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What I was curious about is a change in tone. I'm wondering if changing the impeller and comressor housing can increase or decrease the tone of sound coming out of the wastegate or BOV.
I know - strange question.
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That's great that the XYZ pipe fixed the exhaust smell. I might just have to drop a pretty penny on that, because I reak after driving my car (also, the new car like smell is gone - masked by exhaust stench). Oh well, at least my new "NOT GRN" license plate will be fitting :P
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But yeah, good thing insurance doesn't raise your rates based on a personalized license plate...at least I hope they don't At least it's not as bad as my 2nd choice, "GBL WRMR".
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i see... thanks. im just worry if the stock oil pump would not be able to deliver the 'extra' fuel (forgot if we actually got new oil pump from sts or not) and if the given 440cc injector would be good enough (not sure about the brand/quality).
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The base kit should come with an upgraded Walbro fuel pump already. Many owners with stock blocks who turn it up to 8psi come close to running out of injector on 440cc's, but for the most part I believe the setup is sufficient at that PSI level. If you go beyond that, you will need to upgrade your injectors at the very least.
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Hey guys,
Iam going in for tune Saturday, I have Invidia TP on the car right now but I am going back to the stock cats because I do not like the smell and the cops can be difficult here. Should I heat wrap the exhaust or will it make it more difficult to tune? Iam running the stock map right now with a aem boost controller and the car is slow of the line with (stock cats). After the the test pipe install there is a huge difference in first gear and second gear. I read the previous posts about heat wrap but still not sure how much differnce it will make in the initial gears. Any input would help before I get it tuned...Thanks!
Iam going in for tune Saturday, I have Invidia TP on the car right now but I am going back to the stock cats because I do not like the smell and the cops can be difficult here. Should I heat wrap the exhaust or will it make it more difficult to tune? Iam running the stock map right now with a aem boost controller and the car is slow of the line with (stock cats). After the the test pipe install there is a huge difference in first gear and second gear. I read the previous posts about heat wrap but still not sure how much differnce it will make in the initial gears. Any input would help before I get it tuned...Thanks!
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so my car like to die on decel sometimes the rpms will drop but then it will catch itself but most of the time it just dies.... should i raise my targeted idle?
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I just got back tonight from running the car real hard on a cruise. Was a ton of fun, despite me being very nervous because my Tuner wideband decided to crap out right before the event. I wasn't able to do any logging or anything. Never felt any timing retardation from knocking, and the car seems to be running just fine. The cool temps up here in WI really helped keep it running great, and the oil temp never went above 210.
Oh, and I think I broke in my Magnaflow resonator - the 2,000 rpm drone came back :-/
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Yeah, if you're not '04.5, just raise the idle. Actually, I had a friend bring his Consult II from his shop to a cruise today and we raised my idle. I'm around 1,000 rpms at idle now, and the car didn't die once. It died multiple times on the way to the cruise, so the idle raise definitely fixed it. However, I still blip the throttle a bit on a hard decel just to make sure it doesn't stall.
I just got back tonight from running the car real hard on a cruise. Was a ton of fun, despite me being very nervous because my Tuner wideband decided to crap out right before the event. I wasn't able to do any logging or anything. Never felt any timing retardation from knocking, and the car seems to be running just fine. The cool temps up here in WI really helped keep it running great, and the oil temp never went above 210.
Oh, and I think I broke in my Magnaflow resonator - the 2,000 rpm drone came back :-/
I just got back tonight from running the car real hard on a cruise. Was a ton of fun, despite me being very nervous because my Tuner wideband decided to crap out right before the event. I wasn't able to do any logging or anything. Never felt any timing retardation from knocking, and the car seems to be running just fine. The cool temps up here in WI really helped keep it running great, and the oil temp never went above 210.
Oh, and I think I broke in my Magnaflow resonator - the 2,000 rpm drone came back :-/
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yea i read about that so you cant raise the idle with utec?
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Hey guys,
Iam going in for tune Saturday, I have Invidia TP on the car right now but I am going back to the stock cats because I do not like the smell and the cops can be difficult here. Should I heat wrap the exhaust or will it make it more difficult to tune? Iam running the stock map right now with a aem boost controller and the car is slow of the line with (stock cats). After the the test pipe install there is a huge difference in first gear and second gear. I read the previous posts about heat wrap but still not sure how much differnce it will make in the initial gears. Any input would help before I get it tuned...Thanks!
Iam going in for tune Saturday, I have Invidia TP on the car right now but I am going back to the stock cats because I do not like the smell and the cops can be difficult here. Should I heat wrap the exhaust or will it make it more difficult to tune? Iam running the stock map right now with a aem boost controller and the car is slow of the line with (stock cats). After the the test pipe install there is a huge difference in first gear and second gear. I read the previous posts about heat wrap but still not sure how much differnce it will make in the initial gears. Any input would help before I get it tuned...Thanks!