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Halon
05-29-2008, 07:36 PM
Saw your car last night Brandon. It was lookin good :)

Thanks! Did you notice the nice new scuff in the front bumper from the trip over there? :(
Halon
05-31-2008, 01:40 AM
Well just drove her home, and she's safe and sound back here in the garage. Will continue with some finishing touches tomorrow morning bright and early!

Thanks again Momin for the hard work you put in.
DSM_421
05-31-2008, 04:09 PM
Lets see some pics / videos of the exhaust work / sound.
Halon
06-01-2008, 02:45 AM
Took her our for a quick spin today. Boost controller wasn't working quite right. Hit 30 psi and blew an intercooler pipe off. I need that whole thing just re-made because it fits like shit. Otherwise so far so good!
Halon
06-02-2008, 08:56 AM
Boost controller is working fine now. Starting to get her dialed in at 20psi for starters. Hope to have a video up to show how the new exhaust sounds. I was hoping it'd be a little bit quieter, but what do ya do. It still turned out great I think!
turbotalon1g
06-02-2008, 09:07 AM
sounds awesome, what was the problem?
A//// Guy
06-02-2008, 09:16 AM
verry niice!
Halon
06-02-2008, 12:26 PM
Well with the old PTE, there was a fitting on the compressor housing to hook the boost controller up to. Not on the BW. So I know people have hooked up boost gauges to the "P" port on their TB's before, so I tried just using that as the pressure source just for the drive home. That didn't work too well because I was hitting 30psi with only a 1 bar spring installed in the WG. I'm now just Tee'd into the BOV line and it's working much better. I do plan on installed a fitting into the lower IC pipe though and use that as the pressure source later on.
Kevin 1G Drummer
06-02-2008, 04:43 PM
You can always just drill and tap the compressor housing to get your pressure source there. I had to do that with my turbo.
Speedfreak
06-02-2008, 05:55 PM
Well just drove her home, and she's safe and sound back here in the garage. Will continue with some finishing touches tomorrow morning bright and early!

Thanks again Momin for the hard work you put in.

Boost controller is working fine now. Starting to get her dialed in at 20psi for starters. Hope to have a video up to show how the new exhaust sounds. I was hoping it'd be a little bit quieter, but what do ya do. It still turned out great I think!

Thanks, and my pleasure.

But not sure it could get much quieter with everything being straight through.. it has the 18" Vibrant resonator, and a decent size muffler. But I do like the way everything laid out.