sixshooter |
03-10-2012 10:04 PM |
Well, I picked the car up on Friday afternoon and drove it home with the default MS base tune boost cut still on. It sounds deep and full of bass without any raspyness at all. It is 3 inch diameter pipe all the way from the turbine to the muffler outlet. It is an HKS HiPower muffler that was on my parts car for those of you keeping score. It has a ridonkulous 5 or 6 inch diameter tip built into it with the HKS logo engraved in it. Ricey as fawk looking but sounds deep and mellow. The downpipe isn't perfect but it is workable and will do for now.
I worked on covering brake lines and heater hoses with shielding to protect them from the heat off the turbine and downpipe. I made some progress but I'm not done. Pics tomorrow if you are good boys and girls.
I adjusted the wastegate arm so that the wastegate was slightly open at rest and set the overboost cut at 160kpa (around 8.5psi). I did this to try to eliminate the chances of overboosting until everything is broken in and tested for leaks and double checked. I did a little driving around. It is a nice thing to feel when the air starts to rush and you feel the welcome surge of extra power. Even with the wastegate propped partially open it feels compelling in that way that only turbos can. I've waited too long for a turbocharged car of my own and am satisfied and content in a special way that I put so much of my own work into it and made it happen from a pile of spare parts, a couple of new parts, and a lot of reckoning and wrenching. I feel satisfaction. And hope.
I have hope that even at the diminutive pressure level that the car achieves at present, it would keep much of the lesser traffic from running away from me on the track straightaways as they had before. I have hope that I will get those point-bys that I have been wrongfully denied in the past. I feel justice, nay even vindication shall come from this. I have only glimpsed through the crack in the door, but now I wish more than anything to boldly enter, crank up the boost to eleventy and ride while howling madly with fire in my eyes. Intoxicating? Yes, yes, it is.
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