gotta love the tbird at higher boost man, friggen hybrid tubo is damn quick for what it is. Sounds so much cleaner then the IHI as well at higher boost I find. Next step = meth injection and 17-18psi!
Stock BPV all along
So the other day I was visiting the Racing section and was viewing Maffatto's race vs the 2nd gen klze mx6.
At some point I mentioned that he probably was not hold a constant 15psi since my car as well as 3 or 4 I've seen in the past wouldn't hold constant anything over 12psi. I had always thought this is b/c of the turbo not being able to keep that pressure up. This opinion was gathered after reading posts after searching here on mx6.com. BUT......
in the racing thread Defiler and a couple of others interjected that they had ran contstant 15psi fine on the stock ihi. This prodded me to try a spare BPV that I had bought about a year ago from Chino69. I remember that he threw it in with a turbo setup he sold and had mentioned that it held high boost great. So I decided to dust it off and put it on....Result as you might have guessed IT HOLDS!!! My stocker when set to 15psi used to go to 15 and slowly fall off to 11-12psi as mentioned I always accepted this as the turbo being too small. Even my tbrid now only would manage to hold 12-13 constant BUT NOW!! 16psi and not a drop less!!
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Sorry for making the post so long (maybe too many details) but just wanted to share this with anyone else that may have the misconception that certain members had spread that it is the turbo not able to keep the constant psi's. At least in my case it WAS the BPV :tup:
and thanks to everyone that led me to this step, car is a whole new beast, don't get me wrong it was quick even with the leaky BPV with the tbird now it's CRAZY!!
At some point I mentioned that he probably was not hold a constant 15psi since my car as well as 3 or 4 I've seen in the past wouldn't hold constant anything over 12psi. I had always thought this is b/c of the turbo not being able to keep that pressure up. This opinion was gathered after reading posts after searching here on mx6.com. BUT......
in the racing thread Defiler and a couple of others interjected that they had ran contstant 15psi fine on the stock ihi. This prodded me to try a spare BPV that I had bought about a year ago from Chino69. I remember that he threw it in with a turbo setup he sold and had mentioned that it held high boost great. So I decided to dust it off and put it on....Result as you might have guessed IT HOLDS!!! My stocker when set to 15psi used to go to 15 and slowly fall off to 11-12psi as mentioned I always accepted this as the turbo being too small. Even my tbrid now only would manage to hold 12-13 constant BUT NOW!! 16psi and not a drop less!!
:jump:Sorry for making the post so long (maybe too many details) but just wanted to share this with anyone else that may have the misconception that certain members had spread that it is the turbo not able to keep the constant psi's. At least in my case it WAS the BPV :tup:
and thanks to everyone that led me to this step, car is a whole new beast, don't get me wrong it was quick even with the leaky BPV with the tbird now it's CRAZY!!
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Yes sir, definitely love it!! I really can't complain for the bang for the buck of the tbrid..car is an absolute beast at 16psi and as mx6gtboi says very likely I am going to do meth and run 17-18 psi and hope i don't snap the shaft and see how that MFer pulls!! And the exhaust note and intake sound are crazy sweet under boost(and out of boost too
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A boost controller
joking..i've got lots of mods but i'm assuming you mean fuel wise since that's prolly the only thing that would really affect how much you can run on a tbird? if so i've got a 190 walbro and thats it..wideband shows low 11's at 16psi and egt is fine as well.
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