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The car is looking awesome! I personally think better wheels would look nicer. U can try on my black 2G GSX rims if u want for a pic!

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Yeah, the wheels are just some that I bought a few years back, and I'd like to get something else. No black wheels though.

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Love em' or hate em' :)

loving the black beast. good job Kevin.

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thats a pretty nice car man. i love it. only thing i would change is the wheel's though, personal preferance

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Looks sick man!

I would suggest tinting the front corners along with the rear ones you plan on doing.

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A clean black 1g, can't get much better than that. Keep up the good work man!

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I already tinted the rear side markers. I might tint the fronts if I ever get around to it just to get rid of the white line around the edge where they used the clear sealant to glue the lense on.

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Nice project you have going.

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Holy crap it's been a while since I've updated this... Anyways, the car now has new wheels and tires, 17x8 Mille Miglia wheels wrapped in 235/45 Sumitomo HTRZIII tires. Also installed an Innovate wideband and installed some black/dark grey seats from a '90 non turbo eclipse.

More importantly, as of today, the car is powered by an EvoIII 16g. Started the project yesterday but ran into a few problems and ran out of daylight so we had to stop for the night. Got it all put back together today and she runs great now. Just gotta plum in the boost controller since wastegate pressure at the intake manifold dropped by about 2 psi since this turbo is much smaller.

I haven't decided if I'm gonna get it tuned on E-85 this fall or just wait till spring, but eventually that will be happening as well. If I decide to wait till spring, I will probably just switch to the hta68 dsm and e-85 at the same time. The car is really dirty right now so pics will come after I get it washed.

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I'm sure it'll be a lot more fun to daily-drive now!

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Sweet! Looking forward to feedback and comparo to the gt3076. Should def be more reliable at least :) Love to see some numbers out of this beast, awesome setup!

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If you're running an external gate on a 16g, that is awesome. I wonder if you can better hold boost up top because you don't have some weak internal flapper blowing open. That is when you get E85 and can push 30psi on this thing.

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Haha 30psi on a 16 is a wish, but you could get close.

Hope that jpipe worked out for ya!

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Not on E85, 95tsi runs 29 psi currently, and was up to 31psi on the dyno during tuning.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23782

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Yeah, I'm still running the Tial 38 off the o2 housing. We just took out the flapper, then welded up the hole in the side of the turbine housing so we'll see how well it can hold boost in the high RPMs before it just runs out of breath.

I also still need to do a boost leak test to make sure we didn't miss any pinhole spots when we welded up the new outlet pipe.

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good to see dad and you got it all back together. I head from dad there was some problems with it oing together

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37psi spike to 27-28psi by redline here. hit 40psi a couple times.

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On a 16g?

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Yes on a 16g. Mine will hold 30psi on the stock wastegate just on the spring pressuare,but that is a modded ralliart gate

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I run 32-31psi and drop to 24psi by 7k on my small 16g. Stock internal wastegate.