Not that I understand the math and physics BTF and Beau know but I thought that 93 Octane would cap this out quicker than other variables...Nice to see I am not crazy!
I'm basing my estimation on several things. However I HOPE my speculation is wrong, and that the limitation will not be the rail pump.
The technical papers that i've read stated it is possible I am wrong. If this is typical GM fashion the fuling should be adequate to +75% of the original output. But, in this case its possible the mechanical pump since it is NOT made by GM could be the limiting factor.
But I've said this from the beginning, this car eas designed to be modified from the factory. Don't let the ECU fool you, Gms intention wasn't to have this thing make our lives miserable, they just needed a control unit that was sophisticated enough to control their beast.
The good news about having a ECU like this is that it prevents people from doing stupid things to the motor, and blowing them up and making the vehicle seem unreliable.
Like we were with the Grand Prixs back in the day. People were machining the snout to put smaller pullies on it, with an Air filter, colder plugs and a cat back, and were wondering why we were grenading motors left and right.
Now with the right work done, by people who do things right, the stock bottom end made it into 9.0X Pretty impressive.
I know you already have the Gozilla bov, but have you ever looked at the bov's offered from HKS, Apexi, or Blitz? I wouldn't use Greddy, I've heard of too many problems with those.
Tial on the Wastegate. The prototype has a 38mm, but a v-band 44 is not out of the question. I hate gaskets.
If I do get another BOV it will likely be the Tial50mm If it's good enough for factory porsche racing efforts it's good enough for me.
I originally grabbed the Godzilla off my vette because I was going to recirculate.
Now that were blowing thru the maf it's no longer a must.
Its supposed to warm up and rain for a little bit this upcoming week. Maybe enough to get the salt off the road for some testing. Going to drop by monroe and see if they have the swedging dies for a ball socket. Once that's done I can fire it up.
unfortunately they no longer have the adjustables.
that's because they were never intended to be adjustable in the first place. they removed the bolt because people kept damaging their bov by messing with the factory setting.
okay, this is rice
this is not--this is a performance tool that can sound as plain as you like with a different insert
if i had to point my finger at a bov that was close to rice it would be the turboxs Type H-RFL (which stands for Real Friggen Loud)
Man just think of the magazines you could fit on a bookshelf like that!
If I had my choice I woul have a BOV that sounded like Curly for the 3 stooges.
"vroooom - Woobwoobwoobwoob- vroooooooooom : Woobwoobwoobwoob. Knuchknuchknuch.
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lol, when I was in my early 20's me and my buddy would drive around bar to bar and give people Ricecop tickets. Bookshelf wing was a ticketable offence.
HKS does not make rice. They are a well respected tuner in Japan that makes parts for the fastest street cars over there [Supra, RX7, Skyline, Silvia, 300ZX, 350Z, Evo, STi, ect].
Guys, I've ran HKS' on my builds. I've got on on my supra.
But people with stock 1.8ts, and 6 psi civics with primer run em too when a $9 Junkyard DSM recirc valve would do the job better than the HKS.
When people buy stuff for the sound. And those things go on ****ty cars. Then the product could be used for as a ricey modification. Period.
Kindof how book shelf wings are useful on some grip events, people throw em on their car. Rice.
Adding 2 extra sets of fogs on a stock impreza 2.5 NA because you saw it on a rally Rex = ricey.
I'm not saying the SSQV IS ricey, just that it can have that ricey sound to others. So if you cared what others thought about it, you might want to stay away from it.
I can point you to 100 other message forums that would argue with you all, and tell you the HKS is garbage and ricey.
I don't think it is, thats why I suggested it, it doesn't pull in unmetered air, its a good product.
Although your wrong, the adjustable ones WERE meant to be adjustable, thats why somone spent the EXTRA time into R&Ding the fuction to make it functional. Yes people loosened it too much causing the assembly to fall apart, or tighten it too much and stripping it, so for ease of manufacturing, and warranty I can see them eliminating the adjustability.
I actually liked the adjustability as the SSQV can actually induce a brief second of compressor surge in some low, and some high boost situations.
I know we had that happen on our Turbo GTP before we adjusted it, and I have it for a split second on my Supra until it was adjusted.
