oh... doh never posted dyno numbers... My sig shoes it... and it's attached... 261 at 13 psi in a 101 degree dyno room with very little fan air flowing over the bay.
Current update:
Still consuming/losign oil at a good rate but no idea where the hell it is going as I'm not leaving soot on the rear of the car, and I don't have any visible leaks... It MAY be leaking at the oil feed and is burning up on the turbo and turbo manifold.. that is my only theory at this point... but I'm losing roughly 1 quart per 1000 miles.
Lost a bunch of coolant this last week or so... no ideas what is up with that... may have been the excessive heat (we hit 100 degrees a couple of times) or I may have a leak somewhere... my only "worry" is that since I haves studs on the head that it could be working loose and I'm starting to seep coolant into the engine or something... but oil looks and smells clean so not worrying about that one yet.. .but I am monitoring it closely right now.
Car is running great otherwise... I also found my boosting problem... I had trouble on the dyno getting it to hold a solid and even 13 psi without boost "bounce" and the like... turns out it is the wastegate actuator... with the ported wastegate I have so that the turbo doesn't creep, it was overpowering the actuator (which mounted normally was holding 7 psi if left to it's own devices). I shimmed the actuator mount by about 1/4" with some washers and it then held 10 psi on it's own. Worked perfectly at hitting 13 psi... and starts to get a bit finicky when trying to do 15 psi... I may have to shim it more... it does have enough play in it to be ok and not cause spiking and creeping so I can shim more yet...
Big modifications that i want to make to the car.... remote mount of the thermostat so I can run my true 3" DP and cast O2 housing which should make an absolutely MASSIVE difference in the performance (my DP is like 2-2.25" right now and welded like crap). And also fixing a warped flange on the exhaus manfiold. Once that is done I'll also be doing some cooling and gear changes on the transmission to get that to hold up better... those couple of things should get the car fitte dmuch better..
Eventually plan to replace the actuator with a stiffer/bigger one so I can run 20 psi of boost without issue... but that requires a lot of modification to the actuator and the stupid things run like 150 bucks which is not cheap for what it is...
So that's the word... car is fast as hell and is hysterical to shock people on the highway with
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later!
Steve
