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What Have I Done? - Wife's 03 Ba Xr6 Turbo


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Get a tune and have the toilet paper handy. Shes gunns sh1t herslef when she puts the boot in.

Wow. What a car for the missus. Shell be pickin up the kids quick.

Gotta get it tuned dude.

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even f6 valve springs will be fine. about 200 from ford I think? I have them in my 364rwkw ba but are at the limit. you will need a walbro pump to replace the stock unit in the tank too, if you want reliability. also youll need to remember to keep the tank over 1/3 full. when the tank gets below that you will find that under heavy acceleration the motor will cut out as the fuel rushes to the back of the tank and the pump will only suck air. do not let this happen as the motor has a tendancy to blow when under load, and no fuel....

a surge tank would fix this problem, but will cost about 1000 bucks to get one in your car.

good luck!

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Just to add my 2 cents... your modifications once you have the injectors fitted will be very similar to mine and I have a custom tune.

My advice, do some good research on here first to choose who does your custom tune as its the most important decision you will make, once the Xcal3 and injectors arrive, book it in, get the tuner to fit the injectors and complete the custom tune. You will have power similar to mine (my valve springs are standard and at their limit) and your problems will be resolved. Currently due to the 100cell cat and larger dump pipe is your main cause for overboosting.

Believe me, after the custom tune I don't think you will be giving the wife the keys back in a hurry! :spoton:

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Possibly avoid intune there are much better out there that's the nicest way I can put it. your x cal from them will be ok but don't load the tunes into the car there is no way intune could give you a decent tune for a car with those mods without having it on a dyno.

As said try not to drive until you get a good tuner to look at it.

Don't stress it will go great once sorted.

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Well an up-date...over the weekend it got interesting..

I fitted the 60lbs injectors, re sized the spark plugs 0.75mm , and up-loaded the 12psi tune from the x3 flash tuner.

On start up and test drive she went well (very normal operation)...as requested by intune I adjusted the boost on the turbo waste gate setting (x3 falsh tuner)

From here I started to notice a BIG improvement around the number 75..with a boost guage plugged in I found an increase to 10psi and spiking to 12psi

Car seams fine, but I haven't held my foot on the floor at all, as I'm very impress so far with the gain and don't want to get to cheeky and blow her up..

But as it selects top gear the boost shots up to around 14 - 15 psi ...which seams a little to much with the base tune...

From here we spoke with a tuner in WA and he assure's me it will be all sweet once he run's her up on the dyno.. look forward to this as I'm still very happy with the gain, but still concerned about the tune which I've uploaded..

Shall post dyno results...cheers Jeckyl

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Will be interesting to see the dyno sheet for tune your runnin now. I personally would be waiting. Remember you've added more boost. I'm a bit nervous for you.

Please get a custom tune asap.

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OMG dude! Clearly you are NOT listening... This is how you blow up your engine!!! WTF???

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Well an up-date...over the weekend it got interesting..

I fitted the 60lbs injectors, re sized the spark plugs 0.75mm , and up-loaded the 12psi tune from the x3 flash tuner.

On start up and test drive she went well (very normal operation)...as requested by intune I adjusted the boost on the turbo waste gate setting (x3 falsh tuner)

From here I started to notice a BIG improvement around the number 75..with a boost guage plugged in I found an increase to 10psi and spiking to 12psi

Car seams fine, but I haven't held my foot on the floor at all, as I'm very impress so far with the gain and don't want to get to cheeky and blow her up..

But as it selects top gear the boost shots up to around 14 - 15 psi ...which seams a little to much with the base tune...

From here we spoke with a tuner in WA and he assure's me it will be all sweet once he run's her up on the dyno.. look forward to this as I'm still very happy with the gain, but still concerned about the tune which I've uploaded..

Shall post dyno results...cheers Jeckyl

Ive bolded where you went wrong.

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I'm with the others... sounds like your playing with fire...

I take it your in WA, there is a couple of tuners here that I would take advice from, XFT or MT... hopefully its one of the two your speaking with for advice. Get it on the dyno asap and especially being a BA just dont give it a bootfull until you do. Then take on board the advice they give whether its ok or whether it needs a custom tune... $1000 more better than a blown engine.

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....playing with fire sometimes ends with somebody or something getting hurt...

yeah in WA ... one of the reason's for my mail order tune and the questions I been asking is the distance from where I live to say XFT's workshop ...1700klms in fact, so the reason for my questions regarding what n why and how.

Spoken with XFT and he assures me all will be sweet once run up on the dyno, but keep in mind how its been driven until this day.

so what I've learned is say no to mail order tunes and mindfull for what you bolt on prior to a custom tune...thanks n regards..

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