Turbo BS Thread

I had a nightmare that MCM brought me and my truck on and were super excited about what I had done and then they got into and I had blown a head gasket and warped the head and it had to be pulled apart and milled... Thanks alot man haha

 

Hahahahahahahaahhahha

 

Blowing head gaskets are always a nightmare. I could of sworn I checked the coolant levels after all the leaks I had after the build. I must have forgot to check it once it cooled down. My overflow never sucked up the missing coolant. I'll make a note to check the coolant on this radiator. I was being dumb for a bit. My temps started to climb over the weekend.

 

Sorry ive been super busy lately. I need to deck the turbo mounting flange. Im getting a bad leak and can only reach 2.5 psi. If i had time i would've bought a premade flange but oh well. Othere then that i think its good.
I moved from sea level to 3000 ft and it gets pretty hot so my density altitude changes quite a bit. Im waiting to get my manifold fixed then going from there.

I plan on bumping up to 8 psi on my wastegate from 6 psi

 

Using that timing table you sent me last year torspd as a starting point. How much boost were you running with? Tuner thinks really conservative

 

It is conservative. Between 10 and 17 psi.

 

You have any of the variable valve timing tables from your Haltech?

 

If your AEM has any base maps of say the Lexus IS300 with VVTI or 2JZ with VVTI, then you could just copy that over. Very strange that the VVTI maps are identical in the IS300 and Tacoma. Never the less, it is.

 

Nothing in the wizard for variable timing for vvti. I scrolled those same ones as above in the sample sc300 map and settings are same not filled out

 

Would not messing with the tables allow the OEM tune to keep running it like normal? I know that is how it on mine.

 

Ran it to 8psi tonight road tuning until rain hit and ended the fun. Had to pull some timing out at first at 5psi but def smooth and more powerful than ever, coming right along. Going to add the meth kit to the mix tomorrow

 

That's very positive news!

What did you end up doing about the VVTI?

Use the timing map supplied by me as a reference?

 

Vvti seems ok not messing with those tables. But hard to tell over exhaust drone with straight 3" to monster muffler. Going to try and get vibrant ultra quiet resonator welded in today. Youd hear the vvti before with my old jba exhaust. Used that timing map pretty exact them worked off that smoothing it. Methanol system kept shutting off giving an error so shut that back off gonna try sort that out today too. It would come on about 4psi for a second than shut off and flash 4 times pump voltage error.

 

Got all of the hard stuff figured out already. That pump will be nothing.

Glad that timing map helped out. Also, I have lowered compression, by a point.

Those ultra quiet mufflers do a good job. That being said, you should post up a video of some action.

 

Finally tuned!!!I'm loving it. Pulls great. The hater pipe gets a little loud but who cares.

 

Dayuuuuum that pulls hard!!!

 

Tranny is next. It just doesn’t like the high rpm shifting.

 

Not with that power they don't!

 

Love it. That is fast. One pissed off tranny