now question If you had it could you have kept the ac some how

Looks good. That pipe to the throttle body looks real nice. Ground, smoothed and painted I assume?

On another note, you around tomorrow night? I think I'm headed in that general area tomorrow and haven't forgotten picking stuff up if I didn't take too long already. I'd love to see it in person.

LOL I thought the same thing

This thing is shaping up to be a monster, nice work. It looks like you didn't even have to cut the cowl to fit that intake?

looks real good

Keeping the ac is always possible when building a turbo kit ,but in every turbo build ,it always comes at the cost of efficiency do to the kits routing. The point to this build was 0 loss in efficiency. The first kit I had kept the ac, but I had the previously mentioned problems. So ac had to go. Besides, I have had the car for over 3 years all of which where in Cali. Can't remember but 3 times where I actually used my ac, and all were just to impress someone. Lol

Nice build so far man!! cant believe its not done yet man honestly! haha HURRY UP!!!!! YOU HAVE A MONTH TILL THE TRACK OPENS!!!!!

Can't keep the AC if your running a 4" downpipe and have 0 ground clearance issue's.

Keep the AC and have a shitty exhaust =yes.

don is that even with a tubular K member?

looks awesome! I wanna see what it puts down for numbers now!

Put a 4" pipe in the engine bay and see. Takes up alot of room.

Guess who was driving around today.....................

Ohh Shit!!!!!

What did it put doooooowwwwwwnnnnnnnn???

who cares i wanna see what it will run!!!!!

nice!

O I know it takes a shit ton of room I just didnt know how much room the k member gave you

You may regret that after the first summer here without it.... In CA humidity is not really a huge issue, while here it's typically 90%+ in the summer.... So a temp of 85 feels like 95+, and you'll realize A/C is really helpful.

I hope I'm wrong, but don't be surprised when you miss it:Oops:

He was here last summer so he knows how our summers can be. :gears:

LOL I probably wouldn't care about A/C if I had t-tops myself :)

I know what the car made, na na na na na na...... he he he

Lol okpreschool don

come on man tell us

Makes more power at 8 lbs now than it did at 14 lbs before

thats friken sick because he was puting down over 600 at 16 I think he said

I'm wondering if he cracked 700

I know what it did :P

snapped Don's neck!! :klab:

Ok.... I'll post the graph later but before we did the kit I wanted to get a base on dons dyno. I've always dynod on a dynojet.

Turned the boost down to a controllable level.

So the base was 492hp and 540trq at 14psi

(Best was 17 psi and a little race gas to hit 621 hp on a dynojet)

Today...........

First pull was 540 hp and 492 trq at 8psi with NO tune change period!!!

Upd the boost to 11 psi and it made 592hp and 580trq.

Stopped for the day because I had to leave early . Leaving for four days be back to play some more..

Mind you this is a BONE stock 90,000 mile shortblock. I'm already past the flywheel hp limits of the motor. The goal was to gain efficiancy and durability . Now the short block is the limiting factor in power output:sCh_elmodance:

Quick math for you while looking at this graph

With 3 less psi

@5600 rpm

I gained 100 hp and 90 trq to the tires.
:bar:

Very nice sam great job!

Thanks. It feels absolutely ridiculous !!!

now put a cage in it and get ready to blow some parts

nice job sam

Well, the tune isn't done yet either. It will probably be 600/600 when done.

Dude I want a ride in this thing!!!

Yup 600/600 with 11-12 psi ..........shits going down with this new setup!!!:Lurking:

goddamn! can't wait to see this beast at the track!

Should mention it lost no spool time at all either.

thats awesome so what do you think with a good set of heads and a proper cam (if the short block would take it) the system is capable of? is there room to upgrade the turbo If he ends up going to some thing like a 408 set up?

Very nice Sam! Going for 9's soon? lol