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57trim CT Intercooler and pipes (800-1000) Maft PRO (920) Crower 264 cams (540) 550cc injectors (550) Exhaust (depends on kind) Boost controller (25-250) The cams will help free up flow, and your Intercooler, and hard pipes should free up some air flow. The bigger turbo will flow...

You missed the point. What i was getting at was there is always room for improvement. And with a stock USDM ecu, it needs the EGR, but a standalone does not. So at that point, the only reason its needed would be cooler exhaust temps, and better fuel econ. As stated by JJ, and JDUB. But...

And 3.75 a gal isnt really bad since its more here. And when your running high octane and or race fuel the prices go up from there. If you cant afford to pay for the fuel, then dont build the hell out of your car. Keep it mild, and fuel economy will be better. Its a proven fact that in...

Ok so seeing i really dont have to many hills around here to be running on (thank you chicago) and if I am on one, im normally under boost well before i get to the hill, and im not going to be dropping a gear to go up one. So EGR isnt going to really help anyway. Other than the stated fuel...

Block test it, and do a leak down. That would be my first parts to figure out what is wrong. If your losing oil check rings, and compression. It could be burning in the combustion chamber, and you notice it more at a stop.

A turbo job isnt something to tackle by yourself. Atleast the actual rebuilding of one. I would send it out to someone and have them rebuild it. There is a shop on the forum that can rebuild em (cant think of whom off the top of my head). But you may wanna check your head gasket. Do a...

Well I had never seen anything about destroying a flexplate, but that isnt to bad an idea. How do you set that up IJ? Are you just cutting the ring gear off the outside of the flexplate to bolt it up and weld it around the outside? My origional thought was to try and lower the weight in the...

Does anyone know if there is a light weight flexplate for the AT cars like they have for the MT cars? I have not seen anything in any of the parts distributors i have looked thru, so i figured I would pose the general question. Is there any light weight flywheels/flexplates out there for the...

Initial thought is a rod knock. I had that in my old 86.5 started out sounding like valve chatter at higher RPM, then started becoming more noticable on low end. Just a thought, get a stethescope and listen to your bottom end. Not all rod knocks will be like that. Mine didnt make a single...

Jdub, wouldnt your gearing effect that tho? Atleast road speed vs indicated speed if your final gears were different, not to mention tire size, and so on. You may have read 130 on your speedo and been pullin 115. Unless it was a trap speed at the track your referring to. And in your opinion...

Did you pull the EFI fuse to reset the codes? And if the AFM did take a crap, sorry to hear that. That really blows.

I agree the power gain (if any) Is minimal. Mine is more of a history with those mounted to the water pump. I have had issues with them in misbalancing ( something broke a fan blade and threw the fan thru the rad) and had clutches go out and blow head gaskets, so with electric slim line fans I...

I run a tranny cooler for a reason. It keeps the two fluids (trans, and coolant) away from each other. And since neither run at the same temp, Its my preferance, and I have only had 1 auto tranny ever fail on me in the past (although I have only had 1 supra AT, normally run GM cars) And I...

^ AGREED. A rebuild is going to cost you about a grand or so parts and labor. Go to driftmotion, or HPF and get yourself a LIPP boss turbo from them. Its a direct fit to the stock mani, and depending on the model you get, is capable of up to 700+ HP with the correct supporting mods...

Some simple things are to, Get the 3 core radiator, some good fans (electric preferably) If your car is an Auto, get a good trans cooler from lke jegs of summit. You can also run additives like water wetter too. Periodically do things like back flush your cooling system to keep crap out of...

After its done I'll have process pics from start to finish, But im not a constructive criticism type of person when im doing custom work. After its done people can say they would have done something differently, but during my build it will be a show no one until its completed type of deal...

I also took a look at my noise filter, and its grounded to a point on the ignitor bracket, and is a small black resistor looking part. It has that white connector with two wires, one black with orange stripes, and one white with black stripes. I can take a picture of it for you if your would...

What kind of fans are you using? If your temp gauge is bad, and you have done a compression check and a block test and no BHG, you could have either a wrongly configured electric fan ( pusher instead of puller) or a bad fan clutch. Have you checked those? If stock fan is on there, Is all of...

True, but then again, I kinda look at that as a common thing. Sorry for not being clear enough on that. Heat shrink tubing on its own isnt water tight sealing. There needs to be an adhesive.

Im going to post up pics after i have it done with the steps it went thru. No work in progress pix, and have something that looks like crap for any length of time. After its a finished product, i'll post it all up. But basically I want to move around the Speedo, and tach with new 5" ones...