My Talon

[sleepydsm]

Why do you have a flex pipe on the wg?

I didn't put it there, someone in China did.

It's nice because that little flex (it's really not flexible at all) helps getting the wastegate on and off.

[sleepydsm]

Next up is some ceramic coating, I wanted silver (Looks only like Jet-Hot silver would work), but normal silver will burn off so I'm stuck with Turbo X black (Booo!). I just thought silver (not gaudy) would make the metal stuff look like "new metal" stuff, where as I see the black stuff over time turning more of a gray and looking like pooh.

[sleepydsm]

Why do I see a black cat in one of those pics, Is that one of karas cats or did you dye twinke black. your setup is going to look nice.

Haha that's Kara's cat, Gizmo.

[sleepydsm]

well turns out the V-band on my o2 doesn't exactly fit up with the nice one I ordered for my downpipe, so I'm gonna chop off the shitty vband and have a new nice one welded on.

THEN everything will get coated...

[sleepydsm]

Ordered a Hallman Pro MBC, STM oil cooler kit, and a fuel pump rewire kit, and a 4" ID 9" long K&N filter. I can't wait to put all this crap on!

Anyone use AN lines for vaccum/boost?

[Swifty1638]

i would but it's not worth it..where'd you get the filter? how much?

-A. Swift

[sleepydsm]

i would but it's not worth it..where'd you get the filter? how much?

-A. Swift

It looks cool, and I'm kinda sick of zip ties.

I got the filter from Summit, $47 plus $9 shipping (boo).

Some progress pics: I installed my Bluemax injectors and fuel rail both from FIC!

Also put on my powdercoated N/T waterpipe and thermostat housing, a Mitsubishi thermostat kit and radiator cap.

[Halon]

I didn't realize you're still rockin the 1G IM. Any plans on changing that out?

[sleepydsm]

I didn't realize you're still rockin the 1G IM. Any plans on changing that out?


No, actually lol :)

I know Alex from Map was making what, 550 with the stock IM?

I may change that later, just wasn't planning on it anytime soon.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

You can make good power on the stock 1G IM, it just usually won't hold it nearly as well in the upper RPMs. It can be the difference between having 550whp at 6500rpms and then the power dropping at a decent rate versus having 550hp from 6500rpms out to 8500rpms flat.