Subject	First Driving Impression - Turbo'ed NA Winter Project
Posted by	ConVerTT on April 02, 2005 at 8:36 PM
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Message	We have had some great weather here and I got tired of waiting for my front trim panel to come back from the paint shop so I strapped on a piece of cardboard and went for a drive.... For a quick update this car has a high compression NA motor with stock TT manifolds and stock turbos bolted on. The car had all the "normal" NA mods as well - intake, exhaust, lightweight pulley, etc. I also installed an RPS clutch and flywheel setup and deleted all the emmissions "stuff" Anyways, given all the changes made to the car over the winter, I figured that I would take it easy and find out the native boost of the car so I shut off the boost controller and figured that I would keep her below about 4000 rpm. To my surprise and pleasure the car was making about 3 psi of boost at 3000 rpm in first gear. Between 3000 and 3500 rpm the car made about 5 psi of boost in second and in third gear at the same rpm the car made 7.1 psi of boost. The boost came on very seamlessly and smoothly and made a noticeable difference to the low end torque and acceleration of the car. And these were not hard pulls, no where near WOT :) Unfortunately I noticed a burning oil smell coming from inside the engine compartment so I had to cut my initial drive short. No oil is coming from the exhaust so I think that it is just oil on the block somewhere, or a small leak from one or the turbo oil line fittings? Anyways I will be taking a look tommorrow and going for a little longer drive on Monday. The car is running pretty rich so I think that I am leaving some power on the table right now. Ash, if you are reading this, I will probably be coming back for the ZEM fairly soon. Next step is to log a few more miles and then head to the dyno and get a baseline set of curves and then assess things from there. Here are a couple of pics>>> Ghetto style trim piece - Don't you just love Zip Ties (better than Duct Tape) Finally out of the garage and off the bloody lift The proof - Peak "natural" boost reading of 7.1 PSI ConVerTT - Heading to the DarkZide Black Vert Pics Pearl Vert Pics
Follow Ups	First Driving Impression - Turbo'ed NA Winter Project - ConVerTT 20:36:36 04/02/05 nicely done... must be nice to have boost :( (n/m) - sethkins88 20:40:39 04/02/05 so far :) (n/m) - ConVerTT 20:46:03 04/02/05 now thats impressive and a bit rare, job well done (n/m) - ZXRider(SoCal) 20:42:09 04/02/05 thanks (n/m) - ConVerTT 20:50:16 04/02/05 are those speakers between the seats? (n/m) - College Boy 20:44:14 04/02/05 Yes - Kenwood "WOOX" powered subwoofer to add some - ConVerTT 20:47:17 04/02/05 Good Job! I look forward to reading more about your - SwatsavZ 21:18:48 04/02/05 Looks great! get a splash shield. ;) That must be the most - whitepearlz 21:44:51 04/02/05 Thanks man. Splash shield is going back on. I guess I am - ConVerTT 21:55:50 04/02/05 Nice - Ebola 21:52:35 04/02/05 Hey thanks! How about this weather? - ConVerTT 22:10:48 04/02/05 Yours just came out - Christianv (Calgary) 23:58:31 04/02/05 Smart move putting it into the shop B4 you get too hooked. - Fly'n Z 00:10:43 04/03/05 Makes me wonder what you'll be saying - Ebola 00:34:31 04/03/05 you wont have full boost unless you are WOT - Red October 22:37:38 04/02/05 Congrats bro! Get in touch with me for sure! - Ash's Z 23:32:57 04/02/05 Very impressive undertaking, and great work. Any idea - SirpriZ 04:35:54 04/03/05 Thanks. I suspect that I will be able to run stock-ish - ConVerTT 10:01:49 04/03/05 awsome, love to see more pics. (n/m) - CrazyGreek 05:53:30 04/03/05 Thanks - will post some nice ones when the CB is gone (n/m) - ConVerTT 12:47:05 04/03/05 sweet! (n/m) - SniPer SR71 (Dallas) 08:41:05 04/03/05 any pics of ur center between the seats? - Tyler@Boostpro.net 14:30:38 04/03/05 I don't have any right now but I will take a few in a week - ConVerTT 18:22:24 04/03/05
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