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Hell yeah man that's farken sick. It's a good idea using the pros, it's a mofo moving everything yourself.

Cheers guys, having fun pressing buttons lol

Here's a video boys, this is 98 and water injection with 24psi of boost https://I.imgur.com/CMgtKlp.mp4 @k31th can you embed please?

So far I've only just got it running today and I've only got water in it. Seat of the pants is farking ridiculous but I've yet to plug in the laptop to see what it's doing. The tune was getting borderline hectic for 98, but still ok, so it'll be interesting to see how it's changed. My dyno install has been set back a few weeks, but I'll be sure to lay down the data nice and thick when it's in.

Lol I made a hella update post a few pages back. So now it is the same but new optitorque head studs and thinner head gasket. And it's all in the turbo car instead of the na car.

You know what else is a good time? Having Spool I beam rods in your engine

Getting stuff done is always a good time

Fitted my Aquamist water meth kit today, could have done that 3 years ago but here we are lol. I only fitted a couple of jets to the intake pipe, it'll be enough for now. Later when things ramp up I'll do the direct port install. I only have to fit a few trim pieces back to the car and it's all done. Took frigging ages but you get that on a first attempt. I'll head down and get a 20L drum of methanol on Monday, but I'll look into getting a 200L from cos it's roughly 2/3 the price of smaller quantities. So yerp, I'll be able to run E85 levels of timing going forward, and it made 503awkw @23psi last time I had this turbo on E85. Should be a decent upgrade.

No it won't do that, it'll just dry in place.

Yeah man happy to help and always curious for solutions. Keep us updated.

I would ask the same question on the PCMTec forum. I know that you are running a haltech but the other stuff is fairly relevant to previous conversations over there. Perhaps lead with the questions directly related to the traction control, abs module and editing of it etc. There are some very knowledgeable guys on there and they generally go to fair lengths to help people.

Fixed the boost leak by welding a pipe onto the outlet of the turbo. Turned it back up to 24psi and it loved it. Farken thing hits boost like a mofo now, like a light switch lol. It also tolerates 12 degrees of timing at that boost level which is unheard of on 98, so that rear housing must be night and day better than the stock housing. Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if I pulled some timing for safety and asked it for 30psi? Coming to you in a future episode of Puffwagon's Territory Adventures

First up I haven't looked into this so I'm just spitballing, but based on your post I would be looking into editing the as-built abs data. I know there is stuff in the stock pcm for editing the traction control parameters so there must be some integration with the abs module in this regard. Is there something in the haltech that can adjust the factory traction control? I don't have a haltech but I'll be sure to use this post to convince the minister of war and finance to organise a purchase lol.

Yerp, usually it says choo on the left side but last night it said choo on the right side too.

Looks like I jumped the gun, the springs are rated for 24psi and I thought they were done. Turned out I had blown a hole in a silicone coupler. Oh well, someone has to post the downs with the ups

Lemme just run an extension cord to your house for some internet cos mine is still off

Internet is out today, got bored, turned the car up. It was running 17psi so I sent it to 20psi and it was all good. Sent it to 24 and despite closing the gate it only made 22psi up top. It has reached the limit of the valve springs, it literally hit an imaginary wall at 5000rpm. Oh well, I'll turn it back down to 20psi and look into putting some hectic springs and retainers in it. At this rate I may as well chuck my hectic cams in it too, cos it's never fast enough apparently

I was wondering if you'd bought a house yet

Cams just move the power band up a bit, if they aren't hectic it'll only be a couple hundred rpm. You'll see more variation than that from hot to cold weather.

Glad you got it sorted without too much drama. If it does start missing again over the next few months, give it a set of new genuine coils and it should be fine again for many years.

Yerp

@bossmang I see you lurking, who you fittin to ban this time

It would pick up boost with a 4 inch dump pipe, but I suspect yours might be needing more gate spring, providing the boost control is actually delivering 100% wgdc as you previously mentioned. You'll want 12psi of spring, give or take, to make 20psi on your setup. I've put over 20psi with a stock territory exhaust (they are mostly 3 inch) so I don't think yours is restricting it in that sense.

Yeah I didn't want to be the bearer of bad news etc but Tom is right, it will get laggier with more boost cos the boost will still be rising, so full boost will be later, and cams will make it laggier again. It's fine though cos it's better for the engine, better for grip on the road and better fuel economy cos it will be using less boost for gentle driving. Plus you can always get hectic and send it to 600+kw if you are game to do that on a sbe lol

Sounds like water got into the spark plug holes and is shorting out a coil. If this is what has happened, pull the coil cover, remove coils, blow water out with compressed air.