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Nice pics Equinox! What kind of power are the fastest MS3's putting out these days?

Haha that's very flattering of you to say it that way, but I'm only putting out 360whp, because I stayed with the stock turbo. I'm staying pretty conservative with the Speed3 for reliability as a daily driver. I miss DFW though. :(
 
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Haha that's very flattering of you to say it that way, but I'm only putting out 360whp, because I stayed with the stock turbo. I'm staying pretty conservative with the Speed3 for reliability as a daily driver. I miss DFW though. :(

Hey Equinox have you had any kind of problems with your car with all the mods on it yet? I ask because Im looking to do the same thing. Get the Standback (18psi) and a manifold (not sure which one yet) keep the stock turbo and just be done with the engine. Im not really looking for a 500hp Speed3. Just something a lil bit more fun! Just curious is all. Thanks in advance.

PS: Oh and I have pretty much the same mods as you.. minus the things listed above.
 
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current pics before installation of new Thunder exhaust manifold(drive2)(bluep5)
 

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How about posting bigger pictures? I'd like to get a good visual of what you got going on with the manifold.
 
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Hey Equinox have you had any kind of problems with your car with all the mods on it yet? I ask because Im looking to do the same thing. Get the Standback (18psi) and a manifold (not sure which one yet) keep the stock turbo and just be done with the engine. Im not really looking for a 500hp Speed3. Just something a lil bit more fun! Just curious is all. Thanks in advance.

PS: Oh and I have pretty much the same mods as you.. minus the things listed above.

Holy crap someone stole my turbo! (attached)

Initially my problem was traction, so I got a motor mount, it helped a lot, but now I need stickier tires, but that's no big deal. The only thing other than that is, when I installed the manifold, I started puffing out black smoke every now and then, apparently burning oil that leaks out of your turbo seals when you have little to no back pressure. When I rebuilt my turbo (or I should say protegeGarage.com built) that problem went away. Then, with the better turbo, I started noting my sparkplug electrodes getting white, so I upgraded the fuel pump, since the stock injectors are amazing. After that, it's all good. Could use a tweak of tuning to get another 15 horsepower, but that's later when I'm not so busy with my rx-7.

If there was anything I could change, I would have asked for an extra bung on my exhaust from CP-E to mount the wideband o2 sensor. Welding on stainless with stainless is a pain, locally.

BTW, the attached picture is when I pulled my stock turbo for rebuild, just so I'm not threadjacking.
 

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Haha that's very flattering of you to say it that way, but I'm only putting out 360whp, because I stayed with the stock turbo. I'm staying pretty conservative with the Speed3 for reliability as a daily driver. I miss DFW though. :(

LOL i like how you say "only" 360

nice car!
 

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