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Old 04-09-2006   #98
desolate
91 TSi AWD
 
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Drives: red 91 TSi AWD auto
Posts: 348
Re: Rock Falls April 9th (sunday)

Ok I was the black 1g awd 91 dsm. I was on 110 32-33psi unhooked wastegate because I'm letting the exhaust pressure control the boost. I know what I'm doing. It was an adjustable wastegate arm you can twist in & out. With the vaccum line hooked it sees 21psi. With it unhooked the car sees 30-33psi which is fine for my fuel system on 110 leaded race fuel. Stupid pos internal wastegates. Launching at 5500rpms antilag with 12-15 pounds of boost & NLTS. I'll try to explain what happened when it blew. The car was logged before I went to the track. 0 counts of knock at that boost level running richer than I've ran before on a street tune. Anyhow it came down to the third run of the day. Launch was good, 1st to 2nd was great. Third came and it kepted sputtering just like a misfire. I lefted it in WOT because the last run it ran exactly the same. Pop then kick in. It started to pop/misfire/spudder in 3rd very badly, like I fouled the plugs. I didn't even hit boost because it was misfiring so badly. The boost gauge was at 5psi when it blew. My theroy is the massive misfire somehow changed into massive detnation and it popped. That is the only way I can see how it happened. If I was in full boost when it happened it'd be a different story. In the previous run my car did the same thing but it caught back on and spooled up so that's why I left it in WOT. After 4 years of running on the same block/engine after 35,000 miles of hard beating it finnally let go. 1g rods/2g pistons combo I'm not sad. I'm still comtemplating but I believe I am going to get out of dsms though. I don't have the time or money to keep up with the power levels I want to push.
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