Official STS Rear Mount Turbo Discussion Thread
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I had also contacted STS about and 06 kit after reading through much of this forums. official status was 'WIP', but nothing at a final product stage.
the general consensus seems to be that very few, if any, manufacturers will invest in the R/D to produce an 06-07 kit when when a completely new redesign is right around the corner for the Z. it makes sense, but sucks at the same time for 'late' Z adopters.
the general consensus seems to be that very few, if any, manufacturers will invest in the R/D to produce an 06-07 kit when when a completely new redesign is right around the corner for the Z. it makes sense, but sucks at the same time for 'late' Z adopters.
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Originally Posted by goosegoose
Ok. I believe that was the unit that Athen and I immediately had replaced with the UTEC BCS.
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Originally Posted by xxgreatwarsxx
care to explain your reasoning? i mean why do you choose to replaced it?
Because we opted out to use the Utec BCS to control boost so Boost and Map is one switch away. No need to use a Manual BC.
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Originally Posted by athenG
Because we opted out to use the Utec BCS to control boost so Boost and Map is one switch away. No need to use a Manual BC.
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No Boost!
Just hit 2000 miles on the kit, took her out the other night to find I'm barely hitting 1psi.
So I checked the WG lines and the BC lines (ones that I could get to). Everything seemed to be intact. I need to put her on a lift and check all the lines under the car going to the front. I'm hoping it is something that just came lose and nothing too bad.
Is there anything else I should be looking at (besides the WG & chitty BC that came w/ the kit)? I checked the air filter and it was pretty dirty. That wouldn’t be the problem, would it?
So I checked the WG lines and the BC lines (ones that I could get to). Everything seemed to be intact. I need to put her on a lift and check all the lines under the car going to the front. I'm hoping it is something that just came lose and nothing too bad.
Is there anything else I should be looking at (besides the WG & chitty BC that came w/ the kit)? I checked the air filter and it was pretty dirty. That wouldn’t be the problem, would it?
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Originally Posted by WASHWIZ
Just hit 2000 miles on the kit, took her out the other night to find I'm barely hitting 1psi.
So I checked the WG lines and the BC lines (ones that I could get to). Everything seemed to be intact. I need to put her on a lift and check all the lines under the car going to the front. I'm hoping it is something that just came lose and nothing too bad.
Is there anything else I should be looking at (besides the WG & chitty BC that came w/ the kit)? I checked the air filter and it was pretty dirty. That wouldn’t be the problem, would it?
So I checked the WG lines and the BC lines (ones that I could get to). Everything seemed to be intact. I need to put her on a lift and check all the lines under the car going to the front. I'm hoping it is something that just came lose and nothing too bad.
Is there anything else I should be looking at (besides the WG & chitty BC that came w/ the kit)? I checked the air filter and it was pretty dirty. That wouldn’t be the problem, would it?
Check for exhaust leaks and check the wastegate for leaks as well. Mine came loose and I experienced the same thing.
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check for exhaust leaks. You could have a cracked Test pipe or something, although if that were the case and it was bad enough to where you couldn't create any significant boost I'm sure you would be able to hear it.
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I really need to put her on a lift and look under the car. Don't think it is an exhaust leak b/c I can hear the turbo spooling.
I just put on HFC and a Y-pipe about a month ago.
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I just put on HFC and a Y-pipe about a month ago.
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If you still hear a loud turbo spool, you have a leak on your intercooler/intake piping somewhere. Check all the silicon couplers. Also check all the vacuum lines between the manifold and bov.
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Originally Posted by g35driver2003
I cant wait until my kit is tuned and I can drive my damn car!!!
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Originally Posted by athenG
can you post some pix of the fabrication you did with your Sedan. I saw the preliminary install and It thought it look good without any coating.
I should have put up pics with the new coating..... I know I need to get new pics cause there is a shield for the filter and a couple things have changed
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Originally Posted by athenG
Anybody tried to relocate their BCS in the Rear? I have heard that relocating the BCS in the Rear will help instead of having it in the engine bay.
The recommendation is to place the solenoids within 1 meter of the turbo. As it is, our UTEC BCS is installed in the engine bay, which is certainly more than 1 meter away from our rear mounted turbo.
The wiring harness length may be too short to pull this off, but I am going to install the new solenoids for my Blitz EBC as far to the rear of the vehicle as possible.
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Originally Posted by goosegoose
Here's a page from my Blitz EBC instruction manual.
The recommendation is to place the solenoids within 1 meter of the turbo. As it is, our UTEC BCS is installed in the engine bay, which is certainly more than 1 meter away from our rear mounted turbo.
The wiring harness length may be too short to pull this off, but I am going to install the new solenoids for my Blitz EBC as far to the rear of the vehicle as possible.
The recommendation is to place the solenoids within 1 meter of the turbo. As it is, our UTEC BCS is installed in the engine bay, which is certainly more than 1 meter away from our rear mounted turbo.
The wiring harness length may be too short to pull this off, but I am going to install the new solenoids for my Blitz EBC as far to the rear of the vehicle as possible.
Ahsmo/Daniel,
were did you guys place your BCS?
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Mine is the engine bay. Honnesty, the tubing is so small I really doubt the distance is of any consequence.
Athen, are you using both ports on the wastegate? That may be a problem with the BCS.
Athen, are you using both ports on the wastegate? That may be a problem with the BCS.
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Originally Posted by Ahsmo
Mine is the engine bay. Honnesty, the tubing is so small I really doubt the distance is of any consequence.
Athen, are you using both ports on the wastegate? That may be a problem with the BCS.
Athen, are you using both ports on the wastegate? That may be a problem with the BCS.
The spike is around 1 psi and only around 5000rpm-5300rpm and usually on hard shifting to 4th and 5th gear but it goes back to 8 psi past that. The spike happen only in a very small part of the RPM range so I'm not worried.
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