She's a monster! Look, I'm no tuning guru, and granted, I installed a new turbo along with a new motor, and new 4" intake. There were a lot of changes and I have a lot of tuning left to do. I will, I'm sure, have to update again to give a fair representation of the turbo. Beer with me. 
We got the new motor fired up and cam break in done on friday. The cheap duplicolor header paint instantly burned off and smoked us out! We had a fuel pressure regulator leak at the o-ring (fixed). We had an timing over oil leak (fixed) and we had a shifter cable that broke (fixed). All else went like a charm.
We took the car out and were purposefully babying it. Not only because I'm still running 255/60/15 Remingtons that are harder than a whores heart, but also because I need to break the new combo in. However, we did get into the boost a little the first few miles, 10#, and spool is awesome as long as you get the rpms up. Down-shift and stand on it and away you go!
The next day we pulled the oil filter, pulled a plug and she was running just a smidge rich, double checked everything and got the exhaust set up just right. We are now running a 3.5" DP all the way down to the dual 2.5" exhausts. There isn't much restriction here!! We custom modified the hooker cat-back side of the flange so that it was 3.5" to dual 2.5" so there was ZERO restriction. The tone is really nice and this thing sounds meaner than most small blocks.
We put the black biznatch back on the road and did some testing. At 30 mph dropping from third to second gear and standing on it the rpms would jump to 3800, boost would jump to 18-20, and on the shift would drop to 3400 rpms. At this point the car was moving so damn fast we let out of it and hope johnny law was far away. This turbo/combo spools very fast and the converter certainly helps. The converter is a 3000 stall WCC. I will have to complete break-in, do some more playing and report back. The best we saw for boost was 20psi, and that was at 4000 rpms. Supposedly with this cam you have 5800-6000 rpm redline, so as you can see, in street trim this thing is an animal. I didn't have enough straight stretch and low traffic to really give her the test.
As for me, I'm impressed so far. I will report back any results, and experiences. I will grab some video as soon as I sort out my electric fan failure. I also hope to have track results in a couple weeks.
We got the new motor fired up and cam break in done on friday. The cheap duplicolor header paint instantly burned off and smoked us out!
We had a fuel pressure regulator leak at the o-ring (fixed). We had an timing over oil leak (fixed) and we had a shifter cable that broke (fixed). All else went like a charm.We took the car out and were purposefully babying it. Not only because I'm still running 255/60/15 Remingtons that are harder than a whores heart, but also because I need to break the new combo in. However, we did get into the boost a little the first few miles, 10#, and spool is awesome as long as you get the rpms up. Down-shift and stand on it and away you go!
The next day we pulled the oil filter, pulled a plug and she was running just a smidge rich, double checked everything and got the exhaust set up just right. We are now running a 3.5" DP all the way down to the dual 2.5" exhausts. There isn't much restriction here!! We custom modified the hooker cat-back side of the flange so that it was 3.5" to dual 2.5" so there was ZERO restriction. The tone is really nice and this thing sounds meaner than most small blocks.
We put the black biznatch back on the road and did some testing. At 30 mph dropping from third to second gear and standing on it the rpms would jump to 3800, boost would jump to 18-20, and on the shift would drop to 3400 rpms. At this point the car was moving so damn fast we let out of it and hope johnny law was far away. This turbo/combo spools very fast and the converter certainly helps. The converter is a 3000 stall WCC. I will have to complete break-in, do some more playing and report back. The best we saw for boost was 20psi, and that was at 4000 rpms. Supposedly with this cam you have 5800-6000 rpm redline, so as you can see, in street trim this thing is an animal. I didn't have enough straight stretch and low traffic to really give her the test.
As for me, I'm impressed so far. I will report back any results, and experiences. I will grab some video as soon as I sort out my electric fan failure. I also hope to have track results in a couple weeks.
