it with forged internals but it's just not in the budget right now. Hopefully sometime down the road i can buy a used 3rz to build to swap in at some point.

 

Same here i plan to keep my truck and building another motor. Im thinking to crank mine up to 8psi

 

Looks like ill be investing in a good manual boost control next

 

You should be good with that now that your intercooled. I forget if you ended up putting in a new fuel pump ?

 

That GM knock sensor you switched to. Anything special to hooking it up? Do you thread it all the way in or it just stops?

 

Looks like I'll be engine swapping then boost... my 2.7 just won't have the ponies I want

 

No I never put a new one

 

:insert smiley making it rain, because i just realized there isnt one for spending loads of money:

 

Yeah I have GM 4.8 in my garage I've been slowly going through LS taco maybe....

 

My condolences (btw i hate all things gm, just worked out of em for years and thats what my wife had when we started dating and problem after problem left a really bad taste in my mouth, nothin personal unless u own general motors i guess and then we may have some issues)

 

I honestly never ended up installing it. Lol. I was going to use it with the stock ecu but when switched to the MS I didn't need it. From what I read, IIRC, you just need to get 4-5 full turns and you should be good

 

From what I understand, 8psi reaching the grey area of the stock pump limits

 

I have an old 350 4 bolt main that i'm gonna build and put in something.

 

Is there a way to add an inline fuel pump set up or would it still be restricted by the stock pump

 

Would a water/meth injection be a decent bandaid for stock fuel pump supplement if one wanted to forego opening the tank? I guess you would need to make sure the meth tank was full all the time tho

 

Very interesting that would be good. I do put about 1 or 2 gallons of C12 racing fuel every 2 fill ups

 

You could definitely go the meth route as well. That would cool your intake temps like crazy as well. Set it for say 5-6psi and up.

There are some that do an online pressure booster to with no issues. I think Kurt's build on CT uses that.

I was able to swap my pump in about 1.5 hours. It's just what you prefer really