Giulia Tech Community12,194 Miles Currently 10psi max boost I took the down pipe and a portion of the exhaust off today to fix a stripped bolt in one of the flanges. I figured it was a good time to take a closer look at the manifold. I found no visible cracks or
There are a lot of people asking me if I have had to tweak anything on this setup. The answer, of course I have. I wouldn’t expect any aftermarket turbo setup to be 100% perfect. Charge pipe The first tweak was the charge pipe. There was a little cutting and
Less then a month till the 1 year mark with the turbo still going strong. I recently had the car retuned to fix a few underlying problems. We tuned the car for 10psi and got the a/fs corrected, it really pulls nice now. I am really wanting the top end
Well, because of overwhelming email responses about the last post in the turbo trial I decided I better clear things up a bit. When I said the turbo spiked to 16psi I did NOT mean that was a sustained 16psi of boost. It was just a spike to about 16
The other day I got to playing with the boost a little and totally blocked the waste gate closed. The turbo would spike to 16psi which I am really impessed at since when I bought this turbo I never thought it would get past 10. I would never run the
10,000 mile checkup Well.. it?s been 10,000 miles (actually 10,300 at the time I am writing this) since the turbo install so I decided to pull things off and do a little checking. Aside from a few small oil leaks in the plumbing (no fault of the turbo) the turbo
Today I lowered the boost to 8 – 9 psi. The reason behind doing this is because I am still running the stock bottom end on this motor and I kind of want it to last. Though 10 – 11psi is not all that high, it did put the engine somewhere
After yet again reading some hate mail directed toward this SSAutoChrome turbo trial, I have come to a few conclusions. The more products you distribute, the more problems you?re going to have, that?s a fact. If you did a study on how many Hondas were serviced for problems vs. lets
5000 mile checkup Last week I took the car in to get a new 2.5" exhaust custom built from the turbo back. After I got the car back from the shop I decided to address some other issues that had been bothering me since the initial turbo install. Frist, the charge
11/24/05 Happy Thanksgiving! Well I had the first problem with the turbo kit yesterday although it turned out not to be as bad as I thought. Got on the throttle hard getting on the highway and after the shift from 3rd to 4th I had no turbo pressure. The turbo